Bring a Trailer’s Charity Auction Funds 27 Piston Scholarships
The Piston Foundation was the recipient of over $124,000 in scholarship money from the proceeds of Bring a Trailers’s charity auction.
The Piston Foundation - Bring a Trailer (BaT) recently celebrated its 100,000th listing by selling its own beloved ‘73 Datsun 240Z in a charity auction benefiting The Piston Foundation. The final bid for the car reached $124,240. Along with the $5,000 buyer's fee and the $6,513 raised through individual donations from BaT members, a grand total of $135,753 will now go towards The Piston Foundation's "Sponsor a Piston Scholar" initiative. The funds are enough to create scholarships for 27 aspiring technicians, granting them the opportunity to pursue a skilled trades education.
Bring a Trailer’s owner, Randy Nonnenberg, was excited about the event's overwhelmingly positive results.
"Our BaT Staff and the BaT Community love the cars we sell and we all drive them and own them. We know the value of technical experts, those that help us keep these vehicles on the road. Contributing to The Piston Foundation’s support and expansion of training for technicians will help us to enjoy our current cars for years to come, and also enjoy any that we buy on BaT in the future!”
The Piston Foundation is creating a career path into the collector car industry so car enthusiasts can turn their interest into a skilled trade career as an auto restoration technician.
Piston Foundation
PO Box 4611
Greenwich, CT 06831-0412
pistonfoundation.org
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