Alex and Zac discuss bicoastal living, rust and joy for a first-time visitor to the Midwest, a novel way to avoid tolls, and the stellar time we had at the Road America vintage races in July before wrapping up with some recent items from their BaT watchlists.
The whole crew is back to discuss their vintage racing experiences at Road America, interpretations of spec between events, the race car parade to Elkhart Lake, Spotted Cow, notable names at Laguna Seca this weekend, Malibu Grand Prix, and watchlist highlights from this very exciting and high-volume time at BaT.
The creative lead at Donut talks about the new Corvette ZR1, run-ins with Horacio Pagani, branded soap, Car Week traffic, a mystery air dam, BMW window regulators, the $850 911 he bought on BaT, new TV-oriented shows on Donut, price/value in car mods, Y2K spinners, the Great Host Departure, being a Civic liker, and his troubled diesel Cayenne.
Alex pays a Car Week visit to our friends at Mohr Imports to talk about the early days of their partnership, their annual Car Week collection, treating every car the same, a local celebrity, alumni listings, our offers tool, the photographic variety of the Monterey Peninsula, the BaT comments section, and the folks who help them out day to day.
Friend of BaT Jim Huff, connoisseur of the Neue Klasse, talks with Alex and Randy about racing at this year’s Car Week, mixing it up with Giulias and GTAs in his BMW 1800 Ti, developing camaraderie on track, helmet-yelling, the ultimate old-school tow rig, the wooden boat of our dreams, and the 50th annual SAAC meeting.
In this encore episode, the legendary Bruce Meyer talks about his early discovery of BaT, his start as a paper boy, racing motorcycles in college, his first Porsche, race cars built by hot rodders, a lifetime of Cobras, Tahoe in the 1960s, “air cars”, his involvement with the Petersen Automotive Museum, and his love of the LA lowrider community.
Alex and Randy talk about The Bridge IX on the site of America’s first road course, a rare Volvo, well-to-do East Coast villages, the followup Cars and Coffee in Bridgehampton, and a dry-aged Mustang followed by a rapid-fire perusal of their current BaT watchlists.
Alex, Randy, and special guest Beck shoot the breeze about a German car from New York, the German car it replaced, the German car oil on Alex’s garage floor, brake failure stories, “how much hot rod” is appropriate for driving 2,000 miles, slow cars on the Interstate, favorite recent sales, the 2k Sellers Club, and popular Questions of the Week.
Randy interviews Spike Feresten, comedy writer and host of the “Spike’s Car Radio” podcast. They discuss sharing car craziness with the masses, the learning curve of car collecting, the Audrain Concours, grading the Grenadier, what a Bentley convertible says, modern Broncos, vintage Range Rovers, charity auctions, and celebrity lurkers on BaT.
It’s time again for your favorite game, The One-Year Garage. This time it’s one of the best automotive years imaginable: 1965. We have the crew’s picks as well as Randy’s hot take on the second-series GTO, flippy-floppy driving, too many windshields, deep pulls from the Brits and Germans, a tidbit from Le Mans, Alfa Romeo naming, and more.