As you rest from your labors this weekend, we’re offering you the opportunity to spend a little less of your hard-earned money on some choice BaT goodies. From August 28 until the end of Monday, September 1, everything in the BaT Gear Store is 25% off!* No discount codes, email sign-ups, or DNA samples required. Just a healthy 25% discount applied to all purchases at checkout.
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.
It seems like yesterday that we were celebrating sludgo’s 100th Mile Marker, but in fact it was four years ago. Since then, he’s continued to grace our pages with his special brand of wit, wisdom, and humanity. Today, we’ll be publishing Mile Marker 200, and that’s cause for celebration. It’s been an amazing journey that shows no signs of slowing down, and in fact his role on BaT has recently expanded with the new Riding Shotgun interview series.
9/3 Update: All cars in The Windsor Collection are now live! The full list of links can be found at the bottom of this post.
We’re happy to introduce the Windsor Collection—the first presented by long-time BaT seller and commenter Swingandamiss, who appropriately hails from Windsor, Connecticut. For a group of just seven cars, the collection covers a lot of automotive ground with offerings ranging from a classy pre-war Packard to a rare ’80s sport truck. Auctions will begin going live on Tuesday, September 2, and additional lots will be added over the following days.
We know it’d be healthy to spend some time away from your screens this Labor Day weekend—still, we’re doing our darnedest to make sure you won’t stop looking at and thinking about all variety of strange and special vehicles. We closed nearly 1,400 auctions in the last seven days and have since replaced them with 1,100 more, so to save you some time we’ve done the hard work of compiling this compact list of odd or noteworthy cars, trucks, boats, bikes, and leather jumpsuits on BaT.
WINNER’S ANNOUNCEMENT:
We’re back after a long Labor Day weekend, and it’s time to announce the winner for our Question of the Week! Our victor will receive the prize of all prizes: a $25 credit for a hat or t-shirt in the BaT Gear Store (there’s lots of great stuff to choose from right now).
Our question this week was: what’s your favorite road trip stop of all time?
“The one where he let me go with just a warning…”
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3Pedalonly commented on Question of the Week: What’s Your Favorite Road Trip Stop of All Time?—WINNER’S UPDATE
Ditto, @3Pedalonly.
We made sure not to speed through this week’s thread, which was filled with a variety of quirky stops and go-to eateries. As we visited each of the nominations, one particular comment grabbed our attention. BaT member @TimM happened upon a submarine along his travels—a strange sighting considering he was approximately 1,000 miles from the Atlantic Ocean! It was the HMCS Ojibwa, and he wrote all about it:
Our newest Success Story video is a bit of a departure from the norm. Most of our subjects grew up with some sort of attachment to and appreciation of cars and car culture. Old cars weren’t a part of Ranna‘s life until very recently, but through running her family’s home design business she developed an eye for style, an appreciation of craft, and a fearless approach to life. On a lark, she bought a blacked-out 1979 Corolla on BaT in January, taught herself to drive stick, and has been enjoying the change of pace that comes with driving a fully analog vehicle. We spent the day with Ranna, her family, and Doom (an adorable Boston Terrier/Chihuahua mix), and we’re excited to share her story.
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.
It’s been a short week thanks to Labor Day, but for many of us that just meant packing five days of work into four. The real tragedy of this is that it likely left you with even less time to peruse the endless scroll of interesting vehicles that arrived on our pages over the last several days. Do not despair! Your humble editors have taken it upon themselves to look at every single listing, and select a small list of the most unusual and notable cars from the crowded field.
WINNER’S ANNOUNCEMENT:
This week we asked you what car had the best brochure of all time? Normally, being bombarded with sales collateral isn’t an experience we’d sign up for voluntarily, but the brochures you shared had us thoroughly delighted from start to finish.