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YESTERDAY’S TOP 3 SALES

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Your Cars & Bids Feedback

Yesterday we asked you what matters most for the growth of C&B, here’s how you answered the poll.

The comments were pretty consistent. There’s clear recognition that Cars & Bids is growing and trying new things, but there’s still a perception gap, especially around the quality of cars on the platform.

I’m not sure that’s entirely fair.

As an example, Bring a Trailer sells a huge number of cars every day, and when you actually look at the full mix, it’s not all pristine, top-tier inventory. There’s plenty of higher-mileage cars, modified cars, and average examples that just get lost in the volume. C&B’s mix isn’t dramatically different, it’s just more visible.

The bigger question is whether that actually matters? As long as everything is presented transparently and buyers know what they’re bidding on, there’s a car for everyone. Not every platform needs to be curated at the very top end to work. (we all saw how that worked out for SBX)

Where it does start to matter is on the revenue side. If most of the cars trading are lower value, you need a lot more volume to generate the same fees, and that’s where moving upmarket becomes vitally important. Higher value cars bring in more revenue per transaction, attract a different level of buyer, and help shift perception at the same time. Their highest sale this year was a 2015 Ferrari 458 Spider at $381,000, and that can’t be the outlier if they want revenue to really move.

Got a lot of interesting responses on this – dropping a few of them below.

Auctions To Keep An Eye On

This is one of those listings where the photos pull you in, but it’s the spec that keeps you there.

Finished in Tropical Turquoise with the correct two-tone interior, it looks exactly how a ’57 Bel Air Convertible should. But what separates it is everything underneath that first impression. This wasn’t a quick restoration or a one-and-done build. The owner spent years adding to it, stacking options, accessories, and details that most cars like this lost decades ago.

And it shows. The options list is almost excessive, in a good way. Power features, period-correct accessories, the kind of small touches you rarely see all together on one car anymore. It feels like someone set out to build the most complete version possible and actually followed through.

There are plenty of nice ’57s out there. Not many with this level of completeness. That’s what bidders are going to be reacting to at the end.

This Triumph is one of those cars where the spec sheet almost reads like a list of everything people complain about on a standard TR6, and then fixes it one by one.

The original formula is great in theory, simple British roadster, good looks, plenty of character, but in reality they can feel dated pretty quickly once you actually try to use one regularly, whether it’s the brakes, the fueling, or just the general lack of refinement that comes with driving on of these.

What makes this example interesting is that it doesn’t pretend to be a perfect, original car, and it doesn’t really try to live in that world at all. Instead, it leans fully into being a sorted driver, with fuel injection, modern braking, suspension upgrades, and all the small details that make it something you’d actually want to get in and use without thinking twice.

That’s where the trade starts. Because the more you improve a car like this, the less it appeals to the traditional buyer who wants originality and period correctness, and the more it shifts toward someone who just wants the experience without the compromises. There isn’t a right answer there, but it does change how you look at it.

And in this case, it’s done in a way that feels thought through rather than thrown together, which is harder to find than people think, especially on cars that have been modified this heavily over time.

So you’re not really comparing this to other restored TR6s anymore, and you’re definitely not comparing it to untouched cars either. You’re just asking whether this version of the car, with all the modern fixes baked in, is closer to what you’d want than the original ever was.

Because for the right buyer, this is probably a better TR6 than Triumph ever built. And for everyone else, it’s exactly the reason they’d keep looking for a stock one.

This is one of those listings that doesn’t really hook you because of the spec, but because of what it represents once you look a little closer.

On paper, it’s a 1975 911S with a Sportomatic, finished in Desert Beige with a comfort-focused spec that reflects exactly how the original owner wanted to use it. But once you realize it’s Keith Martin’s car and read his piece in Sports Car Market, it stops being about the configuration and starts feeling like a story most people in this space recognize immediately.

He didn’t overthink it when he bought it, the opportunity came up, the spec made sense for where he was at the time, and he went for it. Then he did what people always say they’re going to do but don’t always follow through on, which is actually sort the car properly and then use it. Suspension refreshed, engine work handled, all the small things that turn a car from something you own into something you trust, and then real miles put on it, not just short drives or occasional outings but proper use.

And that’s where the story really sits, because once you start using a car the way you always imagined you would, you also start to understand it properly. The same rawness and feedback that make an older 911 so engaging begin to define how and when you actually want to drive it, and over time that matters more than the idea of the car ever did.

So the decision to move it on isn’t about the car falling short, it’s almost the opposite. It did exactly what it was supposed to do, it delivered the experience, it became part of his routine, and then at some point it stopped fitting that routine as well as something else might.

That’s the part people don’t always talk about, because the narrative is usually about finding the perfect car and keeping it, but the reality is that a lot of ownership is just timing. The right car at the right moment, used the right way, and then let go when that moment passes.

That’s what this feels like. Not a spec play or a market exercise, just a car that was bought, sorted, driven, and now passed on, which is probably closer to how most people actually experience these cars than they’d like to admit.

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