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Gooding Christie's
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Gooding Christie's is a collector car auction house founded in 2003 as Gooding & Company by David Gooding in Santa Monica, California, and acquired by Christie's, with the rebrand to Gooding Christie's following the completion of the deal announced in 2024. The house is best known as the official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, where it has held its flagship Pebble Beach Auctions during Monterey Car Week for two decades.
The company specializes in the world's most significant collector cars, from pre-war classics and coachbuilt rarities to post-war sports racing cars and modern supercars, and has achieved numerous world-record results for marques including Ferrari, Bugatti, Duesenberg, and Talbot-Lago. Its annual calendar includes the Amelia Island Auctions in Florida, which realized over 72 million dollars in 2026 with a 94 percent sell-through rate, and single-collection sales.
Under Christie's ownership, the house has expanded internationally through a multi-year partnership with Retromobile, launching an inaugural Paris auction in January 2026 that realized over 50 million euros, with the first US edition of Retromobile scheduled at New York's Javits Center in November 2026.
Gooding Christie's also offers private sales and estate advisory for collectors. Auction catalogues, results, and online bidding are available through its website.
The company specializes in the world's most significant collector cars, from pre-war classics and coachbuilt rarities to post-war sports racing cars and modern supercars, and has achieved numerous world-record results for marques including Ferrari, Bugatti, Duesenberg, and Talbot-Lago. Its annual calendar includes the Amelia Island Auctions in Florida, which realized over 72 million dollars in 2026 with a 94 percent sell-through rate, and single-collection sales.
Under Christie's ownership, the house has expanded internationally through a multi-year partnership with Retromobile, launching an inaugural Paris auction in January 2026 that realized over 50 million euros, with the first US edition of Retromobile scheduled at New York's Javits Center in November 2026.
Gooding Christie's also offers private sales and estate advisory for collectors. Auction catalogues, results, and online bidding are available through its website.
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Gooding Christie's, founded in 2003 as Gooding & Company and now owned by Christie's, is the official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and a record-setter for Ferrari, Bugatti, and Duesenberg sales. Its calendar spans Pebble Beach, Amelia Island, and new Retromobile auctions in Paris and New York.
Brand Details
Founded
2003
Headquarters
Santa Monica, United States
Parent Company
Christie's
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Gooding Christie's carries a genuinely rare credential in collector cars: two decades as the official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, which is not a title casually granted and reflects sustained trust from the single most prestigious event in the collector car calendar. David Gooding's original operation built its reputation on securing world-record results for marques like Bugatti and Duesenberg well before the Christie's acquisition, so the 2024 rebrand adds institutional scale and marketing reach to an already proven specialist operation rather than papering over weaker fundamentals. The reported Amelia Island results, over 72 million dollars with a 94 percent sell-through rate, are a genuinely strong performance indicator, since sell-through rate matters as much as top-line totals for gauging real market confidence in a house's estimates and consignment quality. The expansion into Retromobile partnership events in Paris and planned New York is an ambitious international push that will test whether the house's Pebble Beach-honed expertise translates as effectively to European and East Coast collector bases. Under Christie's ownership, expect continued scale without, so far, any visible dilution of specialist credibility.
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