A Look at this Week’s Weird and Wonderful—November 21, 2025
The countdown to the holidays is officially on, and we offer you this week’s piece as a bit of a respite from the seasonal crunch. Of the 900+ listings currently live on BaT, nearly 50 of them competed as interesting or unusual to make it into WWW—as always, we struggled to constrain ourself to the tidy list below. So if you’re in search of more goodness, please head over to our live auctions page and try—just try—to take it all in.
Enjoy this week’s Weird & Wonderful, and let us know what other listings grabbed your attention in the comments.
351-Powered, Safari-Style 1973 Ford Mustang SportsRoof
It’s been over a decade since we featured James Garner’s Baja Olds and we’re happy to see this lifted ‘Stang carrying on in much the same spirit. Anyone who has driven an early-1970s Mustang can tell you that they have a bit of a truck-like feel in the first place, so why not lean into it? Despite its wild appearance, the conversion seems to be minimally invasive, though we can’t see any reason to return it to stock. Every drive can be be a pre-run!
1955 Ferrari 250 Europa GT Alloy Coupe by Pinin Farina
They say it’s good to be king, but princes seem to the ones having all the fun. This breathtaking Ferrari 250 Europa is a case in point: ordered new by one Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, the car features an alloy body (one of two such made) over a competition-spec 250 MM chassis, as well as a Colombo V12 with factory speed parts and a chassis stamp ostensibly meant to help His Royal Highness skirt import taxes (it didn’t work). For those in the comments noting that this car has James Bond-like class, it’s worth noting that Prince Bernhard was a wartime colleague of Ian Fleming in Britain, and was known to take his vodka martinis shaken, not stirred.
But back to the car. Unlike the many significant Ferraris that were raced hard and then sold for pennies in the back of Road & Track, this one was kept in good company and remained in private collections for much of its life. In fact, its history is so well-known that the owner didn’t feel the need to have Ferrari Classiche certify its provenance. Fiminod found the car for a US client in 2015, and after over $300k of sorting (and a brief stop-off at the Larz Anderson Museum), it’s now on BaT, right next to a 2013 Volkswagen CC. Variety, people!
1939 American Bantam Model 60 Station Wagon
American Bantam briefly rose out of the ashes of the American Austin Car Company with the Model 60, which plunked a series of newly styled two-door bodies atop a license-built Austin Seven platform.
These cars undercut even the bargain basement Crosley on price, and because they could be made with a high degree of wooden components and were said to get up to 60 mpg (hence, “Model 60”), they were a natural choice for Americans in need of a new car in the late years of the Great Depression and the early years of WWII. This spunky woodie wagon is the 10th American Bantam that we’ve listed on these pages, and it has to be one of the shortest longroofs ever.
If at first glance you see a Volkswagen Caddy pickup, you would technically not be wrong—it even wears a contemporary Caddy grille. That’s because the Felicia was developed in the midst of Volkswagen’s takeover of the Czech automaker Skoda. It became one of the first models to benefit from the new partnership, and the Felicia Fun was a quirky ”lifestyle” vehicle in true 1990s fashion. Most notably, the Fun featured an extendable rear bulkhead that revealed twin jump seats. That transformed it into a four-seater pickup, which was aimed at the youthful EU market.
Image: Autotopian
Just 4,016 units were built, and all of them left the factory in yellow with ground effects. This one was later refinished in white and had its factory front brush guard removed. The seller imported this rare right-hand-drive example along with its Truckmaster hardtop after purchasing it from its original owners in the EU, where it had remained with one family since new. There are about four days left on the no-reserve auction before we inevitably say: “Bye, Felicia.”
Who will step forward to awaken the “Helldorado” from its slumber? This thoroughly-altered Hemi-powered AWD Caddy is being listed as a non-running project, as its outdated Electromotive ignition has gone kaput and support for the system is nonexistent. The car was designed and built by the seller’s father, a mechanical engineer who clearly had a mad-scientist streak and enough disposable income to furnish his project car with some seriously pricey go-fast bits. The current bid wouldn’t even cover the cost of the aluminum Indy Maxx engine block and Vortec V-7 YSI supercharger (reportedly good for applications up to 1,200 horsepower). For a car this radically transformed, its appearance is just a couple degrees left of stock, but that probably increases the amount of terror it can inflict. Everyone knows the scariest movies are the ones where everything seems normal, but something evil lurks beneath…
Turbocharged 3.8L-Powered 1962 Buick Special Station Wagon
This next build is one of those brilliant, why-didn’t-anyone-think-of-this-earlier ideas: a 1960s Buick with a Grand National engine swap! It makes sense for so many reasons: the Buick Special was the first American car with a V6, the GM Y-body was used for the first factory-turbocharged car (the Olds Jetfire), and the Grand National 3800 V6 was a direct descendant of Buick’s most enduring motor—the 215ci V8. The plan was hatched by a friend of the current owner in the early Aughts, with the intent of building a car that could perform and handle the rigors of regular driving.
The work involved much more than replacing the powerplant. The chassis was thoroughly reinforced thicker-gauge metal and a new center frame section was fabricated to link the unibody and both front and rear subframes. An unused Grand National turbo 3.8 motor and transmission were located. A custom multi-link rear suspension was fabricated. Systems were modernized substantially. The build had progressed up to final assembly when the owner passed away, and the current owner brought it across the line in 2021. Hearing the turbo whoosh from behind the wheel of an old American hauler is a real treat, and we are jealous of whoever gets their hands on this beast wagon next.
No Reserve: 1970 Oldsmobile F-85 Club Coupe Rallye 350
In this case, the first rule of “F-85 Club” is that we have to talk about the “F-85 Club,” especially when it involves the Rallye 350 trim package. In 1970, insurance rates were at an all-time high, and the Rallye 350 was Oldsmobile’s way of reaching out to the cost-conscious enthusiast. It was offered across three V8 models, including the F-85 Club Coupe. It wasn’t meant to win any races; all examples were powered by a 350ci L74 V8, and the option was strictly an appearance package. Oldsmobile brass openly acknowledged that fact. As this sales pamphlet put it:
“Remember this…the Rallye 350 will find its greatest appeal to the prospect who wishes to identify with the ‘performance look’…the NOW look…that has been happily combined with the practical aspects of a more conventional engine and power train.”
The bright Sebring Yellow scheme was ultimately its undoing, and it ended up being a one-year-only model. This example is one of some 1,020 built on the F-85 Club Coupe platform, and it’s been in the selling dealer’s hands since 2025.
1968 Bizzarrini 5300 GT America
The low-slung 5300 GT America is perhaps one of the most beautiful cars to come from the Italo-American sports car wave of the 1960s. Giotto Bizzarrini and Renzo Rivolta officially called it quits in 1965, but Bizzarrini continued to produce a number of cars badged as the Bizzarrini Grifo 5300 before ultimately dropping “Grifo” from the name. By 1966, the GT America was added to the lineup, featuring fiberglass bodywork and a double-wishbone rear suspension design.
This one was refurbished in the early 2010s, and the current owner has been its caretaker since 2018. This is @fiminod‘s second offering on this week’s list—but at this rate, we’re not complaining!
1934 Cadillac 370-D V12 Fleetwood Sedan
Let’s have a round of applause for our first 1934 Cadillac 370-D! The model was restyled for 1934, and this one is a Fleetwood sedan sporting a 368ci V12, which came in fewer than 700 units for the model year. “Short wheelbase” meant something a little different in the 1930s—this V12 model rode on a 146″ chassis and featured a number of improvements over its predecessor. BaT seller/Local Partner @GCEA acquired the car in July 2025, and it’s ready to roll into a (hopefully large) new garage.
1964 Toyopet Stout 1900 Pickup
Let’s start with the name: Toyopet was first used by Toyota in 1947 to market the automaker’s smaller cars, and the nameplate eventually made its way to the States. Toyota essentially used the Toyopet brand in a way similar to Nissan’s use of the Datsun name. The Stout pickup was positioned to be Toyota’s first truck to hit American roads, but didn’t quite drum up the sales the automaker had hoped for. They’d have to wait a few more years for the minitruck craze to catch on.
Honorable Mentions
Restored 1968 Porsche 911 Coupe Sportomatic
After being exported to Europe in 2014, this US-market 911 coupe was renovated between 2016 and 2022. It was originally built by Karmann, and retains its infamous Sportomatic gearbox. Around here, we have a soft spot for just about everything unusual and old—Sportomatics included.
Volkswagen Type 2-Style Electric Go-Kart w/Beer Tap
When the Founding Fathers bravely wrote that we are all “endowed by [our] Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” you can be certain that the creation of a vehicle like this was exactly what they had in mind at the time. The comments section has us cracking up, and there’s a whole week left. We’ll be watching this one closely, frosty mug in hand.
2001 Lamborghini Diablo VT 6.0 and Ex–Walter Payton 1996 Porsche 911 Turbo
This purple Diablo VT once belonged to rap queen Missy Elliott, but she only got to enjoy it for a few months before it was taken for an unauthorized joyride by an employee, who promptly drove it into a tree. Thankfully someone saw fit to repair it, and the 300ZX headlamps look surprisingly good, too.
Those of us from Chicago will never forget Walter Payton, and this slick 993 TT serves to reming us that he too was a car guy. After retiring from the NFL, he co-owned an IndyCar team and raced in Trans Am, as well. He passed in 1999, and it’s been reported that driving was one of the things he was still able to enjoy in his final months.
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