Event Coverage 4/26/26:
Which is more rare: a rotary-powered 1974 Citroen GS, or a brilliantly sunny April day in central England? These marvels, and more, converged at BaT’s first showing at the Bicester Scramble, helping to make the event enjoyable in every way.
Welcoming over 6,000 enthusiasts, aficionados, and “petrolheads,” the Scramble is hosted by our friends at Bicester Motion, the organization that resurrected a former WW2 RAF bomber training base as a thriving hub of automotive specialist businesses and event spaces. Against this backdrop of 1930s airplane hangars and picturesque restored brick garages, we joined forces with @Sports_Purpose, our newest Local Partner in the UK, to introduce Bring a Trailer to an energized British audience.
Randy and several other BaT staffers invited attendees to “The Shed” in the MT Yard to chat about dream garages, projects at home, competition experiences, and BaT’s way of doing things in the online auction business. In turn, we Yanks were awed by models that never came across the Atlantic in their day: the Citroen and a 2005 Renault Clio 182 Trophy joined us in the yard, but even the car park was filled with a seemingly endless array of treasures and oddities for American eyes.
The Clio itself was recently auctioned on BaT for charity, with the full purchase price and 5% buyer’s fee donated to the British organization Thyroid UK.
Further poking around the MT Yard revealed a barn-find Ferrari 330, a historic Camaro race car, a pristine Porsche 356A Speedster, and a pink Mercury Turnpike Cruiser for good measure. Visitors had the chance to “test drive” BaT via several monitors showcasing the live website, and a poster-size version of our 20’ tall event banner went home with many a Scrambler.
More than a few attendees were already frequent BaT users, and we loved that they stopped in to officially welcome us to the United Kingdom. Equally …
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