Bring a Trailer and Cars & Bids Appreciation Thread

[cantunamunch]

I dunno. That Lola makes me feel totally Speed Racer.

1969 Lola T70 Mk.3B Coupe

Bid for the chance to own a 1969 Lola T70 Mk.3B Coupe at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #89,697.

bringatrailer.com

 

[Philpug]

$3.8 million gets you 1479 hp and 217 mph. Quite the deal.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2...e=dm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2022-11-06

I still have yet to see a Bugatti in real life. I am still uncertain they actually exist.

 

[dbostedo]

5 days left on the F40 and currently at $1.6M, the 28th highest bid ever on BaT.

Bidding ended with no sale at $2,475,026 on the 4th. The 8th highest bid ever on BaT.

That Bugatti mentioned above will bump it down to 9th. The last Chiron Pur Sport is currently the second highest bid (and didn't sell) at $4.4M.

 

[James]

I still have yet to see a Bugatti in real life. I am still uncertain they actually exist.

I’ve seen a few. I’ll try to take a photo if I see one again.

 

[Philpug]

I’ve seen a few. I’ll try to take a photo if I see one again.

I need to see one myself. I also have yet to see a rattle snake around Reno, therefore they do NOT exist here either . For transparency, I have seen one in Carson City, so I do know they are down there.

 

[Andy Mink]

I also have yet to see a rattle snake around Reno

Weren't you with me when we saw the rattler on Peavine? Or was that Jeff?

 

[Philpug]

Weren't you with me when we saw the rattler on Peavine? Or was that Jeff?

Jeff

 

[cantunamunch]

Jeff

*Makes a note to send package to Phil the next time he spots a car-flattened** timber rattler - that way we'll know there's at least one in Reno, stink be damned *


**Probably won't have been a Bugatti tho.

 

[Joby Graham]

I still have yet to see a Bugatti in real life. I am still uncertain they actually exist.

A gentleman in my town would occasionally take his Type 35 out on sunny, Sunday afternoons.

 

[johnnyvw]

Growing up, one of my neighbors was into collecting brass era cars. Nice weekends he would take the neighborhood kids for rides. One of them was a Mercer race car, I heard rumors it was a "death car", i.e. one that a driver was killed in. This was early to mid 60's, so a 1913 Mercer was only about 50 years old at that point...age wise that would be like having a 72 Mach 1 Mustang today. Makes you realize how quickly car technology progressed in the early 20th century compared to now.

 

[tball]

Makes you realize how quickly car technology progressed in the early 20th century compared to now.

But look how big that screen is on the dash!

 

[James]

Growing up, one of my neighbors was into collecting brass era cars. Nice weekends he would take the neighborhood kids for rides. One of them was a Mercer race car, I heard rumors it was a "death car", i.e. one that a driver was killed in. This was early to mid 60's, so a 1913 Mercer was only about 50 years old at that point...age wise that would be like having a 72 Mach 1 Mustang today. Makes you realize how quickly car technology progressed in the early 20th century compared to now.

It’s interesting on those early cars how high they were. Enormous ground clearance and wheels. Relating more to horse drawn carriages.

 

[cantunamunch]

It’s interesting on those early cars how high they were. Enormous ground clearance and wheels. Relating more to horse drawn carriages.

Same problems (massively unpaved roads, bias ply tires with oval contact patch, low available power, suspension that requires big elaborate leaf springs front and back), same tools.

Making the wheels bigger -> better steering response because the contact patch is longer, less deflection on any given rock hit (suspension can have less travel), easier forward roll.

 

[James]

Bring a trailer to repair-

 

[dbostedo]

Bring a trailer to repair-

"Some people have more money than sense" is the phrase I've always heard. But there were a couple of those that were not the super-car owners fault!

 

[Tom K.]

I still have yet to see a Bugatti in real life. I am still uncertain they actually exist.

SV/Ketchum annual speed run always sees a few.......i've never been but a friend there says it's amazing.

 

[johnnyvw]

It’s interesting on those early cars how high they were. Enormous ground clearance and wheels. Relating more to horse drawn carriages.

For good reason,,,LOL

 

[cantunamunch]

For good reason,,,LOL

^Crossing ploughed fields is just one of the reasons the 2CV was absolutely amazing ...

 

[James]

^Crossing ploughed fields is just one of the reasons the 2CV was absolutely amazing ...

Very interesting! Surprising no one took that up for other cars. I got a ride in one once but it was in nyc.

No one drives across plowed fields except farmers in tractors, and armies. They want them frozen.

 

[cantunamunch]

Very interesting! Surprising no one took that up for other cars.

I know of a couple of Russian attempts - the center of the country was basically a mud bath in spring/early summer - but none of them went to a known consumer model.

I got a ride in one once but it was in nyc.

On crown-cobbled streets, especially ones built before cars, they were amazing. But you had to get used to momentum cornering swaaawaaay