Over 150 of you made your voices heard, and we counted and recounted the votes until we were dizzy. This week’s contest ended in a tie! Instead of breaking the tie, we’ve chosen to announce two winners for the first round of this year’s Michelin and BFGoodrich tire giveaway!
It’s malaise time—or is it? The crew choose their top five vehicles from 1980 in an impromptu episode that also covers their surprisingly fun research, skin-deep beauty, the Dodge Ramcharger and Plymouth Trail Duster, the various trips one might take in a Vanagon, and a destructive way to learning to drive stick.
This is the penultimate day of February 2026, which is of no special import in and of itself. But it is also a Friday, and that means it’s time to unveil the Weekly Weird and Wonderful! Here you will find a tidy selection of interesting, noteworthy, and strange vehicles curated from the approximately 900 auctions currently live on our site. This is just the sampler platter—the full menu on our live auctions page contains gems like dueling Ford and Chevy ice cream trucks, a Citroen Mehari, an outlaw Gullwing, and much, much more.
WINNER’S ANNOUNCEMENT:
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.
This week, our question was: What car is best at “poverty spec?”
Thanks to everyone who chimed in! The most frequent nomination seemed to be for the Type 1 Beetle—as bare-bones as one could get. But even in Deluxe trim, to us early Beetles seem uniformly simple in nature (after all, that was the point of the volks-wagen). So this week, we’re exercising our editorial privilege and awarding the prize to BaT member @RoyalCX, who nominated the base Euro-spec W123 280:
Event Coverage 2/27/26:
After days of uncharacteristic rainstorms and high winds, the Palm Springs area pulled the nicest day imaginable out of a hat for us on the morning of Saturday, February 21. Cars of all shapes and sizes gathered from the famous playground at the feet of the San Jacinto Mountains, the outer reaches of the Coachella Valley, and from points as far afield as Arizona and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Alex, Randy, Howard, and Zac talk about our Palm Springs event, wind and snow in California, people who film everything, Alex’s new Italian ride, a flying Corvette, an exceptional 240Z, the ones that got away, the lie of project car completion, a special collection sale, a very bad dog, spit-window Corvettes, and favorite recent auctions.
A month ago, Alex Porter, our Senior Director of Auction Operations, made an appearance on the CarCast podcast hosted by Matt D’Andria, Bill Goldberg and Alistair Weaver. Alex and the crew talked about the differences between BaT and tentpole auctions, best practices for representing a car on BaT, advantages and disadvantages of celebrity ownership, muscle cars come and gone, and, of course, hall-of-fame profession wrestler Bill Goldberg’s modified 964 Turbo, which was recently sold on BaT.
Obscure 1950s sports cars always get our attention—the weirder, the better—and few are quirkier than the 760-pound, motorcycle-engined, front-wheel-drive Berkley Sports. Two examples sold here last year, and, curiosity piqued, we turned to the back issues of our favorite auto magazines to learn more about these funky pocket cars. We found ourselves fascinated by this illuminating road test from the February 1958 issue of Sports Cars Illustrated (now Car and Driver), and just had to share it with the BaT community.
“May you live in interesting times,” said British statesman Joseph Chamberlain, though the saying is often attributed as an ancient Chinese curse. And at the end of another week in which it seems the world has been moving at 3x speed, we have come to offer you a brief respite from the madness—an escape into the world of petroliana obscura. Here you will find a small collection of unique vehicles that we consider “interesting” in a better sense, that is to say: fascinating and enjoyable. Of course, this is just a fraction of those that caught our eye, and an even smaller fraction of the ~900 auctions currently live on the site.
Our growing network of BaT Local Partners now includes trusted shops all over the United States and in three Canadian provinces, three European countries, and the UK. Every few weeks, we take some time to recognize the newest members of the community, and today we’re welcoming five new Local Partners in Missouri, South Carolina, California, and Pennsylvania. Some of them have been on BaT for over a decade, and some have joined more recently, but we’re excited that all of them have signed on to offer their services to owners wanting professional assistance selling their vehicles on Bring a Trailer.