Friday on Bring a Trailer is serving up a spread that covers about seven decades of automotive obsession, from a pre-A Porsche Cabriolet that predates rock and roll to a nearly untouched Cadillac Blackwing that hasn’t even had time to lose that new-car smell. Bids are still cold across the board — everything sitting at zero — which means if you’ve been lurking on any of these, now is the moment to get your paddle in early before the weekend warriors wake up. Let’s run through what’s on the block.
Twin-Plug 2.7L Flat-Six-Powered 1957 Porsche 356A Coupe 5-Speed
A twin-plug 2.7-liter flat-six in a 356A body is not a stock configuration, and that’s exactly what makes this thing fascinating — someone built a restomod with serious mechanical intent. The 356A coupe shape is one of the most purely beautiful things Porsche ever drew, and pairing it with a larger displacement twin-plug motor and a five-speed means this is meant to be driven, not displayed. Zero bids so far tells me people are still reading the fine print, which is fair — but this 1957 Porsche 356A twin-plug coupe is going to get expensive once the Porsche crowd catches the scent.
2009 Rossion Q1
The Rossion Q1 is one of those cars that 95% of people have never heard of, which is a crime, because it’s essentially a Noble M400 built in Florida with some updates. These were hand-assembled in tiny numbers and offer genuine supercar performance wrapped in a package that looks like it escaped from Le Mans qualifying. If you want a true conversation piece that will mystify everyone at Cars and Coffee, this 2009 Rossion Q1 is your unicorn — and with no bids yet, it’s still anybody’s game.
18k-Mile 2007 Ferrari F430 at No Reserve
No reserve on an F430 with only 18,000 miles is the kind of listing that stops your scroll cold. The F430 is broadly considered one of the last truly pure analog Ferraris before things got paddle-shift-and-screens complicated, and 18k miles means this one was actually used like a sports car rather than hermetically sealed in a collection. The no-reserve tag is going to draw a crowd by closing day — this 18,000-mile 2007 Ferrari F430 will not go quietly.
752-Mile 1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS Aero Coupe
Seven hundred and fifty-two miles. On a 1987 Monte Carlo SS Aero Coupe. Let that sink in. The Aero Coupe was a homologation special built to cheat the air at NASCAR superspeedways, with that distinctive bubble backlight that polarized buyers at the time and commands serious collector premiums now. Finding one with sub-800 miles in 2026 borders on the surreal, and this 752-mile 1987 Monte Carlo SS Aero Coupe is going to be a legitimate bidding war once the NASCAR heritage crowd shows up.
15k-Mile 2005 Lotus Elise
The first-generation US-market Elise is aging into genuine classic territory, and a 15,000-mile example is the kind of thing that won’t be easy to find in another decade. Lotus built these to be featherweight driving machines first and comfortable commuters never, and the early Toyota-sourced 1ZZ engine cars have proven to be surprisingly solid if maintained. Get in early on this 15k-mile 2005 Lotus Elise before the British sports car faithful start a war over it.
1,500-Mile 2023 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing 6-Speed
The CT5-V Blackwing with the six-speed manual is the last great American super sedan, full stop, and with GM moving on, these are only going to get more valuable as people realize what they let slip away. Fifteen hundred miles means it’s essentially new, and the manual gearbox makes it the spec you actually want. This 1,500-mile 2023 CT5-V Blackwing six-speed should be on every M5 buyer’s radar as a genuinely better argument for the genre.
1955 Porsche 356 1500 Pre-A Continental Cabriolet
Pre-A 356s occupy a rarefied space even within Porsche collecting — these are the cars closest to Ferry Porsche’s original vision, built before the 356A formalized and smoothed everything out. The Continental designation and cabriolet body make this a particularly desirable configuration, the kind of thing that ends up in serious collections and rarely surfaces again. This 1955 Porsche 356 Pre-A Continental Cabriolet is the oldest and arguably most significant car on today’s docket, and the silence in the bidding right now is temporary.
50k-Mile 2005 Dodge Neon SRT-4
Don’t sleep on the SRT-4 — this was a legitimately fast, legitimately fun front-wheel-drive pocket rocket that embarrassed cars costing twice as much when it came out, and the enthusiast community has firmly decided it’s a modern classic worth preserving. Fifty thousand miles on a twenty-one-year-old performance Neon is a pretty honest number for a car that was designed to be flogged. This 50k-mile 2005 Dodge Neon SRT-4 is the sleeper of today’s lineup in every sense of the word.
1970 Shelby Mustang GT350 Fastback
We close with the one that probably needs the least introduction: a 1970 Shelby GT350 Fastback, which sits at the very end of the Carroll Shelby-branded Mustang era and carries all the muscle-car mythology that entails. The 1970 cars are sometimes overlooked in favor of the earlier Shelbys, but that tends to mean relative value — relative being a word you use loosely with a genuine GT350. This 1970 Shelby Mustang GT350 Fastback is the kind of closing act that makes you glad you checked BaT on a Friday.
Nine cars, zero bids, and a weekend ahead — the timing couldn’t be better to get in early. Check back as these heat up, because by Sunday night several of these are going to have comment sections that read like a doctoral thesis on valuation. Happy hunting.
