Bring a Trailer’s 100,000th Auction Saw a 240Z Go for Crazy Money

• Bring A Trailer, the little ad-sharing website that is revolutionizing the way classic cars are bought and sold, just hammered on its 100,000th auction.

• The car sold was BaT’s own 1973 Datsun 240Z.

• All profits from the same go to BaT’s charity, The Piston Foundation, which helps get youth into the collector car trade with scholarships for colleges and trade schools.

The little website that started out as a way to share cool car ads among friends just held its 100,00oth auction. Bring a Trailer just sold a perfectly nice 1973 Datsun 240Z for a cool $124,240. Is it possible they picked those final bid numbers? Who cares? All the money went to the BaT charity called The Piston Foundation, which is “…a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing post-secondary educational opportunities and funding to students interested in pursuing hands-on careers in the collector car industry.” So, a worthy cause.

The bigger picture here? (Car prices have officially gone nuts? Yes, that’s part of the big picture. It wasn’t that long ago that you couldn’t give away an original Z. Nissan resold them 20 years ago when it wanted to distract the world from the fact that it didn’t have anything like a Z, let alone a GTR or other fun sports car in its lineup, but that’s another story.) The big news here is that this once-humble ad-sharing site has ballooned! (Full disclosure: BaT is part of the Hearst Autos publishing juggernaut, the same benevolent entity that owns Autoweek.)