A Look at question of the Week: What’s an Unremarkable Car or Truck You Now Find Remarkable?—WINNER’S UPDATE

WINNER’S ANNOUNCEMENT:

We’re back to announce the winner for our Question of the Week, where our victor will accept a $25 credit for a hat or T-shirt from the BaT Gear Store and the acclaim of their peers.

Our question this week was: What’s the coolest art car?

Thanks to everyone who chimed in! These kinds of questions typically invite perspectives from across the BaT community, and your responses certainly ran the gamut. Of course, we’re not the kind of art snobs who tell you what you should like, so this week’s winner goes to the nomination with the most likes—our People’s Choice! And that was from @IsAlwaystheAnswer, who nominated Janis Joplin’s hand-painted Porsche 356:

“Janis Joplin’s 1964 Porsche 356C her roadie, Dave Richards, painted it with a psychedelic mural called “The History of the Universe,” it is a rolling symbol of 1960s counterculture and individuality. It is art and a car. https://rmsothebys.com/auctions/ny15/lots/r105-1964-porsche-356-c-1600-sc-cabriolet-by-reutter/“

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WINNER’S ANNOUNCEMENT:

We’re back to announce the winner for our Question of the Week, where our winner will rest on their laurels and accept a $25 credit for a hat or T-shirt from the BaT Gear Store.

This week, we asked: What irrational car or truck is the easiest to rationalize?

Thanks to everyone who threw their hat into the ring! You certainly rationalized the irrational this week. We were certainly sold. This week, we’re awarding the prize to the nomination that most stood out to us, which came from BaT member @Wanted_Man—a first-time QotW winner! Congratulations, Wanted_Man. Check your email to claim the prize. 

“The GMC Syclone. Who doesn’t need a truck that can’t haul anything and can do 0-60 in 4.3 seconds, in the rain?”

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WINNER’S ANNOUNCEMENT:

We’re back to announce the winner for our Question of the Week, where our victor will accept a $25 credit for a hat or T-shirt from the BaT Gear Store and the acclaim of their peers.

Our question this week: What’s your favorite piece of automaker lore?

Thanks to everyone who wrote in! We’re leaning heavily on the People’s Choice, and this week’s winning nomination is a tale of a cash grab, in the literal sense. We’re handing the prize to BaT member @angushopper, who submitted the most-liked comment this week for the Carroll Shelby $100 Challenge:

“The Carroll Shelby $100 Challenge:
To demonstrate the raw power of his 427 Cobra, Shelby would tape a $100 bill to the dashboard and if a passenger could reach out and grab it while he launched the car under full acceleration the passenger could keep the money.
Allegedly no one was ever able to grab the bill.
I have no idea of the veracity of this story but have heard it most of my life.”

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Our compatriots over at Car and Driver tested a 427 Cobra in their November 1965 issue and noted that “[it] does accelerate and decelerate at unbelievable rates, as the figures should imply.” We’ll leave it at that. Either way, it’s a great piece of automotive lore.

Congratulations, angushopper! Be sure to check your email to claim the prize. 

Now, let’s take a look at some other popular nominations from this week’s discussion thread:

“Enzo’s dismissal of Ford during the failed merger, and noting that they made ugly little cars in an ugly factory lit a fire that we still benefit from today. The GT40 is one of my favorite cars to hear, and see in motion and at a standstill.
P.S. – I wonder what he would think of the ugly little Luce ;)”

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WINNER’S ANNOUNCEMENT:

We’re back to announce the winner for our Question of the Week, where our victor will accept a $25 credit for a hat or T-shirt from the BaT Gear Store and the acclaim of their peers.

Our question this week: What’s a great car that would’ve been better with AWD?

We read through the 100-plus comment thread, where many of you made the case for some great cars. This week we’re choosing the comment that most stood out to us (Editorial Privilege!) and awarding the prize to BaT member @StudebakersandSaabs, who nominated the Volkswagen Corrado SLC:

“The Volkswagen Corrado, especially the SLC, would have been improved with AWD.
Virtually all the parts existed in VW parts bin to do it, it’d be a mashup of Rallye Golf and Syncro Passat to complete the driveline, but everything did exist to make that a reality.
It’s not a COMMON swap, but a few Syncro Corrados have been made by enthusiasts over the years, and it’s a pretty OE-looking conversion.”

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