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• The One-Year Garage: 1997

  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 199718:46  Volvo 850R21:47  One of the Rarest and Most Gas-Guzzling Shooting Brakes Can Be Yours25:39  BMW E36 M3/4/529:21  1988 BMW M3 Evolution II30:40  4,800-Mile 2001 Acura Integra Type R33:26 Mr. Bean’s Twice-Wrecked Daily-Driver McLaren F134:12  Triumph Italia35:12  Porsche 993 Turbo Model Page42:46  150-Mile 1993 Ford F-150 SVT Lightning44:52  Toyota Mega Cruiser47:44  Porsche 993 911 Model Page50:36  BMW 850 CSi52:02  Euro 45k-Kilometer 1997 Ferrari 550 Maranello54:18  Porsche 911 GT1 Strassenversion: Road to Track and Back57:28  26-Years-Owned 1997 Aviat Husky A-11:00:38  1997 Honda Accord British Touring CarGot suggestions for our next guest from the BaT community or One Year Garage episode? Let us know at [email protected]!

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• Revisiting Colin Comer, Adventures in Shelby

  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 ProfileTom Cotter's Cobra StoryBaT Exclusive: The Pastor's Bugeye SpriteColin Comer's books available for purchaseThe Comer CollectionColin's Classic AutoGot suggestions for our next guest from the BaT community or One Year Garage episode? Let us know at [email protected]!

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• Peter Cunningham and RealTime Collection Hall, Remastered

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

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• Marshall Pruett, Motorsport's Prolific Word Mechanic

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

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• A Portland Recap and the 911r Interview, Part Deux

  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 Roller10:26  OTTO Car Club12:35   Apex Motor Club in Arizona14:56  1968 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible L88 4-Speed15:11  Ex–James Garner/AIR 1968 Chevrolet Corvette L88 Convertible Race Car17:12 Lot #1000: BaT’s 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Split-Window Coupe18:57 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Split-Window Coupe L75 327/300 4-SpeedGot suggestions for our next guest from the BaT community or One Year Garage episode? Let us know at [email protected]!

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