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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the Bring a Trailer podcast.
My name is Alex Porter.
And on today's episode, I am joined by Randy Howard and Zach, the original crew
to discuss our recent event in Palm Springs.
We had a lot of fun out there.
And we also talk about favorite listings that have been on the website recently.
Hope you enjoy the episode.
And thanks as always to our producer, Chris Baxter.
The Bring a Trailer podcast.
Fresh off Palm Springs, beautiful weather.
Fresh off 50 employees downstairs, which has been lively.
Great stuff.
You drove Supra to Riverside, Zach.
Where did you, you came straight from the Bay Area in that?
I drove my Supra.
I was afraid of the weather going over the grapevine because California
actually had a rare moment of snow.
So I took one on one down, which is super beautiful.
Hit the largest tumbleweed I've ever seen in my life, which exploded everywhere.
Thankfully, didn't damage the car.
Where was that?
It was north or south of Santa Barbara.
North of Santa Barbara.
Okay.
Did you drive through that in the Rivian?
I drove that whole route.
Was it super windy?
Yeah, we had crazy weather and then it was clear and there was snow on the mountains
going through Salinas, which is the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life.
I saw that from the I-5 side.
I was like, there's snow in the coastal range right now.
So that was wild.
And then I got down to the sort of narrows before you pop out of Galeta
towards Santa Barbara.
It was windy.
It was crazy.
I actually saw a guy on a motorcycle in front of me, almost low side.
It was an insane catch.
I was right behind him, giving him plenty of space because it was super windy
and kind of sketch and he's leaned over and a left hand sweeper and then the
bike just slips and he was going slow enough.
He's probably going 20.
He puts his leg down and kicks it back up and then immediately pulled over.
And I was like, oh, little Rossy save there.
Nice.
Yeah, it was insane on a KLR with a basket on the back.
That was like the Solvang area, like through there, like Beulton.
Yes.
Wow.
Yeah, that was ridiculous.
Then I ran into a Mark V Supra on the freeway.
Whoa.
He was losing his mind.
Losing his mind.
He pulling up next week, Paul King video and then he kept trying to he kept
dropping a gear and trying to do polls.
And I was finally like, all right, all right.
And then we did a bunch of polls through downtown LA.
So that was great.
And then on the drive back, I drove up through Mojave again
to avoid the five on the way back.
And I'm about to get on the freeway connecting through Mojave.
I'm in a Boulevard with a median, a concrete median.
And I just hear someone screaming on the other side of the road
from my car with the windows up and I look over and there's a guy in a
wrapped four series and he's losing his mind about the Supra.
We're going different ways.
And then I look in my mirror and he's flying up behind me.
He did a U-turn just to follow me in the Supra.
And he's videoing the entire time on his phone.
I'm like, you're never going to watch this.
It's like the most boring iPhone video you could ever record.
So anyway, all that's to say, it's a magnet for male attention.
That's amazing.
Speaking of iPhone videos, you'll never watch.
Like you said, we're at Disney.
Maybe you experienced this when you were there, Randy, too.
I haven't been in a decade.
All these people are on the rides and they're just have their phone up the whole time.
And then you get your photo of a roller coaster and it's just a chick
with like a phone in front of her face.
I'm like, why did you even go off this ride?
Like you're going to watch this video of you going on Space Mountain.
It's all dark.
Like, what are you doing?
I was like, this is horrible.
You're ruining my experience.
It's so bad.
Sorry to hear.
It sounds about right, though.
I mean, it happens at kid performances, too.
I'm like, just watch your child perform.
Are you going to watch this dim video of your child doing a terrible
like some video product is poor?
The output is poor.
But are they self-cammering themselves on ride?
Or they want the they have one of you looking forward.
They have it up the whole time.
Like in front of her.
But are they? Yeah.
But is it them on the video or is it the the look out of the elephant ride?
Randy, I can't tell you what you can.
You are thinking.
I think it's one toggle to selfie and then back to perform.
OK, I got you. I got you.
That's an important distinction.
Is it? Is it an important distinction?
Look here, I have it on the car's radiator sprigs.
Look at this lady. Oh, that one.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Yeah, she's so bored by the ride.
She's just a splash, the photo of Splash Mountain that you get down
and you see at the end and everybody's got their phone up.
Yeah, that's kind of a bummer.
Also, if you told me that photo was from 1997, have you like sure?
Yeah, for sure. That camera is probably from 1997.
Looks like it.
Disney has a lot of vehicle themed stuff.
There was that cars ride, which is like side by side,
NASCAR style racing.
I'd forgotten how many vehicles and vehicle themed things are there.
Walt Disney loved a steam engine.
He loved a car.
He loved it all sub with OEM sponsorship or no OEM on
Autopia powered by Honda.
They had to like, I didn't know this.
They have Honda H's on all the cars.
Yeah, cool. Yeah.
Because they are a little Honda lawnmower engine in them now.
Yeah, they're a little forced to.
They're about to be all electric,
which is really going to ruin the vibe there because it smells like oil and everything.
Yeah, it's always smelled like a mower.
But did you know the early ones looked like you see two Corvette?
And they didn't have cooler.
They didn't have tracks and someone flew off.
And no bumpers.
So they're on the like mark eight or something,
but they went through mark one through six in like 10 years
because the cars got destroyed so fast.
No bumpers and no guide rails.
And they were two strokes originally,
which would have made it extra fumigated.
I was reading a little bit about the history
and that ride was built before the US interstate system.
So they didn't really know what Eisenhower's freeway system was going to look like.
And it was built kind of to promote the idea of let's build roads
to connect America and teach everyone how to drive.
I didn't realize it was propaganda.
It's totally, totally.
It's Ikeganda.
So how is the current iteration?
We went on towards one of the few rides we went on twice
because Enzo loved it so much.
He can't reach the gas pedal.
So I had to do that, but he was loving it.
Awesome.
Loving driving it.
It was amazing.
And then how did it compare to driving your 308?
30 is a little bit better.
I told you guys all I was going to bring that car.
And then I kind of cooked up a way to have it very briefly.
And boy, did I enjoy it.
You drove it a little bit.
What did you think?
I did drive it.
I'm still wrapping my head around it.
The seating position is hilarious.
Like if you're remotely sleepy, it's game over in that car.
The sun beating down.
You're already in a lounge chair, just four legs up.
And yours in particular, the seat doesn't move,
which is pretty hilarious.
But yeah, once you figure it out and relax into it, it's not too hard.
Your gearbox feels fantastic.
I mean, the paint on your car is really nice.
All the quirks in the interior, like the blue needles
and those two little gauges to the left of your hand
and how you open the door.
All that feels pretty special.
Sounds great.
Looks cool.
Howard was riding around a little bit.
I was his airport shuttle.
I also love the toggle switch gear.
It's so good.
I guess your car is AC.
Was that an option or did they all have AC?
I don't know if they all had it or not.
A lot of them do.
Where did you put your bag?
They picked me up at the rental car spot at.
Cars tiny.
The airport.
I was like, there's no way there's any room for this.
But the little compartment behind the engine is perfect.
It might carry on my laptop.
Yeah, they can hold two roller bags.
Surprisingly accommodating.
It's like the NSX.
It's behind the motor.
The front doesn't hold anything.
So the trunk is behind the engine.
Like out over the, it gets hot.
It's over the muffler.
You can comfortably fit two carry-on bags back.
Correct.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're cross country in it.
Carlin, that's awesome.
Yeah.
There were what, two testaroses there and your 308.
That was the Ferrari rep.
Yeah, and then some new stuff.
There was the white, I don't even know what that was.
Zacca 488 that was parked up by our partner's compass collective.
I didn't even see it.
I was in the tent the whole time.
Yeah, the time I ventured out, the event had basically ended.
You, white Supra, me, white Ferrari, Howard Airplane,
you, white Rivian with sun and also central coast.
Yes.
I was actually in a white Nissan Rogue.
Oh, that's right.
Sorry.
That's right.
Tell us a little bit about your trip, Randy.
I actually didn't really get to catch up with you
about your whole kind of adventure getting down there.
I talked to Ray a little bit to your side.
We just ventured southward because there was no snow to ski on.
So we headed for the desert.
I got to come to the BAT event, which I was stoked about.
And it was really funny because I rolled in there
and there were some guys that showed up and they're like,
oh, we came to see you.
And I was like, I wasn't even going to be here until 24 hours ago.
So you were about to be real disappointed.
But yeah, some fun old colleagues of mine showed up
and people that are in Palm Springs.
But where did you guys hear people coming from?
Like, I had a guy drove up from San Diego.
I had a guy came from Huntington Beach.
Yeah, some more of Orange County.
Santa Monica.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Shout out to P.K.
He rolled his E9 BMW.
That's right.
From Orange County.
I mean, all these people came from a long way away.
I was actually pretty surprised.
There's a Vancouver.
That might be the winner.
Yeah, I talked to so many people from Washington.
Whoa.
They're like, Palm Springs is our Florida.
It's like, well, slow down there.
But I probably talked to at least six different people
from Washington that split time.
And they're like, I'm so thrilled.
Timing worked out for this.
This is so great.
Wow.
That's great.
That's really exciting.
So anyway, the people I was talking about
like came for the event.
They like drove the morning up to get there
and then turned around from the event and drove home.
Yeah, a couple of the people that were LA, like even West Side,
I was like, so where are you staying tonight?
They're like, no, I'm driving back.
I was like, whoa.
OK.
Oh, that was me, Alex.
I know.
You guys, all three of you left that afternoon,
which was just frustrated.
Yeah, we shot north.
But it was great to be there.
A ton of fun.
Got to pop through LA and then got to do Palm Springs.
Palm Springs is great.
It's the best.
And it was one of those moments right after a storm.
It was all clear and cool, but there was snow on the mountains.
And it was summer, but there's snow on the mountains.
It's a really weird vibe there.
So just for context, for listeners, this was in an old,
it was in an abandoned golf course,
which is a really unique venue for us.
Did you guys like that?
By the way, it was a really interesting place, right?
I thought it was cool.
The trees lining the entryway were really beautiful
and unique to that space in Palm Springs.
The entry was the coolest part.
The palm line drive of cars coming in.
And I know you were guarding it, Alex.
I don't know if you guys had to manage the people rolling in.
There were a couple of times where I was me by myself.
And I was like, oh, my God, stemming the tide.
And I was like, hollering like, back, how many spots over there?
Zayman, how many spots were there?
And sometimes we're none.
I was just amazed at how people kept rolling in.
It started at nine.
I got there shortly before that, but the flow was until 1030.
Yeah, the flow started at seven.
So like there was a huge rush before,
strangely not much at nine when it was supposed to start.
And then kind of a constant stream till about 11.
Yeah, it was wild.
And a tremendous number of spectator cars,
which we've never seen before, but like maybe even 50-50.
A lot of people were just coming to see the car show,
which was really interesting.
And event was maybe a little unique for us
in that there was no other event going on.
We didn't piggyback on anyone else's deal.
Even, yeah, it was at a total abandoned site.
So it wasn't, you know, the Lars Anderson Museum,
that's open to the public.
So for a lot of these things, we don't know who's going to show up,
but this was definitely a success.
Yeah, a lot of people told me they were locals
and had never been to this place before.
And so it was interesting even for local people to go to this golf course
that was built on sand dunes that is now a nature conservancy, we should say.
And they just have the clubhouse and all these parking spots.
Like, I think we counted 300 places to park cars,
and I was like, I hope we get about 300.
And we got more than that because we definitely had to turn people around.
299 because we had to make space for the Gullwing doors and the C6 Corvette.
I saw that.
So what was that car?
You gave him a great parking spot, too.
He was associated with Compass, I think.
Prototype.
Like GM built that car?
I thought that was some sort of body kit.
No, I think it might be a prototype for those doors
retrofitting on a C6 Corvette.
OK, OK.
They were associated with Compass, I think, with Compass.
Oh, that was a weird car.
I walked by that.
I didn't fully understand what was going on with that car.
Yeah, I heard them mentioned it the day before and I was like,
those cars are all Targas. How's that going to work?
Somebody had to fix the roof in place.
And then there was some major assemblage required to do that.
And then I only briefly, because I was just kind of stuck
in front of that driveway all morning.
I didn't have a chance to walk around and look at the cars at all.
I'm curious if you guys did.
Sounds like you maybe did not.
But I did look over one time and see it was red.
I saw the doors up, which was interesting.
Similar to the Diablo Zach, good Diablo action.
There was. Yeah, man.
Seen your car, the Testerosa right there in the center.
When you pull up, it's pretty special.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was awesome. Seeing poor Ryan Zaman's 57 Chevy.
Yeah, on the side of the road.
Randy almost got to drive it, but then he waited too long.
And then I was a jerk because I was like, hey, man, where's your 57?
And he's like, oh, it's parked up the road, busted.
So anyway, it'll be back.
It'll be back.
And she broke down probably half a mile from the event.
So close.
So you guys were in the tent most of the time, right?
Zach and Howard, I didn't really see you guys till the end of it.
Pretty strong stream of traffic.
Ten was buzzing. Yeah, I was there pretty much the whole time.
I couldn't believe it because I had in my head, it was going to be like a meetup,
which has been a lot more casual.
But it felt like the full blown events that we typically run of just
nonstop conversation for three, four hours, line of people waiting
for one talk to be done so they could chat with all of us.
So I definitely got a few wears, Howard Swigs.
So glad you read that.
At least one of those from Crazy, who brought up maybe the world's best 70
Dotson 240Z, which was truly exceptional.
I guess the people at JCCS agree because he told me it was the overall show winner.
Yeah, that was the red one.
The one that was parked next to the guy who had the off-road one as well.
Hoping it comes to BAT this year, but yeah, amazing build.
This guy was an absolute freak about every last little detail being OEM.
Is it a 69 build? 69 or 70?
Yeah, OK. That was a good looking car.
I didn't get a chance to look at it today.
They trailer that car in and out.
They trailer both those Zs in and out.
And then we saw them later on the 10 driving through with the trailer.
It was very cool. Awesome.
I'm curious what the mix was in the tent.
There were a lot of like old heads veterans.
One of your early auction writers, Randy Andy, who is a big podcast fan too.
So shout out to him.
But he wrote some like early, just like Craigslist listings for you.
It was great to see him.
But then obviously a ton of people who didn't know what BAT was.
Was that the mix in the tent for you guys?
A lot of familiar user names finally meeting them.
Best of show came A.B.
Carr, Crazy, a lot of people that were
yakking around one of our local partners.
They were out chatting with them for a while.
Gasoline Alley guys were out.
I saw them too. A couple of local partners there.
But it did seem like there were a lot of people who were like,
where's the car show, which was interesting,
which I don't think that's ever really happened to us before.
They're like, I heard there's a car show.
Let me come see it.
Best cars that Z was on the list.
That Z was very good.
The coral colored T-bird was on the list, which I heard was alumni.
It was alumni.
That whole line there, they called it.
That was like the Palm Springs car club.
And they were calling it like Cadillac Row or something.
But there were a lot of great caddies.
The 57 that we were talking about, the 57 sedan.
There were two 59 Cads there, one on airbags,
and then like a beautiful restored one.
A lot of really good Americana, which I was hoping for.
There was. There was two actually 50 Oles, 98s.
88s, 98s.
One was a cool red one that was kind of nicely modified,
which was speaking to me.
Well, and there was this great moment in the tent where
this guy's coming up chatting with Howard and I.
And he says he has a 50 Oles.
And he was filling out his car placard.
I noticed he put 50 Oles, continued.
Oh, then Howard goes, oh, is that your car right there?
And points to the nice stock.
Or maybe it was the lightly modified maroon one.
And I wasn't sure if it was a 50 Oles.
So I was like, oh, I love your car.
Is that your end?
Oh, go on.
And only like a part of it was visible,
because there was cars and people.
So I was like, was that your 50 Oles?
He's like, no.
I was like, oh, is it not a 50 Oles?
He's like, yeah.
But that one's like super minified.
Mine's totally stock.
And it's blue.
It was an incredible moment.
That's a Palm Springs car about that.
Which 50 Oles, right?
You don't get that option very often, totally.
How did Ray feel about it?
How did your boy feel about it?
He was stoked on it.
He picked out a few cars that he liked.
He really liked the Tan FJ60 that was there.
I don't know if you guys saw that car.
That's a super early BAT user who bought a old diesel off of BAT.
Maybe exclusive or something like early, early days.
Anyway, super cool dude.
I got to re-meet him.
I had met him in the early days of BAT.
He was just kind of cruising around.
If you're bros if with the clean mesh sunset hat,
was there again who we ran into?
Alamoose.
Yeah.
Cruises around.
And he always rubs it in.
He's got that hat and I don't.
Yeah, discontinued BAT merch is like,
that's rare that are 50-olds.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What did you like, Zach?
I wish I got out of the Tentmore and could say.
I know.
Carmel Ed drove his Godzilla power.
Oh, that was cool.
50 quad cab.
I think it's a 73, early 70s truck.
I mean, that's pretty incredible.
Yes.
I asked him how it was on the highway and he was like, not great.
He's like, this is my first real long drive in it,
which is also funny context because he lives in Orange County.
So that means he's just doing inner city, going to the store.
Grocery.
Grocery.
Whole foods.
Totally.
Totally.
What was that like white pinto wagon you parked right in front of the town?
Oh, yeah, the pinto is really.
Oh, that was a story.
That's the success story.
So that's Aaron, that's the guy who hooked all of this up.
And there's a really great one of our success story videos on that car.
So if you type in, we were just talking,
this is going to be a repeat for listeners because we talked about this
yesterday when we recorded another pod.
But if you type in time machine on the front of the website,
you'll get some time machine like DeLorean's, but you'll also get that car,
which is a 79 pinto wagon that is like a literal time machine.
Would you guys take a look at it?
It's really rad.
And it's like a car.
I did.
And then I read the story because it was bought for someone who had that car in high school.
Exactly.
Yes.
It's like an exact, exact copy of their original first car.
So the owner of that car is the whole reason that we were there
and that this whole thing happened.
So it's a success story.
Yes.
It's one of our big vids.
It's a really amazing video.
I actually would argue that's maybe the best of that series.
Really?
It's really, really interesting.
Yeah.
And it's like revisiting other people who've bought other kind of preserved
examples of relatively mundane cars on BAT want this.
It was the car that they wanted or had when they were a kid.
And then you get the chance to buy one that's exactly like stock
and the way you would have had.
You and I think about this a lot.
I'm hunting for the ones that got away.
I know.
The only ones.
You know?
There was a Maroon TurboCoupe on the website today.
Unfortunately, it's an automatic.
And I was like, boy, I would love to relive 1999, right?
16-year-old Alex in my Maroon TurboCoupe.
What's on your The Ones That Got Away list, Randy?
Oh, I wish I remembered the VIN of my first, first, first car.
It's a red 74 FJ40.
But Randy's crazy.
He wants the exact VIN.
I want that car.
Yeah.
I don't want another 74.
I have a list on my phone of crazy cars
that I'd love to chase down.
This surprises no one.
And one of the captions is like buy immediately.
Like if it ever comes up, it's just like a yes, like find a way.
And that truck's on the list because I have a picture of me 15
in my Uncle Lane's driveway standing next to it
with my vans on from middle school.
You need to recreate the Carmen Gia bringing your own key.
You might.
Totally.
It's a key.
Yeah.
It's a whole thing.
So anyway, unfortunately, all I have is a picture of like the last two digits
of the license plate.
I don't have a way to tie it in and figure out where that car actually.
The MGB GT is kind of that.
It's kind of a come back around sort of story.
That's right.
I think those stories are cool.
And then some real estate agent owns my second FJ40.
He lives in Minnesota and won't return my emails.
You know that story?
What?
My buddy found my second FJ40 on Instagram and this dude has it.
And I was like, we got to reach out to this guy and find it.
I was halfway through the build of my current cruiser.
That's a replica of that cruiser.
And we reached out to him and he refuses.
He refuses to acknowledge.
Oh, but he got back to you.
No, no, that's his.
Send me his info.
I'm going to pretend to list a house.
I'm going to get him on the line.
I don't mean to stereotype real estate agents,
but I thought everything's for sale and that guy would be all over that.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Maybe he doesn't dig like creepy people reaching out on Instagram.
Offer him to buy his truck.
Anyway, that was crazy.
I actually, I know my favorite car was the Elite that was there at Compass Collective,
which is going to be listed on the site.
Long time SoCal car.
The other thing you can do if you don't have cool history with the car yourself
is you can buy somebody else's history.
So I talked to that guy for a while owner who's an elderly gentleman.
Wife is, you know, going through various stages of dementia.
Got to sell the car, but her dad, his wife's dad bought it when it was two years old.
It's a 62. He bought it in 64.
He kept it going forever.
He knew Orton Burger.
He swapped in like a bigger motor with dual SUs.
He put it in the better gearbox.
It's not the MG gearbox anymore.
Anyway, did all the swaps, but it's a blue plate.
California been around forever, basically one family owned almost and kind of scrappy,
but man, I want an elite so bad.
And I saw it sitting out there in the sun.
I'm like, God, I hope this thing doesn't melt out here in the Palm Springs sun.
But man, do I like that car?
Wow.
Great history, cool car.
Just fine in it.
I finally got to figure out whether I fit in an elite.
It's actually pretty roomy inside.
Were you trying to trade your 308 right there in a lot,
or do you think you made the right call?
Is that a straight across?
No, that's an elite plus cash.
A correct.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Unfortunately, I think my wife would murder me if I bought another project white car
on top of the cord and 308.
But if it was red, I don't know.
I'm still thinking about it.
It's not listed yet.
Here's a non sequitur on projects, because you racked my brain, Alex.
When a seller is offering a project car, what percentage complete number is the most
sus or distrustful?
Wait, what do you explain that more?
An example.
Offering my project 95% complete.
98% complete, I've seen that in print.
Well, my very beautiful Ferrari turned out to be a 95% complete project.
That's not listed as such.
Yeah, I think most restos are 95% complete or 90% complete.
When you get in your car missing that panel on the dash, it looks 98% complete.
Yes, that's right.
I mean, it just like, I think a lot of people do all the,
like the hard stuff actually gets done, right?
It's the stripping it all down and repainting it and reupholstery.
That stuff is hard, but it's, your turn signals don't work.
Like you didn't get the water pump totally installed correctly.
The air conditioning doesn't work.
That's the stuff that never gets sorted.
And that's why you hear a lot of collectors talking about the sorting and it takes years.
And it's the last few little things that you want to get dialed in.
And then a lot of those cars sit and all those things then fall apart again, right?
So anyway, fascinating stuff.
I love seeing 95% complete and like the body is awesome.
It's there's 18 boxes of parts.
That's right.
Yeah, over the five percent.
You have to measure in terms of percentage of completion, it's game over.
The other thing they always say is they're like,
all body work complete, but then the offenders are sitting next to the unibody, you know?
Anything else about Palm Springs?
I thought it was great.
The weather was beautiful.
I was hoping one of you was going to say walking out of the old
clubhouse towards the tent.
And like we had the tent on this little square of grass that was like perfectly made for it.
And you were saying that's Randy the mountains and everything frame by it.
It was stunning.
People were like, what is this place?
And the whole thing was there to benefit that like wildlife
cause that it is now being transformed to support.
Correct.
Which is kind of cool.
Those people were there.
People liked the food.
People like free BAT food as it turns out.
Yep.
People liked the mix of cars.
I liked the little bug-eye sprite that was there, the baby blue right in front of the entrance.
But I'd take a black Testerosa.
The one that was parked next to my car left early and then another one pulled in.
I was like, oh, did the gal come back?
But no, it was a different black Testerosa.
What else local digest to be find out?
Chuckwalla Raceway is for sale.
They're accepting offers bids.
McCormick's auction happened.
If you're listening to this, it's too late.
You missed it.
You're going to have to wait until 27.
How many RNMs do they have though?
They should have fed them right over to the BAT event.
We could have gotten them on the site that night.
They should have.
Did you go by the Airstream event?
Did any of you go by the Airstream event?
Nope, like their one?
Yeah, they had like 50 vintage Airstreams.
Like some of the ones where they, you know,
they come to the beautiful like taper in the back,
but all like early Airstream all polished up to high heavens.
They were in a big lot somewhere.
I would have loved to have seen that.
Yeah.
It was packed.
Feed those straight on to BAT as well.
Totally.
We got a couple of those.
It was packed in Palm Springs because it was modernism week.
And like we, the one that you guys all left on Saturday
and you missed the exhausted service workers everywhere,
it was like an hour to get a drink in a lot of places,
even when it wasn't crowded,
because people were done with tourists by that point.
Is that Air Force Museum near the airport?
Cool.
When I drove by?
It's extremely cool.
You're very cool.
I've been there.
Yeah.
I've been there before.
Looked like it.
It is way more extensive than you would think.
They have two B-17s.
They have every Allied fighter, basically Navy.
And it's amazing.
They have stealth.
They have modern stuff, if you like that.
They do calendar of flights as well.
Correct.
They like, you show up there on the right weekend
and they'll run them out on the tarmac.
There was P-51 and a Stearman biplane flying this weekend
that you could pay to go up in.
Oh, you can pay for rides too.
I don't know if they're that brave.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just want to watch from good old planet Earth.
I mean, it's amazing.
Watching a P-51 start up and taxi out and take off
is one of the best sounds of all time.
Yeah.
27 liter double overhead cam V12.
Aviation corner with Alex.
Always.
Never want to miss it.
People come for the cars, but they stay for the aviation talk.
Howard, how is all the SWIG collection stuff coming?
You got work in progress?
There's going to be a little SWIG family collection sale.
Alex, you're really really wanting one.
Oh, we're promoting that already.
Forced the issue here.
Oh, we can cut this part out, or you can tease it.
I actually was just going to ask if you guys are getting
worked on on this.
I'm serious about Howard sliding a Benjamin over to Alex.
What's your commission on that deal?
We are going to list some cars, probably eight to 10,
a final count TBD.
We're going to do that through a local seller here.
And I'm excited.
It's going to be a smorgasbord of 50s, 80s, Dotsons, Porsches.
But there's all kinds of stuff happening in the operation.
Randy might need to buy the 75 Celica that I know that he loves,
the Twin Cam Swiss Market.
I love RA28.
Swiss Market Celica with Euro bumpers.
Yeah, 2006 Mele.
It was there.
My first Mele green sticker for the Mele.
It may have it on the car.
So that will be for sale and should be good if anyone cares.
31 Chrysler's.
That could be for you.
I'm just going to go cheap.
That is going to go cheap.
I'd actually be pretty stoked on that.
There's a lot of X.
Maybe I need an X SWIG vehicle.
Which one?
What's the Chrysler?
The mint colored Chrysler?
Dude, I have that car.
No, that's the car.
That's the Mercury, isn't it?
The Saratoga.
Yeah, it could be.
It's not a Mercury.
No, 51 Chrysler.
It's a Saratoga.
Sorry, it's a Saratoga.
It's a Chrysler.
Some of those cars, I don't know if they're safe at no reserve.
We'll see.
I got to take my own medicine on that.
Are they safer with the reserve?
What do you go and do after it whiffs?
This is true.
Is it going up from here?
I don't want them back.
The SF Auto Center is going to be discontinued.
There we go.
How is that icon?
Oh my gosh, there it is.
How is that icon?
Because he ran it in a CSRG event or something at Sears Point.
And there's some random photo online of him driving that car.
And so whenever he calls me or texts me, that car comes up.
That is actually incredible.
I'd forgotten who it was.
That was like 2014, I did that.
That's amazing.
I have a picture.
I mean, the last time I was at your garage,
Felix, who's now 15 years old, he was like a little tiny kid.
And I have a picture of him in that car in the Saratoga.
So it's been 12 years maybe since I was there.
No, it couldn't have been that long.
We didn't know each other.
It must have been about 10 years ago when I first worked at BAT.
But not before, Zach.
I'm going to try to buy some cars out of the dealership, obviously, for a low price.
So yeah.
And speaking of low price, you're going to broker that 86 Corolla to me.
Included in the sale on BAT is the best AE86 hatchback we've ever listed.
Not coming.
Won't make it.
Shout out to Robert if you're listening.
He's got a sister car, but he might need to upgrade to this one.
Zach, he's just denying you.
I know.
Well, who knows?
I don't want to pay 40 grand.
Well, Zach wants the number to start with a one.
And so he starts with a one.
The no reserve auction does not start with a one.
Oh my God, that's okay.
Fantastic.
We'll figure it out.
It's fine.
Maybe on a podcast.
Nothing's wrong.
Everything's fine.
The best place to broker it is on the podcast because then there's a there's a record.
How do I get my hands on dealer plate number six?
Yeah.
Well, how many of those?
Wait, wait, wait.
Now we're talking.
Now you're into my zone.
Well, I've gotten some intel that I actually can't.
So we can't sell the dealership, but then some people will say that we can't.
So I got to get some.
You can sell it on BAT.
Senses on that.
I would love that.
I would love that.
Yeah.
We got some black and number six plates for you.
Oh, perfect.
Amazing.
That's cool, right?
Yeah.
Got a whole box of them.
Awesome.
Should we talk about a few things on the website?
We've had good results.
That green singer is maybe my favorite singer we've ever had.
And it did very well.
Was that today?
What do you like?
Do you just like the color?
I just like the color.
The singer builds have gotten a little out of control for me.
So a simple one I really appreciate.
I was saying the same thing of simplicity, which is also sort of ironic to call a singer simple.
That one compared to all the winged cars they have now.
And now they're doing convertibles and Targas and Ruby Stone and all this stuff, right?
Like that one was pretty normal.
It was pretty standard and a good color.
I had a singer run in moment in LA.
Whoa, do tell.
So we were on Mulholland on bikes and we went past that famous stretch where there's like a hairpin
and it was closed for a long time from the fires and you guys know this.
That's the snake, right?
Isn't that what it's called?
I don't know what it's called, but beautiful area.
And then we're riding our bikes through there.
And there's a dude and a singer and another dude with a van that was wrapped.
And it said something like vehicle photography.
Like this personal shadow you in your cool car and like shoot vids.
Make you look rad.
Make you look amazing.
Make you look fast and make you look, you know, amazing.
So anyway, they were going to go through that section and it was the maybe you guys know this car.
It was a singer, first of all, with hood lamps on it and CB driving lamps on the hood on a singer,
which is unusual.
And then it has like a map graphic over the whole thing,
like a topo map graphic over the whole car.
Navy blue car with like a beige topo pattern over it, like a weird pattern.
I think it went through a big auction.
I even was wondering, was it like a Bruce Meyer connection?
Anyway, I don't know, but that dude was signed up for the dude with the van to like vid him cruising
through or maybe he's going to drift it through or something.
I don't know.
That's what you do by that car.
You hire a guy to follow around.
Totally.
It's like Daniel Lurie.
It's just a guy with a camera behind you at that time.
It's built into the purchase price.
So some documentation.
So anyway, we went cruising by on our bikes and checked it out a little bit.
Nobody following you on a third bike, Phil, but you guys.
Nobody.
We didn't pay for that package.
No, sorry.
So no, we were cruising around.
But yeah, there were some cool cars.
There was a guy ripping around that passed us like seven times during our bike ride
in a red 968 coupe that was kind of leaning into it a little bit.
He probably knows B.A.T.
There was a 968 Vert.
And was there really one color?
Like that dark blue, whatever that was.
Okay, I missed that.
A lot of dudes rolled in with their top down.
It was very cold at like seven in the morning out there.
And a lot of guys were rolling in with their top down.
I was like, good for you.
The guys in Sprite, didn't you have a top?
That was amazing.
And the 59 Caddy was top down only.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
All the Verts had their top down.
That's the Palm Springs way.
But other sick cars.
I loved Bobby Rehal selling his 4 cam.
C coupe.
That was pretty cool.
Ooh, I didn't know that was his.
I saw that car, but I didn't know that was his.
I thought, oh yeah, Fantasy had one of those a while back, but this was a fresher one.
Did you see the Vic Edelbrock deuce, what it went for?
Oh my gosh.
So we saw that car in person in Arizona.
And that guy bought it at the Bonham's auction at Quail.
You know, I guess, so how many months is that?
Like five, six months, maybe?
Go look it up.
That was in the Edelbrock collection that they sold where Howard should have bought the split
window vet.
And that car sold for 95, I thought I heard.
And then it sold for what on BET?
220.
I missed that.
2.3x off of what it was purchased for six months ago.
That is wild.
Have you guys caught the Gimbala RS America?
No, we sold a black RS America.
I think it's amazing that it started as an RS America.
That's what I think is amazing.
I've never seen ricaros like these before.
Yeah, almost look like reupholstered, quirky seats.
Yeah, those are wild.
Those are ricaros.
They are ricaros.
And they're thick.
No, they tilt.
They tilt it on that model, that is.
Rear seat area is like all fiberglass, but with just seat pads.
And then, Alex, if you haven't caught it, I mean, the most jarring thing about it.
I mean, the headlights are jarring.
Exactly.
Slant nose.
But I actually kind of like it.
Where's the bid?
Does this go big or does this get a discount?
I think it goes big.
As crazy as this is, is this the most understated Gimbala of all time?
Yeah, there's no strakes or anything.
Well, Arthur, crazy.
Was it Gimbala?
Who had the little pinpoint headlight?
Or that's, is that Strosik?
That's Strosik, okay.
What else?
Diablo VT's are you under K, Zach?
Oh, man, all the D's.
How nuts is that?
SE30 that I himmed in hot on.
Oh, yeah, right?
Remember that?
And then the Mercy Elego LP640, not even a manual.
That sold for $5.50.
None of you are going to care about this
because these are the kinds of cars the swing collection is trying to sell.
But the Asica, the Bristol-powered Asica,
did not sell it.
Did not sell it.
It missed.
How about the Thawston sheep?
The other Bristol, the Roadster.
That car is also extremely sick
and had like a bare metal restoration and is really, really nice.
10, 10 premium, I need tomorrow morning.
Buckle up.
Whoa, dang, that is a lot.
And in sharp contrast, my favorite thing on the website
is probably going to sell for $7,000,
which is the Mastercraft boat from the 70s.
Did you see that?
No, I don't think I saw.
It's called the Stars and Stripes.
It has the star pattern all around it.
Anyway, there's a lot of stuff on VAT.
I'll be the Marine Corner.
You'll be the airline corner.
I'll be the Marine.
With trailer.
Of course.
Cam, Backteller and I did a 1980 one-year garage draft
and there was a boat drafted.
Really?
Yes, there was.
1980.
Yeah, 1980.
This is cool, Randy.
You look good in this.
Yes, that's a fact.
It's got a nice little wrap around windscreen on it.
Is that piece to spider going to be a million bucks tomorrow?
I think it is.
Oh, definitely.
Crazy.
With certainty.
Also, tell me about the bid instantly going to 100 grand
on any 63-split window.
Any condition, any color, anything.
It's like instantly.
I've been talking to you about the split window project.
That was just a shell.
Yes.
Oh, man.
Yes.
The New York Times reached out to me and wants to do a story
on the buyer and seller and what's going to happen to that,
which is interesting.
Did you do that article?
60 or 70 grand, something like that?
70.
Did he get 70?
Yeah.
Isn't that crazy?
It was just the birdcage and the interior, whatever, fiberglass.
Yeah, so that guy's dog had chewed a bunch of parts
off the split window and eaten a bunch of body panels.
Crazy story.
All my Chrysler's are going to sell for less than that car's old.
Yeah, that's right.
You mean combined?
Combined.
Yes, combined.
Yeah.
But anyway, I'm looking at it.
I'm like, oh, cool.
There's a split window.
It's like non-original engine.
It says project in the title.
Bidding's already a 105.
Yeah.
I'm like, man, there aren't any of those that sell for 62.5 anymore.
But the rest of the C2 market is probably downwardly mobile, right?
This is like the one.
I see fours are still kind of a deal
and roadsters are a deal or whatever.
But man, you want to get a split window.
You got your heart set on a split window.
You are hosed.
It is so and like a good one is two and a quarter, right?
Actually, without looking, Alex, how many C2s do we have live right now?
Not split.
All C2s.
This is a total guess.
I'm going to guess five.
Eight.
Wow.
That's crazy.
That is crazy.
In one week, how many are split?
I wanted these two are split windows
because that is what was driving my frustration.
I was like shopping around and there are butter all over 100 grand.
And I'm like, man, there are.
There are too many.
Yeah, there's two.
I looked.
And a set of Kelsey A wheels that are probably going to sell
for $29,000.
Yeah.
That's what I thought the car was going for.
That's a 64 Roadster in my world, in my warped world.
For cheaper than the Kelsey Hayes wheels was the very low mileage,
85 and a half Mustang SVO teetop.
Very rare SVO teetop.
Did you see that crack?
Was it black?
No, it was red.
We have an amazing black one.
We just let's.
Okay.
The red one, what do you go for?
I know you're watching SVOs.
Bid to 17 didn't sell.
But as close as I'm watching like 28,000 miles.
Man, come on.
Wow.
Wow.
I'm ready.
I'm enjoying this around.
Man, we have followed.
We have a good website ready.
We have crazy stuff on a website.
Did you follow the Minerva Blue Turbo Carrera?
Oh, yeah.
It was a 76 or 75.
No, it was a 77.
Oh, it was for $292.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
And we've got that $599 GTO at no reserve now,
which could be a candidate for photo gallery of the year.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
I saw that was the one in front of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Yep.
Local car.
Yeah.
Are you a $599 guy, Zach?
Not really, but I am when the photos look like that.
I was so excited when they first came out and they've aged okay.
The problem is the $575, $550 exists, which is so much prettier.
That's even what I felt when I was a kid and this thing came out.
I like $599.
More Gunter works coming out of the cracks,
which is interesting.
I don't know if they just started like cranking those cars out
or what's going on, but another one of those.
Live right now, man, there's a lot of really good cars in premium.
M1, a lot of stuff that may come up in the 1980 draft.
Original owner M1.
Really good color on it too, which one I'd never seen before.
What color?
It's like an off-white.
It's like I would never mind.
Mean color.
I've never seen that before on an M1.
I mean, you guys are talking about all the classy stuff.
I'm over here looking at the 79 Mercury Capri Turbo RS four-speed.
That's unbelievable.
That's rad, dude.
That's a rad.
The big RS stickers on the side.
I heard that has TRX tires on it.
Oh, little metric.
Little metric action.
Little metric Mercury.
That's what you want.
You catch the Celica all-track turbo the other week.
Yeah, I think we love that one.
But he took a picture in Coronado.
That's good to discuss on the podcast before.
That was Alex's aviation corner for that week, the C130 in the background.
Fantastic.
Really, really good stuff.
Anything else, boys?
Anything else you want to discuss?
I'm just looking at all the cars.
No, it's great to be in the office.
We've got a ton of employees and a bunch of things going on.
San Francisco this week.
Because a lot of fun stuff is coming up that people are going to see on the site soon.
I'm excited about all of it.
You see what we sold?
The lot of four 57 Chevy's.
What was that?
No, I missed that.
They sold for five grand.
Five grand for all four.
Sounds like maybe that was the fat thing we canceled about.
And then it sold for five.
What were they like, project shells or something?
No, they were a mess.
Bob this, I don't know.
They were a mess.
Look at this.
Who would you wish this project on?
It is four 57 Chevy's, 1200 bucks each.
They were all rejected.
They just submitted them all a lot, except.
All he had to do is take a couple steps back and take a wider angle photo
because they're all just sitting in the same spot.
Oh, is that coming on our curation Q&A?
How much longer we got YouTube boys in California?
I want to do more pods.
At least six days.
A couple weeks.
We're going to do a little driving on Friday.
You guys are welcome to come.
Where to?
A little West Marin.
Maybe run to some iced tea and oysters.
I haven't done that with you, Howard, since 2016.
Sounds like a good work day.
Going to drive some of the cars before they all get sold.
Alex, you're going to help me with that.
Fantastic.
Love it.
Any parting shots?
Anything else from you guys?
Where's our next event coming up?
Palm Springs was such a super high five.
Where are we going?
What's the next locked in event?
I mean, we're definitely going back to Road America.
So I think we can confidently say that to everyone at the vintage weekend.
Again, we're going to do it a little bit different this year,
but it's going to be fun.
I hope we can encourage both of you guys to race again.
We'll see how that goes.
I think we can confidently say that we will be at the Rose Cup in Portland
shortly before that, which should be pretty awesome.
Another thing that we're going to be doing again in SoCal at the end of the year,
just like we did one at the beginning of the year,
is we will be at Willow Springs at the Big Race Track for the first BAT track day.
But you guys all have to pester Randy not to make it.
It could be alumni only, which will be tricky for us.
So we got to work that out.
Go to the race car category right now.
Or Zach's allowed to drive the 86 that he buys from Howard on track there.
Drift session.
Yeah, okay.
He's got an alumni car.
I want people to give us some feedback and some heat and some votes on this.
Should it be an alumni only track day?
I kind of want to gate it.
And if you bought the car in BAT, you get to go out.
Yeah, everyone's welcome.
But if you want on track, it's got to be.
I kind of think that's cool.
But then there may be no cars on track, which is a little weird.
We got to get feedback from folks.
So maybe if they hear this, they can tell us
whether they think it should be alumni or not.
Do you have any alumni cars, Howard?
Do you have anything that's been on BAT or passed through?
Dude, the Dotson.
We just talked about it today.
He's got a 510.
Not the BRELivry one.
He's got Butterscotch.
Oh, the Butterscotch car.
BAT 2008 post.
That's going to be great.
Mind if I just have that open on my browser?
Oh my gosh, there.
Excuse me, it's on Randy's computer as we speak.
2008.
Five grand in Sacramento.
Amazing car.
Go get it.
This is classic Randy.
I sent you guys a pic nod of that car.
This was a speck in the background.
He recognized the blue plate.
Bang, today.
Brought a list.
I'm like, that car was on BAT.
I know that car.
Well, hopefully the 5X return on that car.
I'll offset all the losses on the Chrysler's and the 86.
We could go quarters on that C4 SCCA race car and drive that around.
That would actually make this an entertaining podcast
if we made deals like we bought cars and made the deal.
We'll be there in October, the four of us,
in a four-way split C4 race car.
Wow, are we promising that?
I want to buy that car on this side.
I like that car a lot too.
Anyway, good cars.
Awesome.
Yeah, we'll be doing lots of fun stuff.
Thanks gentlemen for doing this, as always,
and thanks to all of you for listening,
feedback, questions, concerns,
whether our track day should be alumni cars only on track.
All that can be said to podcast at bringingtrailer.com,
and we'll catch you next time.
About this episode
The hosts share lively stories from their recent Bring a Trailer event in Palm Springs, including challenging drives through unusual weather and memorable encounters on the road. They discuss the unique venue, a former golf course, and the diverse crowd that attended, some traveling long distances. The conversation also touches on nostalgic and quirky vehicle-themed rides at Disney, the experience of driving a classic Ferrari 308, and the camaraderie among enthusiasts. The episode blends travel tales, car culture insights, and reflections on automotive events in a relaxed, conversational style.
Airstream
all electric
BAT
Cadillac
Chuckwalla Raceway
double overhead cam
dual SUs
Gullwing doors
McCormick's auction
NASCAR style racing
Ac Ace
Acura NSX
BMW 4 Series
BMW M1 (E26)
BMW M3
Chevrolet Bel Air
Chevrolet Corvette
Chrysler Saratoga
Datsun 240Z
Delorean DMC-12
Ferrari 308 GTS
Ferrari 488
Ferrari 599
Ferrari Testarossa
Ford Capri
Ford Mustang
Ford Pinto
Ford Thunderbird
Jeep Compass
Lamborghini Diablo
Lamborghini Murcielago
Mercury Capri
MG MGB
Nissan Rogue
Porsche 356
Porsche 911
Toyota Celica
Toyota Corolla
Toyota Land Cruiser
Toyota Supra
Volkswagen Karmann Ghia
Original notes
This week, Alex brings in the big guns. Randy, Howard, and Zac talk about our recent Palm Springs event; crazy winds and a curious white substance in the southern California mountains; a magnet for male attention; important questions about people who film everything they do; a remarkably un-harrowing experience at Disneyland; reviews of Alex's beautiful new Euro 308GTB; a flying Corvette; an exceptional 240Z; and discontinued BaT merch that haunts Randy.
They also talk about hunting the ones that got away and the perpetual lie of project car completion percentage, take a brief stop in Aviation Corner with Alex, and preview a very special upcoming collection sale. Also featured: a very bad dog, split-window Corvettes hitting escape velocity, and favorite auctions from the last couple of weeks.
Mentioned in this episode:
14:35 1964 Ford Thunderbird Landau Coupe
18:09 Time Machine: A Success Story in Motion from BaT and Pennzoil
29:32 1991 Porsche 911 Carrera 2 Coupe by Singer
32:15 1964 Porsche 356C Carrera 2 Coupe
33:01 Ex–Vic Edelbrock Jr., 292 Flathead-Powered 1932 Ford Roadster by Roy Brizio
33:43 1993 Porsche 911 RS America Gemballa Slantnose RSR 3.8 Conversion
34:48 8k-Mile 2007 Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 Coupe
34:59 1961 AC Aceca-Bristol
35:04 62-Years-Owned 1958 AC Ace-Bristol
35:21 1974 MasterCraft “Stars & Stripes” 18′ Competition Ski Boat
35:53 2020 Ferrari 488 Pista Spider
36:09 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Split-Window Coupe Body Shell Project
37:40 Kelsey-Hayes Wheels for Chevrolet Corvette
37:54 28k-Mile 1985.5 Ford Mustang SVO T-Top
38:18 1977 Porsche 930 Turbo Carrera
38:30 2011 Ferrari 599 GTO
38:59 1997 Porsche 911 Carrera Speedster by Gunther Werks
39:11 Original-Owner 1979 BMW M1
39:25 1979 Mercury Capri Turbo RS 4-Speed
40:17 Lot of Four 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air & 150 4-Door Sedan Projects
42:00 Race Cars on BaT
43:17 Ex–Stu Hayner 1989 Chevrolet Corvette Challenge Race Car
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