Big Milestones, Big Bikes, and a Big Trip to Goodwood

Big Milestones, Big Bikes, and a Big Trip to Goodwood Bring a Trailer Podcast · Jul 2, 2026

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Chevrolet Corvette

The Chevrolet Corvette is a famous two-seat sports car made by the American company Chevrolet. It is designed to go very fast and look like an exotic race car.

Car

Ford Mustang

The Ford Mustang is a popular two-door sports car made by the American company Ford. It has been made for decades and is known for its sporty look and loud engine options.

Term

A special stamp of approval for classic Chevrolet Corvettes. Experts inspect the car to see if every single part is exactly how it was when it was brand new in the factory, which makes the car much more valuable to collectors.

Person

Kevin McKay

A famous mechanic and restoration expert who is known as one of the best people in the world at fixing and restoring classic Chevrolet Corvettes to perfect, factory-original condition.

Car

Pontiac Sunfire

The Pontiac Sunfire is a small, budget-friendly car made by the American brand Pontiac from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. It was designed to be an affordable everyday car with a slightly sporty look.

Car

Alfa Romeo Giulietta

The Alfa Romeo Giulietta is a classic, small Italian car first made in the 1950s. It is loved by car enthusiasts because it is lightweight, fun to drive, and has a very stylish design.

Car

Audi RS4

The Audi RS4 is a high-performance version of a standard Audi sedan or wagon. It is designed to look like a normal luxury family car but has a very powerful engine and all-wheel drive for excellent grip and speed.

Part

Viton

A high-tech type of rubber used for seals and hoses in a car's engine. It is special because it doesn't break down when exposed to modern fuels, which contain ethanol that can eat through older, regular rubber parts.

Car

Byd Seal

The BYD Seal is a modern, fully electric four-door car made by the Chinese company BYD. It runs entirely on battery power and is packed with modern technology inside.

Term

ethanol fuel

A type of gasoline sold at normal gas stations that has alcohol mixed into it. While it is fine for modern everyday cars, it can damage older classic cars by attracting moisture and eating away at old rubber hoses and metal parts.

Car

Honda NSX

The Honda NSX is a two-seat sports car made by the Japanese company Honda. It is famous for being very fast and handling like a race car, while still being as easy and reliable to drive as a normal family car.

Car

Ferrari 288 GTO

A very rare and fast Ferrari from the 1980s that looks like a muscular version of the famous Magnum P.I. car (the 308). It was built for racing, has two turbochargers for extra power, and is highly prized by collectors today, often selling for millions of dollars.

Car

Ferrari F50

The Ferrari F50 is a very rare, open-top sports car made by Ferrari in the mid-1990s. It used an engine designed for Formula 1 race cars, making it incredibly loud, fast, and highly sought after by collectors.

Car

Ferrari F40

The Ferrari F40 is a rare, high-performance sports car made by the Italian company Ferrari in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was built to be extremely light and fast, with almost no luxury features inside so it could perform like a true race car.

Car

BMW M3

The BMW M3 is a high-performance, sporty version of a standard four-door sedan made by the German company BMW. It is designed to be comfortable enough for daily driving while having the speed and handling of a race car.

Part

transaxle

A single car part that combines the gearbox (which changes gears) and the differential (which sends power to the wheels). It is usually used in sports cars to help balance the weight of the vehicle between the front and back.

Car

Ferrari Mondial T

A unique four-seat, mid-engine Ferrari from the late 80s and early 90s. The 'T' in its name refers to the way the engine and transmission are arranged in a T-shape in the back of the car to help it handle better.

Car

Bugatti Veyron

The Bugatti Veyron is an extremely expensive and powerful French supercar. It is famous for being one of the first modern cars to reach speeds over 250 miles per hour using a massive, highly complex engine.

Car

Ferrari 550 Maranello

The Ferrari 550 Maranello is a two-seat luxury sports car made by Ferrari in the late 1990s. Unlike many other Ferraris with engines in the back, this one has its powerful V12 engine in the front, making it great for comfortable, high-speed road trips.

Car

Ford Bronco

The Ford Bronco is a boxy, rugged SUV made by Ford that is built specifically for driving on rough dirt trails and off-road paths. You can take the doors and the roof off to drive it completely open to the air.

Brand

Brough Superior

An ultra-premium, historic British motorcycle brand from the early 1900s. They were known as the absolute best, most expensive, and fastest motorcycles in the world, often compared to Rolls-Royce cars.

Term

L-twin engine

A special type of motorcycle engine used by Ducati. It is a two-cylinder engine shaped like the letter "L," with one cylinder pointing straight forward to catch the wind and stay cool, giving the bike a unique look and sound.

Car

Vincent Black Shadow

A legendary British motorcycle from the 1940s and 50s that was famous for being the fastest vehicle you could buy at the time. It is easily recognized by its beautiful all-black engine and is considered one of the ultimate collectible motorcycles.

Car

Harley-Davidson VL

A vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle from the 1930s. It uses an older style of engine called a "flathead" and is famous for its beautiful, colorful paint designs that Harley used to attract buyers during the Great Depression.

Person

Steve McQueen

A famous Hollywood movie star from the 1960s and 70s who was obsessed with racing and fast machines. He collected rare cars and motorcycles, and his personal ownership makes any vehicle highly valuable to collectors today.

Car

Indian Four

A vintage American motorcycle from the 1930s that is special because it has a smooth four-cylinder engine (like a car) instead of the usual two-cylinder engine found on most motorcycles of that time.

Car

Harley-Davidson CVO Road Glide

A top-of-the-line, incredibly fast touring motorcycle from Harley-Davidson. It is designed to look like a comfortable highway cruiser but is packed with racing technology, carbon fiber, and a massive engine that makes it perform like a superbike.

Car

Honda CT70

A classic, small Honda minibike from the 1970s designed for riding on dirt trails. It is famous for its cute, chunky look, folding handlebars that let you put it in the trunk of a car, and being incredibly easy and fun to ride.

Car

Ford F-150 Lightning

The Ford F-150 Lightning is a large pickup truck made by Ford that runs completely on electricity instead of gasoline. It looks like a normal truck but is very quiet, fast, and can plug in to power household appliances.

Place

Bicester Motion

A cool business park in England built on an old military airfield that is entirely dedicated to classic cars. It is home to dozens of specialized workshops that restore, store, and sell vintage vehicles.

Place

Goodwood Motor Circuit

A famous, historic race track in England built on an old World War II airfield. It is beloved by car fans because it still looks exactly like it did in the 1950s, and hosts races where drivers wear vintage clothing and race priceless classic cars.

Car

Honda Integra Type R

A highly praised sporty Honda from the late 1990s. It is famous for having an engine that can spin incredibly fast (up to 9,000 RPM) and for handling corners so well that many experts consider it the best front-wheel-drive car ever built.

Car

Acura Integra

The Acura Integra is a sporty, small luxury car made by Acura (the luxury division of Honda). It is famous for being fun to drive, reliable, and practical for everyday use.

Person

Emanuele Pirro

A highly successful Italian race car driver who won the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race five times. He also raced in Formula One and now helps run historic racing events.

Car

Porsche 911 (early short-wheelbase)

The very first version of the famous Porsche 911 sports car from the mid-1960s. They had a slightly shorter distance between the front and rear wheels than later models, which makes them look very classic but also makes them tricky to drive fast because the heavy rear end likes to swing out.

Car

Chevrolet Camaro

The Chevrolet Camaro is a sporty two-door car made by Chevrolet. The 'second generation' refers to models built in the 1970s, which are famous for their sleek, muscular shape and loud V8 engines.

LIVE

Hello everybody and welcome back to the bring a trailer podcast Alex Porter here in our San Francisco headquarters joined by Tyler and Tyler should we do it let's do it oh you got a little spill I got a little foam on the on the

Cheers buddy it's a beers cheers I love it we haven't had a beers pot in a long time it has been a spell I feel like we've just been so serious to say this to see all the gun in 60 seconds wasn't that serious gone in 60 seconds there is I love the kind of the headed bashing back

Oh man I would not have expected me and Cam would be the ones to be for the old one and then you and Beck which who I figured would just love the 70s and 60s style of of LA were all about the new one that was on set I mean it was just we don't have to talk

No no I think it was I was so surprised it was age based I think because Beck and I were at the right age when the Nick Cage one came out but I mean I don't know if you looked at our site post we got more engagement that we usually do and it was all pro 1974

I love that yeah I love when that happens I love when people chime in and kind of give out what they think are the best ones and always fun to see who they kind of agree with I think Cam and I may have had a few agreements no you guys got by far by far the most support

I actually want to say a lot of people liked the new one more than what I was expecting I was just thinking with our crowd everybody would be all about the original with the blue plates and the black plates and a lot of people really like the

Nick Cage one so I mean props to props to our friend Nick and props to you guys I think what it is this is kind of a secret for me at least a skeleton key for me a bad movie that's fun is kind of my favorite kind of movie right like a fun

but it was just a good movie and like you and I always kind of wax poetic about Independence Day which is another one of those examples of their ship troopers I mean these are movies that are probably terrible but they're just so good Armageddon dude all of those that era because again that's when I was like

mid to late teens all that stuff from about 95 through about 2002 or so that's all the stuff I love because those bad movies were when I was going to the theater all the time as a teenager

Yeah and I mean you know you're talking about CGI we talked about the final jump and gone in 60 seconds being CGI but really in 2000 you were still getting sets and miniatures and you were still kind of getting a lot of realism too you weren't just getting CGI like now like I don't know if you've seen the

the remakes of like the star the original Star Wars movies where they've kind of like redone them and they've had it all the things in yeah a bunch of things it's dude are you too young for they re-released them in the theaters in 97

the original trilogy were re-released in the theaters I went and saw all of them and so I was let's see I want to say it was 97 or 98 so I was like 14, 15 and they added in all that CGI stuff including the job of the Hudson in the first one

This is the most noticeable I think and then the Mos Eisley Cantina scene which is just totally weird with CGI aliens and not

We were so hungry those of us who were Star Wars fans were so hungry for Star Wars content that we would go see the originals and it was a huge deal to just have a few minutes of new footage in them because I mean now you're drowning in Star Wars content right?

Disney has produced more Star Wars content than you could ever watch yes but back then it was just the original three movies plus like the fan stuff that had been created you know they like

I would love reading my my you know they made like the Star Wars encyclopedia and like would show you all the ships and some books from the X-Wing series

Hell yes man I wonder actually how big if you actually look into it how big the Star Wars universe is because all the books and the action figures you can't keep up part of what for a young nerd like me and I've lost some of my

interest is and I faced this with cars a little bit too to bring it back to our subject matter here Star Wars world in the 90s and in the 80s was small enough that you could hold it all in your head and there was a lot of gaps right because it wasn't explained

you had your favorite of three movies totally and you got to imagine like well how does the galactic Senate work right like you got to have some mystery in it why did they build the same vent in the Death Star twice huge design flaw right

so anyway I think with cars it's the same kind of thing it's such a big world a lot of people end up getting into one little niche here there but in the old days with Star Wars man like you could get your arms around all of it and that's gone that's gone now

that's you know I have that experience too with cars I mean I grew up being really kind of Corvette centric being from the New York area I mean Corvettes kind of reign supreme in that area like Long Island parts of Connecticut it's kind of Corvette central

really and then as you start moving into other places it's just amazing when you start to open your eyes to other aspects of this hobby and it's like oh man like Mustangs are kind of cool and all of a sudden like Alfa Romeo's we never saw those floating around and

then Ferraris I got really into Ferraris after a while just because you experience new things and you start to learn what you like and what speaks to you and it's just amazing when you meet a new car for the first time and it just speaks to you and you're like wow I did not know

I did not know that this existed or that this would be so meaningful to me but now it is it's totally different than what you usually like

I'm not sure I knew that that was your Corvette origin story I don't think I've ever picked your brain on why you wrote your Corvette book but that must be the origin of it right

Yeah the origin is my parents Corvette which they got in 1980 and still have

What year?

Wow

66 small block they found it in a I don't know if it was in a barn in Wisconsin but it was in a

Coopervert

It is a coop

Okay

And kind of just awesome story about the coop but when they brought it back from Wisconsin to New York and that was my parents car in New York City so that it lived in the garage I think we got the Christmas tree in it one year

Wow

And when I was a little kid they put a jump seat in the back if you can imagine the coop with the window and everything they put a sideways like a tractor seat and they bolted in a lap belt in the back to I don't know what would have been bolted to but the body or the frame even if I was lucky that was me and my parents that was our car

Wow

And you would just drive around with me in the jump seat facing sideways if you can picture the

Were you, do you remember it?

Oh yeah

Up to what age could you fit back there?

The age that I could fit back there came before the age that I stopped riding back there

Okay

So there was a couple years when I did not fit but it was still like that was still our fun thing to do because I was probably 5, 10 by 6th grade or something

Wow

So at some point yeah it kind of got a little cramped but you still did it because it was just so much fun

Is it a four speed tell me more about the car

Power Glide, okay, it's a really fun car

It's kind of a little bit of a car

We kind of have done some research on the numbers and it's like an amazing amazing car

But it's I don't know what level of NCRS certification it would receive if any

The cops may even come knocking on your door saying where'd you find this fin

But no it was a fun car my dad bought it in Wisconsin in 1984 for my mom which I think we all know

That means he really wanted the car and he wanted to feel good about it

So he said it was for her

I think I've seen her drive it once maybe

Interestingly by any vehicle in Wisconsin now or back then and the frame might be shot and that was the case with this one

In 1980 a 66 Corvette would only be 14 years old right

So this was actually one of the first C2's that had a kind of total frame replacement done on it

Wow

So Kevin McKay from Corvette Repair who I wrote my book with

My dad brought the car to him and he put some articles together for Corvette Fever magazine

Just because it hadn't really been done a 14 year old car shouldn't need a frame replacement

Right so it's like explaining how to do this

Yeah unless it's from Wisconsin

And now it's been done so many times but

Yeah I'm sure

Yeah

So anyway so the frame we had a whole new frame put on it a little bit of like a not a restoration by any means

But kind of it's just like some work to make it work breaks work engine work, but it's a 327 300 with power glide

300 means single four barrel

Single four barrel yeah okay

It's got air conditioning which is kind of a neat feature

Power windows power brakes power steering so between all these kind of power things the air conditioning

You can kind of imagine this may have been sort of a country club title

That's kind of what I picture the original owner in 1966 being kind of like classy fancy

But doesn't really need a sports car just wants what in I mean in American cars

Comfort but a V8 and you look awesome

Yeah so the car was originally Sunfire yellow which is a gorgeous color it's now silver

It's been silver for a while originally black vinyl my dad had it retrimmed in black leather

Which is significantly better I will say I was actually sitting in the Alfa Romeo

I took a meeting in the Alfa Romeo the Giulietta downstairs

Oh wait Randy's rally car

Yeah, and I had never been in that car before and the leather seats in that are incredible

I was kind of blown away I was not expecting to get in the car and have these like beautiful soft stuff

What made you choose that car as a conference room normally you sit in the RS4 I feel like

Yeah I do like the RS4 it's comfortable

The R5 smells like gas you don't want to be in there

I learned that the hard way actually yeah I love that you've had the same experience

One of our colleagues will and I he's a huge Alfa Romeo fan and I had a meeting with him today

So I was like you know let me take I try to pick the car based on who I'm meeting you

Just because I knew so like I started with the with the R4 when with our one of our colleagues

Jack Easter who's a huge Audi fan he has an RSA and I was like you know what I think he'd like doing this

So then I started doing that whoever I'm talking to I try to choose a car that good

We've got such a wide variety so many to choose from does the AC work on the vet still?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, we had it converted to R134

Not terribly long ago

Oh and the the other neat thing about our interesting thing about cars from that era too

You have to replace a lot of the seals probably with biton just for modern fuel

So that was kind of a crossover. I don't know if you've experienced that with any of your older cars

I always wonder well my oldest car my cord was built for leaded gasoline

But when the engine was rebuilt it was set up to just run on the unleaded that we have now

I don't think I have any cars that are old enough that would require additives or anything changed

I do hear all the time people talking about how all the ethanol in gas now is like probably it

Yeah, because so many of my cars sit now, so I'm starting to get a little bit more paranoid about you know

Ethan all heavy gas sitting in the fuel tanks, but I think particularly in the fuel lines is the problem right the rubber fuel lines

Yes, and also in carburetors. It can come up. Yeah bowls bowls jets and the jets. Yeah, so in in motorcycles

It's actually a huge problem just because the the size of the jets and the poles are like my cbx as these little

Carburetors for these little 125 cc cylinders and so it's like if gas sits in there for more than three weeks

Yeah, it just it won't start I have to clean everything and people complain about it in California

But I think most states have ethanol in their gas right some I have a higher I think they have a higher percentage in some states

California this Saudi like them like the Texas New Mexico Colorado a lot of times you'll find like 15%

Yeah ethanol which you can notice a little bit of a running difference when I had my 94 Corvette

So a lot of places will like we'll sell you marine fuel which is non ethanol a lot of rural areas also have non ethanol for tractors

And other implements types of equipment which are necessary for that so when I was living in Wisconsin

I had my Corvette and in Connecticut when I had it there was just really little access to non ethanol fuel when I moved it to

Wisconsin I started using non ethanol fuel I got two more miles per gallon and the car is significantly faster

Wow, that's really interesting and I think it wasn't just the fuel difference because obviously cars nowadays are very fast

But I think it was just because that car was made for that fuel I think it was tuning rubber components

I think everything just seemed to work a little bit better on the fuel that was available that year

Amazing

Should we talk about things on the website? Was that enough BSing? Did we do enough BSing there?

You know we probably did enough but I know you and I can go for a lot longer than we wanted to

We really can so a couple big things we want to talk about I mean maybe the headline thing to start with is

200 lot 250,000 live right now the reason we're having beers is it's five o'clock here on a Thursday

We launched a new episode today. It's a rerun of our first one-year game Tyler

Which you weren't on but you've been part of a couple of those

It was I mean 1967 that's if you're gonna rerun a year

It's the best year

It probably would be that one

I really re-listened all over the episode and I was so kind of nervous about rolling out the game and Randy's clearly irritated with me

It's pretty great

It was lovely

Totally

I was probably sweating bullets

Anyway, so I was gonna ask you this question. I started my first day lot 1400 something was ending so I've been around for 249

248,500 listings you remember what you're early

Yeah, it was 25,000 or high 24s

So you've been around for 225

25k that's amazing

That's amazing

And honestly Alex congrats to you and the rest of especially our senior manager

To all of us

To the folks who just starting this week we had four new folks start this week and it's really a team effort

You can't do this without our team

No, it would be impossible to do with honestly with any other team

I think that's why no one else does it really

But I just I do think that congrats have to go out to you and Randy and Zach and Howard for getting to this milestone

Because when you guys all took a big leap with auctions 12 and three and in your case 1400

I mean there it wasn't like a known thing what was gonna happen

I when I took the job here. I was like I'll work for a couple years and it'll all fall apart and I'll go be a school teacher

Yeah, so I mean how many auctions were we running a day when you so when I start it's hard to remember

I remember Randy getting really stoked when we got to 40 a week and that was four days a week

But when I started we were running three days a week and it was maybe

20 25 car. I mean like it was

Randy Howard and Zach only and then a couple contractors Chris Baxter producer this Paul right shout out to him

He was a writing listings contract Chris Cushing who's been around forever. Yeah, he was writing listings and I think those are the

Only I don't want to leave anyone up, but I think those are the only folks still around from that era

They were both contractors at that point the two Chris's so there were maybe

seven or eight people total doing it, but only the three people in the office Randy Howard and Zach and

Again, like I just didn't didn't think it was gonna

You know, I didn't think it was gonna be a going concern that first day

I've talked about this before Randy and Gentry listed their own

Friadino which sold for 250 grand or so and that was a huge result. Yeah time and it was no reserve

And I remember Randy and Gentry being a little nervous Gentry Arco found along with Randy

Yes, we sold your NSX and no reserve didn't you yeah, but totally different that was last year a lot more confidence

I don't know if I would I've sold stuff in no reserve

So I know the feeling that they have but at a quarter million

It's a little bit of a don't know if I would have done that in 2016 either

I did sell my first car ever in 2017 and I was too scared to do a no-reserve

I was a car media. It always sold for 10 grand

But I had a reserve on that because I you know shows how much faith here

We are talking about reserves and money for a car. I mean, this is also like your life

We're talking about too. I mean to for anybody for you and Chris and Chris like to just start working here

At that when you won't even list your car your $10,000 car and no reserve my wife was way

That's this is quite a risk. I was a stay on down. My wife was a little like what are you doing? Yeah, you need to watch the kids

This is like not a real job. Yeah, I mean, I'm even a little concerned about like what you're doing

We should talk about 250k a little bit. Are you a 288 GTO guy? I mean

Yes, how could you not be I'll ask you this you probably talk to more people about this than I do do

288 f40 and f50 people tend to group into those categories or do you kind of like all of them?

How does that I don't totally know my like anecdotal impression is the f40 is the one for most people and for people roughly our age a little bit

Older a little bit. I'm a 288 GTO guy. I always gravitate towards the original right like Zach loves his 997 GT3

I was like, let me get the 996. He loves the like dot-2 NSX

I'm like, I want the original with no power steering and a fixed roof and all that

So to me the 288 is well because I love 308. It's obviously it's like the ultimate

You know is the stretched 308 with turbos on and everything. It's a little more

Cobbled together. So even I will admit it's maybe not quite as aesthetically pleasing as the f40, right?

But it feels a little more prototypy. So I like it. I'm probably gonna offend you and a lot of listeners

I don't love the f50. It's an amazing car amazing engine. I don't like the way it looks very much

I much prefer the 288 the f40. Yeah, that'd be my number three as well

Yeah, all of them are great and it's getting better with age though. They're all so I'm maybe they I didn't love the Enzo

When it came out and then there was one a couple months ago at the motoring club cars and coffee that we

cosponsored and

Then this weekend for Father's Day, I took my son Enzo to Auto Vino in San Carlos

Which I just was like, where's the cars and coffee on Father's Day? It was great. There might be a few of them going on

I actually didn't find that many really but met Sherry the owner there

She was great and she had her Enzo out in front and let my son Enzo pose in front

She was really nice and showed us around and opened the car and man even and I'm starting to soften on Enzos

That's how a 20 year old car. Oh, that one also aged well

I was so wild when it came out compared to modern cars. It's simpler, right?

Like ours have gotten so busy with wings and vents and everything the Enzo even though it's still a little pointy

It's not as crazy as it used to see. It's starting to look more. It looks more like an f40 than whatever

Ferrari's supercar is. I think it's called the F80. Okay, but yeah, the F80 looks like speed racer or something

I mean, it looks like a matchbox car

Yeah, and I mean, I don't mind even the I kind of like the 812 series and some of the other modern stuff

But yeah for me the 288 there's something about seeing that

Transaxle just kind of like hanging low in the back

Totally and so the big change on the 288 is so that the 308 and even the 328

It's a sideways motor with the transaxle next to it and on the 288

That's why they had to stretch it

It's north south and then the transaxle sticks out on the back. Okay, like a race car

Then you see it on 348s and 355s. I think a little bit. Okay, they go north-south on the V8

But where you really see it is on the Mondial T

So the original Mondial's are the motor like out of my car sideways V8

But then which is what's so crazy?

They did this the late Mondial's have a north-south engine like a 355 and because the transaxle sticks out the back

It's almost all the way back up against the bumper

So you see that thing which I also love you see the back of the transaxle

You're looking at the back of the car would the on the alti be turbo is that no

No, it's something about the engine configuration when they change the Mondial

And it makes it so the transaxle instead of being next to the engine sticks out

Yeah, but on the 288 it looks so good. Yeah, if you just look at the fins on the quarter panels

It's just you kind of know you're looking at something different. It's I highly recommend the listeners Harry Metcalf Harry's garage

My favorite YouTube channel. I think I've mentioned it on here before he's based out of the UK

He has no agenda. He's not selling anything

But his walk around and drive video of a 288 is incredible. It explains all that history all the engineering behind it

And it's man. That's an amazing car and it's from one of our great local partners. Yes, maybe you know

I mean, how long this has been in the works, but everything like really came together

And I know some of what went into making this happen between actually being able to secure a lot

250,000 with our scheduling team. I think they were monitoring every auction and then like okay, we're at

249 999. All right, click it. Yeah, yeah

Huge shout out to everyone who was involved a lot of people Ryan Zeeman the scheduler behind it had to do some finagling

But six in our Veloce this local partner and one of our top sellers of all time and and great people they

kind of wanted to be part of this big milestone and

Made sure to secure the car and do this amazing presentation shout out to Anthony Diane their whole team for doing such an incredible job

And what an exciting car and our first one, right? So it's a rad milestone

Yeah, I know this one among the staff the 288 was kind of still that this was like that reach car

This is the one where totally like we've got the Veyron

You've been on these pods where every once in a while we ask we're like

You know, what are some of the stretch cars that we've never listed that we would like to and I think this was one of the ones

So amazing. Also, I hadn't looked today up to 6000000 bucks. Yeah, it bid to 5000000 almost immediately

You know, I blinked and these things went up in value by like millions of dollars on

I don't think I'm I'm not blowing up his spot because it's on the video

But Harry Metcalf when he's doing the walk around on the one he said he wanted to buy one

I want to say it was in the early aughts mid aughts and I think he said he bought a

He bought a 550 Maranello instead and I think he said it was 150,000 pounds was what he could have bought a 288

GCO

All right. Well, we and we were just talking about this on 300 and 360 seconds podcast with what they were talking about where

You go into the Ferrari dealer and it's like do I want the 550 Maranello or do I want a 1967 275 gtv 4 cam?

I'm totally like what it's it's so peculiar to see now

I actually got to get a ride in the 288

Before which was really cool. Yeah, I it's another reason why I love this car

And I'm kind of curious if like you put turbos on a 308 if that kind of gives you the same feel

But we had a somebody who put turbos on yeah, but I don't think it did again

And that harry's garage video he talks about how because this ends up still around for this one

They pulled in a I think it was a launcher designer who was an early

Turbo expert and maybe had worked on the strados motor. I can't remember the total story

But he came in and kind of helped develop this and if you look at the layout the turbos are like pretty far away from the

Motor themselves are independent one for each bank and there's intercoolers over the top

It it's it's almost like when you look into it

And you know the the the whole rear clamshell opens the opposite way of a 308

They had to totally change it, but you could almost explain turbo charging to somebody by looking at this one

You know, I love that you and that's less the case of the f40. You can see everything laid out all the plumbing

I still can't find one of the turbos on my Bronco

Totally you can't see it anymore, but I have no idea where the other one. Yeah, you can't see that stuff anymore

That's part of why this one's so cool. Sorry. Tell me about the drive story

You know, it was a quick a quick rip in Palm Beach kind of a perfect setting for

That seems about that seems about right. Yeah, it was at um, the Cavalino classic

2010

And it was just great the guy that restored the car gave me a ride in it and it was like

Really docile under let's say 3500 4000 rpm just cruising around

But as soon as the turbos turn on because it's you know on off turbos in the 1980s and as soon as they turn on

I mean you just get sucked back in your seat and

Being in other fast cars just doesn't compare to being in a car from the 80s

That's that fast because it still has that mechanical feeling and the the way the suspension is

I mean, I don't know what the zero to 60s

But let's say you get in a c8 corvette, which I've done and floored at zero to 100

You don't get a lot of it's not that dramatic, right? Yeah, right?

You're just all of a sudden you're or even drove a 48 pista a few years ago

And it was the same thing all of a sudden you're doing 130 and you're kind of like

How did I get here and do I want to be here?

You know with the 288 it was like you're feeling every bit of the rawness of getting up to speed

It's really just a most visceral

kind of feeling and I

Have not had a ton of experience with other kinds of cars as well

But this one just really really stood out the kind of like I was saying earlier where you meet a car and you kind of

Get to know it a little bit and you kind of fall in love with it

And that's that's kind of that's what happened to me on the 288. I love that you did that

What a great explanation of why I love vintage turbo lag

I think it's so great. Where do you stand at 40 over 288? Is that too controversial to ask?

Oh, no, I'm 288 all day. I it's also a lot more rare like they build over a thousand f40s

And there's only a couple hundred 288 you're a Ferrari owner and I'll tell you there's something because these are all pretty much wearing that said

Well, and here's my explanation for this, right? So I'm getting onto something here

Where you know, you look at these beautiful pictures of these cars, right?

And then, you know, you see one at an event you see one during car week like great cool. It's beautiful

But when you see when driving around town, you're kind of like

Oh, like that's a little like that person really wants to see

You know like a guy I was I was having a brunch

I don't know a few months ago and a guy parks right out front in a testaroso

And it's one that I really love and even that in red was just like

Oh, I don't know if I'd feel comfortable. I totally doing that. That's specifically why I did not

What one of the reasons I didn't want a red one. Also, there's so many red ones

But like the f40 you drive that thing around and you're gonna get I mean every every phone is gonna come out, right?

100 you drive a 288 which may be a better car and people are gonna think it's a 308

Did you see that this one was painted silver at one point? I did. I think it likes it was a factory reap

But yeah, right. I was gonna say factory red, but repainted silver at one point

Apparently the owner at that time had two either two of these that were painted silver

Somebody who was a crazy Ferrari collector. Yes, which I think by the way at the time

You basically would have had to have been to want one of these, right?

It's kind of before

I got the arrow when people were buying one of these to speculate on it was something you'd buy to

Drive around because you were a Ferrari nut. Yeah, I think you'd have to be and I don't know what the MSRP on this thing

Would have been I'm sure it still would have been very expensive at the time or how easy it was to get one of these

But yeah, we actually have the picture of it in silver in the listing amazing that we're there

I think it's so sick. I huge credit to everybody involved but also to all of our staff for getting us here

Didn't think we would be here. Tyler. It's amazing. Well, that's

That was kind of my point when you started at auction 1400

How do you even I mean even when we hit 100,000, you know, we kind of knew at that point like, okay

This thing works. That was three years ago, buddy. Yeah, I know. I know it was a big deal

But I just like I said, I just don't think that enough can be said about the folks that kind of started like

Way early like even before me but around me too and maybe like your early 2018 2019

Yeah, I didn't feel early at the time now

I do I think about like the folks that joined kind of believing in the vision and everyone here is so humble

But believing in your vision and randy's vision and howards

I mean, this is a huge reason why so many of us work here and at 250k

I mean, we can be pretty sure this is a business that's going to last a long time in industry

It started a little little industry here. Not even little maybe anymore

I I'm so proud of all of it and of all of our people and what a way to celebrate it

I'm so stoked on trading. It's pretty cool. I mean, it was a photo and like you said with Anthony and his team

Doing it because we had that fun

Advertising situation with Diane's car. Oh, totally. Yeah. Yeah here. Yeah, that was such a cool thing

So it's awesome that Anthony's always I mean, they're excited to do this kind of stuff

We love Anthony and Diane excited to see how that one ends but already 300 comments and we still got 12 days on it

That's 6000000 bucks. It's pretty mind-blowing

We've had a ton of great bike results too, Tyler. We're 30 minutes in here

And I I'm like so derelict in my duty for not getting to this sooner

but one of the many reasons we have you here is to talk motorcycles because

You know, it's almost a business within a business

Like is it? Oh, we have a viable business on the side of just our motorcycle options

And they're not a side show because we get some huge results

We're just talking about a couple downstairs some big ones in europe, uh, recently which I'd love to talk about

But where do you want to start? Yeah, I think we've got to start with I think one of my

Favorite results in recent time just because I'm familiar with the reputation of the seller

So he's in the united kingdom

Anthony Godin his user name is mr. Godin and he's got a wonderful

Dealership and facility that they restore to they're kind of famous for these bikes, right?

Yeah, but they are primarily sales. Okay in the uk is also just a

Amazing central point for vintage motorcycles

Vincent's and broths and all kinds of good stuff. Yeah, I mean it's just such an important part of that

Or just like, you know, maybe the Harley world is here

It's a huge part of I would say it's probably a higher percentage

Of the kind of general automotive what it comes to that is that because there's so many famous motorcycle brands that are there

And some of those bikes remain in the country

A lot of it is that a lot of it is just europe still uses motorcycles as transportation

So people grew up riding motorcycles. I talked to one

Amazing couple like maybe five or six years ago

I met them at maybe a mealy island or something and there's some big collectors now

But the woman got into motorcycling because she worked for

She was in the like oh god. I'm just screw this up

But it's like the norwegian military or the swedish military and she was a dispatch rider on a motorcycle like delivering orders

Like that and this was in modern times. So she's my age

And and that's how she got into motorcycling

So that kind of tells you a little bit of something about how important motorcycles are in europe that

Their militaries are still using dispatch riders totally, you know, you walk around any europe

I mean, you were just in the uk, which I also want to talk to you. Oh, yeah, I forgot about

If we can get to that next but you know, you walk around europe and there's just bikes parked all over the street

Um and every now and then you'll see something really cool that someone's commuting on and it's like

We never got that in the u.s. And that's awesome. Like that's a big that's a great bike to have here

But in europe, it's it's what the guy commutes on. Yeah. Yeah, my dad

Speaking to your kind of original white the guy who gave my dad his pair of vincent's one of which was auctioned on sites first

Vincent on site

Hit tom his lifelong friend tom who still lives in the uk is a couple years older. My daddy's in his early 90s now

He had a

Is it a model a vince? What are they called the very first vincent? They're like a series series a that's what it's called

Right, right like it's long before the shadow or the would be like a it was like a first gen black shadow

It would be a series here and they're very rare and he

Finally sold it at one of these big auctions in the uk, right? And that's just not very many of them around so

Yeah, he's got history on that. He's like was you know had owned a bunch of vincent's

But let's get back to the to the ducati because we're actually not it was not a

British bike that you were going to talk about. No, it wasn't but that's the thing

I mean, there are other these

European bikes tend to kind of work their way around you don't realize maybe how

Not big europe is until you start seeing what's involved in transporting stuff around it's like driving

I had that experience driving around the uk. Yeah, totally

But yeah, the staccato is fantastic. It's a 73 750 sport

Which I don't know if we

Got that many in the us if any in 1973. Would this be similar to a 900? No, it was just popped up

It was beautiful, but it has that same thing that you and I've talked about in the pod before the l twid

The forward cylinder leans into the wind. I love it. Yeah, this would be a slightly different animal

This would kind of be somewhere between a gt 750 which was kind of their base the base twin in the 70s

The 750 ss would have been the bike in 1973. This is kind of the almost like the gentleman's sporter

So you don't need a race bike, but you want something that'll get you around quickly

So this would have been it and and they really did not make many of these which is kind interesting

In fact, we say here in the listing one of 735

Units produced for the model year. So it's very aesthetically beautiful. This one in particular had a fantastic color

I know it's everything is orange a dual front disc brakes alloy rims. It's got

Everything that in 1973 was top of the line. Yeah, I was gonna ask what this has been a not maybe cutting edge

But would this have been a like a pretty serious bike for the day. It would have been. Oh, yeah

Yeah, this would have been

It would have been cutting edge in 1973 motorcycles really didn't modernize until the mid 2000s

Oh, okay. So in like the 1990s you were still seeing

Maybe 70s 80s kind of technology motorcycles modernized way later than cars did which is kind of cool

So you can get some really neat stuff later on but this one sold for 28,000 pounds

um, and I

I believe the uh buyers not in the uk but in the eu somewhere which is really neat

Awesome kind of see transactions occurring over on the continent rather than kind of everything come

Yeah, not to not to jump the gun

But talking to some folks in the uk who are so delightful and lovely a lot of folks asking me about you know

Oh, like if you put it on vat, it's to an american buyer and i'm like no

Like a tremendous number of the things we sell in the eu stay or even if they're in the uk stay

Like over 50 by our calculations of things that are sold there stay there

Yeah, I believe it because it's there's a huge

Market there and that's especially with motorcycles

That's just one of the things that i'm most excited about with working in the uk and we've got we've like teams of people

Working with uk sellers right now, which is kind of cool. So we're kind of like fully invested in that

Oh, we had a vincent there too, right? I never like to miss an opportunity. Yeah, I know

I know the vincent did not sell but the owner is just a lovely

We also have a black shadow live too. Don't we have well?

We we do have a black shadow live when it rains at pours tyler

We've had a lot. Oh my god. Don't even get me started on that too to vincent's don't make a right

Is that what's next?

Isn't that a line from gone in 60 seconds? No, sorry. Yeah. Yeah, we sold an amazing black shadow for 120 000 from a

Wonderful restore a big d cycles in dallas. Is that a shadow record for us?

Yeah, it is. Okay. Yeah, so the previous record was another wonderful bike from one of our our friends in boston sold it

And that got to 105 I want our 110 and that really neat quave five speed transmission

Oh, interesting long-term ownership. So that bike to me was kind of the high watermark and it makes it a little more rideable

Is that the idea? I mean, they're already actually pretty rideable. But yes

It it makes it way more comfortable any modern motorcycle rider can get on and enjoy it

But this one was just that we sold just now not only ran beautifully

But it was just absolute jewelry

So, I mean it was just if you were going to museum bike

Yeah, all the numbers were there the certificates were there

It was like if you were going to do it spend the extra money and get this one

And then that seller also restored another one that's got some frame changes

So it's not the exact kind of high watermark as they're almost never matching

That's what my I remember my dad saying that is vincent's they kind of people pieced them together and even repeats and shadows got

Well, because of the the whole frame situation

So like the one that we have live right now, which I think will be which will be actually which closes in two days

Uh, we actually in two days. We actually have one of our best motorcycle days ever closed. Oh interesting

What else is on the docket? So we have that black shadow, which is very cool. We also have a bike that I

Personally know and really really like I've seen it a bunch of times and it's just one of my dream bikes is the x steve mcqueen

1931 Harley bro. I saw this I thought of you immediately because it's your bike and the history. Yeah, this is I just love

1930 to 1933

Vls, I just think it's the most beautiful Harley Davidson design

I think it's the best looking motorcycle and also the best paint schemes were in those eras

So I just everything about the bike itself

It's like, you know, you see people selling steve mcqueen stuff all the time

But like it's not always something you really want

This is kind of like the steve mcqueen history and it's a bike that you really want. Oh, it's dean too

So it's an amazing seller also. Yeah, he's going no reserve on it

I don't know how much motorcycle experience he has he was kind of fun to work with on this one

But all the best to him this one closes in

Is there two days? There's one thing on the handlebars, but it's almost all foot control for this

You'd have a throttle on the right and ignition adjustment on the left

And then also on the left you would have the the front brake

But it's very simple on the bars. Yeah, that's it. They're I think on the left

You also have an ignition cutout switch

So it's it's like a grounding switch. Is this a factory paint scheme for listeners?

It's kind of black and then yeah, but it's got kind of a swirl on the tank. It's great. Look almost art deco

Yeah, it is. So it's a really interesting thing that I love. I I'm sure we've talked about this before Alex

I'll make this quick

But in the depression era in order for Harley to sell motorcycles because people weren't buying them

The only way to make them interesting was to put these fun paint schemes on them

Oh, that's interesting. Do you know Auburn did the same thing when Eocord bought the Auburn company?

He painted he took a bunch of unsold kind of drab colored arborns

And the way he got them sold was he just painted them in bright colors

So this is what they came and this is kind of the beginning of Harley's kind of legendary

paint concepts that you see today that kind of carried through this

So these are the lowest production year. So like 1933 was the lowest production year

It also is the only year for this kind of really neat art deco like eagle

So like this twirl that you see kind of becomes an eagle head

Yeah, I can see how I could morph into that. Yeah with a B

And it's just like just those years have the best paint schemes and that's why they did it to sell what motorcycles they could

So they're super rare just does that mean because McQueen had this does that mean it already would have been

Kind of collectible and iconic even in the 70s when he would have bought this

Yes, it would have been but the the numbers in the 70s on these bikes were

Or nothing, I mean this would have been a few hundred so he was ahead of the curve

He knew that this was a stylish on a lot of things

There weren't people collecting

The the kinds of bikes that he was the indian fours the hendersins

He likes weren't getting collectors at that time kind of inner-war aircraft at the end of his life

Do you and he had like he had a I think it was at a mail wing

He had yes, that was the first streamlined by planes which are similar to this their transition technology, right?

It's before mono planes and everything, but I love that. You know, he had an aesthetic set obviously

He's one of the most famous style icons of all time. Yeah, he did he also bought a lot of crap too

That was actually one of the things that I loved when I wrote my book about him

That was one of the things I was most happy to like learn about was I think it was his his second wife

Maybe was kind of complaining went through this period where he was just buying like trucks

So he was just buying and this was in the 60s, right?

Or let's say early 70s even late 60s early 70s

And he was just buying like these old

Ford and Chevy trucks that were just beat up

He was driving to Idaho to get them and I'm like this is crap the stuff's not even worth anything today

But he's just that's what he loved at the time

So he bought a lot of stuff and the neat thing about this bike and anything that he owned really

Is that it came through the I don't know if you're familiar with this the 1984 las vegas auction?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. So that was his estate sale essentially

So that's where all of his automobilia and there all the vehicles. There's a bunch. I feel like we see this a lot with his stuff

That's where all these certificates came through right? Yeah, okay

Yeah, so this this bike has that certificate and anything that's sold in that auction

Has the certificate and it's just because that was his actual estate that would have been his kids and his wife selling it

Yep, exactly. What would have been his kids doing it terry and chad

So anything that kind of went through that auction and there's a catalogs the catalogs are available online

So you could really have some clear ownership history and this bike

Apparently never ran while he owned it. It was a project and it still is a project

So it's in the exact condition. This bike hasn't been restored. It's just in the same condition that he had it not not running

I actually think it's awesome and probably whoever buys it leaves it that way. I'm sure right maybe

I don't know if if that adds to the value or what would you do?

Would you make it run?

Yeah, you have to these bikes are so good to ride and if you could ride this thing around to a show or something

You would just have a blast doing it and it's a flathead. So I mean

What does it need? Yeah, right not much. Hopefully some kerosene. It's it's gorgeous. It's gorgeous looking

I don't want to miss out on the indian four. We pivoted away from europe

But we had another big europe sale from our buddy kenan from english true classic

That was just yesterday. So that one sold for 80 000 euro just yesterday a wonderful indian four

It was in denmark forever. So it was built in springfield, massachusetts and immediately sent to denmark

And it was largely with one family for something like the last 50 years, I think

Do you know if that would have been a common thing? I mean that was a high performance bike for the day, right?

So if I can't imagine it was I I've got to think that whoever bought it and brought it over there originally

Would have

They had to have some kind of interest in special motorcycles. Yeah, it would have been one of the fastest bikes in the day

But also in 1931. I mean you are talking about broths. Yeah, you're talking early BMWs

You're talking about some really good

But nothing that picks straight forward there nothing. Yeah, right

I want to say there was a couple small european brands that used fours

We've talked about the ace and some of those other ones, but those were all american, right?

Was there anybody doing a four in europe? You think there was? Yeah, I I can't remember

But it was like way early. There was almost like in a bicycle frame. I can't I can't remember who it was

But it would have been a big deal for someone in in the Netherlands to have an indian four back in the day

I mean, you would have been the boss of the roads

And like you said, this was the family for a long time and it's kind of an unrestored bike

Yeah, yeah, same kind of deal just kind of been sitting in storage for a long time and that one

I believe is coming back to the us after almost a hundred years

Amazing and that that's one where again you get that thing running and you've got yourself a really really good motorcycle

And in a really fun condition too. Yeah, that's kind of the condition that everybody

Yeah, you wouldn't want to screw that up too much

You'd want to try to get it running and leave it basically as is if you could yeah

So we have that steam queen bike closing on saturday, which will be after this podcast comes out

We have that black shadow we talked about we also have this cvo road glide rr from harley

Have you seen this thing? No, you haven't seen this. Okay. Is that that's live right now? It's live right now

So we're closing all three of these bikes at the same time, which is going to be a great

I'm going to be tuned to my phone watching the app at this time

We actually have a lot of good vintage harley's live right now and a lot of cool modern ones too, actually

We're doing really well in the harley world, which I love. Oh, I did see this thing. Sorry. This is like a modern harley

Yeah, yeah, it is it's a 2025

It's a basically a street legal race bike

Kind of modeled after the bikes that harley uses in the king of the baggers race series

Which before anybody laughs those baggers are going around tracks within seconds of the super bikes

Wow, they are incredibly fast. I think they do laguna seca and like maybe

Five seconds slower, which is a lot in the race world, but not when you consider

What it is what you're looking at a hundred and fifty pound feet of torque in the motorcycle

And 150 horsepower is a lot for a harley too. You have to ride this completely differently than other kinds of

I mean with that amount of torque, right? Yeah, you do it. It can get away from you. I bet

Chicken it can get away from you, but it's got it's got full super bike

Spenchion brakes. What do you do with this tyler carbon fiber?

Can you ride this around on the street or would this be too crazy? It it was built to be able to ride

I mean, it's got a rockford fosgate stereo system

Navigation carplay that's got everything. Would you actually want to though or would it be I don't know

I I mean, I don't know what else you would do with that. I don't like to find out

I bet you'd like to find out I'd be really curious to know what this thing feels like. Yeah

It's I'm sure it's scary. I think I think a lot of people can kind of poo poo harley david sins

And I think you put 150 horsepower and 150 foot pounds of torque in one

And you're gonna be holding on. I'm sorry. I didn't totally gather what this is. You keep vamping

I'm gonna send this to my motorcycle buddies right now. This is unbelievable, dude

I was loosely aware of what this was and then it came through and we were looking at it and I'm like, yeah

I think that's like a 60 or 70 thousand dollar bike

And you know, it's a big deal and then we actually looked into it and it's like, oh, this is not

It's already at 106 grand. Yeah, this is a pretty high-end bike. So it's just really really special

They only made 131 of them. The engine is at 131 cubic inch mawaki 8

And it's just a really fun bike. I don't see a lot of these getting made going forward

It was done by harley skunkworks at the york factory, which turns out some other vehicles primarily assembly line stuff

So just a really neat bike. It's a halo bike. I mean, this is the f40 of harley david sins. Totally, you know, this is this is it

Interesting comparison tyler, but yes, I take it point. Yeah, it's just kind of special and it's like, what do you really do with it?

But you also kind of want one all these olens. It's cool

It's really cool

I remember when when people first started putting the olens piggybacks

When they kind of started mounting them above the fender like this, uh, that was like a custom

That was like a cool kid so cal type of thing 15 years ago

I kind of remember the first time somebody did that they had to build their own brackets. They may have even used like

Uh zip ties for all I know to get the reservoirs up there to look cool

It does look cool now you're getting factor. So it's just again one cool thing about harley is they're always like 10 15 years behind a

Trend, but they do actually follow what customizer and builders are doing which is always fun to see awesome

Awesome. Any other notable results that we should know about over the last few months?

I mean, we've touched on quite a few already, but yeah

No, we've just had a lot of we sold on this really cool cbx from one of the top cbx builders and restorers cbx

truz it was a kind of a big bore

Mono shock cbx and he put a ducati

Single-sided swing arm rear end on it, which is really interesting

We sold a honda ct 70. I think for like 20 000 dollars. Whoa

Talk about the little like the little ct. So we sold like the world's best one

Yeah, we sold apparently the world's best one our kind of mini bike buddy chris kramer has been

Looking for like the 10k plus sale and then we just blew that away with a 20 000

That's a green one. I've got it here. Is it just like like perfectly restored. Is that the deal?

Yeah, it's perfectly restored and it's a desirable color desirable year

It's got kind of everything you want and also I don't think it was overdone either

Which you tend to see on these people tend to kind of make them look like jewelry because

They're not crazy difficult to work on let's say without us without offending anybody, you know, they're small

But then that that means amateurs probably also screw them up

You get right you get a lot of amateur and oftentimes good

But you get a lot of good amateur restorations and I think it's rare to see

One that was restored to like a concor kind of level. Yeah, I mean, it's how you imagine a new one looking or something

Man, what a bike. I actually love these. Have you written these before I bet right? I have are they as fun as they look?

Yes, they are they're just they are a little small

Yeah, okay, you kind of notice it, but I mean it would be like riding your your moto

Yeah, what is it your moto come moto compact. Yeah, it would be kind of like riding that

Which is fun for five minutes. Yeah, basically

Yeah, and you want the one with the four speed so you can get them with a three speed automatic or a four speed manual

And the the four speed makes a lot of difference when you ride it. Awesome, man. What a great result

I'm glad you highlighted that one. Yeah, that was a fun. I actually forgot about that until you just

Um asked me about that it seems like forever ago, but it was

Probably only a few months brings me joy, man things that make you smile

We were talking to somebody day about it's so important, you know to remember that you like cars and you like bikes and

To see things that make you smile. Yeah, so but tell me more about your uk trip

Just tell me what you did

Randy very generously offered me an opportunity to go

To the uk on a very quick kind of lightning like I was in the office and

That's when you found out you were going like that saturday basically got one of the last

Seats on the plane was only there for two nights, which is like almost like suicide. But

The big reason I wanted to go twofold one as we've alluded to on this pod

Trying to expand our business in the uk and have a couple great partners over there including a sports purpose garage

James Turner and rory shout out to both of them. They're awesome. I met james when he came to visit the office

Yeah, james is fantastic and rory

Is fantastic too and lou and his whole team were amazing and really are doing a great job of representing bat

They all had

Perfect stuff on so an opportunity to see their facility and bister motion in general where we had an event

A couple months ago and where we're gonna have another one

Was awesome and just to see the uk and to see some interesting cars

But then the big don't want to miss it thing was a chance to drive goodwood. Oh my god. Okay

Yeah, so didn't want to say no to that and my wife very generously was like, hey, you can't miss this opportunity

So you should go

So jumped on a plane

last

Monday, so like 10 days ago

Crammed into a middle seat in the back of the plane and like couldn't sleep

So landed in the uk with no sleep at like 7 a.m. Nice took a cab out to

Like to your point everything's so close. You can take a cab from Heathrow to oxford

So did that sports purpose facilities at this really cool place called bister motion bister is just a couple miles outside of oxford

It's an old raf base rory told me I think there was a

I want to say it was a bristol factory there, but there's a bunch of big hangers

They're still a semi active airfield and then they've turned all these old raf buildings into a bunch of

They're like all car theme all these car businesses. There was another consignment shop. There's sports purpose

One of the big tent poll auctions right next door. There was a 330 gtc in an f 40 sitting right next door

Okay

Got to see all the rad cars that sports purpose is putting on the site plus some other cool cars that they have on

Premises it's a gorgeous day. So hung out there kind of bothered rory

And then james showed up in the afternoon and we jetted down it's about a two hour drive like a hundred miles down to

Goodwood that was amazing. It was my first time ever driving right hand drive

I was driving a manual transmission

It was the car that you it's live on the site right now

A honda integra type r which is a little different in the uk a beautiful one low mileage one

Drove that car down shifting with my left hand and following james turner

Statue to limitations uk very fast down the a 34

Getting used to that. I'm really glad I was following him because you know the I had a lot of muscle memory to overcome on

On driving right hand drive

But the the big thing that screwed with my mind is roundabouts

Have you driven through uk roundabouts or anywhere right hand drive japan australia? No, I've never driven right hand drive

Okay, so all the directions you think you need to check your blind spots are all screwed up

I've almost gotten in trouble walking across the street in london

So i'm glad i was following james. We stayed in an amazing little pub where the food was delicious and the rooms were incredible

The white horse

He held court he has amazing clients met a bunch of really amazing people and then the big thrill was good wood

Started the day of course it was raining in the morning and of course in uk

I know all this is going to sound stupid to folks who are used to it

But there's no runoff or anything on the road. So in the uk

Everywhere you drive like is about the width of your car

So when you're driving fast with you a big hedge on on your left hand side and the oncoming cars

You're basically mirror to mirror with them

But it was a wonderful i'm actually glad it was like a misty morning

You know i got the full uk experience

It was about 10 miles from the pub to the track and then i'll show you the pictures afterwards

Right when you drive through a tunnel and all the stuff i've seen on tv youtube a million times

We started the day with a track walk, which was really a track drive, which was amazing

And the person hosting that

Is a driver who wasn't super familiar to me at the time. He was at dinner the night before but his name's emanuel a puro

He's a former formula one driver five time lemal winner in outies r8s and r10s

Okay, uh really enthusiastic italian guy and he stopped at every corner and talked all the people who were during the track day

Through how to enter each corner and he was so enthusiastic and he's on the fai safety commission

So he's also explaining the history of the track and what's legal and what's not and i mean i didn't even know

So the built around another ref airbase right and that which the airport is still active

So there are airplanes taking off all the including spitfires

Small airplanes and helicopters and these spitfires which i think are based there

They had three dual cockpit spitfires there that you could take a ride in the back seat of

And amazing cars a lot of them two liter cup cars which james turner specializes in which were amazing

And the highlight of the day for me was

Getting a ride with emanuel a in the two liter cup car that he shares with james and you know

These are 65 66 9 11's that are you know early cars and short wheelbase and that they run on avon tires

And i was gonna say it's probably tiny little tires

But he's backing it into all this stuff about you can't

That these early cars spin on you and everything he was just backing it into every corner

And he's driving with his fingertips and he's narrating to me the whole time we did four or five

It was maybe the best on track experience i've ever had a huge shout out to james for letting me do that

And then at the end of the day he let me do one session in up

He had rented for his sons who were there who were lovely chaps as well

He had rented in elva courier restart

Okay, and i got to do a session on that too, which was great and that car was slipping and sliding all over the place

I think that was on

Dunlop slicks

But anyway shout out to that instructor a very brave instructor not under the roll hoop

Jumping in with me and letting me slide that car all over the track in an amateurish way

But anyway huge thrill great meeting our partners wonderful to connect with all the folks over there

So many interesting

Folks in the uk and who showed up for that event which is a really special event that james does every year for his clientele

Incredible incredible stuff. What a blessed life. I live it was amazing

Well, I mean, you know the middle seat by the bathroom, you know, you had to earn it

I think you earned your trip to goodwood

I may have paid out of pocket for a slight upgrade on the way home so that I could sleep smart

Smart, but anyway, it was unbelievable. Thanks to randy for letting me go and and and then thanks to you know

All my hosts over there and everyone I met it was just a delight and you know, since we're trying to expand over there

I felt very much the american yank

I believe james introduced me as and that guy over there is the the californian looking dude over there as alex

I mean you do you fit the role like if someone imagines someone from california

They're not disappointed. No, no, I guess I lived up to that

But anyway, what a thrill I'm what in a just a stunning facility and you know, I may never have another chance to drive around that track

So really a treat incredible and I know we've got a bunch of things coming up in the next couple of weeks too

Yep, so just had a cup car. I think it's fair. I think we'll be live by the time this is out

Amazing green second gen camaro that anyone who's watched goodwood has seen driving and winning there

That's going to be coming up through sports purpose on the site

They've got a bunch of other interesting things. I was just on some calls this morning

We've got a bunch of interesting uk listings coming up. So exciting stuff. Oh amazing. I can't wait for it

It was a big thrill. Thank you for asking me tyler

What a terrible thing at the end of the pod for for me to get to express how wonderful that

Well, I was I was so so curious about this because you kind of like just

Went to the uk and disappeared like that day. I know it was it was uh, yeah

Again, it was like a lightning strike moment, but had to take the opportunity. Oh, that sounds amazing

It sounds like some great people to that work. Totally. I love that

I think maybe fair to say about james. I'm not sure if he's gonna listen to this or not

He's many great qualities, but one of the great things he's a great collector of people

Right, so he he drove me up lord marches, you know right across the street from the track or up the road

A little bit is is where they do the hill climb, you know, the other goodwood event

And so drove up there and of course, he knows he knows of the lord himself

And so he's just a great collector of people and full of great stories

And actually I can't remember any he's had him on the pod or not

But we should have james on the pod to talk to him because he can

Tell you amazing stories about amazing famous people from sun up till sundown

So that part was really fun and and of course at a special track day like this the people

He's got around him every single person has a fascinating story runs an interesting business has a super interesting car

There was a Porsche 910 there. There was god. So you must have just been hearing great stories

There was a right hand right hand drive career or 2.7 rs

I mean like just wild stuff the guys were driving. Yeah, so really cool the uk is fun

We gotta get back there. I don't I guess all the people who keep saying hey, if you need somebody in the uk

I get it. I get why our staff wants to we got a lot of people saying that totally

That's awesome. Yeah, it was great. It was great

Any closing shots anything else that we should mention?

No, we just got a lot of stuff coming up this summer. So I'm really looking forward to

Hey, I know you probably will have randy on a bunch

Maybe howard or zack kind of going to all these different events. I'm really looking forward to hearing about them

We've got Hillsborough Hillsboro this weekend, which will be done. Yeah by the time this pod is out that will have happened

We've got road america coming up. We've got a bunch of crazy events

We've got the rose cup event with with our buddy matt krandall with not a lot of retro

Mobile which I'm going to try to get to I really want to go so much so much stuff coming up

So yeah, we're gonna have a busy pod season. You know up on all that stuff

But we'll have you on again. We got to do more movies. We got to do more one-year garages

And yeah, we'll do a Hillsboro download too. Yeah, definitely. Let's do it all

Thanks, buddy for being here. All right. Yeah, thanks alex and thanks as always to all of you for listening feedback questions concerns to

podcast at bringitrailer.com we will catch you next time

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