Alex, Beck, and Tyler talk Bill Paxton, sharing plates, a 10-carb Thanksgiving weekend; automotive linguistics, California smog testing, Beck’s E46 ZHP sedan, VW van powerplant swaps, and their BaT watchlists. Alex describes his recent cross-country road trip with his son and his new Italian pride and joy.
You loved our Bullitt podcast, so we present another movie: The Fast and the Furious. Four staffers air their viewpoints on this cinematic event, which was formative for many BaT community members under “a certain age”; they discuss favorite cars, missing cars, terrible shifting, worse jargon, fender stickers, underglows, 10s in 2001, and more.
Happy Holidays to one and all! Alex, Randy, Beck, and Tyler discuss Hanukkah gifting strategies, holiday road trips in order of escalating insanity, movie-adjacent cars, wood paneling connoisseurship, ghosts of American car brands past, drift missiles, stalker Eagles, and generational headlight trauma.
Alex is joined by fellow BaT luminaries Howard and Zac to take a look back at 2025 and ring in the new year. They discuss notable listings from 2025, Howard as a Corvette guy, the Mazdaspeed Protege, the Valentine One, curation regrets, going from one first world problem to the next, upcoming BaT events, and a yearning to get back out on track.
This week we discuss 1990s Sacramento basketball, “frame off” restorations, newly published BaT stats, an ex-Nonnenberg car live on the site, whether Zac can ever be a truck guy, the annual BaT Awards, an upcoming Meet-Up and track day, watchlist picks, Healey love, a 912 in a coffee shop, and a Thunderbird with fascinating history.
A modern twist on our favorite game: TOYG visits the fresh new year to see what strikes the fancy of our cranky old-car obsessives. Also covered: hypercar ignorance, the cost of modern car ownership, auto show nostalgia, Fiero dreams, DRS on street cars, weird small cars, exotic e-bikes, Dakar semis, a far-off Scout fantasy, and a solo Sterrato.
Alex and Randy take a frank look at the recent Deville Debacle and discuss how BaT handles mistakes as a company. They move on to recap the Arizona auctions, get excited for our Palm Springs Meet-Up, lust after James Garner’s Hertz GT350, blow minds in an R34 Skyline, will an S800 into Alex’s garage, debate the perfect ’32 Ford spec, and more.
Our crew talks about the correct way to staff a pickup, Motoring Club Cars & Coffee in San Francisco, good friends in bad cars, the true meaning of car culture, the wrong way to think about a nature preserve, Pro 7 memories, answers to our favorite recent QotW, Mr/Enter Sandman, and new watchlist favorites.
Join us, cinephiles, for the third in our movie series—this time about the uncut gem, Days of Thunder. Our crew discuss behind-the-scenes drama, Cary Elwes as Iceman, Alex’s disappointment in Rotten Tomatoes, drinkin’ Bud heavies in a car hauler, what has and hasn’t aged well, impressive cinematography, and a formative to learn about drafting.
Last year was our best ever for motorcycle auctions. This week on the pod: Alex and Tyler discuss their top 10 of the year, design for always-visible parts, favorite exhausts, scaring horses, attempts to modernize old designs, left-hand throttles, Colt Pythons, Bimota and Harley trivia, odd engine configurations, and a great run of pre-war fours.