It’s malaise time—or is it? The crew choose their top five vehicles from 1980 in an impromptu episode that also covers their surprisingly fun research, skin-deep beauty, the Dodge Ramcharger and Plymouth Trail Duster, the various trips one might take in a Vanagon, and a destructive way to learning to drive stick.
Alex, Randy, Howard, and Zac talk about our Palm Springs event, wind and snow in California, people who film everything, Alex’s new Italian ride, a flying Corvette, an exceptional 240Z, the ones that got away, the lie of project car completion, a special collection sale, a very bad dog, spit-window Corvettes, and favorite recent auctions.
A month ago, Alex Porter, our Senior Director of Auction Operations, made an appearance on the CarCast podcast hosted by Matt D’Andria, Bill Goldberg and Alistair Weaver. Alex and the crew talked about the differences between BaT and tentpole auctions, best practices for representing a car on BaT, advantages and disadvantages of celebrity ownership, muscle cars come and gone, and, of course, hall-of-fame profession wrestler Bill Goldberg’s modified 964 Turbo, which was recently sold on BaT.
Join BaT Podcast host Alex Porter and bespoke car builder Christopher Runge for an extended tour of the Rünge Cars workshop, tucked between the lakes and rolling hills of west central Minnesota. There, Chris and his small team create Porsche-powered, hand-built automobiles using traditional superlight coachbuilding techniques inspired by German and Italian specialty carmakers of the mid-20th century. Runge demonstrates his unique process and tools, which run the gamut from a vintage English wheel and metal stretcher to a cutting-edge CAD system and 3D prototype printing setup.
The team discusses formative BMWs, a snowballing project, a curious car-buying ploy, nostalgia for late-1980s Ford performance cars, attainable transaxle Porsches, the Toyota celebrity support race at the LBGP, Gene Hackman’s side gig, Tommy Kendall, a good color change, a museum sale, current watchlist favorites, and Porsche whale-tale nerdiness.
The fourth in our series about Car Movies: the surprise hit American Graffiti—the scrappy George Lucas effort featuring Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford, and many more names whose roles left indelible marks on so many of us, plus the cast of A-listers led by John Milner’s legendary yellow Deuce coupe.
In this episode, Randy, Beck, and Alex preview upcoming news from the UK, test drive the Renault 5 EV, start a letter-series Chrysler and answer some of their favorite Questions of the Week.
This episode sees Alex, Randy and Cam choosing the best of the transitory period between the late ’50s and mid ’60s. They set the stage with politics, American optimism, and the top film, music and motorsports events of the year before picking their favorites in the Sports Car, Truck/4×4, Family Hauler, Daily Driver, and Wild Card categories.
In the podcast crew’s absence this week, we bring you a remastered version of episode 118. We talk about a Saab record holder, the “full mileage discount,” how much raw performance can be had for under $40k; scary prospects from AMG and Aston Martin, the ideal four-Porsche driveway for value seekers, and what’s in store for the first-year Bentayga.
This week we talk about the Farley Pantera, PR advice for auto execs, and Randy’s recent trip to Japan: Skylines in the wild, tiny Kei cars, backing into parking spaces, Cal-look Beetles, Tokyo Drift lookalikes, and a visit to the Tamiya model store. Next up, watchlist highlights including a former resident of our very own BaT HQ.