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Hello everybody and welcome back to the bring a trailer podcast.
Alex Porter here around the mics once again with a Randy and back.
What's up, gents?
Psych to be here.
Psych to be back.
You guys have been podcasting.
I wish I'd been sitting around jealous that I wasn't on the American graffiti
podcast.
I'm just going to listen to that podcast over and over again as I watch the movie
from now on.
You guys do a good job.
Did you like it?
It was awesome.
Yeah, I heard from a few others that listen to it as well.
Anyway, I dug here in that, but I did want to be in the room and be like,
Oh, what about my scenes?
Oh, anyway, well, the movie ones are do it right now.
What did we miss?
Oh, no, I mean, who knows?
I mean, we can talk about an entire another podcast about that movie.
But Beck, you didn't know that was Suzanne Summers in the 56 bird.
I mean, man, that's like you guys are all talking about all these other scenes.
I'm like, that's the scene that matters.
Anyway, no, there were lots of them.
Did you know there was supposed to be like a dream sequence at the start with
her and that car?
That was supposed to be how the movie was supposed to start and like the
budget and the timing that he's couldn't film it.
But it was like heaven, like white tea birds, Suzanne Summers and heaven.
That is what that scene was.
Modesto heaven.
So is this heaven?
No, this is Modesto.
Shout out to a couple of our listeners.
We got some great feedback and a lot of people reminiscing about cruising Sacramento,
cruising malls, just cruising culture in general.
Also, I love Zach talking about how people are just eating popsicles because
they're roasting alive with no conditioning in the Central Valley.
Anyway, I had many smiles on that.
You guys did a killer job.
But yeah, probably a lot of people out there were jealous.
They couldn't be riffing with you as I was.
So anyway, that was cool.
Well, we were jealous because you were in the United Kingdom doing some cool car
stuff. I saw some of that on social media.
Did you catch some of that back?
Some of the cool things Randy was up to.
I did.
I'm mostly as part of the new landing page on the site, the bringintrailer.com
slash UK. That's where my first thing was.
But a bunch of social was posted as well.
You were potting.
You were nice, dude.
Nice plug you just did there for the page.
He's a pro.
You are giled.
You've got the talking points.
I was in the UK.
I was not in Modesto.
I was in some alternate universe from Modesto.
But no, we're over there.
Obviously, we have an awesome new local partner, Sports Purpose at Bistro Motion,
which are our sort of landmark places in the UK car scene.
And yeah, I was on the Inner Cooler podcast.
I don't know if you guys know Inner Cooler.
Inner Cooler was very cool, kind of online magazine,
but they have a cool podcast as well.
And it leans, you know, British, some of the personalities that are on it.
But they talk a lot of F1.
They talk a lot of product releases.
They talk a lot of, you know, what are manufacturers doing?
I've always loved British car magazines when I was a kid, right?
Like Evo and Car.
Car was the one I loved.
Yeah.
And the classic ones as well.
Classic and sports car and, you know, Octane and stuff like that.
Anyway, there's just cool stuff going on over there.
Cool energy around the car scene and us doing more over there.
Now, sort of catering more towards UK customers.
I was over there to sort of set the basics for that.
But now we're going to lean into that.
And the month of April is going to be really fun.
And we're going to announce some events that we're going to be involved with.
And we are going to have a bunch of cars start to come live on the site
that we're cultivating right now.
So anyway, there's vibrancy there, which is fun.
And I just love traveling over there and being with people over there
and getting to see the different cars and the different ways they go about it.
Come back, drive my mom's 5.0 VIRT auto for a couple of months
until I get an FJ60, purchased in Mountain View,
off an auto trader ad, drove the FJ60 for a long time.
And then I got a job at BMW and got company cars for like 10 years,
which was an amazing deal.
But those were technically my dailies.
What was the best company car?
E92 M3 blue comp package, flak interior.
I like snuck my way into that.
I usually didn't get M cars.
And I somehow sweet-talked somebody at Oxnard distribution center and I got that.
And that was fantastic.
I was actually a big fan of the E65 36 speed.
Oh, interesting.
Angry about that call.
I had a black tan sport package, brand new.
I mean, you'd always get these cars brand new, which was crazy,
because I was like 24 years old or whatever.
And I just got this brand new car.
So anyway, and I had a couple of Alpina cars and weird stuff,
but I didn't actually like those as much.
E92 was at so-called E92, 328 CI, Coupe,
six-speed white, black.
The 28 actually came with better wheels than the 35.
It was non-turbo, but it was, man, it was good.
Anyway, a lot of good cars.
And then bailed out a BMW to work a BAT full-time.
What the heck was I driving?
Weird old stuff.
I think I had the Fintail.
I think I drove the Fintail for a number of years,
right at the beginning of BAT.
When I started, you were daily driving the Land Rover with the green one.
Yeah.
With some kind of, was it a Vortex?
I was driving that a fair amount.
That would have counted as a daily.
So anyway, it got real weird after BMW.
I just started driving the old stuff around sandwiched this.
Oh, and you drove the red pickup truck a lot,
the V6 Toyota 5G pickup truck.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I guess I turned through this stuff and had my schizophrenic tastes,
but we kind of changed gears at that point,
and my wife had a reliable normal car,
so I could just daily drive like weirdo stuff.
So that was fun.
Do you want to talk about best place you ever left a car?
Do you want me to go?
I saw that when I was going by.
Well, first off, yeah, yeah, I reached the end of the internet.
I went all the way back.
So the first one in this category is June 6, 2018.
So I doubt it's 500.
I bet it is the more the 400 sort of number we're at,
but we'll be at 500 eventually.
Man, 93 comments back then about what's your favorite Italian American hybrid.
And there's like bizarines and all sorts of.
Yeah.
What is your favorite?
Is it the Terra?
What's your favorite?
The Terra?
Pantera.
Oh, yeah, sorry.
That's what we call the X-Terra.
The Pantera.
Yeah, I mean, I've been chosen on mangustas lately.
I was hoping you were going to say that.
I mean, I've had a couple on the site recently that have done pretty well.
I'm okay on bizarines.
I don't need one though.
That's the first car I remember being conscious for somebody telling me
that it will break, like that it's a terrible car.
It'll break your heart.
A mangusta.
Every year, we'll call it your heart.
As deep as my automotive Diego's is mangusta equals nightmares.
But they're so good looking.
Yeah, they're cool.
So that would probably take the cake for me.
That was sorry.
That was number one.
That's the very first question.
That's the oldest one posted is June 6, 2018.
They don't claim it's number one.
And maybe, like I'm saying, I think it wasn't weekly before that.
So it may go before that for a whole bunch of them.
But what were the ones that jumped out to you, Alex?
Okay, yeah.
What's the stuff that we should be?
I mean, I've got a bunch and I'm trying to focus on ones that have already
kind of been asked on Facebook so that we can do a little bit of synergy there.
Synergies.
Here's one that you're seeking.
Here's the one.
Totally.
I love using that word, too.
Here's one of the ones that I've been thinking about a lot.
What's the best car with an automatic transmission?
I think, Rick, you might have more trouble answering this
because you're cool with automatics.
I do not love them.
So this is like a little trickier for me.
A million awesome cars with automatics in them.
But okay, why don't you guys go first?
The one that I've always thought of,
and my boss at the shop I used to work at, I always used to say this.
And I really like 928s with an automatic transmission.
That's troublesome.
I know.
I knew that would be controversial.
But they're like pretty big highway cruising type cars,
and I think they're great with an automatic.
They've got a V8, they've got plenty of torque.
They actually, I don't love the way the shifter feels in those cars
with the manual transmission.
So I love them with an automatic.
I think it comes back to just any car that you are going to be stuck in traffic.
I can't really think of an automatic that I genuinely prefer.
I think you guys probably can pull that out of your brains a little bit easier than I can.
But I've been in like in Tahoe traffic, like stuck for hours trying to get up to the mountains.
And I've been in my XTERRA, that's an automatic.
And I've been with buddies of mine who are in their manual pickup trucks
or Subaru, WRX, whatever.
And they're miserable.
They're just hating their lives or foot hurts or leg hurts.
And it just makes a lot more sense when you're in that situation.
Yeah, I guess that's just sort of categorically.
That's why I would play with it.
And yet you've daily driven a lot of manual transmission.
I was completely right.
As you just, I also, I will, I will find a route through the city that is longer
if it just means I'd not get a train of cars all the time.
The clutch is really starting to squeal on my Civic.
It's like, it's got about 48,000 miles.
I've never really had to replace a clutch in a car, but that's 48,000 city miles.
The number of one, two shifts I've done in that car is like unimaginable.
You know, so many one, two, and so many hill starts.
My dad always tried to, you know, not have to shift down into first and always sort of
cruise through stop signs.
And he got pulled over at Lake and 3rd Avenue.
There you go.
And I was a little kid.
I was in my Boy Scout uniform.
And my dad thought that would help like getting them out of it.
He's like, you talk Beck, you talk, you talk to the office.
But no, and that was my first time I ever heard of the Hollywood unit.
The cop told my dad that he thought he was Hollywood.
Oh, I like Hollywood as a verb.
You definitely do not get in trouble for rolling stop signs anymore.
It's like the number one bane of driving around the city is no one understands a
four-way intersection anymore.
Sorry, I could rant about that for a long time.
Yeah, you've escaped from that.
SF life.
Yep.
Yep.
Well, you're trying to say an automatic that's better than the corresponding manual.
You said the best automatic car.
That makes a car better.
Like the other one that came to mind back, and I'm curious since you owned a W124 is like,
I have a very hard time imagining a 500E, which I drove a lot, our family had a 500E.
I have a very hard time imagining that as a manual transmission.
I'm sure somebody swapped a 500E, but the automatic very much suits the nature of that car.
And my W124 was a manual.
Yeah, and you didn't love it.
It was fine.
It was like both engaging and relaxing.
It was interesting to have that experience.
I actually bought that with the intent of like, could this sort of form factor work in my life
before I buy any 500, just because like the expense was so much more.
And I ended up finding that as much as I loved how well it was built,
it wasn't very practical for what I was trying to do, which was ferry children across the city.
But would you have preferred it with an automatic?
Probably if I was going to be dealing it.
Yeah, possibly.
Yeah.
I was just thinking of cars that only come in automatic and yet are awesome,
which I think there's a long, long list of those, right?
Cyclone Typhoon.
Those never came in a manual, right?
Totally.
Totally.
Lagonda.
That's a crazy car.
And you could only get an automatic.
And I loved to rip around in one of those.
There's a lot of stuff that, for better or worse, was auto only.
So anyway, I'm not in the anti-automatic brigade.
I'm cool with it.
Do you think that's because you're a truck guy and because you like muscle cars and stuff?
And if you're in those kinds of car corners, like, automatics or...
Yeah, 2002 BMW automatic is like sad trombone, right?
Like you were always like, oh, but it's an automatic, right?
For me, because I view the entire pretty of humanity through classified ads,
if you'd ever see it, you're like, oh, awesome.
There's one of these.
Oh, it's an automatic.
Oh, check out, there's a CS Coupa.
Oh, it's an automatic, right?
Why is that such a deal?
But I also love hunting deals.
And so you get the automatic discount on a lot of cars.
Like I've been looking at 6970 GT350s and 500s lately and there's an automatic.
And you're like, oh, that's kind of a bummer, but wait, it's 60% of the price.
Dude, I love that you're thinking about that.
You're like, dude, I could just rip through that shifter of the C4 or C6 or whatever's in there.
And I could probably live with that.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
How good of a burnout can you do with a neutral drop in your C6?
Or brake stands.
Totally, right?
I mean, maybe it'll be okay.
So anyway, I'm not anti-automatic overall, but even on some value buys like that,
I'm kind of like, oh, and I mean, the huge one is for Ferrari 400s,
for some sort of masochistic reasons.
But I mean, the automatic cars are like free, right?
I mean, the manuals are three times the price, right?
You're just like, wow, like grab the auto and LS swap it.
That's my current fantasy.
So anyway, there's all sorts of problems you can get into.
For the GT500 though, I feel like what's nice about that automatic is that it's
almost part of the ethos of the GT500 was that it was the easier car to drive almost.
Like it was what you thought the GT350 should be, but the 350 was like the actual sports car,
if you will.
And that makes sense that you want that with the four-speed as opposed to the auto.
Yep.
But 66 Hertz, four-speed versus not.
It's no contest.
Yeah, four-speed.
You take it.
You also probably pay the premium and take it.
That's what's so weird.
I'm so glad you brought up the Mustang Shelby piece because I've been
thinking about this question in general a lot more recently.
Somewhat in the context of those cars, I also like 69s.
We had a couple of really good 69 GT350s on the site, which are really interesting to me,
with the big fiberglass snout and all the knack of ducks and everything.
But it's really been torturing me on hot rods because so many hot rods,
which is very traditional, have an automatic behind the thing.
And I'm always like, I need a manual, but I'm like, do I?
And also, it really limits what you can buy because you can see a build that's
just perfect, except it has a C4 automatic transmission or a turbo high-turbo 350.
350 slash 350.
It's such a great line.
Oh my gosh.
Anyway, that's a good debate.
My dad's roaster had a power glide in it, and it was weird to drive,
but you were like, this is how they did them alive back in the day.
Yeah, 100%.
So yeah, whatever it was.
Two gears.
That's all you needed.
High and low.
And two gears clunking in and out of gear.
It was awesome.
All right.
Let me hit you guys with just a few more.
Here's one that I thought maybe you could spark interesting debate.
What is a modification that you loved but have soured on?
And while you guys are chewing on it, I'll tell you the one that's...
I've got another kind of semi-hot take.
I do not...
And this was really a moment of clarity for me when I was thinking about this.
I do not like aftermarket wheels anymore on almost any car.
Oh, come on.
I can't think of...
P30M3, right now.
No, stop.
You've got to.
No, little.
Have to.
No, I don't agree.
Have to plus one it.
No, I don't agree.
The 15s are sad, sad, sad.
That was all I wanted was like...
But the 16 OEMs that I had online, that's where it's...
They look good.
That's where it's...
But I like little wheels and sidewall tires.
Oh, boy.
And I like the styled 14-inch Mustang wheels also,
which I had to bite my tongue when we were...
I know.
Style steel wheels.
I know.
Not only am I upsetting listeners, but I'm upsetting my boss in the room.
You're fine.
I know.
Please do.
I mean, to that taste, you can be all over wherever you want.
But, man, you got to be into aftermarket wheels.
Come on.
I mean, I like individual aftermarket wheels still,
but there's almost no car that I want where I wouldn't want some
version of a stock wheel tire set up.
And ride height, all of it.
There's some nostalgia steering back towards like...
I went back to steel wheels on my FJ40, right?
I had aluminum wheels on it for decades,
and now I've re-did the truck, so I went back to white steels.
Yeah.
I love mini lights, and almost every time I see them on a car,
I'm like, nope.
I'd rather have the factory wheel.
More.
Well, we said that.
You said that, but in particular, about the 240Z.
Yeah.
A lot of time.
But what about the username dropped on once?
I know.
I needed to bury it.
It needs to go out in the backyard.
Where are you?
Day or nay?
Man, I feel like if you can continue the sort of historical accuracy
of the look while improving the proportions,
that's a weird balance to try and do.
So, for example, steel wheels in the FJ, but the tires are way oversized,
right?
And that is improving.
Yes, indeed they are.
They are.
It's improving the proportions of it while still celebrating the history of the car,
which I think is an important needle of the thread there.
The same with the E30M3, right?
It's still the right basket weaves, but it's a little bit larger.
People who don't know it, when they look at it,
they think it looks better, but I don't know why.
But I'll go full BBSLMs on an M3 if it sits right and has the right set of minus 1, minus 2.
These are things in my head.
You're judging me.
You're judging me.
No, no, not necessarily.
And you can do period mods that are period appropriate.
You can do all kinds of stuff.
The only one that I would say that does bother me a lot,
in my youth, probably thought it was cool, is the wrong steering wheel.
Small diameter, aggressive steering wheels that has been irking me.
And I see that knowing that I have a smaller MOMO wheel on my 911,
mostly it's out of function, so I can actually physically drive it.
But I don't like looking at it.
A huge diameter spindly wooden steering wheel used to be the bane of my existence,
and now I love it.
I really am having problems.
Yeah.
Just going back to all of them.
Prototipoes are like thumbs down for me now.
I see them and I'm like.
If you look at the early days of BAT, I was just going to say,
like I used to recommend everybody put a prototipo in every car.
BMW, Porsche, Mustang.
All this thing needs to be dialed is a prototipo.
And people just started to give me trouble with that.
But rightfully so.
It's so great that all of that is permanent online forever.
And people point to it and are like, really, what were you talking about?
Because stuff comes and goes.
Right.
Whether for an individual or just like trends overall.
Things change.
Magnus sells all his outlaw cars.
Yes.
Ideas change about what's cool.
That's right.
And you kind of evolve and move on.
Is there anything for you, Randy, that you used to think was rad and don't anymore?
Oh, man.
I mean, obviously, when we were younger, like crazy race stuff for the street
was like a great idea.
Like, let me go down to Speed Merchant in San Jose and buy all the automator stuff.
They'll sell me, you know?
And then you buy like, you know, okay, I was thumbing through the catalog
and there's a street spring and there's a race spring.
Clearly I need the race.
Correct.
Right.
That's the correct purchase.
Because maybe I'll see a racetrack some year.
So, okay, great.
So you put those in and just rattle yourself.
It's so great.
Right.
So I think I've cooled on some of those ideas.
Part of that's just being old, but maybe part of that is being maybe wise, but probably just old.
Here's another one for you.
Have your guys' thoughts.
And this is true for me again.
Have your thoughts changed on the DBs from an exhaust?
I used to love.
So for me, it would be big, big wheels, slam it to the ground, loud exhaust.
And now I want to do, in fact, on a couple of my cars, I've undone that to them.
They came to me that way and I was like, I want small wheels and soft suspension and a quiet exhaust.
Really what I want is I want it to feel like it did when it was new.
I kind of want to experience the car, what it was like when it was new.
I'm so pro DBs.
DBs.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
I lost great pipes.
I've just, I've not had, I mean, none of my cars have really ever been,
probably as loud as I would have wanted them to be, actually, because I've always been so
conservative about that and so careful and concerned about it.
I just did the exhaust last year on the 911 and I back-dated it at all.
And ended up going with a standard Danks muffler.
It was just out of fear of like, what if it's too loud and now I have to pay to replace it again?
And I was just, I don't know.
I get a little nervous with that, but I could always go louder.
I used to love annoying people.
Like my boss's 944 semi-track car had no, it just was the header and no exhaust at all beyond
that.
And I used to take that to lunch every day and I loved it.
It was just straight pipe 944.
And I thought it was awesome.
And now I cringe so much, I'm thinking GT3 experience that we've had recently, right?
Like I just don't want to be that guy that everyone's staring at.
That was extreme.
Yeah, hold on.
I'm still PTSD on your wheels, call stock wheels.
So I'm scrolling the site.
So would you, you know, the lowest, lowest spec 95993 coupe?
You're trying to think of the worst wheel of all time.
The dumbest wheel that they've offered.
It's like a 16-inch cup.
And it's horrific.
And you'd be like, I'm keeping it like that.
But here's the thing about that car, that car also came with a 17.
So like there is an option, but I actually would be okay with that.
I have a buddy, shout out Tony, my first roommate.
When I moved out, we've been buddies forever.
We were just texting today about going to a Dave Matthews show 23 years ago today
in North Carolina.
Anyway, his take when 996s were new is like 18-inch twists only.
Like the 17-inch wheel ruins the car and he still holds that take.
And I'm like, 17s are fine.
You're down with it.
You're okay with it.
18s are better, I will admit.
But those are both factory wheels.
So that still fits within my kind of thing.
But I would actually be fine with the dinky wheels on 993.
Another thing that's evolved for me already is I don't even like 993s as
much as I used to.
They used to be my favorite.
Still love affair, still love affair for me.
Okay.
I've said all the controversial things.
You guys both have places to go.
Any parting shots and the other things that you want to share,
we can do more of these later.
We only got through three.
I love it.
No, I'm just scrolling the site looking at wheels on everything.
You're trying to fight the car with the worst stock wheel to challenge me.
To make sure you would not accept it.
So far, you haven't come up with one.
That's a challenge to listeners out there.
There's an argument for like in those situations,
you bring up the tiny wheels that everyone changes out.
At some point, you're the unique person.
You're the one that stands out by having those dinky little small wheels.
You know what supports your view?
Fuchs on a 356.
That's your unhappy place.
But wait, but what wheels did you have on the Kia?
They were aftermarket.
They were 15, so they weren't too big, but they were...
I gotta look at that.
This is tricky.
So yeah, you can look it up.
It's one family owned car.
McGee, it was in 2017.
It's one of our earliest years.
One family owned.
Is that the Porter family?
Yeah.
My aunt Debbie, shout out.
She bought it new at Eliopulos Motors in Ridgecrest, California.
Is that the one that's your license plate?
I took the plate and put it on the...
Yeah, but my blue plate on that.
Did you ever see my blue plate on the car?
It was 237 car.
And I only ever had the rear plate.
I shouldn't have given it up.
It's a 71.
Oh, it doesn't have hyphens in it because we didn't know.
Your car had the four legs pressed steel.
So those did come on VWs.
Mine were off a 914.
And I had them custom widened.
So they were staggered.
So the front had 185s and the rear had 285s.
And we cut the center out of the barrel on the back
so that the offset was correct.
That car was dialed.
237 car.
237 car.
That was your license plate.
Yeah, that car was great.
That was a great car.
That's the car I maybe miss the most.
So cool.
Follow my daily drivers other than the turbo coup.
5326.
5326.
2007.
10 grand.
So much history in that car.
10 to 5.
Yeah.
Nice guy in Canada bought it.
That's awesome.
All right, boys.
Well, this is a pleasure as always.
Anything we want to tease, Randy?
Anything we want to mention?
Got a couple of events coming up.
I think we'll announce them soon.
We've got one in Delaware in May that's definitely happening.
That's coming soon.
I know, dude.
We are almost one quarter of the way through 2026.
Yeah.
Like only a week away from that.
Can you believe it?
Measured by BAT auctions.
Or do you use the calendar to measure your life
or like lot numbers to measure your life?
I'm turning into such a businessman.
I use quarters, Q1, Q2, which is gross.
Sorry, go ahead.
No worries.
I think a lot of staff members measure life at BAT
based off lot numbers.
Yes.
Yeah.
We totally do.
Is there any other life, Beck?
Is there any other life?
Yeah, we're jamming through some lot numbers, aren't we?
Yeah, lot numbers are coming.
Big ones are coming up, some milestones.
20 years.
So a couple of milestones that we got to talk about.
Yeah.
Super fun doing this with you guys.
Always a pleasure.
I appreciate people listening and contributing
to those questions of the week.
It's an interesting one to subscribe to and read
and try to keep up with.
I dare you to try to keep up with it.
It's so much.
Because there's so much going on.
And honestly, favorite part of my day so far
is just going to that category
and just scrolling through the lead image for all of them.
They just make you laugh and they're engaging and crazy.
Our team does a good job.
They do a great job.
Well, thanks, gents.
And thanks to all of you for listening, as always.
Feedback can come to podcast at bringitrailer.com.
We will catch you next time.
About this episode
Randy Porter and Alex trade stories while also giving a UK sneak peek for Bring a Trailer’s new UK landing page and local partner Sports Purpose at Bistro Motion. They discuss what they saw and drove—Porsche-heavy garages, a Renault 5 EV/Alpine vibe, and left-hand-drive oddities—plus Randy’s appearance on the Intercooler podcast. The bulk of the show digs into “questions of the week,” including how the comment-driven series started, favorite old prompts, and debates like best automatic cars, mods that aged poorly (especially wheels), and how daily-driver histories shape taste.
This BaT Podcast episode, Randy, Beck, and Alex preview some upcoming news and events from BaT in the UK—stay tuned for more! Randy also recounts test driving the Renault 5 EV, talks about what to do when your grandpa asks "so what's your story," finally starts his letter-series Chrysler (IYKYK), and takes a spirited rip around the Marin Headlands in his LoCort.
The trio then move on to the meat of the episode: answering some of our favorite Questions of the Week from all of BaT history. If you're not already hooked on this longstanding BaT feature, a favorite of the community and staff alike, please do yourself a favor and subscribe here!