QOTD: What's Your BAT Poison?
I wrote earlier this week about how BAT has broken me.
In the post, I mentioned how I browse for Fox-body Mustangs. I do this because my dad owned one when I was young and I owned one for a few years between high school and early college.
I suspect many of us have one, two, or even three models we look for when we browse sites like BAT.
So, what’s yours? And why? Is a car you’ve always coveted, or a model you once owned an example of? Or maybe a parent or loved one had one?
I also look up early ’60s Impalas because my dad and I planned to restore one, but lack of time and money caused it to sit till he sold it. I also look up the Impala SS from the mid-90s because those cars were cool and my uncle had one for a few years.
I’d also be curious — do you scan BAT and similar sites only for cool stuff, or are you looking for a daily driver? Do you troll for say, late-model Accords that are gently used? Or for that kind of thing do you stick to classified sites like AutoTrader?
Sound off below.
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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MR2 for me!! Been a TTAC follower for several years Finally registered today as I couldn’t resist the BaT topic. Got a thing for old school Toyotas. BaT has plenty of examples! I bought a beater MR2 8 years ago. It ended up being so much fun that I found a decent MR2 Supercharged on BaT as a ‘featured’ car- not an auction vehicle. After that, I actually started bidding on them on BaT. I first actually tried buying on eBay- eBay was a sniping joke and BaT adds two minutes to the clock anytime a mid is placed with less than two minutes to go in the auction!! Have 7 BaT acquired Toyotas now. 6 MR2s and a T100.
Lexus GS and LS and 1960s Mercurys
Lots of great options mentioned here, my top four I always look at are: Aston DB9- someone said it possibly the sexiest car of the past 25 years, still haven’t been crazy enough to pull the trigger 64-65 convertible Mustang, wife’s dream car 67 GTO in Blue, my first car I loved Any Restomod 70’s bronco tricked out with the latest and greatest
Don't browse BAT. Would love an old Power Wagon, but not from BAT.