Alex and Beck grill Randy about his recent European driving tour and talk about ripping it up at Monza, Falcon love across the pond, skinny Porsches, the ultimate E36 Touring, how to pronounce 959, recent collections and stellar sales, the best GTO, price drops and price creep, the downside of our company’s name, and a fast snail.
Over 110 of you made your voices heard in the fourth round of this year’s Michelin and BFGoodrich tire giveaway! From the outset, this contest turned into a battle between the Olds Toronado and the Roadtrek Ram van, with the Toronado securing the win in the end. Congratulations to its newest owner, @FreddyFreshAG.
Welcome to the Weekly Weird and Wonderful, our all-too-abbreviated collection of the most interesting, significant, and unusual vehicles to appear on BaT in the last seven days. Think of this as a core sample full of worthwhile information that should ultimately guide you to excavate the full depth of our live auctions page, armed with a brush and a magnifying glass.
Over the years, Porsche has more or less laid claim to the term “rennsport,” but it simply refers to motorsport or “racing sport” in their native German. The Rennsport Collection, represented by BaT Local Partner Group C Curation, reappropriates the term in that broader sense, as it features eight late-model sports cars from one owner and his immediate family, all of which are inspired by racing in the grand European tradition. Porsches are not underrepresented, as they comprise more than half of the collection, and the pair of Ferraris and the Ford GT are models that squared off with contemporary 911s in various racing series.
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That’s another BaT Meet-Up in the books for 2026, folks. Last Saturday was fantastic, and we can’t thank Local Partner McQueen Classics enough for the invite and the consistent support, organization, and good vibes.
It’s been too long since we’ve published “Why We Love Them,” a series of articles paying tribute to some of BaT’s favorite vehicles from the past. Era, genre, and country of origin aren’t as important as character—that hard-to-define “something” that all the best cars seem to have. This time around, we’re including input from members of the BaT community and staff as we discuss the R129 Mercedes-Benz SL roadster in all its variety.
It’s Friday and you’re back on BaT for another round of the Weekly Weird and Wonderful. Today’s edition does not disappoint, for among the requisite oddballs are some vehicles with serious provenance. These are not the only interesting autos on the site, of course, and if you’re looking to spend your evening in a soundbath of internal combustion engine noises, we encourage you to explore some of the more of the >1,000 cars currently posted on our live auctions page.
I was running behind. Way behind. Again. Always, or so it seemed back then. Had jammed as much as I could into my day thinking foolishly the meetings and sessions I’d scheduled would all go as planned, like clockwork. But of course they hadn’t because they never did. This person or that person would need a few extra moments of my time or my lecture would run long because there were lots of questions or the computer was glitching or the overhead projector wasn’t working. And on that particular day I was hauling tail though town in the A6 trying not to be too late for my meet and greet with the new District Judge at the courthouse when I tried to beat a yellow at an intersection and some old coot in a big green Sedan DeVille made a left right in front of me. I slammed on the brakes and the ABS did its job, stopping me only inches short of the Cadillac. I leaned on the horn, my rage-filled eyes hidden behind my Ray-Bans, and saw the balding, snowy-bearded Caddy Captain looking back at me and shrugging his shoulders and that’s when it happened. I gave him the finger.
A dignified gentleman with a genial smile, twinkling eyes, and a snowy-white thatch of hair, @trusted_one began our ride by pointing out that he was wearing his car show shirt, expressing how funny it was to discover when he pulled it out of the closet after all these years that it had shrunk so much! I laughed at the joke as he humbly confided he was suffering from “imposter syndrome,” finding himself the subject of the latest Riding Shotgun series. Told me he couln’t hold a flame to most of the guys on the site. But I wasn’t concerned that I had an imposter on my hands. Not one bit. Knew right off the bat I had the Real Deal.
Alex and Randy talk watchlist favorites, a breathy Fairlane, the teals wave, a shot-up Jeep, special Z-cars, oddball carb setups, Cunningham connections, assumed clones, a Tahoe Rallye, ’80s box flares, ’90s curves, a 60-year dream, visiting Charlie Goodman, and upcoming BaT appearances at the Hillsborough Concours, the Rose Cup, and Elkhart Lake.