In this latest installment of our popular One-Year Garage game, Alex, Beck, and podcast newcomer Cameron reveal their favorite cars, trucks, and wild cards of 1997, but not before explaining to young Cam the horrors of the Star Wars prequels he grew up with. Also: Schumacher and Villeneuve; the WALKinshaw Porsche WSC-95 at Le Mans; all three are old enough to be irritated by the vagaries of Google AI; wishful thinking about the availability of a manual transmission in the US-model Volvo 850R; a burnout instead of friendly wave; and a wilder wild card than usual.

Links for items discussed in this episode:

14:38  Current live listings from 1997

18:46  Volvo 850R

21:47  One of the Rarest and Most Gas-Guzzling Shooting Brakes Can Be Yours

25:39  BMW E36 M3/4/5

29:21  1988 BMW M3 Evolution II

30:40  4,800-Mile 2001 Acura Integra Type R

33:26 Mr. Bean’s Twice-Wrecked Daily-Driver McLaren F1

34:12  Triumph Italia

35:12  Porsche 993 Turbo Model Page

42:46  150-Mile 1993 Ford F-150 SVT Lightning

44:52  Toyota Mega Cruiser

47:44  Porsche 993 911 Model Page

50:36  BMW 850 CSi

52:02  Euro 45k-Kilometer 1997 Ferrari 550 Maranello

54:18  Porsche 911 GT1 Strassenversion: Road to Track and Back

57:28  26-Years-Owned 1997 Aviat Husky A-1

1:00:38  1997 Honda Accord British Touring Car

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Producer's note: Our man Alex is still recovering from our recent gathering in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, and will be back to regularly scheduled programming next week. In the meantime, we've bookended the vintage races at Road America with local legends Peter Cunningham and, today, a revisitation of our entertaining 2024 interview with Shelby impresario and all-around rascal Colin Comer.

Randy and Alex sit down with Shelby expert, restorer, journalist, author, and frequent BaT seller Colin Comer. They talk about his first MGB GT leading into the world of "bargain" Ferraris and his ultimate pathway to Shelby collection and expertise; a (literal) run-in with the law as a teenager in a rusty GTV; his hot take on the Cobra Daytona Coupe versus the plain-Jane roadster; sharing a Lister Knobbly with Sam Smith for a thousand miles; telling Keith Martin to stick to sports cars; the pitfalls and history-preserving rewards of being talked into book authorship while driving a 427 Cobra in the snow; buying "plenty" of Bugeye Sprites on the advice of Peter Egan; and important things scrawled on bathroom walls.

Links for items discussed in this episode:

CC350 BaT Member Profile
Tom Cotter's Cobra Story
BaT Exclusive: The Pastor's Bugeye Sprite
Colin Comer's books available for purchase
The Comer Collection
Colin's Classic Auto

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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 discuss his years of competition success before moving on to one of the most important Honda collections on earth, his RealTime Collection Hall. So much has happened for the race team in the four years since we recorded this episode, and we look forward to catching up with Peter and friends at his home track in a week's time! 

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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 radio broadcast; being a teenage jerk while Mario Andretti is trying to do his job; teaching an Indycar to play the national anthem; the stopping point in a race crew career; a stint at the worst biotech firm in Berkeley; Impostor Syndrome: Reporter Edition; favorite motorsports writers, photographers, and podcasts; emergency sponsorships; 1,620 episodes his podcast; and an ode to the racing and overall car community.

You can find Marshall in many places including on his website, as host of the Marshall Pruett Podcast, on Racer.com, in Road & Track, or at ESPN.com.

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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 seller, the beauty of the Local Partner model for those with more cars to sell than time to sell them, the Nailhead-powered '32 Ford coupe of Alex's dreams, unfortunate grounds for a fire extinguisher review, vintage NASCAR for the hobby racer, and the price of (however briefly) feeling like a man.

Follow along! Links for the listings discussed in this episode:

2:50  BaT Meet-Up, June 8 in Portland, Oregon, with 911r—Gallery Updated!

7:43  1999 Jordan 199 F1 Roller

10:26  OTTO Car Club

12:35   Apex Motor Club in Arizona

14:56  1968 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible L88 4-Speed

15:11  Ex–James Garner/AIR 1968 Chevrolet Corvette L88 Convertible Race Car

17:12 Lot #1000: BaT’s 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Split-Window Coupe

18:57 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Split-Window Coupe L75 327/300 4-Speed

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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 race career that spans from a lucky barn find to winning at the biggest tracks in the US; explains what drives a racer out of the driver's seat and into team ownership; says many unprompted nice things about BaT; and details his strategy and methods for presenting cars on the site.

Follow along! Links for the listings discussed in this episode:

22:12  Acura ARX-05 DPi Race Car

31:47  He Said, He Said (with Boris Said)

35:30  karlt user profile

35:41  1966 Chevrolet El Camino

36:47 Meyers Manxter 2+2

36:59 Meyers Manx Tarmac Touring Edition

37:21  Petersen Automotive Museum

37:33  Bruce Meyer on Collecting, Cobras, and Lowriders

40:38  1970 Jaguar XKE Series II Roadster and 1986 Porsche 911 Carrera Coupe M491

41:39 1963 Studebaker Lark Daytona Wagonaire

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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 lucky birthday boy) in tow. It's all there: countless hairpins in the passes, attempts to keep up with a Gullwing, windscreen wiper rationing, a thousand miles in Speedster seats, the Goldfinger Rolls, an impressive Bentley, and a hair-raising sprint to Munich on the Autobahn to cap it all off.

Follow along! Links for the listings discussed in this episode:

1:12  350-Powered 1936 Cord 810 Custom Two-Door Westchester

3:05  Image Street Classics user page

3:12 Event Coverage: Curated Cars & Coffee with ImagestreetClassics and BaT in the Dutch Countryside

5:57 LT1-Powered 1962 Ferrari 250 GTE 2+2 5-Speed

7:31  BaT Alumni Gathering, July 19 at Road America in Wisconsin—Fill Out The Interest Form Now!

26:21  1960 Riva 20′ Super Florida

41:31  Join BaT and Dutch Local Partner ImageStreetClassics for the Historic Grand Prix at Zandvoort, June 20-22

41:33  BaT Alumni Gathering, July 19 at Road America in Wisconsin—Fill Out The Interest Form Now!

42:56  Runge Cars website

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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 episode:

Meyers Manxter 2+2 live on BaT

Twin Spark 2.0L-Powered 1969 Alfa Romeo GT 1300 Junior live on BaT

1.6L-Powered 1963 Alfa Romeo Giulietta TI 5-Speed live on BaT

Got suggestions for our next guest from the BaT community or One Year Garage episode? Let us know at [email protected]!

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:

Meyers Manxter 2+2 live on BaT

Twin Spark 2.0L-Powered 1969 Alfa Romeo GT 1300 Junior live on BaT

1.6L-Powered 1963 Alfa Romeo Giulietta TI 5-Speed live on BaT

Got suggestions for our next guest from the BaT community or One Year Garage episode? Let us know at [email protected]!

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 team of specialists at BaT.

Follow along! Links for the listings discussed in this episode:

5:57 Event Coverage: Third Annual BaT Moto Gathering at The Quail MotoFest

9:45  Every Bimota Tesi on BaT

10:17 Bimota Make Page

13:52 shooker user profile

13:55 1933 Harley-Davidson VC w/LT Sidecar

20:04  Troy Lee Designs

22:56  1972 BMW R50/5

23:00 StaffordRestorations user profile

28:32 Every Moto Guzzi Airone on BaT

29:32  1960 Moto Guzzi Falcone Sport

32:20  Every Schwinn bicycle on BaT

32:38 MSCLASSICCARSLLC user profile

37:43  Fastbike user profile

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