Gooding Christie’s is globally renowned as a leading auction house in the classic car market, consistently yielding top sales and setting world records by presenting consignments of the highest quality with only the best customer service for our clientele.
Gooding Christie’s is world renowned for its market-leading automotive auctions, private brokerage, and unparalleled service in the international collector car market with over two decades of operation. Gooding Christie’s consistently sets world record prices and redefines market standards through both its live auctions and Geared Online platform with best-of-category cars across numerous verticals. The commitment to presenting the highest quality of consignments while operating with the utmost integrity and transparency has provided the company an unmatched reputation of trust and respect. Offering a wide range of services including private and estate sales, appraisals, collection management, and financing options, Gooding Christie’s is ready to assist you.
ISLAND AUCTIONS 2025
1989 RUF CTR 'YELLOWBIRD'
SOLD $6,055,000 | WORLD RECORD FOR THE RUF MARQUE
AMELIA
Team
Team
Our team is ready to assist you at any time throughout the year with consignments, appraisals, collection management, private and estate sales, and financing options.
Throughout the years, we have earned a level of trust and respect unmatched in the industry due to conducting record-setting sales of distinction while operating with the utmost openness and integrity. Our veteran specialist team has guided clients in sales involving the most significant and valuable car collections in the world, achieving unprecedented figures both on the auction stage and through private transactions. Gooding Christie’s team of specialists, the most experienced and qualified in the industry, is always available to assist interested parties with all of our services, ranging from consignments to live and online auctions, collection appraisals, and private treaty sales.
TO TAKE THE FIRST STEP, SPEAK WITH A SPECIALIST OR SUBMIT YOUR CONTACT DETAILS ONLINE AT GOODINGCO.COM/CONSIGN
Private Sales
Sales
In addition to world-class collector car auctions, Gooding Christie’s continues its tradition of orchestrating discreet private sales of the world’s finest and most treasured automobiles.
With decades of brokerage experience, our auction house offers a holistic understanding of a collector’s motivations, along with access to an international pool of potential buyers and sellers. Throughout the years, Gooding Christie’s has brought some of the world’s greatest and most collectible motorcars from Ferrari, Porsche, McLaren, Bugatti, Mercedes-Benz, Duesenberg, and other esteemed marques to exceptional new homes around the globe.
Photo Courtesy of Tom Hains Photography
1957 FERRARI 250 TESTA ROSSA SOLD
Our Geared Online series of online-only auctions utilizes a dynamic, integrated approach, presenting our signature standard of the highest quality consignments beyond the live auction stage to a large-scale, global audience.
Each Geared Online auction offers a curated selection of historically significant lots for every level of collector, made accessible with the utmost ease and convenience of our online bidding platform and mobile app. Our automobilia-specific Geared Online auctions present to our clientele the world’s finest motoring, lifestyle, luxury, and art collectibles, frequently sourced from leading collectors, curators, and conservationists. Gooding Christie’s uniquely provides registered bidders the opportunity to conduct on-site inspections and engage with our marque specialists about all available Geared Online lots.
GOODING CHRISTIE’S INVITES YOU TO SPEAK WITH ONE OF OUR TEAM MEMBERS FOR MORE INFORMATION ON CONSIGNING FOR THE NEXT GEARED ONLINE AUCTION.
TO TAKE THE FIRST STEP, SPEAK WITH A SPECIALIST OR SUBMIT YOUR CONTACT DETAILS ONLINE AT GOODINGCO.COM/CONSIGN
Collections & Estates
Collections Estates
Each collector has their unique needs and motivations. Whether you are searching for a current valuation, dissolution of a collection, questions concerning a restoration, storage suggestions, market insights, or advice regarding your collection, Gooding Christie’s is uniquely qualified to provide you with carefully considered recommendations. Our worldwide network of collectors and industry leaders, coupled with our decades of experience in the classic car community, gives us the ability to provide owners with skillful guidance in any situation.
I nternational
nternational Sales
Gooding Christie’s garners worldwide attention from top-tier car collectors. In addition to our standard American-held auctions, our international auctions bring together viewers and registered bidders from the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and abroad, attaining a wide pool of interest on the global market stage.
In 2025, Gooding Christie’s announced a new partnership with Rétromobile, the foremost European automotive event to take place each year. Gooding Christie’s will serve as Rétromobile’s official auction partner, both at their flagship Parisian venue in late January and early February, and their newly announced New York installment, with the first sale to take place in November 2026. In recent years, Gooding Christie’s has also conducted the London Auction, held in conjunction with the Concours of Elegance at Hampton Court Palace. Additionally, Gooding Christie’s participates in and partners with leading global automotive events, including the 1000 Miglia in Brescia, Italy and Le Mans Classic in France.
Live
Events
Gooding Christie’s is revered for achieving record-setting results, consistently providing our clientele with the highest level of presentation, hospitality, and incomparable customer service at our live events. Our world record prices for clients’ cherished vehicles sit amongst the very top echelon of values achieved by the finest classic car auction houses. Our mission to conduct auctions of distinction and transparency culminates in unrivaled events for our loyal clients. Gooding Christie’s auctions captivate the viewership of collectors and enthusiasts the world over, in part due to the celebrated Charlie Ross and his industry-leading auctioneering skills.
Our live auctions are made accessible to clients anywhere in the world through our online bidding platform, available on our mobile app and website. We also facilitate a webcast of each live auction, enabling our clients and enthusiasts a level of personal engagement even if they are unable to physically attend the event. This dynamic integration of online bidding and viewing into our live auctions allows us to expand our presence and access new collectors and spaces in the industry.
