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High Mileage Heroes, Presented by Pennzoil—Congrats to TheRealGuitardave, Viper1952, and Basil017! You Should Know
Byjustpastevehicles August 28, 2026

6/30 Update: Well, our winner’s announcement was delayed a couple days, but we’re back to hand out some prizes! Your favorite High Mileage Hero this round was the 200k-mile Viper belonging to @Viper1952 and picked up by our Australian friend @Basil017 a few years back. And our favorite comment? That was the one left by @TheRealGuitardave, who wrote about his own Viper experience and clued us in to an Aimee Mann song we hadn’t heard before:

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BaT Pro Tips and Site Updates | Editorial | Make and Model Updates

A Look at new Make and Model Pages: AMC Matador, BMW 327, LeGrand, and More!
Byjustpastevehicles August 28, 2026

We’re just past the sun’s apex here in the Northern hemisphere and have been seeing record-breaking auction volume, peaking at more than 1,200 live auctions on the site in the last few weeks. And of course, we’ve been busy adding updates to the ever-expanding collection of BaT make and model pages. Check out the newest additions, and be sure to follow those that interest you in order to receive notifications when new auctions go live.

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The New British Racing Hat—On Sale in the BaT Gear Store! You Should Know
Byjustpastevehicles August 28, 2026

It’s time for another merch drop from the prolific team at the BaT Gear Store! Say hello to the new British Racing Hat, a five-panel structured snapback ballcap featuring an embroidered XKE in the iconic Pale Primrose color, outlined in British Racing Green to complement the visor and embroidered grommets.

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BaT Podcast | Editorial

Big Milestones, Big Bikes, and a Big Trip to Goodwood You Should Know
Byjustpastevehicles August 28, 2026

Episode 175 covers the reaction to our last movie episode, Tyler’s Corvette origin story, taking calls in parked cars, early lot numbers, lot 250k, the preponderance of cool bikes in Europe, great recent moto sales, a digression into McQueen territory, a Harley revelation, and Alex’s impromptu trip to the UK to spend some time on track at Goodwood.

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Editorial | The Weekly Weird and Wonderful

This Week’s Weird and Wonderful—July 3, 2026 You Should Know
Byjustpastevehicles August 28, 2026

Happy Fourth to you all, and happy birthday to our union of 50 states on its sestercentennial or semiquincentennial, depending on your etymological preferences. Before you head off to your various barbecues and fireworks extravaganzas, we have prepared this list covering just some of the most noteworthy cars auctioned on Bring a Trailer in the last week. Today we’ve got an eclectic selection that includes an unlikely Bonneville racer, a tractor with Italian bodywork, a Porsche-powered Group C car, and a rare dealer-special Pontiac muscle car, among others. Car auctions are like deviled eggs though, at least for us–we can always find room for one or two more. If you’re the same way, we invite you to peruse the endless bounty of our live auctions page once you’ve finished the feature below.

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Editorial | Question of the Week

Here’s question of the Week: What’s Your Favorite Animated Car of All Time?—WINNER’S UPDATE
Byjustpastevehicles August 28, 2026

WINNER’S ANNOUNCEMENT:

We’re back to announce the winner for our Question of the Week, where our winner will receive their laurels in the form of a $25 credit for a hat or T-shirt from the BaT Gear Store.

This week, we asked: What’s your favorite animated car of all time?

Thanks to everyone who participated! We filled up our cereal bowls, flipped on the screen, and went straight to work reviewing your nominations. There was no ignoring that Speed Racer’s gadget-packed Mach 5 received a bulk of the nominations, with 18 mentions as of this writing! So we’re handing the prize to the user who first nominated it—@ConnMan1966!

“Hands Down the Mach5. There is no contest here people. The homing pigeon, the car drives under water, the jump jacks, extension saws! And that profile and the cold start at the beginning of the cartoon! Epic!”

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BaT Podcast | Editorial

Understanding lot 250k in the Rearview, Reimaginings, and Dramatic Model Pages
Byjustpastevehicles August 28, 2026

Alex, Tyler, and Beck talk about our latest milestone sale, whether there’s a logical value cap on BaT, why it doesn’t matter if two amazing cars close at the same time, “reimagined” classics, how old a car needs to be for Route 66, Duchov luv, cross-country routes, a guerrilla house move, depreciation curves, model pages, and 1959.

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Editorial | sludgo's Mile Markers

sludgo’s Mile Markers: Mile 221 — Explained
Byjustpastevehicles August 28, 2026

This is Part Three of a three-part series. Click the links to read Part One, and Part Two.
It was a warm and sunny June morning and I’d been home about a week and a half. I was out in the garage thinking I should take advantage of the weather and give Mom’s RAV4 a good wash because it needed it. Had gotten dusty sitting in front of the McBungalow since I got back and was still grimy and buggy from the trip, but just as I was getting motivated my phone rang. Saw it was the eldest so I picked up. Knew immediately by his voice that something was brewing. He pretended-normal for a minute, asking me all the usuals. How I was. What I’d been up to. If the dogs were okay. And I answered him with all the usuals. Fine. Not much. Yup. Then he paused and cleared his throat. Said he’d just gotten off a phone call from Grandma—the Beehive—and needed to talk to me about a couple things. So I walked over to my workbench and sat down on my shop stool. “Okeydoke, kiddo. Shoot.”

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Editorial | The Weekly Weird and Wonderful

This Week’s Weird and Wonderful—July 10, 2026 You Should Know
Byjustpastevehicles August 28, 2026

The fireworks have been snuffed out, the hot dogs are back in the freezer until next year, and we’re all back to work for the time being. We’ve been waiting all week for Friday—not because we’re working for the weekend, but because that’s when we get to share our latest collection of strange and interesting vehicles—the Weekly Weird and Wonderful. This week, we’ve got some gnarly race cars that probably shouldn’t have titles for road use, a stripped-down Jeep with all the frills, one of the most beautiful home-built boats we’ve ever seen, an Italian tax-dodge SUV, and more. But this list is a mere taste of what’s currently live on BaT, so we invite you to head over to our Live Auctions page for more fun once you’ve finished the feature below.

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BaT Podcast | Editorial

The McQueen Classics Interview — Explained
Byjustpastevehicles August 28, 2026

Alex interviews Peter Guida of @mcqueens, one of BaT’s fastest-growing Local Partners and the host of our recent Delaware Meet-Up. The gregarious Guida talks about Maryland and SoCal hot rods, getting shot down, running things by the book, strategies to deliver at large volume, the next big thing, and pitching clients on BaT.

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