Convertibles

BaT member Rodmitchell won this Jaguar XKE Series II Roadster from 911r in a June 2024 BaT auction, and he wrote in to tell us about his experience:
I have always admired XKEs, especially those in Signal Red over beige. I come from Canada—the land of winter salt—so not many of the early cars survived up here. An XKE had been high on my bucket list, but the low value of the Canadian dollar ($1.40 Cdn = $1.00 US, at the time) made buying anything in the US a very expensive proposition. So I looked at buying a donor car and taking it to a Jaguar specialist on our side of the border. We had found a good driver-quality Series II car, which was my focus. However, putting it through a 1.5-year rotisserie refurb would’ve cost about $175,000 Cdn, not including the value of the donor car or taxes. I could not make a financial case for it, so my new focus became looking for a recently refurbished car that was far more reasonable in price. This route saved me 18 months’ worth of waiting.

Our latest Success Story comes to us from BaT member dnbmetzger, who won this blue 283-powered C1 from LynndaleBlue in an October 2025 BaT auction:
This was my very first successful win on BaT. Although I was close in a few previous auctions, I was never the prevailing winner. Perhaps it was also a serendipitous coincidence that it was the seller’s very first auction.

BaT member Buster82 won a 1979 Volkswagen Super Beetle convertible for his wife from KSC813 in a November 2025 BaT auction, and he recently wrote in with an update:
My wife had owned a Super Beetle many years ago. I decided to take her back in time with this recent purchase. As the bid amount grew, I had to show her the auction to make sure that she would be happy if I was ultimately the highest bidder.