BaT Features

It’s time to announce the winner for the sixth round of our 2026 Michelin and BFGoodrich tire giveaway!  Over 120 of you weighed in, and it was a photo finish between the gargantuan Ford Galaxie Country Squire wagon and the charming Volkswagen Karmann Ghia convertible. With the contest being this close, we’re exercising our Editorial Privilege this round and handing the win to the Karmann Ghia! Congratulations to its newest owner, @CertifiedPreownedLungs.

BaT member 88csanderson penned our latest Success Story after winning this 1988 Lincoln Town Car from Billzlost in a November 2025 BaT auction:

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.

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.

BaT member Buster82 won a 1979 Volkswagen Super Beetle convertible for his wife from KSC813 in a November 2025 BaT auction, and he recently wrote in with an update:

For much of the North American population, today is a day to stay inside if you can, lest one be exposed to excessive smoke, tainted lettuce, and other modern perils. To keep you from going stir-crazy, we have assembled for your viewing pleasure a curated list of the most interesting and noteworthy vehicles currently on BaT.

What fun is a car if it’s not driven? That’s always been our philosophy, and our friends at Pennzoil share this outlook.

BaT member Chuckles83 passed an important automotive tradition to his youngest daughter with this 1978 Triumph Spitfire, which he won from StevenAJ in a March 2025 BaT auction:

7/16 Update: As part of our display at Saturday’s Concours d’Elegance in downtown Elkhart Lake, we’ll be featuring a compelling array of special cars courtesy of our Local Partners: Colin’s Classic Auto, Geneva Motorcars, Reserve Motorworks, The Autobarn Collection, and Throttlestop! We hope to see you there!

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.

The Riding Shotgun project has been an interesting one for me, to say the least, and as I picked up the e-phone to chat with the seventh subject of the series I couldn’t help but recall what a certain Mr. Gump had to say about that box of chocolates.

Our very own Howard Swig grew up in a family famous for automotive enthusiasm, and in his 10+ years at BaT he has been instrumental in building this site into what it has become today.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Happy Fourth to you all, and happy birthday to our union of 50 states on its sestercentennial or semiquincentennial, depending on your etymological preferences.

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.