BaT Features

3/26 Event Coverage:

Round two for 2026 is in the books, folks. Our friends at BaT Local Partner Alara Garage were great hosts, as was the city of Houston—offering perfect Texas spring weather and a near-impossible variety of excellent food to be had.

We’re excited to announce expanded services for BaT sellers and buyers in the UK! We’re no stranger to the British Isles, having listed more than 350 auctions in the region to date. The UK is known for its passionate, knowledgeable collector car community and, of course, for its extraordinary depth of automotive heritage.

Welcome to the Weekly Weird and Wonderful, a handy little feature that collects the strangest, coolest, and most interesting cars to appear on BaT in the last seven days.

We interrupt this feed of wonderful cars to give you news that the latest installment of sludgo’s Mile Markers will be postponed until next week. That’s the bad news.

Ken Block left us three years ago, but his impact changed the world of motorsports forever.

We’re back, albeit a day late, to announce our winner for the second round of this year’s Michelin and BFGoodrich tire giveaway! This week it was a battle between the 1972 MG Midget and the 1966 VW Karmann Ghia project car, but in the end, the Spridget took the win. Congratulations to its new owner, @Niran777!

In this episode, Randy, Beck, and Alex preview upcoming news from the UK, test drive the Renault 5 EV, start a letter-series Chrysler and answer some of their favorite Questions of the Week.

Welcome to the BaT Question of the Week! For those unfamiliar, here are the rules: we ask an automotive-themed question, and the author of our favorite answer from the comments is awarded a $25 credit to the BaT Gear Store.

The Porsche 911 has always been the exception to the rule of Resale Red. But then again, the 911—bug-eyed, rear-engined, and improbably configured as a 2+2—has long been the exception to nearly every sports car convention.

If you’re reading this, you’ve made it to another Friday. Let’s call that a win. To celebrate, we’re bringing you our Weekly Weird and Wonderful, a curated list of the most interesting and unusual vehicles on BaT this week.

Forget what the groundhog says—real ones know spring by the position of the Earth in its orbit around the Sun. March 21 is the day when our planet’s equator pulls up on plane with its local yellow dwarf star, and for the next several months, the days will be longer than the nights on the top half of the globe.

BaT member williamglenn95 wrapped up a fly-and-drive adventure with the 1967 Morgan 4/4 GT that he won from 97mar in an August 2025 BaT auction. He affectionately named it Marj, and wrote in to tell us how the name came to be:

This week, we’re remembering Mike Hailwood’s legendary comeback on a 1978 NCR Ducati 900, one of a small batch of racers produced by NCR (and similar to this one recently listed on BaT).

The fourth in our series about Car Movies: the surprise hit American Graffiti—the scrappy George Lucas effort featuring Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford, and many more names whose roles left indelible marks on so many of us, plus the cast of A-listers led by John Milner’s legendary yellow Deuce coupe.

The depth of knowledge that exists within the BaT community is unfathomable, and we are ever indebted to the folks who come here to share their expertise, day in and day out.

It’s time for the Weekly Weird and Wonderful, a vehicular curio cabinet containing a selection of the most interesting vehicles and vehicle-related paraphernalia up for auction on BaT.

It was a couple weeks ago. Two in the morning and my brain wouldn’t shut off so I couldn’t get to sleep. I laid restlessly in bed for a while, listening to the alarm clock on my nightstand tick. And tock. And tick. And tock.

Today we bring you, our esteemed BaT community, an update to the sweeping collection of BaT make and model pages, just in time for the spring thaw.

This Success Story comes to us from BaT member Osramicus, who won this modified Thunderbird replica from Mater21 in an August 2025 BaT auction:

The team discusses formative BMWs, a snowballing project, a curious car-buying ploy, nostalgia for late-1980s Ford performance cars, attainable transaxle Porsches, the Toyota celebrity support race at the LBGP, Gene Hackman’s side gig, Tommy Kendall, a good color change, a museum sale, current watchlist favorites, and Porsche whale-tale nerdiness.