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Yesterday brought just over $9 million in online vehicle sales, headlined by the Gunther Werks Porsche that cleared the $1 million mark.

What always fascinates me about these big-ticket cars is tracing who buys them and what else sits in their garages. The new owner of this Porsche has a visible trail of purchases on BaT worth exploring, but chances are he’s buying from plenty of other places too.

After years around major collections, I’m still surprised by how many serious collectors have never heard of BaT. They know Hemmings as a magazine and Hagerty as an insurance brand, not as auction platforms. Which tells you how much untapped potential still exists to educate, connect, and grow this market and how much room there is to bring new buyers and sellers into the fold.

YESTERDAY’S TOP 5 SALES

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In yesterday’s newsletter we asked you ‘Who had the tougher position in the RUF BTR result?’. If you remember the auction ended RNM after a bit of back and forth between the seller and a ‘bidder’. As you can see the results of what you think were pretty conclusive.

Below are some of your comments.

Auctions To Keep An Eye On

This isn’t a garage queen. It’s a CSL that’s lived. Re-shelled after an on-track incident, reimagined by Simpson Motorsport, and still HPI clear. Purists will flinch, but drivers will grin.

At a time when untouched CSLs are chasing £100k-plus, this one represents a different kind of appeal, a chance to drive the myth without worrying about stone chips or resale value. It’s had nearly £9,000 in fresh track-focused work, plus all the right upgrades: roll cage, Recaros, Intrax coilovers, surge tank.

For the right buyer, this isn’t damaged history, it’s liberated performance. The kind of CSL you can actually take to a circuit, use hard, and not apologize for it later.

And because it’s no reserve, it’ll sell. That’s the beauty here. The market will decide how much “purity” is really worth.

I had to double check this one was actually on Cars and Bids. A 1967 Plymouth Barracuda with a 540 cubic inch supercharged V8 and a full drag setup is not the kind of car you expect to find between M cars and 911s. But that’s exactly why it stands out.

This is not a half-measure build. Art Morrison frame rails, ten point cage, Dutchman rear, ProCharger F2, and an estimated twelve hundred horsepower. The owner reportedly spent around $200,000 making it happen. It’s loud, polished, and somehow still street legal, a purpose-built drag car that looks ready for both the strip and the spotlight.

There’s no official ET because it only made one trip to the drag strip before a fuel issue cut the run short. But everyone in the thread agrees, this thing was built for eights.

It also comes with a spare set of Bogart rears, runs on 110 octane, and can be tuned down to 92 if you really want to take it on the street. It’s not a cruiser. It’s a weapon that idles like it’s daring you to touch the throttle.

This Barracuda breaks the algorithm. It’s too wild to be typical, too good to ignore. And it’s a reminder that not every great auction is about logic or comps. Sometimes it’s just about a car that makes everyone stop scrolling. Oh and it’s on Cars & Bids and I wonder if Doug’s words ‘I'm happy to offer it on Cars & Bids’ is really what he’s thinking??

I can scroll past fifty modern AMGs without blinking, but this one made me pause. A 2008 SL55 AMG with the P30 Performance Package, the one Mercedes quietly built for people who wanted a little more Nürburgring and a little less Napa Valley.

Only about 45 cars got this treatment before production ended. And if you know what to look for, it’s basically a factory hot rod: limited-slip diff, 186 mph limiter, big brakes, Nürburgring-tuned suspension, SL65 front bumper, and that deep, mechanical whine from the supercharged 5.4-liter V8.

It’s subtle. No wild badges. No matte paint. Just 23,000 miles, a single long-term owner, and the kind of file folder full of receipts that tells you this car has been loved properly.

This is the sweet spot for AMG collectors. The last of the analog bruisers before everything went twin-turbo, dual-clutch, and fully digital. It’s the era when torque was real and traction control was more suggestion than rule.

And that’s the irony, for all the talk about investment-grade cars, this one’s still sitting around twenty grand with a few days left. Which feels like a secret. Because a supercharged V8 grand tourer with this rarity and provenance shouldn’t feel like a sleeper. Yet here we are.

If you know, you know.

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