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BaT is headed to Road America next week for our return to the WeatherTech Vintage Weekend with Brian Redman ( sign up to come  if you haven't already)! So we're revisiting our remastered 2021 discussion with BaT user  Pedro , otherwise known as Peter Cunningham – he of an illustrious racing career in all manner of Hondas with the team he founded in 1987, RealTime Racing. Randy and Howard d...

Alex talks to mechanic, engineer, former race team crew chief, podcaster, and racing documentarian extraordinaire, Marshall Pruett. They cover a wide range of topics including an app recommendation; how writing relates to photography and filmmaking; being "part of a packing list": growing up in a Bay Area British car repair shop: street parking a race car: world-building via the Indy 500...

Alex and Randy review our  recent blockbuster meet-up  at the Portland, Oregon facility of Matt Crandall's Avant-Garde Collection, known as  BaT seller and Local Partner 911r  on BaT. The move on to discuss Matt's club racing career, exciting news in upcoming vintage races, interesting cars in the 911r pipeline, the team and effort it takes to operate at the highest levels as a top BaT sel...

Alex interviews Karl Thomson, an accomplished race driver and team owner who, along with his wife Jill, is the co-founder of  Compass Collective , a true-blue superstar  BaT Local Partner . The Southern California transplant talks the correct length for an Airstream trailer; relives a family trip from Toronto to Acapulco in a diesel Rabbit; rationalizes race cars as quality parenting; describes a...

Alex and Randy issue quick non-sequitur opinions on the Dekon Monza and an appealingly basic Fairlane before launching into a recap of the recent Curated Cars & Coffee event in The Netherlands. They then launch into the main event: Randy's subsequent five-country journey through the Alps to  Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este on Lake Como in his newly acquired 356A coupe, father (and...

We're trying something new this week: a guest video episode from another podcast we know and love. Join BaT President Randy Nonnenberg, BaT Local Partner in the Netherlands Kenan Aksular, and car collector Herbert van Kuik to rehash the recent Curated Cars & Coffee event at van Kuik's beautiful facility just south of Amsterdam. Follow along! Links for the listings discussed in this episode: Me...

We're trying something new this week: a guest episode from another podcast we know and love.  Join BaT President Randy Nonnenberg, BaT Local Partner in the Netherlands Kenan Aksular, and car collector Herbert van Kuik to rehash the recent  Curated Cars & Coffee  event at van Kuik's beautiful farmhouse just south of Amsterdam. Follow along! Links for the listings discussed in this episo...

Alex and Tyler parse the intricacies of San Francisco weather and Ducati sport tourers before delving into the topic of the day: the recent Quail MotoFest at which BaT held our third annual motorcycle gathering. They cover Bimotas, Pops Yoshimura, Troy Lee's passion for his work, the mercifully reasonable weather in Carmel Valley, developing bonds with our motorcycle sellers, and the dedicated...

Alex and road/track/circle/oval racer extraordinaire, dirt bike fan, dealership principal, and shrewd investor Boris Said talk about the life lessons and big breaks that led him from an early life of crime to one of the most widely varied racing careers of anyone on the planet. They cover Said's (very) early days as a car dealer, his sudden decision to go motor racing after reluctantly attending a...

One Year is back! Randy, Alex, Zac, and Beck get into it for 1972. They set the stage with happenings in the arts and on track, display their ignorance of the modern STP product line, and engage in vocab-related self reflection before descending into a pitched battle to see who can leave out the most obvious Italian GT cars!  Follow along! Links for the listings discussed in this episode: 03:34  S...

Alex, Zac, and Beck get together to lick self-inflicted wounds; take a charmingly pessimistic view of what constitutes middle age; discuss how having a family influences one's driving style; compare the safety of a GT3 vs a handgun; talk about the changing tastes and time constraints associated with aging; equate driving in the Bay Area to driving on track; reveal the perception of a sports ca...

Randy and Alex bring on special guest and podcast newcomer Robbie Pyle, the Curation Manager for BaT (if you've never met Robbie, you must not hang out at California car events enough). They reminisce about the first local rallies and driving events that really got them hooked and enmeshed with the car community, and talk about how important it is to get out and use an old car with people who...

In episode 118 of the BaT Podcast, Alex, Randy, and Howard go over a brief event recap; a Saab record holder; the "full mileage discount"; how much raw performance can be had for under (or  well  under) $40k; scary prospects from the likes of AMG and Aston Martin; the ideal four-Porsche driveway for value seekers; and what's in store for the first-year Bentayga.      Follow along! Li...

Alex and Beck review some recent highlights on BaT including a pair of record-breaking 206 Dinos, an understated Singer, a fascinating NSX result, and more. They discuss big news for Big Willow, Leno's Law, vintage SoCal fast food chains, percolating race car tech, the design legacy of the GT40, the backwards baseball cap in automotive form, and the ideal color for a 2002 Turbo before wrapping...

Alex and Maurice Merrick, creator and host of the always-fascinating  Horsepower Heritage   podcast, talk at BaT HQ about disappearing Mazdas, the most dangerous Super Beetle, a Series Land Rover addiction, automotive first right of refusal, vintage motorcycle personalities, and Napoleonic steam-powered artillery tractors before moving on to a new take on everyone's favorite game with a focus...

Alex and Matt Farah, he of  The Smoking Tire , two Westside Classic Car Storage facilities, and an enviable place on the  Road & Track  masthead, sit down in Farah's own TST studio to talk about what 166 trucks' worth of concrete will get you; the sobering math of car storage in the city; his lack of interest in world domination; why he still makes video content; the highest job title...

We're giving Alex and the guys the week off for the first time since restarting the BaT podcast in January 2024. This week, we serve you a reheated and much-better-sounding version of Alex's February 2024 interview with the one-and-only, the legendary, the beloved, Peter Egan—he of  Side Glances  in  Road & Track , of countless harebrained-slash-inspirational road trips, of April Fools...

Alex and Beck spend some time catching up before moving on to a favorite subject at BaT: why we write the way we do. Topics range from the joys of using a vehicle for what it's for,  the  Sierra, the ski resort duopoly, transportation conundrums, Porsche shop updates, NSX pipe dreams, the true cost of the ultimate BaT photo gallery, and open bars at school auctions. Then, to the meat of the matter...

Randy sits down with Ford Motor Company's own Jim Farley, otherwise known as  fordman21  in the BaT community, for a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion. Jim generously takes the time to talk about how his early experiences led to a lifetime of flipping cars; his own podcast,  DRIVE with Jim Farley ; an unexpected and, one supposes, uncommon skill for a Big Three CEO; getting yelled at by...

Alex invites Randy and Beck to talk room temperature issues, debate pronunciation of co-opted brand names, give a sneak peek at upcoming BaT events, discuss complicated child transport scenarios, hit a collective mental block about French motorcycles, lament the spreading of sacred regional fast food chains, ponder the RUFiest RUF, court rage on Instagram, and rue over-racing street cars. They con...

A new combination of combatants sits down to list out their preferred rides if it were 26 years ago. Alex, Zac, and Beck get in an early dig at the wholly innocent 318ti before discussing their first cars; Zac's real post-high-school destiny; the true meaning of 99; a boy band faux pas; Zac's yuppie destiny; important weight calculations for C5 Corvettes; and the last two pretty Ferraris....

The team is fresh back from the BaT Meet-Up with OTTO B&BS in Arizona, followed by a whirlwind trip to France for Retromobile. They cover impressions of the various sales techniques at both; Alex's new body art; the wide variety of cars and people at our Arizona event; fascination with a 5:30am rock band; Zac asking hard questions; a quick Hemi lesson; the curious but true geographical rea...

This audio-only version has been optimized for those players that do not offer video capabilities. Amidst the noise and dust of a reroofing job at BaT HQ, Nicole Johnson and Mike Badami, the production partners responsible for  Nicole Johnson’s Detour  on YouTube, talk with Alex about enthusiastic enthusiasts; questionable trips in Porsches; a preference for dumb cars; the perils of one’s liveliho...

Amidst the noise and dust of a reroofing job at BaT HQ, Nicole Johnson and Mike Badami, the (old married couple) (mother and daughter) (Statler and Waldorf) production partners responsible for  Nicole Johnson's Detour  on YouTube, talk with Alex about enthusiastic enthusiasts; questionable trips in Porsches; a preference for dumb cars; the perils of one's livelihood depending on the safety and rel...

In episode 107 of the BaT Podcast, Randy speaks with Todd Zuercher and Andrew Norton about their mutual love, the classic racing Bronco. They discuss the archaic days of the Early Bronco on the Early Internet, applying learnings from the SAAC to Baja Broncos, the value of staying in touch with someone you don't like for the sake of acquiring their special vehicle, taking damage in vintage iron...