Okay, I honestly didn’t expect to be bidding on this auction much less winning it. As I mentioned before I expected this car to go for north of $60K and that was more than I was willing to pay.

Yesterday I noticed that there was less than a day left in the auction, so I set an alarm on my watch for 2pm and promptly forgot about it. I was actually on a call with most of my coworkers when the alarm went off, so I had to bring the auction up, discreetly, on my phone. I was surprised to see it was still lower than the $30,500 I paid for The Shark, so on a whim I put in a bid of $31,000.

I bid a couple of more times, again pretty much just for fun, when the seller announced that the reserve was off. I put in a final bid of $37,000 and, after the longest two minutes of my life, I won the auction.

Wow, I didn’t expect that.

I reached out to the seller (who had listed over 700 cars on BaT so I assumed they would be professional) and we started working out the logistics for payment and shipping.

I then had to go and tell my wife, who surprisingly just laughed. She later came into my office and asked to see the car, and when it popped up on the screen she laughed some more and said it looked like a big banana.

The name stuck.