Editorial

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    What to Know About event Coverage: The Bridge Cars and Coffee with BaT and 1600veloce

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    September 14, 2025—The Bridgehampton Museum, Long Island, New York
    A little over a week ago, in the wake of the epic Bridge IX show, we set up shop next to @1600veloce for the Bridge Cars and Coffee and watched with delight as hundreds of incredible vehicles and even more happy spectators filled out the field. The site: the Bridgehampton Museum’s Corwith House, an antebellum farm on the South Fork of Long Island. Our hosts for the morning provided live music, vendors for food and drink, and ample space for a smorgasboard of four-wheeled goodies.

  • Remembering Tsutomu “Tom” Matano, 1947-2025 You Should Know

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    We wanted to take a moment to celebrate the accomplishments of Tsutomu “Tom” Matano, often called the “Father of the Miata,” who passed away on September 22 at the age of 77. Matano was a champion of “empathetic design”—the idea that objects should communicate how they want to be used with their design—and he shaped Mazda’s design philosophy during what could be considered the most important period in the company’s history. Above all, he was remembered for his cheerful disposition and boundless enthusiasm for car culture and its people.

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    Understanding personal Rides, Bad Brakes, and Questions of the Week

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    Alex, Randy, and special guest Beck shoot the breeze about a German car from New York, the German car it replaced, the German car oil on Alex’s garage floor, brake failure stories, “how much hot rod” is appropriate for driving 2,000 miles, slow cars on the Interstate, favorite recent sales, the 2k Sellers Club, and popular Questions of the Week.

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    sludgo’s Mile Markers: Mile 202 You Should Know

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    This is Part Two of a three-part series. Click the link to read Part One.
    It had been a glorious NoDak autumn Saturday morning for twelve-year-old me. I’d woken to a gorgeous orange-red sunrise and the cool prairie breeze drifting across my face as it blew through my opened window. All the birds outside were merrily greeting the day in song, all the robins and wrens and sparrows and meadowlarks and mourning doves, even the peacocks and ducks and geese and swans calling out from over at the Deaf School pond. I’d jumped out of bed and into my routine early, stripping off my pajamas and putting on my weekend duds before pouring myself a heaping bowlful of Lucky Charms then parking out on the living room couch to watch cartoons on our big thirty-six inch color console RCA. Four hours later—after Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner and the Jetsons and Scooby-Doo and Josie and the Pussycats and Archie and then Fat Albert—it was noontime and the Lucky Charms were long gone and I was hungry again so I’d decided to hop on my StingRay and ride across town to Grandma Lettie’s to see if she’d make me one of her world-famous fried bologna and Miracle-Whip sandwiches but when I got there she wasn’t home. Figured I’d wait for her a bit and headed out to her backyard to climb Big Olie, the giant oak she’d planted as a sapling fifty years ago when she first bought the house, but as I walked up to Olie’s trunk, I glanced across the way at Old Man Granger’s place and noticed something interesting—the walk-in door to his garage was ever-so-slightly ajar. Hm.

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    What to Know About this Week’s Weird and Wonderful—September 26, 2025

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    You’ve made it to the end of another week, and that means it’s time to celebrate with the Weekly Weird & Wonderful, a collection of the strangest and coolest things on BaT assembled just for you. This list was compiled from approximately 1,200 auctions up on the site, so we had to be choosy for brevity’s sake. There’s plenty more goodness to peruse on our live auctions page.

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    sludgo’s Mile Markers: Mile 202 You Should Know

    Byjustpastevehicles

    This is Part Two of a three-part series. Click the link to read Part One.
    It had been a glorious NoDak autumn Saturday morning for twelve-year-old me. I’d woken to a gorgeous orange-red sunrise and the cool prairie breeze drifting across my face as it blew through my opened window. All the birds outside were merrily greeting the day in song, all the robins and wrens and sparrows and meadowlarks and mourning doves, even the peacocks and ducks and geese and swans calling out from over at the Deaf School pond. I’d jumped out of bed and into my routine early, stripping off my pajamas and putting on my weekend duds before pouring myself a heaping bowlful of Lucky Charms then parking out on the living room couch to watch cartoons on our big thirty-six inch color console RCA. Four hours later—after Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner and the Jetsons and Scooby-Doo and Josie and the Pussycats and Archie and then Fat Albert—it was noontime and the Lucky Charms were long gone and I was hungry again so I’d decided to hop on my StingRay and ride across town to Grandma Lettie’s to see if she’d make me one of her world-famous fried bologna and Miracle-Whip sandwiches but when I got there she wasn’t home. Figured I’d wait for her a bit and headed out to her backyard to climb Big Olie, the giant oak she’d planted as a sapling fifty years ago when she first bought the house, but as I walked up to Olie’s trunk, I glanced across the way at Old Man Granger’s place and noticed something interesting—the walk-in door to his garage was ever-so-slightly ajar. Hm.

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    Understanding car and Driver Road Tests: Reintroducing the 928 for 9/28

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    In their June 1977 issue of Car and Driver, the editorial staff labeled the Porsche 928 as “the best Porsche ever.” That was a lofty claim even at the time, even if Yates had labeled the Mercedes 450SEL 6.9 “the best car” just a year prior. In this piece, entitled Porsche Re-Introduces the Sports Car, David E. Davis, Jr., L.J.K. Setright, and Brock Yates each gave their respective take on the new front-engined V8 Porsche during an early 1977 press launch. Today is 9/28, so what better day to revisit?

    Click above to open the article in a full-window viewer, or hit the “share” arrow to download the PDF. Individual pages can be viewed in the gallery below.
    First code-named 911 H, the 928 was conceived in 1971; by 1974, 200 million Deutschmarks had been committed to the project. This came at a time when most big manufacturers were struggling. Porsche chairman Dr. Ernst Fuhrmann put it thusly:

    “In 1974, mind you…nobody would give you a penny for the future of the sports car. There was an energy crisis, a recession, and most of the people running car companies had—I don’t know how to say this nicely in English—uh, brown in their underwear. But we went ahead. We couldn’t look back.”

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    Understanding question of the Week: What’s Your Pre-Winter Car Care Routine?—WINNER’S UPDATE

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    WINNER’S ANNOUNCEMENT:
    Happy Monday! We’re back to announce the winner for our Question of the Week, where our victor will accept a $25 credit for a hat or T-shirt from the BaT Gear Store and the acclaim of their peers.
    Our question was: What’s your pre-winter car care routine?
    We stuck our head out the window, licked a finger, and held it to the wind as we read through your answers, which certainly varied depending on your location. This week, we’re handing the prize to the comment with the most likes (the People’s Choice!), which was left by BaT member @UGW: 

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    This Week’s Weird and Wonderful—September 26, 2025: A Practical Look

    Byjustpastevehicles

    You’ve made it to the end of another week, and that means it’s time to celebrate with the Weekly Weird & Wonderful, a collection of the strangest and coolest things on BaT assembled just for you. This list was compiled from approximately 1,200 auctions up on the site, so we had to be choosy for brevity’s sake. There’s plenty more goodness to peruse on our live auctions page.

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    The Icons of Zuffenhausen Collection, from Wob You Should Know

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    In the German state of Baden-Württemberg, on the northern edge of the city of Stuttgart, lies the borough of Zuffenhausen. Humans have lived here continuously for over 7,000 years, and 75 years ago, they began doing something very special: building Porsches. In this Icons of Zuffenhausen collection, Wob has assembled some of the best of the breed. Some are cars that defined the Porsche brand as we know it today, like a veteran 356 racer and a sublime ’73 Carrera RS. Others are cars that seek to stretch the definition of what a Porsche can be, like a one-off Spyder prototype racer, a hyper-exotic 918 Spyder, and a 992 GT3 R Rennsport—perhaps the ultimate track weapon. This is the second collection of incredible high-performance Porsches from Wob, and we’re very excited to see the cars start to go live this evening, Monday, September 29.