How Bring a Trailer revolutionised the market, with Randy Nonnenberg and James Turner #306
The Intercooler
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel are joined by Randy Nonnenberg and James Turner, founders of Bring a Trailer and Sports Purpose respectively. How did BaT revolutionise the classic and enthusiast car market in the US, and why does it offer something completely different to other online auctions in the UK?
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| 0:00.0 | An engineer round the corner whenever you need. |
| 0:03.0 | British gas have over 6,000 on route at speed. |
| 0:06.0 | Fixing lights that won't light or have started to blink, |
| 0:10.0 | a pipe with a leak and that weird smell under the sink. |
| 0:13.0 | If your boilers kaput and your blue fur needs a rinse, |
| 0:17.0 | we've got your back to stop that cold water wince. |
| 0:20.0 | You don't need to be a customer. We can help you too, |
| 0:23.6 | taking care of things. It's what British gas do. T's and C supply 6,000 engineers correct as of Jan |
| 0:29.2 | 2026. At Accardo, you'll save 25% on your first shop and get free delivery, which means if you |
| 0:35.6 | were to buy a four cheese pizza, you'd basically be |
| 0:38.3 | getting one of the cheeses for free. Save and splurge at Accardo, the online supermarket, geographical |
| 0:43.3 | and other restrictions. Minimum spend £60 and charges apply, new customers only, maximum |
| 0:47.8 | saving £20 terms at Accardo.com. |
| 1:00.6 | Welcome back to the InSkola podcast, everybody, the podcast powered by car finance specialist JBR Capital. |
| 1:07.2 | We're joined Andrew today by a couple of guests, Randy Nonenberg and James Turner. |
| 1:13.9 | Randy being founder of Bring a Trailer, the enormous online car auction platform, |
| 1:19.1 | and we want to hear all about the history of it, and you guys, you have some big news as well that you'll share in a moment. James Turner, founder of sports purpose. If you've been to |
| 1:25.8 | Bist Emotion and you've seen a beautiful old 9-11 in a showroom or driving through the site, it's probably because of sports purpose. |
| 1:35.3 | And we'll explain why what your involvement here is. |
| 1:40.3 | Before we do that, just a couple of things that I want to mention briefly. |
| 1:47.2 | The intercooler now has a Reddit page. |
| 1:49.4 | It's the intercooler. |
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