Over the weekend, we learned that Alex Zanardi passed on May 1 in Italy while surrounded by friends and family. That fact alone is remarkable, because Zanardi twice denied death a sudden and final say during his hall-of-fame career, and remained an indomitable competitor and unalloyed optimist until the end.
Our trio talk about stock colors vs. PTS and Enzo vs. 288 GTO, then relive recent events like Cold Start in San Francisco, Bicester Scramble in the UK, and the recent Cal Mille. Next: favorite recent listings on the site, a suddenly topless Lamborghini, the resuscitated Mint 400, first-gen T-birds, and a missing wheel lock key.
It’s time for the Weekly Weird and Wonderful—our collection featuring some of the most interesting and unique vehicles featured on BaT in the last seven days. These certainly aren’t the only notable auctions on our site. In fact, there were oh-so-many vehicles that we couldn’t include—you know there is some crazy stuff on the site when a mobile recording studio and two cars with Jim Farley ownership history get left on the cutting room floor. Not to worry, you can still find those and more among the ~1,100 cars currently on our live auctions page.
April’s showers brought us a huge, blooming field of updates to the ever-expanding collection of BaT make and model pages. Check out the newest additions (including our new right-hand drive category!), and be sure to follow those that interest you in order to receive notifications when new auctions go live.
If you haven’t noticed, the fashion planets have aligned in the last few years; racing-inspired merch is now in vogue among enthusiasts and the tragically hip. This kind of cross-generational synergy warms our hearts, so we’re fanning the flames of fellowship with our latest piece of apparel, the BaT Speedway Hat!
We discuss how the GT350 gots is name, the go-to guys for specific car models, seedy aspects of car certification, when Shelby may have signed his own glovebox door, great muscle on BaT, predetermined collectibility, what prompts conservation, today’s commitment to cross-country driving, recent rallies, and more.
Event Coverage 4/26/26:
Which is more rare: a rotary-powered 1974 Citroen GS, or a brilliantly sunny April day in central England? These marvels, and more, converged at BaT’s first showing at the Bicester Scramble, helping to make the event enjoyable in every way.
Welcome to the Weekly Weird and Wonderful—a collection of the strangest, coolest, and most interesting cars on BaT in the last seven days. We’ve got a great mix for you this week, including two motorcycles and one motorcycle-ish creation, along with some seriously dangerous old racecars and a picture of the Queen Mum, God rest her soul. This list is by no means comprehensive, and there is plenty more to explore over on our live auctions page, which just topped 1,200 listings for the first time in 2026.
This flock of Goats comes from @1600veloce, who has gathered a tidy quintet of well-outfitted first- and second-generation Pontiacs for us. The two first-generation GTOs are offered with no reserve, a tastefully modified ’65 convertible and a ’67 hardtop in an interesting and unusual color scheme. The second-generation offerings are all four-speed Ram Air cars from 1970 that have been refurbished and will run as Premium auctions: an Orbit Orange Judge Ram Air III convertible, a white Judge Ram Air III coupe, and a black Judge Ram Air IV coupe acting as the capstone of the collection. Auctions will begin on Monday, May 18, and links to the respective listings will be added as they go live.
The Bond Group and Road Scholars are back together to bring us Round 10 of their impressive, ongoing Gruppe P Collection. This time around, the headlining act is a Grand Prix White Porsche 959 Sport—the first of the 29 track-oriented Sport variants that were produced to be auctioned on Bring a Trailer. At the other end of the spectrum is an example of Porsche’s slowest vehicle—a rare narrow-track Junior 108S vineyard tractor. Four Slate Grey cars form a subset of the collection, each with extensive history and desirable specs, and other highlights include a 1600 Super Speedster, a 356B Emory Outlaw, and a low-mileage 993 C2S in silver over black. That’s a broad overview—the specifics are much more interesting, so let’s get into them!