This is a Porsche 911 from the 993 generation, built as a GT2-style race car. GT2 cars are made to be fast and reliable on tracks, not for daily driving. The host is saying they got to see this particular one run and race.
Term
Roar GT2 car
“Roar GT2” refers to a GT2-class race car setup associated with the ROAR (Road Atlanta) racing events/series naming used in American Porsche racing circles. In practice, it’s a shorthand for the car’s GT2-spec identity and the racing context it was prepared for. The host is using it to emphasize that this is the real GT2-spec car, not a replica.
Le Mans Classic is a track event for classic race cars. Owners bring cars that are old or race-prepared so they can drive them on a famous Le Mans circuit. The host is saying the winner plans to run the car there.
Monza is a famous race track in Italy. The host is saying they watched the car practice there in both wet and dry conditions. That matters because the track is much trickier when it’s wet.
The Ford Falcon is an older Ford car line. The podcast specifically mentions a 1964 Falcon that someone drove. It’s brought up because it’s a classic that may not be the most common choice among the people being discussed.
The Ford Bronco is a type of SUV made to handle rough roads. It’s known for being tough and for having a lot of fans. In the podcast, it’s mentioned alongside other cars in a discussion about how vehicles are set up.
The Ford Mustang is a popular American car that’s been made for many years. People like it because it’s sporty and there are lots of versions. In the podcast, it’s mentioned in connection with how the car is set up from the factory.
“260 V8” means a V-shaped eight-cylinder engine with a specific size (260 cubic inches). They’re saying it sounded similar to the other car they were comparing.
The Chevrolet Monte Carlo is a classic American coupe. The podcast uses it as a comparison for style—like saying one car looks similar to a Monte Carlo. It’s mentioned because it’s a well-known model from the past.
The Porsche 356 is an older Porsche sports car from the early days of the company. People talk about it because it’s a classic and collectors really value them. The podcast mentions it in the context of whether it’s practical or possible to drive it while wearing a helmet.
“Euro spec” just means the car was made for the European market. That can change things like lights and bumpers compared to the same model sold in the US.
The Volkswagen Scirocco is a small, classic European car that many enthusiasts love. Here, they’re talking about how the European version looks different—like the headlights and bumpers—compared with the US version.
“16-valve” describes the engine’s design—how many valves it has to let air and fuel in and exhaust out. People care because the higher-valve setup can make the engine feel more responsive than a lower-valve version.
“8-valve” means the engine has fewer valves than the 16-valve version. Here, they’re saying that’s the downside of this particular Scirocco compared to the higher-valve cars.
“Narrow-body” means the car has slimmer fenders and a narrower look than the later wide-body versions. A “Speedster” is a special Porsche 911 style that’s more about an open-top, lightweight feel—so people care which body width it has.
“Flared” means the fenders stick out more than usual. That usually goes along with wider tires, and on Porsches it’s a key difference between narrow-body and wide-body versions.
M491 is a Porsche “option code,” basically an internal label for a particular factory setup. Enthusiasts use it to figure out exactly what parts or configuration a specific car was built with.
Car
Alpina V36 Wagon
This is a rare Alpina wagon based on a BMW, and the big detail is that it uses a V8 engine. Alpina is a company that modifies BMWs to make them feel more special and quicker.
A V8 swap means putting a V8 engine into a car that didn’t originally have one. It’s a big job because the engine has to be made to fit and work with everything else.
The BMW E28 is the 5 Series generation from the early-to-mid 1980s, and it’s a popular enthusiast platform. In this segment, the hosts mention a shop that typically works with BMW E28s, highlighting how those cars are a known specialty before moving to a different BMW base.
A “4.6-liter V8” is a large engine with eight cylinders. The key point is that it’s much bigger than what most small BMWs come with, so it usually makes the car feel stronger and more dramatic.
The BMW E36 is a specific BMW 3 Series generation. Here, they’re describing a wild swap where a big 4.6-liter V8 is put into the smaller E36, which makes it feel and sound very different from a stock car.
The BMW E36 M3 is the E36-generation M3, a performance version built around a more driver-focused setup than typical E36 models. The hosts use it as a comparison point to highlight how different an E36 becomes when you swap in a large V8 versus the M3’s more purpose-built configuration.
A V8 is an engine with eight cylinders. It’s known for making strong power and torque, which is why people often swap in a V8 when they want the car to feel quicker.
A cold air intake is a modification that helps the engine breathe cooler air. Cooler air can make the engine run a bit better, especially when you’re trying to get more power.
A chip flash is when someone updates the car’s computer settings. That can change how the engine runs, but it usually works best alongside other changes.
The Porsche 944 is a sports car made by Porsche. It’s different from the 911, but people sometimes confuse the names. The podcast mentions it because someone is correcting or clarifying which Porsche model they mean.
The Porsche 914 is an older Porsche sports car with the engine mounted in the middle. People like it because it’s lightweight and fun to drive, and it has a quirky, interesting history.
The Porsche 959 is a very famous older Porsche supercar. It’s known for being technologically advanced for its time, especially because it used sophisticated turbo and all-wheel-drive systems.
“Rothmans 959” means a Porsche 959 wearing the Rothmans racing livery. It’s basically a collector way to say which sponsored look or paint scheme the car has.
The Chrysler Pacifica is a minivan, meaning it’s made to carry people comfortably, usually for families. In the podcast, it’s used as the everyday vehicle for a trip. That’s why it’s mentioned alongside a sports car outing.
“Stage two” usually means a more serious performance upgrade than the simplest tune. It typically adds parts (not just a computer setting) to help the engine make more power.
“Cams” are parts inside the engine that control when the valves open and close. Upgrading them can help the engine breathe better and make more power, especially at higher revs.
“Turbos” are turbochargers that push extra air into the engine using exhaust energy. That extra air helps the engine make more power, but it has to be set up correctly.
Term
inner coolers
On turbo cars, the air gets hot after being compressed. An intercooler (or similar “cooler” parts) cools that air before it goes into the engine, which helps it run stronger and safer.
The Porsche 904 is an old Porsche race car. The podcast talks about it being sold and about bidders, which shows it’s a valuable collector item. People focus on it because it’s rare and tied to racing history.
These are a special type of disc brake rotor design. The key idea is that the rotor is shaped like a ring, and the speaker thinks it’s a big deal for braking performance.
Term
polo motor
“Polo motor” means the car has a Volkswagen Polo engine installed. It’s basically an engine swap that changes the car’s character compared to a stock Porsche.
Car
Porsche Emory Outlaw
This is a custom Porsche build called an “Outlaw,” usually based on a classic Porsche 356. Here, the hosts are pointing out details about the car’s transmission that make it unusual and interesting to enthusiasts.
“Five speed” means the car has a manual transmission with five forward gears. More gears can help the engine run in the right range depending on speed.
“Judge” refers to the Pontiac GTO Judge package, a performance-focused trim that was marketed as a more aggressive, higher-output version of the GTO. Enthusiasts often treat the Judge as a distinct collectible because it’s tied to a specific performance identity and option set.
“4-speed” means the car has a manual gearbox with four forward gears. You shift through them yourself, which can make the car feel more connected to the engine.
Tri-Power is a way of feeding fuel to the engine using three carburetors instead of one. It was used on some performance cars to help them respond better when you press the gas.
“Dog dish” is a nickname for a classic-looking wheel cover/center cap. It’s a style that was common on older American cars and helps give the car a period-correct look.
“Drags” refers to drag racing—straight-line acceleration events where cars compete over a short distance. When someone says a car “ran drags back in the day,” they’re usually pointing to a history of quarter-mile-style use and tuning.
Brand
BET
“BET” here sounds like a label for where the car was posted/listed recently. It’s not a car part—more like a website or listing reference.
“Restorations” means fixing up a car to bring it back to an earlier condition. In collector circles, how well it’s restored can change whether people think it’s the real deal.
Term
389
“389” refers to the engine displacement: a 389 cubic-inch V8, a common Pontiac big-block size associated with many GTO-era cars. In enthusiast discussions, the engine size helps determine whether a car matches the expected factory configuration.
Term
try power
“Tri-Power” is a performance setup that uses three carburetors instead of one. It’s a classic muscle-car detail people look for when figuring out what kind of engine a car really has.
Term
46 pack
“46 pack” sounds like a specific engine/induction setup people use to identify how a muscle car is configured. The host mentions it as a detail about the car they saw, but the exact meaning isn’t fully spelled out here.
The Dodge Super B is an older Dodge car model. The podcast mentions seeing one in yellow while driving around. It’s notable because it’s the kind of classic that stands out when you spot it.
The Plymouth Barracuda is a classic American muscle car. The podcast mentions a specific type called a “Notchback,” which is a particular body style. People talk about it because different Barracuda versions are collectible.
This is a Pontiac GTO from 1970, one of the most talked-about muscle-car years. They’re describing the movie version as gold with a vinyl roof (a fake-leather-looking top).
Steel wheels are wheels made primarily from steel, typically heavier than many aftermarket alloy wheels. They’re often chosen for durability and cost, and they can be a practical choice for cars that are driven hard or used for racing.
An “Endura” bumper is a plastic bumper design used on some newer cars. The speaker prefers the older chrome bumpers instead of the later plastic crash bumpers.
The Mustang is a popular American sports car made by Ford. In the podcast, they’re talking about a particular Mustang type (the “Fox body” era) and how it’s shown or compared. That matters to collectors because details can make one car more correct or valuable than another.
A turbocharger is a device that uses the car’s exhaust to spin a fan and push extra air into the engine. More air usually means more power.
Term
notch backs
A notchback is a car body style where the rear roofline drops more abruptly into the trunk area. It’s just one of the different Mustang body shapes people collect.
Term
fast backs
A fastback is a car shape where the roof smoothly slopes down toward the back, instead of having a more upright trunk area. It’s another common Mustang body style people look for.
Company
ASC Marian
ASC was a company that helped build special versions of cars made by other manufacturers. Here, they’re being mentioned as a third-party partner that could create different Mustang-style variants.
The Ford Fairlane is an older Ford car model. The podcast mentions it as part of a comparison, where one Fairlane might be “slight plus” versus another. It’s brought up because different versions of the Fairlane can be different enough to matter to collectors.
“Unrestored” means the car hasn’t been fully rebuilt or refreshed to look new. It likely still has original condition parts and may need work to be finished.
A patina car is kept more “as-is,” showing age and original condition instead of being restored to look brand new. It can still need repairs, but it keeps that lived-in look.
A “hemi” is an engine design where the inside of the cylinder head is shaped like a half-sphere. That shape helps the engine breathe better, which can make more power.
A “four-barrel” means the carburetor has four openings for air and fuel. More openings can feed the engine better when you’re asking for strong acceleration.
“Dual quads” means there are two four-barrel carburetors on the engine. That setup is meant to give the engine plenty of fuel and air, especially when you accelerate hard.
The air cleaner is the part that filters the air before it goes into the engine. On older performance cars, the air-cleaner setup can be very noticeable and sometimes very expensive.
A resto mod is an older car that’s been brought back to life, but with some modern upgrades. The goal is usually to keep the classic look while making it nicer to drive.
The wheel arch is the body panel area that frames the tire. In the transcript, the speaker contrasts “stodgy” wheel-arch proportions on a 55 with the lower wheel-arch look they want on a 56, which affects stance and visual correctness.
The Bugatti Chiron is a super-expensive, ultra-fast hypercar. “Super Sport” is a special version of the Chiron that’s meant to be even more focused on extreme high-speed performance.
The Aston Martin DB5 is a classic luxury sports car. The podcast talks about a specific blue DB5, which implies it’s a special or well-known car. People discuss it because it’s a famous model that collectors seek out.
The Chrysler Daytona is a performance car from Chrysler’s muscle-car era. The podcast mentions a specific blue Daytona with a particular trim/package name. It’s brought up because certain Daytona versions are especially sought after by collectors.
The Audi RS4 is a faster, sportier version of an Audi A4. It’s made for people who want more performance than a regular car. The podcast mentions it because it was being used during a drive or meet-up.
A “Bonneville car” is a car that’s used for speed runs at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. People build special cars to try to set very high speed records there.
This is a high-performance Audi S4 from 1993. The big deal is that it has a turbocharged inline five-cylinder engine, and in this story it’s been modified to chase land-speed records at Bonneville.
Land-speed-record attempts are typically measured over two directions (both ways) to reduce the effect of wind and track conditions. Averaging the results helps make the final speed figure more representative of the car’s true capability.
An inline five-cylinder engine means the engine has five cylinders lined up in a row. The hosts are pointing out that this record car still uses that kind of engine.
The throttle body is the part that controls how much air can enter the engine. An 80 mm, LS1-style throttle body is a bigger version meant to support higher airflow and power.
Charge air just means the air that’s been compressed by the turbo before it goes into the engine. Since it gets hot when compressed, it’s often cooled first.
The “200 mile an hour club” is a bragging right for cars that can hit 200 mph. It’s basically a way of saying the car is capable of truly very high speeds.
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To bring a trailer podcast, do you remember all the GoPro face that people used to do
montages of like the face leaning in like a GoPro video starts and it always starts with
the dude leaning his face in front of it before he rips up the canyon in his sport bike.
I don't know that.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I think a podcast starting with everybody complaining about their audio, that's probably
kind of the same thing.
Oh man.
People would love to hear that.
Totally.
Yeah.
Randy, fresh back from Europe, tell us how it was.
Oh man.
I mean, this wasn't even a business trip, but I was joking with you guys that every trip
turns into a BAT conversation everywhere.
I trip across alumni, cars.
We have a lot of cars live in Europe, which is something we've been fostering lately.
There's 18 at present.
There was 19 just a little bit ago.
A lot in the UK specifically.
I was like five or six in the UK.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Six in the UK.
Five of those right hand drive in the UK.
So there's been some fun comment interactions that I've been having on the site about those.
But no, I just came back from a trip over there of doing car things, as many car things
as I could slam into a week and yeah, had some ups and downs and saw some new stuff.
But my favorite part was that the 993 GT2 race car, BAT alumni, that Wab sold.
I got to see it run at the track.
I saw that.
It raced at Monterey.
After he won it in California, he raced it at Monterey.
Storix, what did it sell for, Beck?
800.
800, thou amazing car, the actual Roar GT2 car.
And then...
What's the lot number on that one, Beck?
Lot number is...
We'll link to it, too.
1-1-6-0-5-6.
The guy who won that is Killer and he's running it at the Le Mans Classic 4th of July of this
year.
So I got to see it practice at Monza last Thursday, Friday in the wet and the dry.
And it was ripping.
Man, those cars look so good on the track.
Is he Italian?
Who's the owner?
I know, German dude.
Anyhow, just have loved tracking that car and seeing where it's gone since it was purchased
on BAT.
What was the Monza event that you were at?
Just a low-key track day private, only probably 50 cars that were there.
I'd never seen that circuit before.
That is 30 minutes from the heart of Milan and obviously, storied track.
There's the historic oval.
I was going to say, isn't that part of the super high banking still left?
That's still there.
Okay.
Not part of the track, but it's still...
No, you don't drive on it now, but it's...
You can walk it though, right?
It is there.
You can walk.
You can do different things.
But we drove on a cool sort of boot-shaped circuit with some awesome chicanes in it.
And I had an old car.
I had a 1964 Falcon that I drove and that was not typical for the group we were in,
but there was a streetcar group and a race car group.
I was solidly in the streetcar group with stock Mustang Falcon Bronco seats and lap
belts and my buddy and I were just like, we're doing it.
Let's go.
And so we went out in the rain.
We went out in the dry and threw it around.
It was kind of, I don't know, 30% of the experience of racing the Shelby, that's an
actual race car, but same Hurst shifter and same, you know, funny seating position and
a 260 V8 that almost sounded the same.
So it was pretty fun.
I saw that car in the background of your 993 GT2 pick and I was going to make a joke
about you going out on track and you actually did it.
I did, dude.
Magnificent bastard.
We were out there and there were some old cars.
There was a really cool old European championship 2002 that was there with pig flares on it.
One of the early ones.
I love it.
And then there were, I showed you a Lotus Elite.
I knew you would like.
Very good looking one.
And then there was 3.5 CSLs, I guess they are.
They're like European championship cars.
There was early stuff like that.
But then there were a lot of modern Porsches, 964, 993, 996, like GT3.
This is in the street car?
Some were in the street car class.
There was a Cayman GT4 hardcore looking street car that was in our class and some 993s and
some pretty fast cars.
But then there were, yeah, it was just a whole mashup of coolness.
There was a bunch of alphas, a huge truck full of alphas showed up, step noses, TZ car
raced.
Guys are just getting after it.
This is the week, couple of days before there's a big Concorde that I went to last year that
is in that region down at Lake Como.
I didn't go to that, but a bunch of people were jumping from there to the show that
weekend.
So it's kind of a Monterey adjacent sort of car weekish sort of thing happening.
So people are doing all different stuff and I got to drop in and see a flavor of that.
But the reason we're in the Falcon is because we drove street roads to get there from Germany.
So we had a bunch of road touring, which is my favorite thing to do over there.
This must have been like one of the first Falcons to be on Monza and A.
Well, I was wondering, Europeans race them.
Europeans like Falcons.
Some of the guys that were there were like Falcon, they were all like totally into it,
which I think is funny.
In the US, you don't get that feel at all because everybody here race Mustangs.
But over there, Falcons are a thing.
They rally them and they race them and there will be more racing over there this year.
So people associated with that.
But ours is a street car.
So I mean, it's not like any sort of racey.
It has American Five Spokes on it, but it's not like a race car.
So people were kind of chuckling that it was out on track because I had the body roll going on,
you know, but those cars are there and people know them.
And mine was built in the UK by Alan Mann, right?
I mean, people like those cars.
There's a following.
Even maybe even more in the UK, but certainly in Europe, like you go to the six hours of spa,
which is an event that happens every fall and there'll be a few Falcons on track.
I mean, it's it's known.
Is it because it was an earlier car or was the Mustang not that popular?
Well, good question.
It's weird.
I don't believe they ever made them in right hand drive, but the Brits like them
and race them in left hand drive, obviously.
And then I don't know what the appeal is.
There's like an FIA spec of Falcon.
And that's a big deal.
And only a few of those raced in the U.S.
But those were quite popular and more broadly raced over there.
You see him at the Loughborough Panamarkana.
Like the Europeans will bring a Falcon to run down there.
So it's kind of a European thing.
And my white Falcon was like a Monte Carlo.
Right. I mean, people were over there.
There's always been this sort of weird Euro flavor to the Falcon.
And they like Mustangs, too.
But the Falcon has always been sort of embraced over there.
So anyway, that's a weird combo.
It does seem like a lot of the big American cars you see racing in Europe
do tend to be early 60s.
Like, like, I can't.
I mean, I presume it was a time.
I mean, obviously they road race galaxies.
Right. We didn't do that here.
No, they're always like, oh, you must have done that all over America.
And I was like, nobody did.
There's also that guy who hustles that big square, like 60 or 61 T-Bird around.
Yeah, they have.
They always have some different American cars that they choose to embrace.
They're like, yeah, isn't that T-Bird wonderful?
And I was like, actually, no, that's like the worst.
It's like my least favorite T-Bird is that one that races at Goodwood.
But Falcons, I've always just kind of found to be cool
because they're Mustang adjacent.
But yeah, anyway, it was it was embraced.
It was a fun car. We found this car.
I've had it in the Netherlands.
I kind of lucked out having it in Germany.
Like, I think I told you guys and it ended up being a backup car,
but it was needed and then drove it over the mountains.
It was pretty crazy.
People shake their heads, right?
People are like, what are you doing here?
You'd driven it mainly in Western Europe.
Have you driven it through Central Europe before?
Is this the first time?
No, we had it in the Netherlands
where I found it and I drove right up there with my dad
to do a tourist lap on Sanford.
So it's gone around some circuits over there now,
which is kind of fun.
And the guy before us rallied it in the Alps,
but I got it to Germany and now we got it even way further south.
We were ripping through, you know, the AutoStrada
in an old American car, tanking it up with 100 octane
expensive, expensive fuel and seeing what it'll do.
And man, the thing was reliable, straight up reliable,
driving all over the place, parking it at hotels,
parking it at events.
It started up every time and would just go.
The car's super turnkey.
So yeah, people have been asking, are you going to bring it back?
Are you going to bring it here?
What are you going to do with it?
But it's probably destined to be sold on BET.
I think I'd like to run it in the Targa Florio,
take it to Southern Italy and run it in that event in September.
But I don't know if that's on the calendar this year.
For me, it is on the calendar for others,
but it may not make that, so we may sell it instead.
Sounds like it needs to make a circuit around Western Europe
to other tracks.
No, it could.
It could.
I mean, getting it in and out of the UK is a little bit of a hassle,
but it'd be fun to take it over there.
I mean, that's where a bunch of tracks are,
and that's where it was built.
I kind of wanted to return it.
Go to Silverstone.
Yeah, go to Silverstone and run it around.
But again, it's not a race car.
It's a fun street performance car.
But it's a blessing to get to go over there,
got to go over there with a buddy,
and we had plenty of room.
We're going to ride in a 356,
which would be like your luggage is on your lap
and you're driving around hunched over,
thinking about being in helmets in the 356.
We were wondering if it was even possible.
And then we got in the Falcon and felt like a Cadillac.
You know, we thought it was enormous.
We were like awful people riding.
Why didn't we bring bigger suitcases?
So yeah, totally offering rides.
We had somebody in the back at one point driving around.
So it says BAT on the side of it.
It's got a little sticker going on.
So it's fun.
It sparks some conversation.
People like it.
People like the BAT sticker?
We were at a big party car-oriented naturally party
on a Saturday night, and that car
they waved it in for like awesome parking.
And we were stoked.
And then when I was backing it out,
I heard somebody was like,
whoa, bring a trailer.
That's the bring a trailer car.
You know, and I was like right on.
It always makes me smile.
So anyway, I always chuckle.
And it just has a little in the quarter window.
But anyway, Falcons in Europe, man.
That was my- So sick.
Yeah, I'll show you the vid of it
ripping up the front straight at Monza all alone.
But I had to be watching my mirrors, man.
There were a lot of people passing us.
We only passed a couple cars,
but a lot of people were passing us.
There's so much good stuff live in Europe right now.
One thing that before we pivot off the European,
I'm following more European auctions currently,
like watching than I think I ever have.
But before we dive into any of that,
I think it's worth mentioning,
I don't know if Howard texted you about this back,
but we had, if not a world record,
close to it on a 360 Challenge Stradale today
that was in Switzerland.
Did you see that?
9,000 mile car, or 9,000 kilometer car.
Sorry, I should say.
Red kind of plain, no stripe,
which is cool for a challenge.
And 750,000 was the...
So US, yeah.
That car sells for US because it's in Switzerland.
We sell in euros for Europe,
but it's interesting because the Swiss
want nothing to do with euros.
Keep it out totally.
So we actually still sell.
We will take US dollars or gold bars.
In USD, we sell in USD in Switzerland.
And this car, yeah, obviously just ended today.
But a lot of visibility on 25,000 views
on the listing and 1,400 people
wanted to be updated right at the end,
which was crazy.
And it blew past what the seller was interested in.
And those cars are on fire, though.
They are on fire right now.
Yeah, I was kind of not aware of that
till just a couple of weeks ago.
Well, and if Zach was here,
you could tell us what the difference was
between the Euromarket Stradale or Challenge,
then a 1D, then the Euro...
Don't even bring it up,
because I don't know the answer.
You can go down a full rabbit hole on that,
but no.
I mean, super special car.
They say one of 1,300.
And I mean, just killer those wheels
and then the actual grille on the back and the red.
I mean, people said they didn't want red.
I'm like, I'm okay with it.
I'm okay with it when it's a challenge
and it's like no stripe and everything,
which is like super plain gin.
I love it when you get a kind of a hot rod
like that in a plain thing.
I often say the 458 is the last pretty Ferrari in my eyes,
but it actually might be the 360,
especially in this spec.
That's just a fantastic looking car.
Yeah, yeah.
Anyway, killer car, great result.
We'll see where it goes.
Randy, did you see the green Scirocco?
Of course.
Corvini?
Okay, correct.
Okay, so I was debating that car
with numerous people that were over there.
Oh, what was...
They're like, where'd this come from?
What was the con, though?
No, no, no.
I mean, it's just deep Euro spec painted bumpers,
Euro headlights.
We were debating the merits
of the Euro headlights in the Scirocco.
I'm a huge fan of those.
I'm not as much of a fan of the painted bumpers that it has.
Oh, I like that.
It's like a very monochrome sort of setup.
I'm like, have some hard strings
for 16-valve US spec Scirocco.
And this one is deep European spec
with this green on it.
Yes, I actually love all that.
The only sad part for me is the 8-valve 90-horse motor.
Yeah, it's not a 16-valve.
But that is very Euro.
It has great interior.
Snowflake, would it come on that car?
Maybe, maybe not.
Maybe a swap, but I think it looks great.
They have all sorts of crazy specs over there.
The fog lights, the hella fogs,
like hanging from under the bumper.
I was chuckling at those a little bit,
but no, it's a good, interesting car.
Whenever you see them with small bumpers on them,
they look interesting.
Yes, correct.
And this is a white glove car.
Oh, is it really?
Yeah, to take some credit, but take a bow.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
It's amazing how often I pick some car
that looks great and is presented well,
and becks like, by the way.
We wrangled that.
We wrangled that.
What's the story on it?
Do you know the background?
It's got no miles on it.
It's like a 22,000 kilometer or something like that.
Just Seller reached out, was looking for more support,
and Roland's been on the phone with him
helping through this process.
He had to provide his own photos, unfortunately,
so we would have loved to do our own shoot there,
but we're still working on expanding that service
in Europe and the UK, but...
You're on calls today about that.
On calls today about that today.
That's true.
Anyway, it's a cool car with a plaid interior,
cloth interior.
Yeah, I guess the mileage is the story on that.
It's like a no-mile car, which is a weird deal.
It's so funny, because to me, the story is the color
and the spec, but it's so interesting.
It is actually the mileage.
You're right.
So we'll see what happens with that one.
It's kind of a fun one.
In Germany, ramping up some more Euro listings.
Anyway, I just think the inventory over there
is very interesting.
People are so hungry for BAT sale dynamics over there.
They're like, we're so tired of these other options,
or please bring BAT.
When can I use BAT?
I'm like, you can use it right now.
Just go.
There's all these cars live, right?
And people are like, oh, it'd be so nice
if you'd come over and I'm like, turn on your phone.
Submit the car.
Yeah, it's available to you.
So anyway, there's always a funny back and forth with that.
But yeah, being able to say, hey, we got 18 cars live
is a cool thing.
We also have another car in Europe right now.
I would love to bring up.
It's not please.
Super interesting.
It is not super interesting.
These narrow-bodied Speedster.
There you go.
Oh, yeah.
That's interesting.
I'm sorry.
I'm not even totally sure I know what that is.
I also, but embarrassed to admit,
I didn't know what this was either.
There's only 161, yeah, 161 of them made.
It's a narrow-bodied 89, not 11 Speedster.
So no big turbo flares.
There's one of those in it.
You're familiar with the one on narrow-body in a 964 Speedster,
right?
Like white with white wheel with white clamshell
and it's a narrow-body.
You've seen that.
For sure.
Yeah.
That and also the 997 was a, was that something there?
Losing me at water cooled.
I don't know what you're talking about.
But the 964 definitely had a narrow-body Speedster, right?
I'm not crazy in that.
No, I'm not really sure about that.
You walked in the door today and said there's no
narrow-body Speedster, which is an okay point.
Most of them are flared.
Correct.
Yeah, that was my thing.
I always assumed they were the same body shape.
So this one's an 89.
Yeah, right there at the end.
They did 89 Speedsters and this one's silver,
narrow-body.
The M491 or the, I think they actually put a turbo.
They never put a turbo in a Speedster, did they?
No, not the motor.
But they didn't put anyone flares, right?
Yes, correct.
But not the wing.
This one is the narrow-narrow.
I'm actually kind of down with it.
I am too.
I love it.
I mean, like the roof, the yellowbird and everything
is all narrow-body, which I love.
Like I'm kind of, I love a 930, but I also, like the, you know,
the narrow-body still have good flares on them.
I think this one's super cool.
But anyway, what do you want to say about it, Beck?
You're the one who owns a G-body like this.
Do you got something to say?
I was just impressed.
I loved learning about it.
I didn't know that it existed before.
Love that it's coming out of France.
I'd gathered that maybe more of these
sold in Europe than in the U.S.
Or I don't even know if narrow-bodied Speedsters even came to the U.S.
161 of them, they say.
We're built, man.
We got the stats right there in the listing sold by Son Auto.
You guys know Son Auto?
That was on the first race car.
So I was the dealer in Paris.
Didn't you have a Son Auto car?
Did you own something that came through Son Auto?
I wish.
Okay.
I probably had like a bad...
We probably just talked about it or something.
Yeah, no.
But I mean, some of the great 911R-type cars and race cars
and, you know, different sponsorship livery had Son Auto on them,
that race style Le Mans and such.
But anyway, this one, whenever you're talking early Porsches in France,
oftentimes you will trip across them.
Anyway, great car.
Good call out, Beck.
Yeah, I'm pleased to see that car as well.
Ends in four days and in France.
There's a 323, a trunk compared, an E36 Ti,
which I love, the little hatchbacks with a six cylinder in the Netherlands.
I love those cars.
So every time there's one of those, I'm excited.
The other big one I want to talk about that you have definitely looked at, Randy,
is the 037 clone.
Okay, that's wild.
Right.
So that's probably all I was over there.
I was like, who's selling that car?
And it's built on a Monte Carlo.
I think it's the standard.
Sort of rep build.
It is, but it's built in the 90s and it's got full Kevlar.
Like it's got all the body work that the real deal would have.
It looks a lot like the real rally cars.
Few of the real rally cars have transacted over the last few years.
And this one is full martini livery with the right wheels and the right proportions.
And it doesn't look like a bit sort of car.
It's put together pretty nicely and apparently 30 years ago.
So we'll see where the bid goes on that.
It's just a radical build and cool and kind of been around for a while.
And there's nothing like a big clamshell popping up and seeing the Kevlar on the inside.
I love that.
So I thought that was pretty rad and worth noting.
And it's just all over the place, isn't it?
It is.
That's being listed over there.
This crazy race car.
Oh, that thing's crazy.
Do you see where that is?
It's in, yes, I thought it was in Scandinavia somewhere.
We just sold a couple of Scandinavia cars.
And then we're right down to daily driver type stuff in the UK.
So anyway, people watch European listings.
We're putting some effort into boost and exposure for those.
And a lot of results we're getting are pretty interesting over there.
Do you see the Alpina Touring Wagon that just sold?
No, I missed that one.
The Alpina V36 Wagon that has a V8 in it.
They didn't build many of these either.
That's one for 89,000 euros on a no reserve car in the Netherlands.
I thought that was a super gutsy listing out of the Evo crew out in Netherlands.
We love them.
They were here visiting in the office in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago,
and then they rolled back and fired this listing off,
which I was very pleased about.
Shout out to those guys.
They do a terrific job with BMW E28s,
but this time they decided to do it with a little E36 wagon.
Man, that's maybe like the ultimate.
I feel like I've read about these before,
but I don't know if they made them in sedans too.
Alpina made crazy stuff in the 90s.
Different sorts of swaps.
Like, this is an E36 Wagon.
They say they made 27 of them.
They called a B8 4.6 Touring,
and they dropped in the 4.6-liter V8 out of the big BMWs into this little E36
and made it look pretty cool, and apparently it rips.
This is before they switched to only autos too.
Yeah, that's right.
You could still get a six-speed in this one.
So that versus an E36 M3, totally different car.
This is maybe the ultimate E36, for me at least.
And I'm not even a huge Alpina guy with the wag.
Yeah, kind of.
But you want a tow hitch on it?
You want to haul some people around?
Kind of.
Anyway, I'm sure it would sound amazing,
and it's just a really, really unusual and interesting little car.
Well, we had a customer car at the shop race to work that was a...
I think the only came in the last year.
It was the E34 with the 546-speed.
I think those are 95s only or whatever, 94.
Whatever the end of E34s were.
And I...
There was no car that I was more excited when it would come into the shop.
It was green and with a tan here,
and it looked exactly like a 525, right?
Like there was no...
I don't remember if there was any difference visually other than the badge,
but man, that car was an amazing car with an amazing motor and that transmission.
Very cool.
There's a great era, right?
And I love that Alpina was into swapping V8s where you couldn't get up and stuff like that.
It was not just, you know, a chip and coil springs or whatever.
It was like they were doing crazy stuff, you know what I mean?
A cold air intake.
Totally.
It's not a K&N.
A stylish 1.5.
Legend chip flash or whatever we're talking about.
What are we paying for?
It was like, man, they were like swapping out everything.
Cutting, cutting shit out.
They were, yeah.
They were Sausal City, and I love that about them.
It was a little grittier, it seemed like.
So anyway.
Bec, you've been jonesing to get to the U.S. cars because there's some good,
got a bunch of collections out.
What are we?
Oh, the collections.
Who's going to sell it?
How many GTOs can you sell in a collection?
Ask Anthony.
That's right.
But you want to start with that?
You want to start with the P cars?
Oh, I mean, there's one that I feel like Randy's going to hopefully have on his watch list.
Oh, which car?
This would be the one.
Oh, I know what we're talking about.
You can see right through his screen.
I just walked into that bear trap.
Oh, man.
I may have been available to peruse this gallery.
Oh, boy.
Say it, Bec.
That's the 959 Sport.
That is live on the side right now.
Here's a funny debate.
959 or 959?
What camp are you in?
I say both, I think.
How do you say it?
I think I say both.
Or since I was a little kid, I've said 959.
959.
I think all Germans say 959.
They say, well, because they all say 535i.
They don't say 535i.
Yeah.
I say 959, but you're not wrong that all other
Porsche nomenclature is always single.
Some people say 944.
Well, it's a 911.
People say stuff.
There's all sorts of stuff.
I say 944.
Nobody says 911.
No, it's not one.
Thankfully.
911.
Yeah.
Anyway, I'm going to call it a 959,
but I'm not disputing you.
The white sport, dude.
I think I use them interchangeably.
That's interesting.
I think I do it with 944s, too.
944 sounds lame.
959 doesn't sound that bad.
I say 944 turf.
If you say 912e, you're a psychopath.
You are a total psychopath.
All of them, 914, if you say that,
it's like punching the face, right?
Yeah, you're not allowed to say that.
So anyway, there's funny double standards.
But anyway, what's your take on that, Carbec?
It's super exciting.
I mean, that's the first sport on VAT.
All the previous ones were comforts.
So that's pretty cool.
There's only like 30 or so of these made.
So that's pretty awesome.
I remember the first time I saw a 959.
I remember the first time I saw a Rothmans 959.
I remember the first time I saw a sport,
and then I pivoted to, I remember the first 959
we ever had on VAT.
And then now this is the first 959 sport.
I was with you in the office on the first 959 day.
See, like I just said, 959, that's interesting.
That was, you and I were the only ones in the office.
That's when we took the Emory Speedster out to Pacifica for tacos.
That same day?
Yes.
And like the website was going crazy.
It was the first time I ever saw the comments like flying like that.
Because the 959 listing was going bananas.
Correct.
It was the day it was closing.
I remember that.
Yep.
Wow, good pull.
When was the first time you saw one?
First time I saw one was in the Old Porsche Museum.
I have a photo.
My dad took a photo of me sitting crisscross-legged in front of it.
It was silver and it was in the museum.
And we were over there for a car show in 1989.
Oh, so it was like a pretty new car.
It was somewhat new, but it could have been as early as a couple years old.
But I idolized it and had the poster and the whole thing.
And I was 12 and I got to see it in person that I kind of like couldn't breathe.
Number of comments on that first 959.
Close to a thousand.
1,200 comments.
Yeah, 1,200 comments.
They were flying in like.
So we didn't have the feature where you could control it at all.
So it was just like psycho volume.
You couldn't even type it in.
I don't know if I would just keep going.
I don't know if I want to reveal this, but like we didn't,
it was just you, me, and Howard and Zach.
We didn't do anything.
We just like watched the internet.
There was nobody.
I mean, we were watching it,
but nobody was like ready to.
But it didn't hit reserve, right?
He had a meaningful reserve on it.
And but we took it because we wanted a 959.
And that was a killer day.
And we were, I love that we listed that car.
And now that car seems cheap.
Well, I mean, you know, in hindsight,
if Bill Noon was sitting here, he'd be like, good thing.
I scammed it.
Yes.
Yeah.
And then, but interestingly, now this thing is going to seem like all the millions and millions.
And then someday the three of us will be sitting around looking at that and be like,
remember how cheap that's totally right when it's sold for $6 million or whatever.
What are these things worth?
54
Anyway, it's going to be crazy.
So I'm excited to watch it.
We got a few days to watch it.
Do you guys know how to tell a sport from it?
You said you remember this first time you saw a sport.
I don't know how to visually tell the difference.
It's just the cloth seats.
I believe there's a cage.
There's a cage, integrated cage.
There are cloth sports seats by the auto flu built.
Obviously you can fake that in a real car if you want to.
The suspension is different.
A little bit more power, but again, can't really see that.
That's why I was saying cage.
That's the only thing I would visually be able to.
The seats are the only thing I remember.
This was kind of a reeducation for me on the sport because I had thought there were only
five or just a handful.
So there's a few more than I thought, but the cloth seats is what is stuck in my memory.
It's unbelievable.
The car's unbelievable.
But the cage, also you can recognize the car super fast because the cage has a bar
that goes across diagonally, the rear window, right under the rear window.
So I mean, you can't miss it like you see it immediately.
And only red and white, I believe, right?
I think that's one of the other tells.
And I'm not sure if they all have white wheels or not.
I think you get silver wheels on a couple of them.
There's a great, great long form story about the cars in Triple O Mag.
One of the very early Triple Zeros.
How does Pete Stouts say 914?
He says 914, but how does he say 914?
I don't know.
I'll ask him.
But there's a great article in there where I believe one of the white cars like this
was on the cover.
And then they wrote a super long article.
And there's this photo, which is there's some weird US tie-in about these cars,
as you may know.
A lot of them came over here and were US.
Wasn't it the Bill Gates deal?
Wasn't it?
Well, there's so different than that story.
I mean, it's adjacent.
But they had them over here.
And there's a picture of like seven of them in a transporter and everything.
They're all, oh man, it's so cool.
Just crazy.
But anyway, look at this one on BAT.
It'll be up when this podcast goes live for sure and people can peruse and see what's going on.
It's such a sick car.
The other thing I learned is that there was like a Porsche upgrade,
like stage two upgrade, which this car has, which gives it like more power.
And I think even maybe bump the displacement, but like hot.
I don't know if it's displacement.
They said it's cams for sure.
Cams and turbos, I think.
Inner coolers, turbos and cams.
I watched all the videos with the sellers who are awesome.
And they did a great job just talking through the car.
There's driving sequences of the car.
You're never going to see one of these presented in this level of detail
somewhere else.
You may be able to send some expert or go look at it or whatever,
but any other auction, I don't think you're ever going to see a 959 Sport presented like this
with historical paperwork and the story and the Q&A with Cam Ingram who's repping the car
and shows the car totally backwards and forwards.
And they own one and he said they've sold 10 or 12 959s or whatever.
I mean, it's just like a perfect storm of the right way to do this one.
And so I'm super intrigued to see what bidders do.
And I mean, they just sold that 904, right?
So there are no strangers to sell in high-end cars on BET.
So let's see what they do on this one.
I don't know if anybody alerted them that it's maybe my favorite car of all time.
It is.
And I love that it's on the side.
It's really cool.
I love the line 961 style of camshafts.
Mmm.
That's so great as race car camshafts.
I'd love to have some of those.
Yeah, totally.
Just the cams on display.
Just to look at them.
We should talk about some of the other collections.
So that is part of a kind of ongoing collection that road scholars have been doing,
along with another local partners of ours.
Feminade.
Feminade, right?
Doing a ton of porches.
This is the 10th installment.
It's a 10th.
Yeah, right.
It's an X.
Which is amazing.
Yeah.
They also did it in conjunction with Magnus Walker at one point.
He had cars as part of this.
So that's amazing.
They got a bunch of other rad things.
They've got maybe my favorite Emory car we've ever had.
Do you like 356Bs?
Which I do.
Look at this car.
Early Bs are my favorite.
A really nicely done B.
And it's an early Emory car.
Little restrained on the exterior.
It's very similar to your Speedster.
My only beef with the BAT Speedster was,
even though they look cool, I couldn't live out in the open like that.
So that car in a B coupe is perfect for me.
Well, here's your car.
I know.
Here is your car.
It's got a very similar spec.
It's still got the annular disc brakes on it,
which would be a huge deal for me.
Does that car have annulars?
It has annulars.
He used to put that on a lot of stuff.
And they're cool.
And it's got a polo motor.
It's got polo motor.
It's all, it's really, it's got the seats
and the carpet all look similar to yours.
I think it's maybe a year or two after your guys' was built.
And I do love early Bs, which is maybe,
maybe in part because they're kind of the most unloved.
It's not the C and it's not the A.
And so that's why I like them.
I love Bs.
I do too.
And it's an alumni.
It's been on the site.
Is that right?
Wow.
Am I missing that narrative?
I missed that too.
The best part of BAT is the history module on the side.
We had that car before.
It did.
So many Emory cars who can't.
385.
911R sold it for 385 and went.
2024.
Wow.
Okay.
So that's a boomerang.
That thing.
Almost exactly, no, not exactly,
but very close to two years ago.
A couple of years ago.
We have a, I wasn't even aware of this.
We have a Porsche Emory Outlaw model page.
That's how many we've sold.
We certainly do.
You most certainly do.
We started that.
A lot of good cars on here.
Including the BAT car.
The car we're talking about.
Yeah.
I just love that beat.
That's like perfect for me.
That's just how I do it.
But as I recall, the BAT car had a four speed still.
And this one has a five speed.
This has a five, which is unusual.
Yeah.
901 modified five speed.
It's very sick.
Very cool car.
People should check out.
Yeah.
Should check out the whole collection.
A lot of great stuff there.
Randy, you want to talk about GTOs?
Have you talked to Anthony about this?
I haven't talked to him about the GTO.
I was talking to him about several other threads,
but a collection of Pontiac GTOs is an awesome thing
to bring to BAT.
I'm just really stoked on it.
There's a couple modified cars.
There's a couple judges.
There's convertibles.
There's hard tops.
Must have been from one seller.
I don't think the dealer is like collecting all these
a la carte and putting it together.
I think just one seller collected a bunch of these
and wants to unload them.
So anyway, they're rolling them through BAT.
They are live now.
And I'd love to have a GTO.
I'd actually really like to have a Pontiac GTO.
Okay. Great question.
I wanted to grill you about this exact thing.
And then I have a thing for you on this, too, Beck.
I am probably 64.
I'd really like to have a 64 early GTO.
I go back and forth on what spec.
But yeah, 389, 4-speed.
Tri-power.
64 tri-power real GTO, preferably with steel wheels
and dog dish sort of set up like a cool grunt low spec.
But jeez, my big motors.
Maroon on Maroon on Maroon.
Well, yes, we can veer into that if you want.
We sold one on the site that I wish I would have bought.
I still do sleepover, which was drag raised back in the day.
Do you know this car?
No.
It was either gold or it was like a weird lavender metallic
sort of weirdo original color.
Wait, now this is bringing back.
I think it was a 65.
There were historic pictures of it lettered up
and it ran drags back in the day.
And there was all this history with the car.
And then it was restored and listed on BET recently,
maybe in the last year and a half.
I'm trying to find it.
Maybe it's not a 65 all day.
It's bringing back.
It's coming back to me.
But it was an auction car and it was very, very cool.
And I was like, a GTO with a story is an amazing grab.
Most of them, I mean, people even guess
whether they're real or not.
I know.
Restorations are kind of random.
Or sure they were all 389, you know.
Everything's got a try power.
Yeah, you're like, wait a minute.
Have you ever driven anything with try power before?
Interestingly, I was driving here today
and I passed a yellow Super B with a 46 pack.
It's set in on the Toot Scoot.
The guy was out driving it.
He's actually lives not that far from me.
God bless him.
I was like, you're dropping that thing on a Wednesday?
I mean, is he living the best?
He's basically living the best life, my dream life.
But anyway, that's a side note.
But I have never driven any actual GTO
nor any 446 packs or anything with.
So they've been on my mind, not only because of the collection.
So one of the first muscle cars I ever remember
seeing as a kid and being like, Dad, what's that?
I really liked that was a, the first one I can remember
was a Notchback Barracuda.
But the second one I remember was a 66 GTO hard top.
And it's kind of seared into my brain.
So even though maybe 66 is not the most desirable year,
that's the one that I've always liked for that reason.
I'm currently looking through them.
They're really desirable to me.
But then they're great.
But then the car that I was thinking about
right when this collection was coming up
is the later car, the 70, because I rewatched Slap Shot,
the amazing 1977 Paul Newman hockey movie.
And of course Paul Newman has to drive a rad car in it.
And he drives a kind of beat up, gold 1970 GTO with a vinyl top.
I think it's got American bags on it.
But you can tell like Paul Newman,
he's only in a couple shots, but you can tell like he obviously
was like, I'm going to pick the car for this guy.
You know, and he's the captain slash coach of the team
and wearing a black leather coat with fur
and drinking his way across the small Pennsylvania town.
And I was like, man, a kind of rough daily driver,
gold 70 GTO is not bad.
That's not bad.
That is not bad.
I love that.
Bone and rubber.
The later cars are not always my jam.
I'm saying I think the judges are cool.
It's hard to tell what's a real one and what's not,
but they are very cool.
The degenerate kid that hosts the party in Dazed and Confused
drove an orange.
Totally.
He drove an orange judge.
Totally.
And he rolls into the burger joint or whatever,
like slow mo roll in the GTO judge.
And you're just like, okay, it's kind of game over.
The 70 is if you live in a small town
and you're living a kind of degenerate life.
Like that's what it's right for.
Like if you're having eggs and a beer in the morning,
like that's what it's for.
Oh my God, look at that car.
I'm just showing you random holes.
I just typed in 66 GTO.
And this one went for 40 grand
because it has a swapped out engine
and some maybe questionable mods,
but man, it has a pan.
Just steel wheels.
I mean, that's what it is.
That's what you want.
You just go rip around at those.
I'm going to keep digging and find that drag car.
I don't know how.
I mean, red lines on this.
It's just a standard 66 is cool.
Well, I'm definitely not an Endura bumper person.
So like later cars don't really work for me for GTOs.
Endura?
I've never even heard that term.
Is that the tail lights?
No, that's the plastic like crash safety bumper.
That's what they're called for the later cars
with the buttons all changes.
That's not my Chrome bumper.
So earlier cars, whether it's 64, 65, 66,
I'm not really sure, but awesome.
That's my move.
I'm with that.
The thing I was going to have for you back
that this reminds me of the only other collection
I can think that we ever put on the site
that was similar to this was the Fox body one,
which I believe was an early white glove collection,
which was like five of the same kind of car.
Oh, that in the Datsunji collection too.
Oh, great.
Great.
Remember too.
Both of those would be, yes, very similar.
I was very pleased when I first saw the headline
for this collection, I was a little worried
that it was just going to be like all cars
with engines over the size of three liters
or something like that.
Like just like an old school style GTO reference.
And the fact that it was actually five
of the exact same model just from different years
and different colors was so delightful.
Yeah.
And absolutely our Fox body, we had, gosh,
now four or five years ago actually was that,
it was a long time ago.
We need more Fox body collections.
Yes.
It was a great thing.
Because I need an SVO.
I need to keep building the franchise on circus.
And what works well for facts with Fox bodies
is there's so many different variants.
Correct.
Like there's, it's just skittles of different flavors
of different styles.
We could have a 20 car Fox body collection.
Completely.
I aspire to have a 20 car Fox body collection.
I have several buddies that say they will never speak to me
again if I go back to my Fox body ways,
but I want to.
I desire to.
With the Datsun Zs, while they were all different,
it was all progressions of the same concept, right?
It's a 240.
It's a 260.
It's a 280.
And then a two plus two.
Right.
And so it's just that sort of growth over time,
which was mostly a reaction to emissions rules,
more than anything else.
Just being of your bumper, bumper changes.
For sure, bumper changes.
But whereas the Fox body was fully different setups
as far as what engines, right?
There was two different engines.
There was turbo chargers.
There's obviously different body styles, notch backs and coupes
and fast backs and convertibles like all.
And then partnerships with like third party.
Yes.
ASC Marian.
You could genuinely have seven or eight soda company partnerships.
You see, you're just getting Randy excited though.
Give me the seven up model.
I shop many a seven up Fox body.
Send them my way, baby.
Send them my way.
We actually have another couple collections in the hopper too.
And then I don't even know if we talked about it.
The really cool Monterey collection that was all from one owner,
all the Ferraris and alphas and stuff that was all red.
That was cool.
You didn't see that?
I didn't see.
Oh, I saw that.
More imports.
That was more imports.
Our local partner and our buddies down in Monterey,
they had that rad collection, which had a 308 GTB in it
and had a Dino and some other stuff.
LaVette collection.
That was very cool.
What I liked about that,
and I wish we could do this a little bit more often,
is like in the collection post,
we got a period picture of the guy who put all these together.
He was a hotelier, you know?
So like you get,
you get a little bit of the history of the guy.
Look at that pic.
Come on.
He's putting together hotel collections
on Monterey Peninsula.
Totally.
Here's the 64.
Oh, come on.
Which is like base sedan,
GTO, red lines, dog dish, stick,
tri-power.
This one sold for $80,000,
which is a lot of money for that thing.
That's like the FBI pursuit car version of the GTO.
It's skinny tie.
It's white shirt skinny tie GTO.
And man, that would be, that's just, I don't know.
There's old folks that know what that car is,
but the whole young crowd would look at that car and be like,
I don't even know why that random sedan matters.
That's like exactly the same year as your Falcon.
So that's interesting, right?
Yeah, it's bigger.
It's a bigger car.
It's not bigger.
But man, would you compare that to a Galaxy then,
or is a Galaxy even that much bigger?
I would say just like in between.
Fairlane, Fairlane maybe slight plus to not quite,
it's not as big as a Galaxy,
but you get big engines in it.
It's in the same realm.
How about a Falcon, a GTO and a Galaxy?
How about just a Fox body, just all the V8s.
This is the color I was talking about.
I'm still having trouble finding the drag car.
I wanted to tell you.
Yeah, I really want to see it.
But this is the color.
Oh, interesting.
It's like a coral.
Yeah, they call it, must reference the color name.
Fire red.
Oh, cool.
A 64 Galaxy, which I actually think looks pretty cool.
I described it terribly, but trust me, it looks very, very cool.
I'm having real problems.
I'm only buying old cars, older and older and older.
It's like all I want.
Why is that a problem?
That's a win.
Those cars, I mean, some people are saying,
you know, older cars are getting less expensive,
and I'm like, great, then bring them all to me.
Totally.
Like let them keep being bargains.
You know what I mean?
Yes.
People are like, oh, people don't like those anymore.
You got to find somebody who knows how to tune cars.
But if you can find that, then just get them.
Yeah.
I mean, man, go buy the Gias and go buy the S289 Coop Mustangs.
What made you say that word, Gia?
Are those in your brain right now?
I was staring into your soul through your eyes.
It is.
You were reading my mind.
But I mean, I want an air-cooled V-Dub, you know?
I want, I mean, all these cars, if they're honestly
getting soft, which I don't know that all of them are,
but I mean, older cars, people are like, oh,
three fifty-sixes.
Yeah, but the good ones never are.
But people are like, three fifty-sixes are so cheap.
I'm like, good.
Yeah.
Like, I don't know.
Yeah, there are only 400000 dollars.
I don't know.
No, no, come on, dude.
Come on.
Well, wasn't that what you just said?
What did the, I mean, that was an Emory car.
Emory.
Lackadoo, I've been spamming back with the coupes
that are selling for 60000 right?
I mean, that's pretty good.
And I'm like, man.
But I don't know if you guys have been following.
There's been a couple meekum results for like crazy
Shelby sale prices this week.
No, I didn't see those.
People are like, oh, this is great.
I'm like, no, that's terrible.
Like, I want them to be a hundred grand and go get them
instead of, oh, there are a million dollar car now.
These are three-fifty-sixes.
Well, yeah, these cars are going for crazy dough.
And I want the sixty-sixes.
Well, everybody is, right?
All the guys that sell them are like, oh,
we want them to be 4000000 right?
And I'm like, man, I kind of wish they were like ninety-two-five.
But whatever, these prices move around and people love this stuff.
And that's part of the deal.
But man, if these GTOs drop another 1020 percent,
like who knows, right?
I mean, I just want to go, you know, burn tires on it.
A hundred, right?
Like, let's totally go.
That's exactly what I want to do.
Anyway, similar to the Falcon, driving it around,
driving around on Route 66 this year for the Centenary sounds like.
Ooh, what are you going to take?
Is that what you want to take?
I was with my dad last night and I also was texting with my buddy
that's involved in the Cars franchise at Pixar.
And they are, yeah, there's all this stuff for the 100th anniversary
of Route 66 and the 20th anniversary of the Cars movie,
which kind of is Pixar doing something.
I hope so.
Yeah, I hope they are.
I don't know.
I don't know in what flavor or whatever.
But just like that whole vibe of being out there
and driving into the sunset and something old is what I'm about.
So I got the Chrysler.
That's the solid plan.
That is like a Pixar car.
If you've got a better plan, let me know.
I mean, do we have another car?
I mean, a Nomad.
I'd love to drive it.
Yes, Nomad would be great.
My dad has a line on it, but 56.
You don't like it.
No, it's my favorite year.
Oh, my dad has a line on one.
The good one?
It's pretty good.
It actually might come to BAT.
It's an old friend.
It's blue and white.
Blue with white top.
The good blue or like?
Like that powder blue.
I like the color of your shirt.
I like powder blue.
You know that color combo.
Yeah, but some people more.
This one's apparently very, very, you know, very restored
to kind of original spec.
It's a power glider in those, right?
You can get a power glider.
Yeah, it's the automatic.
But it's a 283 with four barrel on it.
Perfect.
Yeah, perfect.
56 is actually my favorite year.
Oh, interesting.
I would have figured 57 or 55.
A lot of people think that, but the rear wheel arch on a 55
weirds me out.
It was full wheel arch and it looked odd to me.
And then the 57 is rad, but it's never the dream.
The 56 is.
Yeah, Finney Finns.
Yeah, I'm torn.
I like all three.
I like all three as well, but I should own a Nomad.
Yeah, I'm light on American cars and I also want to drive
something along 66, but it's got to be,
I mean, the cord would be suicide.
I know, but like driving that to flagstaff like, oh man,
that's definitely coming back on a flatbed.
So I need a fifties car.
My mechanic, the guy who works on the Ferrari and the cord,
he's got a car sitting down there that he needs to get rid of.
That's kind of an abandoned project of one of his clients.
It's a 56 Imperial.
So same as your B that I know the style.
I know the grills.
Yeah, he's got motors all rebuild.
It's a fortune into the suspension stuff, but it's kind of
unrestored patina car.
It's the turquoise teal color needs an interior and kind of
needs to be put back together.
Do the belts fly off his hemi at the velocity?
Well, the hemi is sitting adjacent to the car.
So they don't yet, but yeah, it doesn't have your sick
24 barrel setups, just a simple four barrel.
It's in the Imperial, but it's still a great looking car.
I mean, it looks very similar to your car.
Dual quads, definitely necessary.
Yeah, and Batwang for sure.
Somebody came through the office.
I can't remember who, somebody younger who doesn't know
anything about older cars.
And I was like, check this out.
And they're like, that's a big inch enough.
Like it is.
Yeah, it's a big air cleaner.
It is.
Air cleaner costs as much as it is.
And a lot of kids BMWs are on that.
That's right.
Air cleaner costs as much as a, as a carming gear.
So that thing is crazy.
Totally.
Yep.
Here is Newman in his, come on.
Oh, look at that car.
Yeah, that's cool.
It does have American bags.
Is that it in the top left, like ripping up some dirt road?
Yes.
He rips it up a dirt road to go yell at the lady who owns
the hockey team.
There you go.
That's a great perfect.
He had all his teeth in that though.
Where most of the actors like toothless.
It's so fascinating.
No, yeah, it's no, no helmets and hockey.
There's a few guys wearing helmets.
Most of them are no helmet.
So good.
And the hockey is so good in it.
It's like very legit.
And it's like, you know, one with the aesthetic
where the guys have like glasses.
Yeah.
And they punch each other.
And they punch each other.
Just fight everyone.
Kind of like mullity hair.
And those were all real hockey players.
They sort of fight in one game before the game starts.
So there's no refs to stop it because they're so aggro.
It's a great movie.
It's aged mostly well.
Slap shots.
And it was kind of the last time Newman played
the handsome leading man.
He was about 50 when they made it.
What does he play after that?
That's all he can.
The next movie I think is the verdict.
So he's like drunk lawyer, like old man roles
started after that.
But that's also an amazing movie.
But he's still the handsome lead,
even if he's the drunk.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Carry in the movies.
He was.
He really is.
He's extremely charming in that.
I don't know if he knew how to skate or what,
but he's completely viable.
Look at that.
That's kind of it.
Well, I'm looking at nomads now.
Specifically to six is the challenge.
You might not, you might, let me tell you,
you might never stop.
Why don't we start like, you know,
let me warn you.
That's a one-way ticket.
The challenge is that so many of them get
real rest of them or wheel choices.
Wheel choices.
Or like interior.
Where do you see some interior choices that are made?
Some tilt columns.
But man, I am all about modified drive.
I'm not like precious stock or walk.
Like my buddy.
You don't want heavy two front end though
and all that stuff, right?
Probably power steering.
Mustang two front end.
Sorry Mustang two, sorry.
Um, probably not.
Probably not.
Now, those have gone out of favor, you know,
but man, I'm into.
But a lot of them already got retrofitted.
So many of them are resto mods.
And like I do like them with the stock
little wheels and hubcaps.
But you can bring them back.
You can make them.
You can make the wheels right.
And you don't totally hack the interior and the colors.
That's why I was asking what blue.
Because people will paint them like
New York Giants blue and white.
And it's such a stark white blue thing.
It doesn't work, but a powder or this actually, okay.
That's the blue color that I'm thinking of.
Who's the dude in Salinas that has one of these?
Oh, yes.
Do you know the car?
He owns the like the speed shop, right?
It was built by the speech.
This is a 55.
But that's see the wheel arch.
See the wheel arch is stodgy.
It's grocery gear.
You got to have the low wheel arch on this 56.
Am I right?
No, I do agree.
Yeah.
On the 55, it looks like the arch follows the line of the wheel
as opposed to flaring backwards towards the bumper in 56.
I guess that's that's definitely a good look.
Still stuck.
I mean, oh my God, man.
Anyway, Anthony's got cool cars live.
Man, we're stuck in like GM territory right now, aren't we?
We'll see.
Now I've made the mistake of opening it.
I don't even want to talk on the mic anymore
because now I'm on the Nomad.
All right, we got to bring it home.
I'm on the Nomad.
I'm on the Nomad page.
Are we going to talk?
Here's whiplash after talking about that stuff.
Are we talking about the third highest dollar car ever sold on
the...
Oh, yeah, we should.
Yesterday?
Yeah.
It's probably worth talking about.
Bugatti, 4.4.
Another heavy Bugatti.
The front grille says 16, number 16.
I just thought of Joe Montana.
I don't know what you guys think about,
but why did it have 16 on the grille?
It's got to be the cylinders, right?
I'm sure that it is.
That's a flex.
That's a flaunt.
It is.
I mean, when you're driving around in a Chiron, you're flaunting.
Yeah, there's some flaunt.
There's some flaunt.
But awesome, amazing results.
Those were our guys, Silver Arrow.
We love them.
Incredible car.
I didn't look, but I'm confident that that is not
the first Chiron they've offered.
No chance.
No.
And it won't be the last.
No, no, no, no.
This one was a Super Sport,
which I'm not totally sure what that means.
Probably more power than not that that car needs it.
And it had kind of black with kind of interesting
gold trim on it.
Yeah, you're right.
It is.
I missed 16 on the front.
16 on the grille, man.
Like a Jersey number.
It probably says 16 somewhere else, too.
I thought it was cool.
Oh, interesting.
So I wonder.
So it's like 1600 horsepower.
So that must be the other thing, too.
Oh my gosh.
W16.
I mean, it's, let's see, it's 1578,
but it says 1600 on the engine.
So I assume they're rounding up to 1600 horsepower.
Unbelievable.
I own a car that doesn't have as much horsepower
as one cylinder.
Oh, it's just a workout.
I have a car with less horsepower in a big old engine
than that makes in one cylinder.
That's amazing.
That's amazing.
No, that's a good one to call out.
I honestly, I didn't even look at other kind of wild results.
We've had a lot of them.
We have had a fair share of wildness going through the website, but.
You could probably open the premium page
and say a bunch of crazy stuff.
Let's see what it was to be.
Oh, I was following this auction.
I'm not the biggest DB5 fan, but Blue DB5 also from Silver Arrow.
That car was stunning.
1.2, it went for?
Almost 1.3.
I had people emailing me about this car.
Who won it?
I wonder if any of the people that reached out
actually ended up getting after it.
They're like, Randy, should we get after this car?
And I was like, I highly recommend.
This is probably my favorite DB5 I've ever seen.
If you have the means, I highly recommend picking this up.
No, don't know who that user is, but what else did they buy?
They bought a 991 GT3 Touring.
There you go.
Daily.
The whole daily on the weekend car.
That's right.
What's their join date?
Join date was January, 2026.
So it's just like show up and just start firing.
It's nice to know.
It's nice to know people are still discovering platforms.
Yes.
It's unbelievable.
Joins in January, buys Touring, wait a couple clicks,
and then maybe let's go DB5.
I called the dealership today in outreach, Mercedes dealership,
and I said, I'm with Bring a Trailer,
and he said, great, when are you picking up the car?
I said, no, sir.
That's a good one.
No, sir.
That is a very good one.
That's as little phone calls we used to get.
We should record those and then play them for people on the podcast
because it would just be, no, no.
Where have you been?
No, it's an auction.
Yeah.
No, swing it another round and round the block.
You're not allowed to park there.
I'll be right out.
Wait a minute.
I'm not parking there.
I'm not on the red curb.
I'm not coming to pick up your car,
but I'll help you sell everything on your lot in eight days.
You guys saw the 300,000 mile, 300 SL roadster?
Yes.
Crush it.
So tell me about the mileage.
I saw that written up.
I looked at the car and then I didn't figure out the mileage story
until later.
How do you put 300K on that?
Same family under it forever.
And what I love is, I don't know if I've ever seen this on a 300 SL before.
You know how Mercedes does those high mileage badges,
which you usually see on W123 diesels?
Sure.
This one, it got the 250 or 300,000 kilometer badge
and the 500,000 kilometer badge.
My data, we've put 200,000 miles on our 500D
and my dad always wanted to send off for one of those
and he never did it, but that would have been pretty funny on a 500D.
200K on your 500D?
Wow, that's cool.
It was my mom's daily driver.
My mom's daily driver.
Your mom throws miles on the car.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
She worked in Napomo for the whole time we lived in St. Louis
and we lived in Slough, so it was 25 miles each way.
101 miles.
Those are easy miles.
She got some speeding tickets.
But those are nice, easy car miles.
I bet this made their day issuing this certificate.
I mean, how many 300 SLs have the 500KM?
Is it going to try to argue highest mileage?
It probably isn't because people drive those,
but like the odometer rolls.
So it's hard to have the documentation on them, right?
I love everything about that.
Anyway, the mileage part of it made me really happy.
We also have this on the website.
Who are we?
We have a Bonsai Blue Chrysler Daytona iRock RT.
Is that on the front page right now?
I want you to daily that.
I might consider it.
I want you to daily that car and that car is insane.
My boy is three weeks away from getting his permit,
and so I'm Jones-undead to toss the keys to the Civic.
Lotus Elite Daily.
I'll give it to my teenager.
You're a kid.
I'm not you, Randy.
I'm not going to give my kid an ancient British car.
You should.
I highly recommend that too.
Where did you find that car?
I don't know.
I'm just scrolling BAT as I always do when I'm in any serious conversation.
I happen to be scrolling BAT on the side of that conversation.
And there's just too much goodness.
There is.
There's an awful lot.
We hit a site record recently.
We mentioned that too.
We had over 1,300 live a couple days ago, which is crazy.
People are after it.
We're going to see more.
Look at that thing.
People are after it.
I love these.
Wow.
So much.
What are you looking at?
I'm looking at the Bonsai Blue.
I don't know.
I'm so sorry.
I just told you about that.
I just love that there's so many preamble words to the title.
Like, normally we're very restrictive to like,
it's model year, make, model.
And this is 57,000 kilometer Bonsai Blue night.
Shout out to my guys, Carter and Ryan.
Hey, by the word.
They're doing all they can to let people know when cars are special.
This guy's got headlights and foggies on in the lead image.
Of course.
Shout out to my buddy, Roddy, who would be like,
never, never miss the opportunity to turn your fog lights on.
Lights go on, price goes up.
In the old Mercedes, it's always twist, twist, and pull.
Never forget to pull.
The pull for the fog.
That's right.
I think I did it.
I can't remember how it is on your Audi,
but I ran your rear fogs on your RS4, which is sick.
I got some rear fog available.
Got two.
Yep.
Man.
Anyways, a lot of good stuff.
No shortage.
We could talk about our faves here for hours.
Wow.
Wait a minute.
Hold on.
Hold the breath.
I know this car.
I've seen this car in person.
Do you know we have landscape record out of ES4?
Is that live?
Okay.
I didn't want to mention it because I wait.
Carter fed that to me.
I'm like, Carter, you need to buy this car.
Yeah, this is the 250 mile an hour Bonneville car.
No, but hold on.
Hold on.
Okay.
Sorry.
The podcast was about to end and everybody listening,
you're staying with us for another few minutes
because I'm going to find this car in my photo stream.
I didn't know about this car at all.
And I said, Carter sent me the link.
He's like, this car is nuts.
Listen to the video of it running.
And I said, did you know about this?
He's like, oh, this car is famous and like Audi circles.
Is it this car?
The answer is yes.
Of course it is.
Yes, it is.
It is this car.
He's because he's been chasing the record for a while,
hasn't he?
I took this photo, says my iPhone on, man, I got to that fast.
August 12th, 2012.
Whoa.
Went out my one visit to Bonneville and this car was there
and I had to take a photo because I was like, just talk to me.
I know I need to get out there.
But yeah, this guy was running this car with moons on it.
I thought I'd open the listing and there'd be moons.
Carter taking some liberties with the nose shot for the lead shot.
I mean, it's a great listing.
I mean, he obviously went bonsai on this because speaking of bonsai blue.
Totally insane.
But it's, I mean, like the motor shot in this with the like...
Bring people along.
Tell people what we're...
Okay, so this is a 93 Audi S4 that has extremely heavily modified
for lens speed record duties and at Bonneville ran 250.
250.009, which means both ways, average.
Correct.
You have to average both ways.
And it's the world's fastest sedan.
With an inline, still has the five cylinder, which is why it's so rad.
Of course it does.
But a turbocharger.
Best engine.
The snail.
It is half the size of the engine.
Yeah, it's huge.
I mean, what does it say?
1155 horsepower?
I mean, it's so sick.
That is a serious...
Ready?
I can't believe you pulled that photo up so fast.
How did you get that up so fast?
I typed in Bonneville and only 19 photos came up.
Including this car.
Including not all of my gallery from that event,
but somehow the Audi was like the first one.
Would you have posted about this on the site going to Bonneville back then?
I posted a gallery to BAT in 2012 after going to the Bonneville.
I did it once in my life.
I did it with my dad and we went out there.
And there's an extensive gallery.
But I mean, it wasn't for sale or anything.
But I obviously took a picture of weirdo Audi's.
It also has a sticker on the quarter panel from a 34 motorsport.
You might notice that though.
Shout out to those guys.
Those guys just did the service on my Audi and they're awesome.
And they build 1,100 horsepower.
Carter, I think this is Beck's point.
He dedicated one paragraph just to the turbo.
Let me just read this sentence.
The Borg Warner S400SX turbocharger delives charge air through an ice-chilled air-to-water
intercooler and an LS1 specification 80 millimeter throttle body.
Yes, check.
That's the only one of those that will ever be on BAT.
Like try to do that again.
Oh man.
I was like, I really want him to buy this.
I think this car is so cool.
A bid.
A bid on the car just came in.
It's no reserve.
Yeah, correct.
This car is a maniac.
This is a guy who had a dream and a vision and achieved the dream and vision.
And he's like ready to launch the car.
Yeah.
Well, what do you do after that?
I mean, the car is totally optimized for landscape.
He hit two, well, except at the Arkansas mile.
So I presume that's a flying mile like airport thing.
He did 226.472 in a mile.
Wow.
That's fast.
That car is crazy.
And I was just, this is what happens when you just scroll BAT.
All of a sudden you get like punched.
That's an amazing little outro.
I mean, like that's like an amazing way to close it down.
I mean.
If you're looking for it, 1993 Audi S4.
Just type that into the search bar and no reserve and we wish you luck.
Yeah.
We wish you luck at 251 miles an hour next August in Bonneville.
Go fast in your sedan.
200 mile an hour club.
Wow.
You get a t-shirt for that.
This is a dream is to have the 200 mile an hour club t-shirt.
Well, forget the t-shirt.
I don't know what else you get.
I think you get a sticker.
Lifetime cred.
You put it on your tombstone.
Totally.
You put it.
What do you want on your tombstone?
That's right.
All right, boys.
Let's cap it there.
We can do more later.
Wait, there's 1,300 more cars we can.
I know.
I know.
We'll never end.
We'll do it again soon.
Thanks as always to all of you for listening.
Please send feedback, questions, concerns to podcast at bringitrailer.com.
We will catch you next time.
About this episode
Randy and the hosts kick off with travel and BAT talk, then zoom into Monza: a low-key private track day, a boot-shaped circuit, and the on-track drama of a street Ford Falcon with noticeable body roll. The Porsche 993 GT2 race car gets special attention—sale price, wet/dry practice, and a Le Mans Classic plan. The conversation widens to Europe’s BAT culture, Swiss currency preferences, and a string of collector-car deep dives, from rare Alpina swaps to Porsche 959 buzz and Bonneville land-speed Audi builds.
This week, Alex and Beck grill Randy about his recent trip to Europe, which entailed among other treats watching a BaT alumni 993 GT2 ripping it up at Monza; ripping it up himself in a Falcon on the track, on the Autostrada, and all over Europe; experiencing general Falcon love across the pond; and wishing he'd brought a bigger suitcase.
The trio talk about the recent increase in BaT inventory in the EU, including skinny Porsches and perhaps the ultimate E36 Touring; how to pronounce "959" (hint: it sounds much like "wow!"); comment melees of yore; a host of recent collections on BaT; the best GTO; aspiring to 20-car Fox-body ownership; 356 price drops and Shelby price creep; driving into the sunset on Route 66; a Nomad kind of blue; some stellar recent sales; the downside of our company's name; a semi-sheepish (and obvious to anyone who speaks with him routinely) admission from Randy; and extremely fast snail with an Audi wrapped around it.
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