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NEW MAKE PAGES
Tim Edmondson and Bill Rucker were the duo behind the Dallas-based motorcycle company American Ironhorse, which was founded in 1995. The firm grew to be the largest maker of factory-built custom V-twin choppers and cruisers in the States before going defunct in 2008.
Bill Thomas, a self-taught engineer, made his name tuning Corvettes before dreaming up the Cheetah, the feline foil to Carroll Shelby’s Cobra.
Gary Courneya and David Bradley Fuller founded Bradley in 1971; the outfit became known best for their VW-based GT kit car. The late 1970s saw the company ultimately devolve into a pyramid scheme, but that’s a story for another day.
Bridgestone briefly manufactured motorcycles before stopping production of two-wheeled motor vehicles in the early 1970s (though their bicycle division lived on into the 1990s thanks to velocipede guru Grant Petersen).
W.D. “Walter” Knight founded Feather Craft in 1946 and spearheaded the production of postwar aluminum runabouts into the 1960s.
Motorcycle racer Leopoldo “Poldino” Tartarini founded Italemmezeta in Bologna, Italy, in 1959 before renaming the firm Italjet during the mid-1960s. Over the decades, the company has produced a wide variety of two-wheelers, and today Leopoldo’s son Massimo Tartarini oversees the firm.
The Oliver Farm Equipment Company was an amalgamation of four companies: the American Seeding Machine Company, Oliver Chilled Plow Works, Hart-Parr Tractor Company, and Nichols and Shepard Company. The firm produced a variety of tractors until the 1970s.
John Penton failed to convince Husqvarna to build a lightweight off-road motorcycle, so he turned to KTM, who designed and produced such bikes in the US under the Penton name. The first prototype rolled out in 1968, and KTM acquired the company outright in 1978.
Coachbuilder Jacob Rauch and his business partner Charles Lang turned from building high-end horse carriages to making luxe electric cars for well-heeled city slickers beginning in 1905. Rauch & Lang merged with the Baker Motor Vehicle Company in 1915 and ceased operations in 1928.
Montgomery Ward sold a number of captive imports from various bike makers under the Riverside name.
Founded as Fichtel & Sachs, this company later became Mannesmann Sachs and then, simply, Sachs. The firm ranks among the oldest motorcycle manufacturers, having built its first bike in 1904.
Italian engineer Antonio Lago bought the rights to the Talbot name and hyphenated it with his surname to form Talbot-Lago in 1936. The marque became one of France’s most illustrious automakers over the ensuing decades, and was absorbed by Simca in the late 1950s.
NEW MODEL PAGES
Even in the mid-1960s, retro was in vogue. Case in point: the Gran Sport Quattroruote, which paired 1930s Alfa Romeo 6C styling with ’60s Giulia running gear.
The Allard Motor Company was established to meet demand for replicas of Sydney Allard’s CLK5, the car that secured his first win at the 50-mile Southport Sands race. Today, replicas of the marque’s celebrated cars like the J2 and J2X live on this new page.
Back in 1953, Steve “Wacky” Arnolt cut a deal with Bertone for 200 Arnolt-MGs based on a pair of prototypes the carrozzeria built for the 1952 Turin Salon. The Arnolt-MG was just the beginning of the story.
The Audi A3 was initially based on Volkswagen’s A4 platform (confusing, we know), and helped define the premium subcompact market in the mid-1990s. What began as a hatchback grew into a full lineup of body styles by the early 2000s. All four generations will now live on one new page.
The Valhalla, developed in collaboration with Red Bull Racing, was the next step in Aston Martin’s lineage of high-performance “V” cars.
The BSA Spitfire became the bike maker’s top performance machine in 1966 and was capable of topping 120 mph.
For the 1125, Buell dropped its Harley-Davidson-derived engine in favor of a liquid-cooled Rotax V-twin. H-D nixed the brand in 2009, which lead to Erik Buell Racing—but that’s a whole other story.
There’s no need to RSVP to take a look at our newest model page for the Cadillac Celestiq, the marque’s flagship EV.
The Chevrolet Capitol Series AA succeeded the Superior Series F, and both models will share one new page here on BaT for now.
If you’ve ever wanted a track-only version of the Dallara Stradale with a removable roof, then the EXP is the one for you.
The Dodge D5 followed the so-called “Beauty Winner” D2 and preceded the D8—you’ll find all three sharing one page.
We’ve created a page for Ducati’s 1098 successor, the 1198.
The Ferrari 275 GTB and GTS succeeded the legendary 250 series, and both open and closed cars share a new page within our model library.
We recently celebrated our 250,000th lot with this beautiful Ferrari 288 GTO in July, and it now has a model page of its own.
The Aerostar, produced from 1986 to 1997, was Ford’s first minivan, though its truck-based rear-wheel-drive platform was somewhat unconventional for the category. Buyers could choose everything from an extended-wheelbase XLT to a V6-powered work van with a five-speed manual gearbox.
General Motors launched the Metro nameplate under the Geo brand in 1989 as a captive import based on the Suzuki Cultus. Geo was phased out of GM’s portfolio in 1997, but the Metro lived on as a Chevrolet model until 2001.
The bizarre and beautiful Sharknose was a Hail Mary to save the struggling automaker Graham, and we have now listed enough examples to warrant a new model page.
Harley-Davidson imported an Aermacchi 90cc mini-bike for the US market and rebadged it as the X-90 between 1973 and 1975.
The sleek Commodore rolled off Hudson’s assembly line from 1942–1952.
The Isuzu Rodeo rode to the top of the automaker’s lineup during the 1990s SUV boom, and remained in production until 2004.
The new Kawasaki Z900 page encompasses the iconic 1970s muscle bike and its late-model “supernaked” namesake.
The Lamborghini Temerario followed the Huracán as the marque’s first hybrid V8-powered supercar.
We’ve split apart the Lexus SC model page by generation:
The Cosmopolitan was Lincoln’s top-shelf model from 1949–1951.
We’ve particularized the Lotus Esprit into the following subpages:
We’ve created a page for Alejandro De Tomaso’s swan song at Maserati, the angular, muscular Shamal.
The MP4-12C was McLaren’s first standalone street car since the F1, and lives under the newly-created McLaren Super Series disambiguation page as seen below.
We’ve specified the McLaren Sports Series page by model, now including the existing McLaren Artura page. The new pages are:
We’ve divided the McLaren Super Series model page into the following:
The Mercedes-Benz A-Class started out as an oddball microcar before growing into a subcompact positioned against the BMW 2-Series and the Audi A3.
Mercury celebrated the coming of the Interstate Highway System with its Turnpike Cruiser, inspired by the radical XM-Turnpike Cruiser concept.
US Importers Joe and Mike Berliner pitched a modified variant of the Moto Guzzi V7 to the LAPD in the late 1960s, and public demand subsequently led Moto Guzzi to introduce the California as a consumer model in 1971.
The MV Agusta F3 features a DOHC triple, a configuration the company hadn’t used since the 1970s.
Aircraft engineer James Bede, designer of the Pulse Autocycle, was an aviation visionary who designed the BD-5 microjet. His three-wheeled terrestrial conveyance was essentially an airplane cockpit with wheels.
We’ve broken out the Porsche 964 Generation 911 page, which includes the existing 911 by Singer, Carrera RS, Parts & Automobilia, RS America, Speedster, and Turbo subpages. Other new pages living under the newly created disambiguation page include:
- Porsche 964 911 Carrera 2
- Porsche 964 911 Carrera 4
- Porsche 964 911 Carrera 4 30th Anniversary Jubilee
- Porsche 964 911 Carrera 4 Leichtbau
- Porsche 964 911 Carrera 4 Widebody
- Porsche 964 911 America Roadster
- Porsche 964 911 Carrera Cup USA
- Porsche 964 911 Race Car
We’ve organized the second-generation Porsche Cayenne (958) into the following sub-models:
- Porsche Cayenne V6 (958)
- Porsche Cayenne V6 Platinum Edition (958)
- Porsche Cayenne Diesel (958)
- Porsche Cayenne Diesel Platinum Edition (958)
- Porsche Cayenne S E-Hybrid Platinum Edition (958)
- Porsche Cayenne Turbo (958)
- Porsche Cayenne Turbo S (958)
The Rolls-Royce Phantom VI was the marque’s final coachbuilt car, nearly every body for which was hammered out by Mulliner Park Ward.
The Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith wore the marque’s first in-house bodywork, and remained in production from 1946 to 1958.
The Suzuki Alto was derived from the Fronte, and replaced it in 1988.
The RV was Suzuki’s response to the minibike craze of the 1970s, and returned in the early 2000s as the VanVan.
The Cressida-esque first-generation Toyota Soarer shared its underpinnings with the Toyota Supra and was rebadged as the Lexus SC for the US market. The Soarer will now live on its own page as well as on the newly created Lexus SC disambiguation page.
The Toyota Starlet evolved from an economy car to a sporty hot hatch over the course of five generations spanning from 1973 to 1999.
The iconic TVR Tuscan has been segmented into the following sub-pages:
That’s it for now. Subscribe for alerts if you’d like to be notified when new updates are available. As always, if there’s something want to see added to our expansive library of makes and models, drop us a line in the comments. We’d be happy to add it to the list!