{"id":497464,"date":"2018-04-01T01:52:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T08:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=56434"},"modified":"2024-12-27T01:18:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T01:18:51","slug":"bats-in-my-belfry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/bats-in-my-belfry\/","title":{"rendered":"BaTs in my Belfry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you\u2019ve been reading this space for any period of time (yes, I\u2019m talking to both of you), then you\u2019ll know that I\u2019ve been occasionally whinging about parting with my 1962 Triumph Spitfire racecar. With the car essentially finished, but not track tested, I found I was kind of trapped in an automotive no-man\u2019s land. In order to get top dollar, I really needed to do the final fettling and get it out on track, but I also knew that the more I worked on the car, the more attached to it I became. And so it sat in my garage, covered, serving no higher purpose than being a convenient folding station for the clean towels when they came out of the dryer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Call it desperation, or trying to break the automotive inertia I had slowly become immobilized by, but I recently decided I\u2019d roll the dice and put the Spit up for auction on Bring a Trailer. In case you\u2019ve been frozen in a glacier for the past 10 years, Bring a Trailer\u2014or BaT as it\u2019s known to the kids\u2014is a genius web site designed to let automotive aficionados auction off interesting vehicles. I believe a large part of its success has been that the cars are curated by a very savvy team of enthusiasts, so there\u2019s just the right mix of classics, modern sports cars, beaters, trailer queens, oddballs and racecars. As a seller, it cost me $99 to list my Spit for an auction that would be open for one week. Interestingly, after you submit a certifiable crapload of pictures and information, they go through it all and then come back to you with suggestions on how to make it better. \u201cWe\u2019d like to see images of the logbook,\u201d \u201cDo you have pictures of the rear suspension,\u201d \u201cCan you provide more details on the car\u2019s race history.\u201d You certainly won\u2019t get that on eBay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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In order to get top dollar, I really needed to do the final fettling and get it out on track, but I also knew that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":595528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10112,11272,18207,11577],"tags":[11807,2727,7366,17140,17143,1786,6928],"class_list":["post-497464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auctions","category-members-only","category-special-feature","category-auction-action","tag-scca","tag-1960s","tag-auctions","tag-members-only","tag-special-feature","tag-triumph","tag-bring-a-trailer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BaTs in my Belfry<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A first-timer\u2019s view of auctioning a classic car online\" \/>\n<meta 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