Holiday Insanity, Movie Cars, and Plymouth Connoisseurship

Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the Bring A Trailer podcast.

Alex coming to you from Bring A Trailer headquarters in San Francisco, joined by Beck and Tyler again.

But thank goodness, joined this time by Randy as well.

Hey, gents.

Here we are.

We're all here.

All fours going on, guys.

Okay.

Coordinated beer opening.

I open mine too early.

Cheers.

Cheers to all of you.

Cheers, boy.

Happy holidays.

This is our Christmas episode.

Christmas holiday episode.

Right.

I'm in the middle of Hanukkah as we speak, so...

Day three, I believe it is.

It is day three about to be evening four.

My daughter is super bummed out.

We're not doing presents every day for Hanukkah.

It's mainly the president's.

Did you ever do...

You did every day presents?

Yeah.

Oh, for sure.

I only got first and last.

No.

See, that's much more reasonable.

That's probably the standard we should have set.

But are they better though?

Better than what?

What do you got?

I don't know.

Would you rather...

Would you rather have the smaller presents or two more substantial ones?

No, I'd probably rather have like a Nintendo on day one and like a PlayStation on day eight.

There you go.

Christmas plans, guys.

Randy, you're taking the big trip.

Oh, we're all taking trips around and stuff, aren't we?

I just go to the snow in the winter.

That's my favorite thing to do.

I love a big road trip, but it is a long one.

What's the number of hours to get from here to 11?

11 hours.

We're almost to the Utah State Line and hang a left.

Three kids.

How many animals?

Depends.

You didn't saw the day.

No, anyway, we're heading to the mountains.

That should be good.

What about you back going to the cabin?

Going up to the cabin.

Two kids, one animal in the wagon.

You need a BAT alumni car?

You are.

A BAT alumni car.

Absolutely.

I don't claim that on this trip.

BAT license plates surround.

Correct.

As well.

I have that, but I don't have the alumni car.

Going up to Russian River, we'll be there.

Tons of rain.

No snow.

Tons of rain watching that river level rise and hopefully not

too high.

Great.

Too cold to jump in the water, right?

Cool.

Because of all of the watershed that's there, it'll be moving

so quickly.

You don't even want to be in a canoe in the river this time

of year.

But we'll go ice skating down in Santa Rosa.

Oh, fun.

Ice rink?

Ice rink is the Charles Schwartz ice rink.

Actually, I believe it was his wife who had it built right

next to the Peanuts Museum.

We'll be there.

Fun.

Awesome.

Nice.

We'll end up at the Russian River Brewery while you're there.

I don't know if we'll end up at the Russian River Brewery.

We've been to...

Oh, gosh.

What's the Lagunitas one?

Okay.

Nice.

Pedal duma is one of our usual things.

What about you, Tyler?

Well, I hate to say it.

I'm taking the big trip.

You've got to talk to this dude.

Oh, where are you going?

We're sitting here one up Randy, but I've got a few

more hours in the car than he does.

Oh, geez.

We are driving to Wisconsin.

Oh.

One wife, two pets.

See, you're giving my stats and setting him up to beat

everyone up.

Maybe that was on purpose.

Cars better.

I'm picking up the rental car today, actually.

He's doing rental car.

I have to do...

I was going to take my own car, my Tahoe, except yesterday, I

started to feel a little bit of a hesitation while

driving.

I get out of it and the fuel pump is just worrying like

crazy.

You're not going to break in the 996 correctly by

driving it across the country?

I do have.

Wait, wait, wait.

You don't know the 996 story?

Are we blowing this news out of the water on the

podcast?

I don't think so.

Tell Randy.

What did you do, Tyler?

Well, it wasn't me.

It was the car decided to blow up its IMS bearing on

me, which I think...

I don't know if you knew about that or not, but we

then had it rebuilt over the course of the last

year, pretty much, up to a 4.1-liter 380 horsepower

package, which is back in the car and it comes

with a two-year unlimited mileage warranty, so I

probably would be better off taking that.

A limited miles.

It'd be great just driving to Wisconsin and back.

I know.

With two animals in the back.

With two animals.

I mean, my dog does like the backseat of that car.

Yeah.

But that's probably the reason you're not doing it.

Didn't you have a motor home on that trip that

blew up one time?

Sorry if I...

That's a little too close to home.

Okay, sorry.

But yes, we did have a motor home that we used

to take that trip in that ended up in Illinois,

so it didn't quite make Wisconsin on its last

trip.

I was able to limp it there eventually, but no, we lost

a wheel bearing on the way up the last time

and no longer have that.

So, I'm in a rental car.

If anything goes wrong, I just go to my nearest

Alamo location and drop it off, get a new one,

and keep going on my merry Christmas way.

You go on both ways?

Yeah.

Wow.

Both ways, like 34, 35 hours.

How many hours a day will you do?

Just straight, solid burn.

35 hours.

We'll leave at 9 o'clock.

Sorry, are you joking?

No, he's not joking, dude.

He's insane.

What?

We do this like twice a year.

Excuse me, are you taking amphetamines?

How do you do that?

I can't comment on that, but...

Do you want to be on the road in like Eastern Colorado

with this dude after he's been driving

for 24 hours straight?

Totally.

Like, yeah, monster energy.

Like a case of monster energy.

That's terrible.

That's terrifying.

I think we're solid because we make 11 hours.

He's like, yeah, we're going to go do 35.

11 is solid.

11 is 11.

With the whole crew.

Yeah, it's a long run.

But anyway, happy holidays.

Yes.

Thank you.

And we'll see.

We'll touch base when I get back.

I was going to ask if people had automotive adventures planned.

There it is.

There they are.

That's insane.

Well, good for you, man.

Godspeed.

Yeah, thank you.

Any car stuff planned for any of you?

Beck, you sold the white car since last time we talked.

That's right.

Sold the white car, so the 9-11's back at home now,

which is nice to have.

There's an air-cooled event happening for pre-stage

up at the Marin County.

Breck Club Rally.

Oh, Breck Club Rally.

Yeah, they do something else.

They theme pre-stage as their cars and coffee.

It happens once a month, and they usually have a theme

for each one, and they're doing an air-cooled one.

I think they're all trying to hold off on doing Porsche stuff

because everyone's always Porsche out.

So they picked the December one.

So we'll see.

I know it's going to possibly downpour rain,

but it might make it.

But yeah.

You should go take the green car.

I would like to.

I don't know if it even starts.

So should maybe try to find out.

Will the Rivian move?

Can I get it past the Rivian?

You want to jump it off of the Rivian?

No.

Rivian will get out of the way.

Maybe I will go.

Actually, no.

I'm going to be gone.

I'm going to be in San Luis Obispo.

So that's a bummer.

What about you, Randy?

Are you going to do any car stuff in Idaho?

I got to think about car stuff.

What is going on up there?

I mean, it's just trucks and snow,

but it's a little rain mixed with snow up there.

So we'll see what we get.

But I'll drive the 81 Toyota Sport Truck.

The blue one?

The blue-white stripes.

Yeah, yeah.

That's the Idaho rig.

I got to move that car a little bit around here.

Do you miss it when you're not around?

Don't call it a car.

Just don't call it a car.

Sorry.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Even though it is kind of short,

like it's a mini truck.

It's smaller than most cars.

That is kind of small and narrow.

What did you ask about that?

Do you miss driving it?

Like, are you looking forward to driving it?

I love it.

I got my little app I track with.

Let me tell you how many days it's been since I drove that.

Gosh.

Do you want to admit that?

Well, I mean, it's parked up there.

So I only get up there every so often.

But I bet it's been a hundred days since I've driven that.

Do you want to tender?

No.

It's going to be a crap shoot,

whether it starts or not.

Or you're going to have to jump it.

That one.

Many cars are like a, chances are it won't start.

That one.

I'm totally jinxing myself now.

But you roll up there and you hit the key and it goes.

Sick.

Yeah.

I put a fuel pump in it myself last time I was up there.

And it's good to go.

So anyway, what does that say?

Yeah, a hundred days.

Hundred days.

So anyway, I'll get that thing fired up,

see what happens.

But that's a great item up there.

We have some great ones of those live on the site.

Were you the one that introduced me to the Bros and SoCal

that are selling early Toyota pickups for?

No, I don't think so.

Like restored and nice.

Zach maybe was telling me about that anyway.

I looked them up, but they have a cool truck

or one truck like theirs live on BET right now.

So anyway, are we going to talk about the website ever?

Or are we just talking about like driving around the states?

What are we?

It's all part of it, man.

We should talk about the website.

It's all part of it.

Beck had a really interesting idea.

So we did two movie podcasts.

Randy, we talked about Bullet.

We talked about Fast and Furious.

And Beck pointed out that we missed a good opportunity

to talk about interesting examples of cars

that have been on the site that are either literal clones

of the movie cars, which we've listed some of,

or cars that are kind of similar adjacent to those.

Eleanor, does that word still make you sweat

when you're asleep?

People still sue in each other over Eleanor's?

It's all self.

The gates are open now, right?

You remember the early days, people were like legal letters.

You're not allowed to call it an Eleanor.

We've been contacted.

Oh my gosh.

I broke a few hearts.

And nobody even cares.

That's probably my 700th ranked favorite Mustang is Eleanor.

I totally agree with you.

You're talking about the gray one specifically.

Yes.

Not the yellow one.

The original.

Oh, they read the good call.

The reason why it's considered a character.

But no, I always just saw it.

It's so classic when people just fight over the thing

and you're like, take it.

Totally.

Sorry.

Give me a stock GT500.

Not to cause trouble on that.

But what movies are we talking about?

So one thing I was thinking of, I was like, oh God,

the Dom Charger thing from Fast and Furious

is clearly a bullet tribute,

which I'd never thought about till this afternoon.

No, it's not.

That's not why they picked that.

You don't think they picked?

The villain car in Bullet is like a awesome

68 Charger with a black striper on the back.

You don't think they picked the wheel standing?

Dom is just a dude.

You just wanted some huge motor drag car.

Motor drag.

You don't think it's a tribute?

No.

That's fascinating.

I don't think those are attached in any way at all.

You do?

I mean, we didn't talk about this

when we talked about Fast and Furious,

but the dude must have been thinking about,

well, because that is like an iconic villain car.

And it's like kind of the end scene.

And he's like framed as the villain.

It's interesting.

And he's a black Charger.

It's like, it's a 70 and the other one's a 68.

But I mean, come on.

It's got a big blower sticking out of the hood,

but other than that.

I know.

I'm going to say a hard no.

Hard no.

I'm going to say a hard no.

That was not a factor in the choosing of Dom's car.

You're saying a yes.

I don't know.

We should put it up for a popular.

How are those movies even?

Somebody cast that.

Distantly connected, right?

Maybe they did it without even thinking about it.

Like the black Charger is just so integrated

in society as the villain car.

Yeah.

But isn't that because of the bullet?

Yeah.

Because of the bullet.

Right?

Where it's the villain car.

See where you're going.

Do you know what I mean?

So like even if the guy did it subconsciously,

he's like, Oh, that's a bad guy car.

Yeah.

Well, big black Charger is a bad guy car,

but because of the bullet.

No.

Or because it's big.

Oh my God.

Like Darth Vader is a bad guy.

You know, I mean, it's just like a big black,

scary, whatever.

You know what I mean?

But it's a charger from the same period.

Like you could.

Anyway, I don't know.

It's interesting.

Food for thought.

It's an interesting concept.

Another car that immediately came to mind when Beck said

that is the 1600 Veloche bullet clone,

which is a car I think about often,

which was so good.

The Veloche 68 Charger.

Yes.

You and I talked about that a lot.

I sat in that car.

He brought that car to Lime Rock.

The first time I met the 1600 Veloche folks

for our alumni gathering, we did at Lime Rock Park.

Must have been 2017, 2018.

He brought that car.

Later sold it on the site and he's like,

that one's going to bring a lot of dough.

It's really nicely done.

And it was nicely done.

And he'd held onto it for a couple of years.

When did he sell it?

2023.

Here it is.

24.

July of 24.

And this car is choice.

It just had a lot of the bullet details right.

Had the right steering wheel, had a 390 in it,

was a proper 68, not a 67.

People doing 67 cars for a bullet drives me crazy personally.

Had the right wheels on it, right color.

I don't know if it was Factory Highland.

It may have been Factory Highland Green.

Anyway, very cool car.

What did he sell that for?

A bunch of dough.

113.

Yeah, 113.

Well, Alex brought up a good point that the bullet Mustang,

as far as movie cars that you'd be willing to be seen

driving in the wild.

But the bullet Mustang might be the best.

Not the fast and furious white Jetta.

Guess what?

I have Mark Frigenis pulled out.

I don't want it.

No, but I don't want that car.

Because you wouldn't, yeah, paper bag over your head

driving that movie car.

But no, Green Bullet Fastback.

I always wanted, it was more the old office.

It was a while ago.

But living in San Francisco, like just driving that around,

like going over to Roses in the marina

to get lunch or whatever.

And you pull up in a 68.

Freaking McQueen's Mustang.

I mean, that's pretty solid for being here where we are.

I think a lot of people drive.

D-Bagged Mustangs are not uncommon sight.

A what?

A D-Bagged Mustangs.

Like I've seen them in San Francisco specifically.

Meaning a 68 Fastback?

Or maybe not a 68 specifically,

but a Fastback Mustang with the badge taken off the front

is like a, I've seen it several times.

It's a thing.

Okay.

Man, I don't see many around,

but it'd be awesome too.

But like, I mean, obviously he had that in like

New York or whatever.

And that's kind of cool.

But like driving around Pack Heights is where it's

actually cool, right?

I've lived here for 18 years.

I never saw one like in the wild that looked like that.

Just cruising town, parked in the mission,

getting lunch or whatever.

Like somebody should be doing that.

Agreed.

And I've never done it.

I never pulled it off.

Yeah.

I kind of think that that's one of the very few

movie cars that you would just not feel like

an idiot driving around.

Correct.

There's so many.

I mean, do you even drive a White Testerosa

without like,

Yes.

Bringing awesome.

Maybe I'm just thinking of like a car in Miami.

Yes.

Oh, in Miami.

I think that's, I actually think that's up there

with the bullet Mustang in terms of like

driving around in a time machine is tough.

The DeLorean is rad, but if you have all the crap.

Or you're just in a DeLorean and you're like,

look at me.

I'm like, I'm like in the movie.

You're like, that's just a DeLorean.

Yeah.

And a DB5 Aston is a beautiful car,

but if you had a Silver,

you would almost want any color.

Silver.

Totally.

Yeah.

Because of the Db4s,

but I don't want to get one of the Silver ones

because everybody would be like,

it's the James Bond car.

Right.

And you're like,

I was thinking about that.

I was going to ask you guys,

I mean, did James Bond ruin the ability to drive

a Silver Aston Martin?

I mean, a fantastic car,

but how can anybody look at that car without thinking?

That's exactly what they want.

People want it.

Yeah.

On some level,

some people probably think that's desirable.

I'm DB4 all day long,

but I think a piece of that is because

like DB5 is two, it's two,

and I love those Bond movies and

Speaking of Mustangs,

that car came out and so did the 64 Mustangs,

64 and a half Mustang convertible also in that movie.

Dude, well done.

Nice pull on the driving through Switzerland

in the white convertible Mustang.

Yes.

With her,

though she has like the sniper rifle in the box.

And he shreds the rockers with his spinners.

Love it.

All of that is fantastic.

We argued in the thing,

Randy's might have to cover his ears.

I actually think this might be

the best looking Mustang period, the bullet.

Like it's just so good.

The little mods that he did do it are fantastic.

I mean, everybody talks about McQueen too much,

but did he speck the mods

or did some like production dude speck the mods?

Or did somebody else own the car?

Like it's unclear whether Soler owned the car.

I believe it was somebody else.

His choice is,

we got in a lot of trouble on that part

because all the people came out of the woodwork.

Really?

Let me tell you.

Was that in the comments?

We'd never seen more engagements on a hotbed.

Really?

Oh, I never read all the comments.

There's like 40 comments.

I'd love to know.

Who knows, right?

It had a Shelby steering wheel on it

and it had obviously torque thrusts

and it had blacked out rear panel

and it had like a bunch of cool stuff.

It is my understanding that that was him

and that they took the exhaust off also for sound

so it would sound better.

It didn't take the exhaust off.

It had black pipes out the back.

I think it's straight pipes, isn't it, Tyler?

Or no mufflers.

I've looked underneath the actual car.

I remember all the bracing,

but I can't remember mufflers or not.

I believe a lot of the mods that were aesthetic

that was his jam.

I mean, he was into that stuff.

Best Mustang of all time.

Okay, I'll give that one to you.

It's certainly up there.

I'll give that one to you.

There's some pretty nice ones.

Would that GT500 sell forward today?

Three Hundo.

I'm very keen on those.

Interestingly, similar to the Bond thing,

this is kind of rabbit-holing,

but 67, 68 Shelby.

I can't go green on those cars

because it feels like a fakie bullet.

Oh, interesting.

They're adjacent.

You know what I mean?

Aren't the taillights completely different though?

They're different.

The fiberglass is different.

Like a whole bunch is different,

but it's a 67, 68 Mustang.

If it's dark green,

like you're either going,

you can't just drive it.

It's stock.

It's a bullet.

You're going to get all the bullet talk.

So on that car, you got to go.

What about the, there's like a light...

I actually think so.

Anthony Sarah's car,

600 Village's car was lime gold.

And I think that's that light green

that's like a gut.

No, no, no, no, no.

Oh, it was stock.

Oh, stock was lime gold.

That was the original factory color

before they repainted at Highland

for the bullet tribute.

And that color is great on Shelby's,

but it's like a yellow green.

It's a totally different shade.

Light.

Yeah.

Let's get off of Mustangs.

We beat Mustangs to death.

What else are we going to talk about?

Well, the thing that got me excited

about this topic was we talked

on the Fast and Furious pod

about how GSX eclipses never come up.

They all got climbed down.

They are so unusual, aren't they?

Totally.

Eagle Talons.

We had one today.

We had one today,

a GSX that sold for like 17 grand.

And then I looked back

and while we were recording the podcast,

there was like the nicest one in the world,

a silver one,

and it sold for $63,000.

This is like last week.

What?

Yeah.

What miles?

Under 30.

No, like 68.

68,000 miles.

Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX.

Five-speed.

Silver.

I'd forgotten.

I don't really like that spec.

That's when they took the headlights dark.

Yeah.

Actually, they didn't really like it.

Look at it in profile.

It's a good-looking car.

People like those a lot.

That had big wheels right at the end of the run.

This is 99, so it's right at the end of the run.

They still made that car.

Oh, my gosh.

Did you also then see what the second highest selling?

The model page for the Eclipse Talon Laser

is a great model page.

Is it the Plymouth Laser?

The Plymouth Laser is the third one.

Yes, brother.

But the number two sold car

is specifically in the headline,

Fast and the Furious style.

Where did it goes?

That's what we all wanted.

A Talon clone.

That's specifically a Talon though, yes.

Fast and Furious was an Eclipse,

or that was not a Talon.

No, it was an Eclipse.

It was, yes.

TSI though, which means all-wheel drive.

Same spec in theory.

Although I opined after watching Fast and Furious,

they had like five of those built for the movie.

And I think quite a few of them were front-wheel drivers

because you can see underneath and a couple of them,

they don't have rear differentials.

Probably the ones they were going to jump and destroy.

And then like another thing,

Apropos like Zach rolled up yesterday in a Supra.

So I was thinking a lot about those.

That is a car from Fast and Furious

that I really got a launch from that movie.

And I've always been a little jaded about it.

Then sitting in Zach's yesterday,

I'm like, oh, this car is properly strange.

It's a weird car.

It really made me happy.

That was the first time I'd sat in one.

I really liked it.

Did you know how high the sill was stepping in?

His is on 98, I think.

98 Supra.

Yeah, big sill.

Big sill.

You like to jump in over.

Totally.

It's cool.

And the target top, which I never knew,

it's like bolted on.

You can't just take it off.

There's like a tool and a bunch of bolts.

The movie, it seemed like it was a quick release.

Oh, is that part of the move agency thing?

Yes.

But what's the space has able to hop off the big rig into the car

when he's all injured?

False bill of goods.

You're sold a false bill of goods.

Sorry.

But on on Eclipse's though,

the Eclipse model page is pretty fun to look at.

I love our plotter graphs.

And notably pre-COVID,

we never sold one for more than $10,000.

$10,000 is maximum sale.

They were probably kind of nice, too.

In fact, the best one had 73,000 miles.

So similar to the one we just sold for 63

and it sold for under 10K.

Look at that card.

It looks substantially the same to the one we just sold.

Silver with the same headlights that you were...

Yeah.

Lamenting.

Pismerging.

Pismerge slash lament.

Good word.

I lamented first, then I persp...

Good word.

That has a giant gap of two years.

No one listed one on the site.

And then during the sort of pandemic growth,

it starts to go and go and it's continued to grow upward.

It's an interesting model page for sure.

Plymouth.

What's the highest...

The highest Plymouth we've ever sold out of that group.

It's like peaked at 7 grand.

I forgot about the laser.

I always remember the talent.

The Plymouth not even dealer.

Peak laser, 6,000 mile example, 11 grand.

But that's not all-wheel drive.

Is that like a super low spec?

Really?

Click it.

Red and I want to see it.

Oh.

Same body style?

Look how...

That's not as swoopy, like the top...

A little bit early generation.

What year?

92.

Okay.

Wait earlier.

I would drive that car to work every day.

What do you drive?

I drive a Plymouth.

A laser.

No, but Plymouth.

You just stop.

You just say I drive a Plymouth.

Stop.

A super bird?

Did you bring the Plymouth today?

It's such a great answer because nobody...

My kids would be like, a what?

Oh, that happened in Sacramento.

A Studebaker lark rolled up and I was like,

to the guy, my son was like horrified.

I was like, hey, nice Studebaker.

And everyone was like, what is a Studebaker?

When did Plymouth stop making cars?

I can't remember the year.

Early 2000s?

Early 2000s.

Because there's the...

It's when they're building the prowler.

Because our prowlers...

Chrysler, Zan, Plymouth, don't they switch them?

Am I right about that?

Am I crazy?

I don't know.

There was a few brands that they shopped around.

But I think the prowler was both.

Gotcha.

I think a lot of people had the minivans back in the day, right?

Oh, heck yeah.

The white ones with the turquoise graphics on the side.

No, thank you.

Need wood.

I always more of a wood-tanneling connoisseur.

But yes, they made all that stuff.

The mark of every true Plymouth enthusiast.

Connoisseur.

Wood-tanneling on my cars.

On the exterior as well.

The environment in the factory back then building those,

like how many cigarettes were lit at once.

You know what I'm saying?

Oh my God, 100%.

The designers show up with the new model

and the executive with the cigars.

Not enough wood-tanneling.

I'm a connoisseur of wood-paneling.

I'm going to need some more velour.

Could be up our velour.

More vacuaries.

Yes, please.

Anyway, Plymouth.

Laser.

Man, we are round about today, aren't we?

I think Oldsmobile lasted longer than Plymouth

to keep the great American car.

Over and under.

Was that part of the L8 crash when they pulled back

a number of the brands?

Yeah.

I mean, a lot of these have been.

I want to say like nine ago.

Nine might have been the end of Oldsmobile.

Somebody listening to the podcast is just like,

don't you guys use AI?

You can answer all these questions in five seconds.

Instead of rambling about the demise of Oldsmobile.

This is authenticity.

This is real.

This is humanity.

Buick still exists.

That should be a good.

That's a great car, by the way.

That's debatable.

I take the under.

Buick actually doesn't exist in 2025.

I should have posed that as a question.

Does Buick exist currently?

You'll tell me that it exists and I will dispute that fact.

No.

Bersmerch the brand and say it actually does not.

It stopped existing.

It's just old inventory.

There's still some.

After that awesome.

Buick, Pierce Arrow,

Not sure for the century woody wagon that we sold from the 50s.

That was actually rad.

That was a rad Buick.

I'm aging into Buick appreciation.

Connoisseurship.

Rapidly.

Connoisseurship.

Rapidly.

Yeah.

I actually did.

I wasn't joking.

I did open our Jetta model page.

We've listed so few Jettas we don't have.

We don't have a lot of Jettas.

Mark III broken out.

No, it's not.

It's all.

So it's mainly it's like a lot of Mark II.

It's like GLIs.

God bless them.

I will not Bersmerch Jettas.

I actually like Jettas.

But what have we listed?

Mark III is very few of them.

The most recent Mark III was a 97 GLX VR65 speed.

So that's a good spec.

That is.

And people, yeah.

My sort of high school era drove that spec.

I also like from that spec the Trek Jetta.

You guys remember that addition?

It came with a mountain bike.

Oh yes.

It came with a rack and a mountain bike.

And it said Trek on the trunk lid.

And it was just a four cylinder model.

Didn't they do it K2 skis maybe?

Yeah.

There was a K2 Volkswagen co-lab.

But the Trek, here it is.

We got a Trek.

With a bike?

No, but this is a golf.

This is a different situation.

True.

But it's still the VW Trek brand.

Is it a Trek package?

Trek addition with the bike.

Yeah.

Okay.

Cool.

I remember the Jettas more than the golfs.

But yeah, that's it, man.

That was hot stuff back then.

What are we talking 98?

So we have listed a Jesse-esque turbocharged 97 Mark III.

Was Jesse-esque in the headline?

But that's got to be fast and furious inspired, right?

It just needs some good graphics.

He did.

This guy probably did at some point and then recommended that they were removed for the

auction.

His HOA said, please remove.

Does it have a little reminder saying, like, don't hit your nose too early?

Totally.

I was a little bit shouted down during the podcast for arguing that S2000 was not

a very good drag racer, not a great platform for drag racing.

As an owner, you were actually an owner.

I love the wonderful car, like drag racing, like that car.

What do you do if you are in a life or death drag race moment in an S2000?

You rev it to, like, 9,000 and just dump the clutch.

Yeah.

I think that's it.

It probably hooks right up.

You try to drive.

I mean, what do those cars have for power under 3,000 rpm?

I think they're 150 pound feet of torque at, like, 8,000 rpm.

But not till then.

No, nothing.

But you're freaking them.

But how do you drag race a car that needs revs?

You do Johnny Tran and you put $100,000 underneath the hood.

That's the problem.

We don't know.

We don't know what he is.

That's the answer.

Now we're talking.

$100,000 under the hood.

We'll get you anywhere.

Okay.

One last data point list.

You guys have more R33 Skyline, my favorite car from Fast & Furious.

We have listed 100 R33 Skylines, the kind of unloved.

That's on the bull market list this year already.

Gosh.

But that's crazy.

Isn't that surprising?

100 R33 Skylines are 98.

Isn't that amazing?

I like them a lot.

They're actually kind of my favorite.

Partly because they're unloved, I think.

Notably.

They're pretty flat.

They've not actually sort of...

They're not loved.

Oh, Haggard is Haggard.

I don't know if they're looking at that.

Yeah.

We actually have data to say whether it's bullish or not.

But 100 data points I think is super interesting.

Maybe those, I don't know.

We think those are going to catch fire and people are going to jump into the R33

market.

I would imagine.

It's sort of a little bit of a...

I don't know.

It's like one model off the model you want, right?

Everyone wants the original R33.

That inventory comes to the US.

I would imagine demand for this.

I think these were super interesting when that was the 25-year model.

It was the only one you could get and it was super cool.

Sure.

But I don't know.

Why am I talking about Skylines?

I don't know that much about Skylines.

But it always seemed like...

You're like, oh, please be an R34.

Okay, it's an R33.

You know what I mean?

Isn't it a little bit of that?

But you get a big discount on that, right?

What's the price range?

No, they're way cheaper.

I mean, you can buy nice ones for like...

Nice ones are in the 80s.

Yeah, 80 grand.

Less than that.

You buy nice ones for like...

I mean, they look cool.

I think they look cool going down the road.

But I've never been like the super Skyline buyer.

Pre-drifting, I always liked the second generation 240SX that came here,

which has a similar body.

Remember those?

Yes.

They're like the 95 to 98s or whatever they are.

Really like those rear-wheel drive.

Any of those original anymore?

Didn't we list one that was original?

And everybody's like, wow, I haven't seen like a non-drift spec in forever.

Totally.

It's very, very rare that they're not super beat up.

I think it's S13s and S14s.

They were just cool because they had rear-drive.

Look at them down there.

They're all modded out.

Look at the bolt-on plastic flares.

There was a few stockers.

Drift missile, Randy.

Is that what we call them?

No.

I don't know.

That's not in my vernacular.

I don't know what that means.

People do use that term.

Okay.

It's the words drift missile.

We should put that in the title of a listing.

It's a category.

It should be a category specifically.

Okay.

Great.

Any other movie cars that you were thinking of, Beck, that brought this idea to the

front of your mind?

I mean, the Supra was probably the first one that came to mind just because the actual

movie car came to market a couple of years ago.

I got a lot of headlines for it.

That's when I obviously, I think a lot of us realize that, oh, the movie car is

unautomatic and is kind of crappy, but that's not what matters really.

Whereas Supra's definitely post-pandemic have just been breaking record numbers one by one by one.

That's the first one I thought of.

Clearly the generational turn has happened where people who were raised off the movie

now have the funds to buy that car or at least something similar to it.

Whereas for the bullet, that in theory could have happened a long time ago.

It was on 60 seconds with the Eleanor builds back in the 90s and the 2000s as well.

So seeing that sort of generational cyclical nature kind of happened, like the Supra's

it for now.

And to be curious to see, like, what is it from the then mid to later 2000s that,

like, what's that car going to be coming around to?

They're always asking, Randy, what is it?

What's the next thing?

Every time you're doing press, buddy.

What's your bull market?

Our EVs collectible.

Model Y Tesla.

Our Model Ys collectible.

I'm like, how, like this is a short interview.

Can I just say no interviews over?

Yeah.

Anyway, there's funny.

We've celebrated some Supra moments in the office though, because we've seen some

really well, we've seen a couple sell over $200,000 on BAT.

And I remember thinking when they were first, I mean, like, I've basically been

working here for the whole time that rise has been happening.

And I remember when we sold the first one for like 130K or whatever,

and we were like, that's insane.

And now that's a common place.

But clearly also with Supras, there was some speculation when they were

sort of like with 3000 GT4s, that we've had a few of those with ultra low

miles, whereas like eclipses, right?

Nobody's speculated on those.

And so there aren't low mileage examples.

But with Supras seems like every few months, another five digit odometer

Supra comes across the table, which was not really the case

for a lot of the Japanese sports cars.

We need to branch out away from too fast, too furious and bullet.

You guys already had podcasts on both of those.

We need to branch to some other movie frames.

What you got?

Other cars.

This is live on the site right now.

Oh, yeah.

I know that one now.

And it's a pale yellow Packard convertible.

Is that Doc Brown's car?

And Doc Brown had one of these.

And Marty Barda to take it to the enchantment under the sea dam.

And the actual one sold via, I think it was a Bonham's auction

many years ago, and I really wish I would have bought it

because to have the actual car would be incredible.

But anyway, we have a very, very similar one.

1948 Packard on the site right now.

Current bid is at 16 Gs, five days left.

Vintage motor cars, USA out of Ohio is selling it.

But that's the car.

Those are fantastic.

Or at least very similar to the car.

It's the same color and it's avert and everything.

I saw a sedan on the highway on my way driving the Ferrari back.

Which is a weird thing to see.

Those are kind of a weird era.

They've got kind of enclosed fenders.

They're like envelope bodied.

Yes.

I've ridden in one in Hanford, California.

Really?

And they are smooth and they are just a different era, man.

Different era.

So anyway, there's that, not to drag us into Back to the Future

and talking about black Toyota pickup trucks

that everybody puts BTTF license plates on

and whatever else in KC lights.

But let's go to some other movie franchise.

Wait, was there a black pickup truck that just went nuts?

There was a black.

We've sold a number of ones that lean hard into the Back to the Future

Statler Toyota in Hill Valley.

Hill Valley.

Lion Estates.

Yeah.

Pulling into Lion Estates.

Hot.

Anyway, what other movie?

Beck, you got something on your mind.

What other movie are you thinking about?

Well, I'm sticking on Back to the Future.

Biffs for Deluxe Convertible.

You can buy as a hot wheel now.

Oh, really?

It comes with removable manure.

It does it.

47 Ford?

46 Ford.

And it comes with, it's removable.

So it doesn't have to be that all the time,

but you can pop it off the top.

I may or may not own it.

You should own it.

That's terrific.

I also love those cars.

I've been trying to see if I can find the cars of Back to the Future,

because I have the Delorean of every version,

but then trying to find, like,

that vehicle would be great to find,

but like Hot Wheels is never going to make it.

Packard.

I'm sorry.

Packard.

Jennifer's dad picks her up in an AMC Eagle wagon.

He does.

That's correct.

Wait, really?

I didn't even remember that.

Jennifer.

And I found that exact car as a Hot Wheel.

It wasn't like a special edition.

I think it just happened to just make it,

and it had to have it.

So it's part of my little best.

Doc, I got a life.

I got a girl.

He says, is she pretty?

He says, she's beautiful.

That's the second AMC Eagle conversation we've had.

It does in threes, dude.

It's coming again.

AMC Eagles are following us around today.

This is the truck I'm talking about.

You didn't see this?

Oh, I did see that.

That's not back to the future at all.

No, but it is.

But did it go big?

It's 54 grand.

And it sold for a 92.

We were debating the reserve to allow on that truck

because he walked in.

Oh, interesting.

A monster reserve, and we're like,

is this thing going to bid to 50 grand?

But I think he may have wanted even more.

But it was a clip step.

And it was a very, because it has no miles, right?

6,000 miles.

No mile truck.

This is similar to your red pickup truck

that you used to have.

But maxed out on 35.

Yes, totally.

Crazy.

But anyway, OK, so a little back to the future.

Beck, I didn't know you were going that deep on that.

I love that.

Removable manure.

No, I mean, good.

What's the name of the car?

When you're talking about the future

and you get to like Jennifer's dad's car,

like that's pretty far.

I also like, I mean, George McFly version 2.0

when he has the BMW and is playing tennis

and it's getting detailed by bit.

Is a, no, 740iL.

740iL?

Or is it a 50?

I think it's a 1233, but possibly.

Oh, OK.

I forget which.

It's like that blue-gray color, isn't it?

It had to be an 85, right?

That's when the blue was.

Second coat of wax?

Yeah.

I was just getting started.

Just getting started.

Get away.

Bip.

Now, Bip.

Would you lie to me?

He has a top-grade color.

What are you doing?

Don't you lie to me.

It is an 84, 733.

84, 733.

Good call.

The punch that changed the world.

That's right.

Period.

Cars would be interesting.

The obscure background car that always comes to my mind is

it's Ferris's dad's Audi, which is so good in Ferris Bueller.

In Bueller?

Yeah.

I mean that driveway moment, right?

With the Audi and the white Fiero and whatever mom drove.

He's like, listen.

Mom drove like an Aries wagon.

If I'm not mistaken.

Oh, I think you're right.

She was a real estate agent.

And I think she drove like a K car.

And sister's in a Fiero, right?

Talk about being bored under a bedside.

Totally.

So anyway, those are some movie cars.

Have we sold a white Fiero 2M4 automatic with no body kit on it?

Yeah.

It is like a sleeper.

Sleepy spec.

That is a cool car.

What an amazing high school car to get a Fiero.

Anyway, what else?

We got two movie cars at least live right now that I've

kind of been following.

We've got the monster car from Death Race 2000.

It's a recreation.

What is that?

With the fangs on the front.

Wow.

We have that on our website right now.

This is live right now.

That's your website, Randy.

Is that a built Randy?

Wow.

Is that a?

What is that car though?

The Fiber Fab?

Oh, it could be a Fiber Fab.

No, I think that's what it is.

Wow.

Are you familiar with that?

Yeah.

The headlights look just like.

It doesn't look like, it doesn't say if it's a Fiber Fab though,

but the headlights do look like that.

Okay.

That's kind of vetted.

It's kind of C4 vetted.

Kind of a fun one.

Okay, cool.

Thanks for calling that out.

I didn't know we had that at all.

Other kind of neat one is this little Carter Brothers

Mini Monster Jurassic Park Jeep.

Oh, he made it a Jurassic.

Velociraptor.

Not dinosaur.

Velociraptor.

Actual live.

Current live.

This one's live right now.

I mean, is the animal alive?

Oh, no.

No, that's a statue.

They did not, they didn't recreate using frog DNA.

Velociraptor.

Who's that?

Gold blooms?

The seller?

Pull off your butt.

Wait, who's the seller?

Jay Goldbloom.

Anyway.

Kind of a fun one though, right in time for that.

So that begs a good question.

First of all, that's amazing that we have those two crazy

vehicles on right now while we're talking about this.

And also, I actually respect the car show pull-up in the

Jurassic Park Explorer.

Yes.

People have done that.

Shout out to our colleague Ryan Glass, who has one.

Does he have one?

He either had or preferred the Jeep though.

I actually think it's, I mean, it's pretty solid when somebody

pulls up in one of those.

I don't know that I want to be that person or own that vehicle,

but when they pull up, you're like, yeah, okay, I get it.

I'm with you.

It's a good movie.

And okay, cool.

But it made my love for the Sahara Square Headlight low door

option.

Like that seals, for me, that seals like that's the Jeep to

have.

Is that the pull off the glasses?

Yes.

Beamed?

No.

Right?

He pulls up no top and he pulls down his glasses.

Totally.

This is one of Spielberg's heights.

Totally.

I forget what that actor is saying.

We have Sam Neil.

Sam Neil.

Do we have a good Sahara?

Yeah.

Gorton 95 Sahara 4.0.

And it's in kind of that, not that real dark tan, but like

a kind of a light beige.

I call it Sahara beige.

I was so upset about the square headlight Jeeps when

they came out in 87 and replaced the CJ.

I was absolutely devastated.

Like I couldn't leave the house.

I was like, I was 10 years old.

You just watched Jurassic Park.

I was 10 years old and I was like, the world is over.

Christ of corporation, Leigh Iacocca, you have ruined

the universe.

And now like one of those looks like a classic old

car.

They're cool.

Obviously they went back to circular, but the

square era, I was like, it's the end of the

world.

Oh God.

I remember they were hated for a long time.

Oh man.

People really did not like them.

Couldn't handle it.

Explorer is the thing.

I think it's the big glass roof in the explorers, right?

So the T-Rex can come down.

Is that right?

Did they have a big?

I don't know.

I think that was a modification.

Of course it was a modification, but isn't that

part of the Jurassic?

Correct.

The Lord.

Whether you're committed to the movie prop.

Yeah.

The oldest whether you install the glass roof.

And you have the goggles.

Right.

The night vision goggles.

That's right.

We did sell one that with night vision goggles.

I'm sure people go on the time machines.

People go insane.

They do the Nike shoes and the hoverboard and all of that.

But they try to find like, oh, this, you know,

because the top makers made them and they're like,

oh, they made the flux capacitor out of like this model

of a P-51 Mustang and they broke the wings off to,

you know, like that kind of stuff.

They try to find the original components to make the

rebuilds of them.

The Mr. Coffee for the Part 2 car.

Totally.

Or the hubcaps.

Mr. Fusion.

Is that what it's called?

Mr. Fusion.

Banana peel and the Miller High Life that he like pours.

He pours it.

He pours it and he throws it in.

It's one of the greatest moves.

My mom used to drive kids.

Our 83 GTI to 88.

When I was a little kid, it's riding in the front seat

in a car seat, which would never be allowed.

Now she would go 88 to terrify me because I thought

we were going to go back in time when I was like

five years old.

I haven't thought about that in a long time.

Yeah.

Watching that needle like swing up, just like in the

movie which you could tell it was like on jack stands.

Because the way the needle goes up is like way faster than the car would ever go up.

You're like, wait, that's not real at all.

Anyway, some funny stuff.

And it was funny stuff.

Spedometer as well.

Because at the time, the Spedometer would have only gone to 85 miles an hour.

Oh, 75.

Is that right?

They made a 95 mile an hour sticker.

Is that right?

And in fact, if you go to the Peterson and see the original car, you can actually

see, literally, the sticker on the Spedometer is peeling off.

They made a sticker on it.

Interesting.

Wow.

That knows things.

Back in the future, a car movie?

Yes.

That was fast.

It has car elements.

And I mean, the Delorean is a central figure, right?

Talk to me.

As is a Volkswagen Bay window bus.

Correct.

Yes.

That's right.

The Libyans.

Run for it.

Run for it, Marty.

Run for money.

Run for it, Marty.

It came with a bazooka.

They were like the rocket launcher.

All of it.

It's so good.

All of it.

All of the other quick shout outs.

Very good airplane listing live on the site right now.

It's probably one of the best ones I've ever done.

Airplane the movie.

Are we going down that rabbit hole?

Yeah.

Is that a car movie?

Everything's a car movie.

Yeah.

If you look at it, right?

Unless it's Star Wars.

We have three auctions live in the aircraft category.

Two of them are...

Tables.

Automobilia.

Tables with no engines.

Two of them are immobile.

But still...

Three of them, maybe.

No, no, no.

The Grumman is very mobile.

Highly mobile.

Grumman.

It's a Grumman.

Okay.

I actually watched...

Very good listing.

Interestingly, I actually watched...

What a good-looking listing.

Jason Camisa's video on the mail truck.

Have you watched that?

Oh, yes.

Oh, those are Grummans, right?

It was quite enjoyable.

And it was about Grumman because they made it.

And I think he gave a hat tip.

He's like, they also made the F-14.

And I was like, that's pretty solid.

It's like a good resume.

They made a few other vehicles that were decent.

Totally.

But anyway, Grumman.

So that plane that we listed is a Grumman airplane.

It is.

It actually was designed by somebody else.

But Grumman bought the company that designed this.

And Grumman famously...

Now I'm going to go watch Camisa's thing.

You recommended his turbo thing, which I went and watched.

I got a little bored at the modern turbos.

But watching the Galpin-plated 930 Turbo Carrera run around was awesome.

That was a great car.

Fantastic.

Grumman famously built Navy planes because they were really sturdy.

They could slam into a carrier deck.

F-14, but they built all the famous World War II.

I'm a naval aviator.

Yeah, that's correct.

Is that a car movie?

That's right.

Was that a rap or was that a speedster?

It was a rap.

It's a rap, but also the bike.

Okay.

So do you know that in San Diego...

It's actually in North San Diego.

It's not like where the movie claims to be filmed.

Where Charlie's house was.

That's that little...

It's Carl's bed, isn't it?

Yeah.

I think it's up in Carl's bed.

There's like a display in front of the house right now with a Kawasaki Ninja.

Oh, really?

And a son...

A buddy sent me a picture.

He went by it.

He's like, did you know that this house is like museum-ified?

Is it a display?

No.

There's a ninja.

Yeah.

You're down with that.

And then there's a sign that says this was Commander, whatever her name was, in the movie

Charlie.

I mean, her...

She's not military.

You do not salute her.

She's good named Charlie, but I forget her name.

You can lose her shower, but you can't salute her.

No, she can't.

He doesn't get to.

So anyway.

Oh, my trip to Legoland.

I know my deviation.

No, yeah, but that house is still there and it's surrounded by a bunch of condos and

stuff.

It's such a...

Dude, did you know this is here?

I did not.

And I was like in Chute, and we were in San Diego recently, but it's way up north.

We couldn't go see it because it was so far away.

That house is so sick.

I think about it all the time.

It's right on the beach.

And then they try to recreate it in the second top gun with Jennifer Caudley's house,

which looks like...

Yeah, it's kind of similar.

It's kind of the same angle.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Anyway, what other cars are in that?

I mean, obviously they...

It's the bike in the 356.

In the 356.

Yeah.

That's about it.

There's a Resto Mod Bronco in the second one.

That's about it, too.

I had Porsche 911 in.

Jennifer Caudley's car.

Jennifer Caudley's car, yeah.

Yeah.

And they have the old and new motorcycles, but...

Oh, yeah.

Well, no, Caudley's driving a 911 S.

Yeah, I know.

It's so sick.

I know, but I was like, why did they bring that in?

What's going on?

Because with that car, Jennifer Caudley, it's a 10 out of 10.

It's fantastic.

They're at the Inyo Kern Airport, where I kind of started learning how to fly.

My airplane used to sit in that same hangar with the 251 as in.

Wow.

Look at you.

I know.

So anyway, dragging another franchise into the conversation.

All right.

When we think about these movies and movie cars, it's like, you know, bullets doesn't have a ton

to do with cars, but there's so many cars to watch in the background.

So that's why you would say definitively.

And an inspired car love.

That's why I call Back to the Future a car film, because it was inspirational for me and

my appreciation of cars.

Do you want a DeLorean?

100%.

Oh, interesting.

You should totally have a DeLorean.

It's on the list.

They're really pretty.

Manual or auto?

Oh, manual.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

They're a pile of crap.

Well, I think actually the real movie is an LS powered DeLorean.

That's really what you have.

Because the sound when you're listening to the movie, that's definitely like a V8 rumble.

Not a Pujo.

It's not a Pujo.

2.7.

140 horsepower.

130 if you're lucky.

130.

This pod is way too short to be able to talk about all the car movies because we could

go, I mean, we could go Bond movie by Bond movie by Bond movie.

Oh, totally.

All the toers.

We talked Bond movie earlier today because the guy who designed this Grumman that's

on the site, the airplane is the guy who designed the BD-10, the little jet that comes

out of the horse's butt and Roger Moore, allegedly Roger Moore, but a real stump, I flew it through

a hanger.

It's one of the best stunts.

That's a weird sentence for anybody who hasn't seen the movie, but I do know what

you're talking about.

Literally what happens?

It comes out of a horse's butt and flies through a hanger and Roger Moore allegedly

is the one doing that.

Not a young Roger Moore.

I think that might be...

Who writes these things?

That might be the San Francisco one with the blimp and Zora and industries.

Is it Zora?

I don't have time to kill it.

Yes.

Very good.

Well, thank you for doing this boys and Merry Christmas to all of you and just a quick

shout out and appreciation to our community for a wonderful year, Randy.

We talked to the staff today about what a great year it was and a big part of that

is made possible by all of our folks, all the people on the website.

Absolutely.

This year, 2025, BAT is rocking and rolling and there's still almost how many hundreds and

hundreds and hundreds of cars live?

We were like 900 auctions live today.

Right now, headed into Christmas week.

So we appreciate everybody.

Yeah, listing cars, selling cars, commenting.

I'm just going to reiterate because people always bring it up, but people are always

like, you don't buy cars here.

How are you commenting here?

Some of the best and favorite commenters are people that in 20, almost 20 years

of BAT have never bought a car on the platform.

So anyway, I encourage interaction and engagement with everybody and some

of the best experts have their own car at home and may or may not ever be a buyer

or seller, but they are awesome.

So keep at it.

Give us some comments on this podcast.

Have you got other movies we ought to talk about or review in depth?

I know we have a movie review team now.

Days of Thunder, dude.

We need to get you in for Days of Thunder.

Mellow Yellow Lumina.

I am ready for some rock and two ball.

That is a car movie.

Revan is racing.

So anyway, just appreciate being here and appreciate you guys.

Appreciate all of you guys too.

Big shout out to you all.

Big shout out to all of our staff.

We're going to go down and have a little Christmas party, so that'll be fun.

Shout out to everyone in the community.

Thanks to everyone for listening to the podcast as always.

Have a merry Christmas and we'll catch you next time.

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