BaT Features

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).

It’s time for Round 2 of our monthly Michelin/BFGoodrich Tire Giveaway! Thanks to our generous partners at Michelin USA, we have been granted the privilege of gifting brand new sets of Michelin, Michelin Classic, and BFGoodrich tires to select BaT auction winners. Last month we had a tie and awarded sets of tires to both winners! Now it’s March, and once again we’re asking for your help selecting another vehicle worthy of fresh rubber.

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.

This Success Story comes to us from BaT member northstrand, who won this 2001 BMW Z8 from NHD4OSU in an August 2025 BaT auction:

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.

This Success Story comes to us from BaT member Canoethrasher, who won this 2007 Honda Element SC from The_Dude_Abides in an April 2025 BaT auction:

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.

Join BaT Podcast host Alex Porter and bespoke car builder Christopher Runge for an extended tour of the Rünge Cars workshop, tucked between the lakes and rolling hills of west central Minnesota.

This Success Story comes to us from BaT member Andrewbaron78, who won this 1978 BMW R100S from scott_dc in a September 2025 BaT auction:

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.

With the occasion of this collection sale, we are excited to announce a new partnership with the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners, Michigan (on the heel of the Michigan mitten hand near Kalamazoo, for anyone curious).

“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.

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.