When we are choosing organizations to partner with, our main criterium is: does the partnership add something of interest or value for the BaT community? In the three years that Michelin North America has been partnered with BaT, they’ve gone above and beyond—awarding dozens of sets of free tires in monthly contests, at BaT events, and through our annual holiday giveaway blitz.
Welcome to the Weekly Weird and Wonderful, a curated list of the most interesting and unusual vehicles on BaT this week. For the sake of brevity, we can only feature a handful—there are plenty of chips left in the bag, i.e. over 1,000 other auctions currently live on the site. So if you’re still hungry when you finish this feature, head on over to our live auctions page for even more automotive fun.
April isn’t even over, and we’re back with another batch of new arrivals in the BaT Gear Store! As the warmer weather ramps up, our stalwart group of BaT staffers are holding it down and have rolled out the fifth merch release of 2026, featuring a fresh take on our Dickies work shirt and a new cotton twill ballcap in two colors. Check them out below!
Round three of this year’s Michelin and BFGoodrich tire giveaway ended in a tie (another tie!) between the 1970 Volkswagen Type 3 Squareback and the 1983 Ford F-150 XLT. Giving each winner two tires seems like the wrong way to solve it, so we’re awarding both contestants a new set of four!
You won’t see any Ford Mustangs in this week’s list, but today is the 62nd birthday of the original pony car, and we’re not going to let that pass without noting it. What you will see below is a curated collection 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 many, many vehicles that we weren’t able to exclude from our piece without experiencing some serious mental anguish. But you can still find them among the ~1,100 cars currently on our live auctions page.
As we discussed earlier this month, Henry Ford II had declared war on the competition with his “Total Performance” directive in 1962. But over at GM, the word “performance” fueled some queasy feelings amongst the brass. The General’s outright racing ban was imminent, but Chevrolet’s clandestine performance guru Vince Piggins wasn’t going down without a fight. Piggins issued a memo in mid-1962, fast-tracking the development of two race engines for NASCAR and the drag strip: the Mark IS and Mark IIS V8s, both displacing today’s magic number of 427 cubic inches.
Today we announce the addition of seven new shops in our BaT Local Partners Directory, including a new partner in the UK: Sports Purpose, with whom we will be collaborating at the Bicester Scramble this Sunday! This network of trusted facilities exists to help private owners with every facet of the BaT auction process, from preparation and presentation to auction management and logistics. At the end of the day, we want every seller to get any help they might need to list on Bring a Trailer, and our Local Partners have been instrumental to this effort. We regularly add new ones, so if you are a professional shop interested in becoming a Local Partner, please reach out to us at LocalPartners@bringatrailer.com
The Carefully Curated Collection is the fruit of four decades of collecting for the owner, a sometime concours judge who specialized in paint and bodywork during his professional career. The cars reflect his diverse tastes and include sports cars, GTs, and even prewar classics, all of American, British, and European manufacture. He states that drivability is of paramount importance to enjoying his collection—something we can get behind—and we’re looking forward to seeing videos of these automobiles in action. The collection will be presented in multiple groups by @plasticdr of Nostalgic Motoring Ltd., and the first auctions from Group 1 are now live on the site. Additional lots will be added shortly.
This week: how the LFA has evolved in the market; peeling out; peeling tires; waterborne Lambos; viewers vs. watchers; different takes on the dealer experience; “is it real?”; driving the wheels off the nicest car you can find; letting people abuse your precious; fake places at face value; instilling the road trip spirit in one’s offspring;
After a month spent discussing raucous big blocks and their exploits on banked ovals and quarter-mile drag strips, we’re ready for something a little more mellow. Something smooth. Today is 4/29, but we’re not going to spill any more ink on oft-celebrated baddies like FoMoCo’s Boss ‘Nine engine or the Super Cobra Jet Lima—today, we’re talking about the Cadillac 429, found under the hood of every car that rolled out of their Clark Street plant between 1964 and 1967.