Gratitude to the luxury, exotic, and collector car dealers, brokers, and auction specialists who connect people to the finest cars ever built. Celebrated from public work, with a cited source on every card. Find or get discovered locally in the 🤫 Yellow Pages.
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Founder of RM Sotheby's, the collector car auction house he grew from a one man Ontario restoration shop into the seller of seven of the ten most expensive cars ever sold at auction.
RM Sotheby's, Chatham, Ontario and worldwide
He started by restoring a 1959 Edsel his father gave him at fourteen, and built a global business by treating provenance and preparation as craft rather than paperwork.
President of RM Sotheby's who rose from detailing and delivering cars as a shop intern in 1998 to global head of auctions.
RM Sotheby's, Blenheim, Ontario
His authority with collectors was earned car by car and relationship by relationship, which is why owners hand him their most significant machines.
Founder and president of Gooding and Company, the official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours since 2004 and holder of multiple records for the most expensive cars sold at auction.
Gooding and Company, Santa Monica, California
After leading the motorcar departments at Christie's and RM, he built a house known for curating the very best single examples rather than the biggest catalogue.
Co-founder and chief creative officer of Gooding and Company, whose brand and catalogue craft shaped one of the most respected names in collector car auctions.
Gooding and Company, Santa Monica, California
She brought a marketer's eye from film and media to the auction world, making Gooding's presentation of a car feel as considered as the car itself.
Veteran motorcar auctioneer and senior specialist who has led sales at Bonhams, Christie's and Sotheby's across three decades of blue chip collector car auctions.
Gooding and Company, New York
Taken to car auctions by his father from the age of six, he has handled everything from supercharged prewar icons to Elton John's cars with a historian's care for the story.
Chairman and CEO of Barrett-Jackson, the Scottsdale collector car auction company he grew into a televised institution after taking over the family business in 1995.
Barrett-Jackson, Scottsdale, Arizona
He put the auction floor on national television and turned the sale of a car into an event, while raising more than 118 million dollars for charity through the block.
Co-founder of Bring a Trailer, the online enthusiast car auction marketplace he grew from a personal blog into a platform selling more than a billion dollars of cars a year.
Bring a Trailer, San Francisco, California
A former Audi and BMW engineer, he made buying an interesting used car feel trustworthy and fun by building a curated, comment driven community around every listing.
Automotive YouTuber and founder of the online auction site Cars and Bids, focused on enthusiast vehicles and known for his detailed walkaround car reviews.
Cars and Bids, San Diego, California
He turned a distinctive, honest reviewing style into a marketplace, giving quirky modern enthusiast cars a home and a fair, transparent place to sell.
British classic car dealer and broker whose Geneva house Kidston SA brokered the record 142 million dollar Mercedes-Benz Uhlenhaut Coupe and several Ferrari 250 GTOs.
Kidston SA, Geneva, Switzerland
Nephew of a Bentley Boy and consigliere to the world's leading collectors, he pairs deep marque scholarship with the discretion the highest value sales demand.
Founder of Girardo and Co, the London and Turin classic car dealer known for handling only the very best examples of the most significant postwar cars.
Girardo and Co, Oxfordshire, England and Turin, Italy
A former Bonhams specialist and RM managing director, he sells around seventy cars a year, asking not whether a car is valuable enough but whether it is the best example that exists.
British supercar and classic car dealer who has brokered record priced Ferraris and championship winning Grand Prix cars including James Hunt's 1976 McLaren M23.
Tom Hartley Jnr Ltd, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, England
Raised in the family trade and out on his own since 2014, he moves the rarest LaFerraris, P1s and historic racers with an instinct for a car's real market and story.
Classic car dealer and restorer behind F40 Motorsports and host of the television series Chasing Classic Cars, who has helped collectors find and buy fine automobiles for decades.
F40 Motorsports, Portland, Connecticut
Hooked at nine by a ride in a 250 SWB Ferrari, he combines a restorer's hands with a dealer's eye, and has quietly sourced cars for the likes of David Letterman.
Founder of O'Gara Coach, the Beverly Hills luxury dealer group and factory authorized home for Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Aston Martin and McLaren.
O'Gara Coach Company, Beverly Hills, California
Since 1997 he has built a group known for record luxury sales and white glove service, the kind of showroom where a bespoke Rolls-Royce commission begins.
Founder of Canepa in Scotts Valley, a restoration house and dealer renowned for importing and reengineering the Porsche 959, roughly ninety of which have passed through his shop.
Canepa, Scotts Valley, California
He helped make the 959 legal in America alongside Bill Gates and now reimagines the car with thousands of hours of hand work, treating every build as an improvement on the original.
Chairman and CEO of RK Motors in Charlotte, a full service collector car dealer and consignment house he opened in 2010 to support his own classic car passion.
RK Motors, Charlotte, North Carolina
A finance founder turned collector, he built a showroom Hot Rod magazine named the country's top automotive destination, pairing serious inventory with in house restoration.
Co-founder of Gotham Dream Cars, an exotic car rental company, and creator of the Super Speeders video series and YouTube channel about supercar ownership.
Gotham Dream Cars, and superspeedersRob
He built a business letting people experience Ferraris and Lamborghinis honestly, owning every car in the fleet and pricing transparently, and shares candid ownership truths with his audience.
Founder of the car history app and channel VINwiki and a former exotic car salesman, also known for setting the 2013 Cannonball cross country driving record.
VINwiki, Atlanta, Georgia
He cut his teeth selling Lamborghinis before building a platform where enthusiasts document a car's real history and tell its stories, keeping provenance honest and human.
Ferrari broker and historian who founded Ferraris Online in 1972, once ran North America's largest Ferrari restoration shop, and has written the Sheehan Speaks column since 1993.
Ferraris Online, Costa Mesa, California
More than fifty years deep in Ferraris, he brings a historian's memory and a racer's feel to sourcing cars, and writes plainly about the market for everyone else.
CEO of Hagerty, the specialty collector car insurance and lifestyle company he grew from his parents' basement agency into a leading name in the enthusiast car world.
Hagerty, Traverse City, Michigan
He restored his first Porsche 911S at thirteen with lawn mowing savings, and now works to save driving itself, giving collectors trusted values and a community for their cars.
Automotive presenter known as Supercar Blondie and co-founder of SBX Cars, a global digital auction platform for rare and luxury vehicles launched in 2024.
SBX Cars and Supercar Blondie, Dubai
One of the most watched automotive creators in the world, she turned that reach into a marketplace that brings rare cars and their stories to a genuinely global audience.
Real estate entrepreneur and publicly documented supercar collector whose garage includes rare Bugatti, Mercedes SLR and Pagani machines, several commissioned bespoke for him.
The Khoshbin Company, Newport Coast, California
He shares the reality of buying, owning and living with hypercars openly with millions online, demystifying a world usually kept behind closed doors.
CEO of the Hing Wa Lee jewelry group and noted Ferrari collector who owns more than two dozen Ferraris and paid 38.5 million dollars for a rare white 1962 250 GTO.
Hing Wa Lee Group, City of Industry, California
He shares his collection generously online and champions Ferrari history with real affection, calling his red and yellow cars his ketchup and mustard collection.
Owner of the Lingenfelter Collection of roughly 250 cars and of Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, who opens his exotics and muscle cars to the public for charity.
The Lingenfelter Collection, Brighton, Michigan
He treats a great collection as something to share, opening the doors so proceeds benefit charity and everyday enthusiasts can stand next to an Enzo or a Veyron.
Businessman and hypercar collector known for owning the first US Lamborghini Veneno and a Koenigsegg Agera RS, and for commissioning bespoke Pagani builds.
Florida, United States
He seeks out the singular and the first of its kind, working directly with makers on one off commissions that push what a bespoke hypercar can be.
Longtime chairman of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, the world's premier collector car event, which she has guided into a global celebration of the automobile.
Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, Pebble Beach, California
For more than two decades she has set the standard the whole collector world measures itself against, holding the finest cars and their owners to a bar of taste and scholarship.
Longtime collector and founding chairman of the Petersen Automotive Museum, credited with helping win hot rods recognition as legitimate collector cars.
Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, California
Known as the car guy's car guy, he has spent a lifetime championing the culture and history of the automobile rather than simply amassing cars for himself.
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