The One-Year Garage: 1997 You Should Know
In this latest installment of our popular One-Year Garage game, Alex, Beck, and podcast newcomer Cameron reveal their favorite cars, trucks, and wild cards of 1997, but not before explaining […]
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Here’s this Week’s Weird and Wonderful—August 1, 2025
Welcome to this week’s Weird and Wonderful, wherein we highlight some of the strangest, coolest, and most unique vehicles to appear on the site within the last seven days. This list was curated from over 1,200(!) auctions, so it is by no means comprehensive; many more wonders await the curious on our live auctions page.
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Here’s event Coverage: BaT and ImageStreetClassics, Historic Grand Prix at Zandvoort, June 20-22
Event Coverage:
The BaT team returned to Zandvoort in 2025 with a prime spot in the lively paddock for the Historic Grand Prix. The weather was once again uncharacteristically hot for the Netherlands, but fans took it in stride to soak up the sun and racing in the dunes. -
Presenting the 2025 Mohr Imports Car Week Collection: Postcards from Monterey: A Practical Look
Welcome to the sixth edition of BaT Local Partner Mohr Imports’ Monterey Collection, hosted here each year in conjunction with Monterey Car Week. With this collection (entitled “Postcards from Monterey”), Mohr will crest 600 BaT auctions since they first came here in 2016, so let’s give them a hearty round of applause. This latest edition comprises 20 listings from three continents spanning 70 years of automotive history, from 1953-2023. The group is composed almost entirely of iconic two-door sports cars, save a one-door Jaguar, a zero-door Mini Moke, and a Moto GP-style Honda CB750 Sandcast, and includes a large cross-section of high-performance rear-engine Porsches.
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A Road America Recap and Watchlist overview
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.
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Remembering Ercole Spada, 1937-2025: A Practical Look
Our colleagues at Car and Driver and many other outlets are reporting that Ercole Spada, the brilliant designer behind the Aston Martin DB4 Zagato and many other models on the list of all-time greats, passed away on August 3 at age 88. Though he may not have enjoyed the international name recognition of a Gandini or Giugiaro, Spada certainly deserves his spot in the pantheon of great automobile designers.
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What to Know About event Coverage: BaT at the 2025 CLASS Car Show in Clear Lake, Iowa
8/7/25 Event Coverage Update:
The BaT team made its first trek out to Clear Lake, Iowa, for this year’s Clear Lake Auto Social Society (CLASS) Car Show & Summer Dance Cruise this past weekend. With nearly 800 cars for Friday night’s cruise around the lake and 500 for the next day’s car show downtown, fans of all things automotive had plenty to see over the course of the two-day event. -
Here’s this Week’s Weird and Wonderful—August 8, 2025
You, good reader, have made it to the end of yet another week. In August, no less! Now the time has come to enjoy your reward—a carefully curated list of strange and wonderful vehicular goodness from among the ~1,200 auctions posted here in the last seven days. As always, we must note that this list is by no means comprehensive; there’s lots more to enjoy on our live auctions page.
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A Look at sludgo Rides Shotgun with ValiantJim
Riding Shotgun is a new series from sludgo featuring interviews with notable members of the BaT community. Last month we published his first interview with Cobrahandler, and this week he has talked to ValiantJim, winner of the 2024 Cognoscenti Award and prominent member of the BaT MOPAR mob. He had a lot to say, only some of it about Valiants!
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A Look at event Coverage: Kobus at the 2025 Le Mans Classic
BaT contributor @kobus took the trip of a lifetime to this year’s Le Mans Classic, and came back with a bunch of new friends and a massive collection of wonderful images to share. He managed to secure a coveted red press vest for the event, and certainly made the most of it! We are happy to live vicariously through his adventures, and we’re sure you will be too. Take it away, kobus!
Circuit de la Sarthe—Le Mans, France, July 4-6, 2025
