Bring a Trailer
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Oct 30, 2026
Rick SchmidtGUEST
That's a huge plug.
Rick SchmidtGUEST
Bring a Trailer obviously has become a very top notch market for buying.
Rick SchmidtGUEST
They seem to be literally picking and choosing what they allow to sell on their platform.
Rick SchmidtGUEST
So it's usually higher quality stuff.
Rob KibbeHOST
And I would say that his answer of where he would sell today is maybe different than where it would have been five years ago and probably different than where it would be five years from now.
Rob KibbeHOST
But today, Rick would say, if you're going to take it to an auction, go to Mecham.
Rob KibbeHOST
And if you're going to sell it online, you just bring a trailer.
Rob KibbeHOST
There's a lot there that you really can't argue with.
Kyle CheromchaHOST
And The Drivecast is our weekly show giving you an inside look at the biggest stories, controversies, and people shaping the automotive industry.
Kyle CheromchaHOST
Today on the show, we've got a good one with Howard Swig, who is now the president of Bring-A-Trailer.
Kyle CheromchaHOST
He's the man in charge of the website that changed how online car auctions are done, and he's been there through its growth stages.
Kyle CheromchaHOST
And it's been a journey, right? What started as basically
Kyle CheromchaHOST
Yeah, almost there.
Kyle CheromchaHOST
I digress.
Kyle CheromchaHOST
Howard took over running Bring a Trailer earlier this year, and while the site is undeniably a powerhouse, all that growth has brought some scrutiny.
Kyle CheromchaHOST
For one, Bring a Trailer routinely sets eye-popping auction results that seem to reorder the market, especially for previously attainable enthusiast cars.
EdwinHOST
So since the quad ski video, we filmed it.
EdwinHOST
there's a bring a trailer auction for a quad ski.
EdwinHOST
And I was like, awesome.
EdwinHOST
Let's buy a real one and then do a video on my fake one versus a real one.
EdwinHOST
Exactly.
EdwinHOST
So So, yeah, that was pretty crazy.
EdwinHOST
But I was thinking it'd be hilarious to do a video fixing and testing the Chinese one and then throw it up on Bring a Trailer and be like one of one imported into North America.
StevenHOST
Technically, that's more rare than the Kid Rock edition, isn't it?
David TwohigGUEST
Any Clio, any hot Clio is a food.
Jez MedingerHOST
I mean, I spoke to James Turner from Sports Purpose on the Bring a Trailer segment last week, and I asked him about the state of the market and which cars would be like, what would be a snip right now in terms of where's the market going to go? I think you could do a hell of a lot worse than a Claude Williams.
Jez MedingerHOST
Yes, they're expensive to buy, but they're only going one way, in my opinion.
Andrew FrankelHOST
Particularly if it's a Williams car.
Andrew FrankelHOST
Excellent.
Jez MedingerHOST
Yeah.
Jez MedingerHOST
OK, so that brings us on to drumroll our Bring a Trailer Car of the Week, which this week, Andrew, and David, is a Ferrari 250 GTO... recreation, which is built on a 1978 400i chassis that's been shortened and now has a 575M engine in the front and a very nice, to my eye, fairly accurate looking body on it.
Jez MedingerHOST
So it's all Ferrari, but it is a recreation and it does look pretty special.
Andy HolstGUEST
And he was asking, hey, has the car shown up yet? And I told him no.
Andy HolstGUEST
And I said, you know, what's funny is when I watched the videos on the Bring Your Trailer ad, I haven't seen this car since 2005, 2006.
Andy HolstGUEST
And I watched the videos on Brinkshire and I could smell it.
Andy HolstGUEST
I could smell the interior.
Casey ParkinHOST
He had an NSX and an M5 at the time, the E39, and he's like, I got to get rid of one of them to buy this turbo from you.
Casey ParkinHOST
And I was like, well, I was like, I don't even remember what I said, but I was like, you should use this website called Bring a Trailer to sell your NSX.
Casey ParkinHOST
It was like right when that first came out.
Casey ParkinHOST
But anyway, I've always been of the mindset that buying the same car twice is, is a bad idea, right? We've talked about this before.
Casey ParkinHOST
He had great memories in it.
Casey ParkinHOST
I was like, all right, man, just be careful.
Casey ParkinHOST
And then he was bidding on this Zanardi car that sold on Bring a Trailer for a whole lot of money.
Casey ParkinHOST
He didn't end up with that one, but he was pretty close to getting it.
Art CervantesHOST
All right.
Art CervantesHOST
Well, I don't have a ton for you, but I do have some of the recent cars on my bring a trailer watch list, which are always exciting to see what they sold for.
Art CervantesHOST
So I'm going to jump right into it and see if Art can guess.
Art CervantesHOST
All right.
Art CervantesHOST
The sold price.
Waarren MadsenHOST
Okay.
Waarren MadsenHOST
And I'm glad to hear that it's bring a trailer sales because I've only been looking at a couple of recent cars and bids ones because they had that Willow Springs event and they auctioned off some cars over there.
Waarren MadsenHOST
Oh, yeah.
Lauren FixGUEST
You can't even find them.
Lauren FixGUEST
Like the Cayennes you can find on like Bring a Trailer or Cars and Bids.
Lauren FixGUEST
But, you know, they have high mileage.
Lauren FixGUEST
Mine doesn't because I don't drive it that often because I have other vehicles to drive.
Jay LenoGUEST
Yeah, go ahead.
Lukas CzingerGUEST
Some of the shenanigans going on in the, uh, with, uh, Bring a Trailer and Marshall Goldman.
Jay LenoGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
Lukas CzingerGUEST
Some of the overpriced car mark, uh, Porsches at Porsche San Luis Obispo, you know, selling for three...
Jez MedingerHOST
I am now picking up with James Turner from Sports Purpose on the morning of Monday, the 19th of October.
Jez MedingerHOST
And we are here to talk to you about this week's Bring a Trailer Car of the Week, which is a delightful looking 1973 Porsche 911.
Jez MedingerHOST
So James, Could you tell us a little bit about this splendid car?
James TurnerGUEST
Yeah, I mean, we would call it an ST Rep, but the way that BAT is, Rep has a different meaning for them in the way that they do listings, so they call it ST Style.
James TurnerGUEST
And there are a couple of very special and very famous ones that would be bought for more money.
James TurnerGUEST
So, yeah, it's a multi-thousand or million-pound car.
Jez MedingerHOST
And how much would you, well, what are you expecting this particular recreation or ST style car to go for? Because I have no idea, right? I mean, I look at that and I think, would I rather spend half a million quid on a Resto mod? Or actually, you know what? This car that's on Bring a Trailer right now, that'll do the job pretty nicely.
Jez MedingerHOST
And I imagine this auction is probably going to be less than half a million quid, isn't it?
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