K500 inside line: all you need to know about the 2026 Florida auctions

One of our conclusions from the recent record-breaking Rétromobile auctions was that “If you offer something people want, expect them to fight over it,” a verdict drawn from stats showing 15% of the catalogue entries beating top estimate in Paris. Can that be repeated over 10 days in stronger North American market conditions?
 
Maybe, though bear in mind the March Amelia Island auctions of old – Bonhams, RM Sotheby’s and Gooding, all at the same location – were something of an oasis where real ‘car guys’, and their love of historic, often antique automobiles reigned supreme. Since 2024, when RM moved to Miami and set up Moda Miami, the emphasis has shifted, resulting this year in sometimes odd-looking catalogues with often unlikely bedfellows hoping to please everyone. 
 
At a glance: 2026 Broad Arrow, Gooding Christie’s and RM Sotheby’s Florida auctions
 
Total average of estimates: $287,956,000 (2025, $265,550,000)
Average mid-estimate price per car offered: $729,003 (2025, $673,985)
Number of cars offered: 395 (2025, 394)
Average year of car offered: 1975 (2025, 1971)
Percentage of cars at No Reserve: 58% (2025, 54%)
2025 gross: $203,510,270
2025 percentage sold by number: 89% after post-sales
 
The same number of cars are catalogued as 2025, but they are younger and offered at higher prices.
 

* Car of the week? Undoubtedly Gooding’s 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider (above), the mirror image of the one sold by RM in Paris last month. That was an older restoration and was bought for the equivalent of $16.75m on the day. This one had the full Butch Dennison treatment after it was purchased at Scottsdale for $4.95m in 2009, comes from one of the world’s best collections and, colour-change apart (originally Argento) the metallic dark blue California Spider is Pebble Beach-quality and retail priced at $16m to $18m.

* Or, for similar money, you could buy Broad Arrow’s black,  450-mile 2003 Ferrari Enzo (a safety-first, wide-ranging $12m to $16m). How times change.
 
* Where’s this market today, #1? Gooding again, with a $3.5m to $4.5m unrestored, 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza customer car. For so long the bedrock of high-profile US auctions, let’s see what investment buyers focused on showroom-fresh supercars think of these in early 2026. Ditto the Californians’ Healey 100S, Ferrari 212 Export Spider and ‘barn find’ 342 America Coupé, and Broad Arrow’s 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial Pinin Farina Spider. All sit in an undervalued category in 2026. 
 
* Same question again, #2? We like RM’s 1967 Ford GT40 Mk I road car, though anyone racing a GT40 in modern historic events no longer needs a real one. It’s a proper car with a ‘clean’ history in the model registers, and we rate them as still sensibly priced for an iconic collectors’ piece at the same money as a regular 288 GTO. A hard one to call: RM says $6.5m to $8m. 
 
* You said, how much? The $1m Dino GTS arrived in Monterey last August. RM offers a red/black ‘chairs and flares’ US-spec GTS this weekend for $800k to $900k. Broad Arrow has another, an “overwhelmingly original” silver car sold by Gooding for $555k in August 2024: barely driven since, now it’s $800k to $1m. Gooding is the most bullish of all with another ‘chairs’ car, the only Dino GTS – North American again – delivered new in Porsche Signal Orange (which does look great) and “recently acquired by the consignor”, which may explain the $900k to $1.1m estimate. All are older restorations. 
 
In detail:
 
RM Sotheby’s at The Biltmore Hotel Coral Gables, Miami, 27 February 2026
 
The Canadians kick off this year’s proceedings in super-hip Miami, based at The Biltmore in the old-money enclave of Coral Gables. Did we say ‘super-hip’? – the first 15 lots are antique American fire engines, luckily at No Reserve, with an average year of 1915 and price of $157k. 

Fear not, rescue is on its way. The company’s press release leads on a sale defined by “marque-defining hypercars led by a 2024 Bugatti Bolide, 2017 Pagani Huayra Roadster, road-legal 2020 McLaren Senna GTR ‘LM 25’ by Lanzante, and a [black-on-black, pictured above, est. $6m to $7m] 554-mile 2015 Ferrari LaFerrari.”
 
Plus, there are the other lower-tier must-haves of today’s auctions including two 488 Pista Spiders (standard and ‘Piloti Ferrari’) for $1m+. Big figures that would have surprised observers only a few years (months? weeks?) ago when RM’s 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider at The Biltmore this weekend would have been an easy headliner. It’s a mid-series (28th of 50 built) steel car with all-important covered headlights estimated at today’s values: $6m to $7m. The same car was sold for $4.445m at Monterey in 2007, the year F40s were trading at $300k to $400k which is telling about fashions. The Cal Spider is well-known on the US circuit and presented today in black, its original colour typically unknown, a slight weakness in today’s market that prizes rare specs and unimpeachable originality.
 
RM’s F40 is one of two in Florida. It’s a late-model 1992 Italian-market car with only 1,418km recorded, previously in Sweden for 20 years, arriving in America in 2024. At $4m to $5m it’s fully priced for a late Euro-spec car but the mileage is its USP. Surprisingly after the recent euphoria for them, there is only one Enzo – at big bucks – and no 288 GTOs or F50s offered in Florida this year.
 
More established 1960s metal in Miami includes a rare 1969 Ferrari 365 GTS ($2.5m to $3m, wrong colours but numbers matching) and a 1969 Lamborghini Miura S “refinished in the original colors” (which does not mean its original colours – check out the electric blue interior) at a punchy $2m to $2.25m.
 
Pre-war still has its followers who will appreciate the flamboyant 1937 Delage D8-120 Coach Aérosport ($2.5m to $3.5m) and a variety of Packards and Cadillacs from the 1920s and ’30s. The average year of car offered by RM at Amelia in 2024 was 1950. Today it is 1972 (1978 in 2025). 
 
RM Sotheby’s, 89 cars in total, 27 February at The Biltmore Hotel Coral Gables (Miami), 1200 Anastasia Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33134. See rmsothebys.com
 
Gooding Christie’s at the Omni Amelia Island Resort, 5-6 March 2026
 
Gooding holds a two-day auction once again at – despite solicitation to defect to Miami – Amelia Island. Thursday is a mainly No Reserve event with many pre-war cars and small-engined Porsches and Alfa Romeos including a TZ (Belgian privateer history, $1.2m to $1.4m) and SZ Coda Tronca ($275k to $350k but early history unknown). There could be some good buys here.
 
The big guns fire the following day including the SWB California Spider. There is a 1971 Alfa Romeo Tipo 33/3 ($1m to $1.4m), a bargain if you can prove its history (“As Autodelta kept no written records of which Tipo 33 chassis were entered in specific racing events” notes the catalogue) and an alternative and more affordable interesting Italian racing car, the $450k to $550k 1966 Abarth 1300 OT Periscopio. Both are No Reserve.
 
The Miura P400 S offered at The Omni is another US-restored car with non-original interior, a mid-production-spec S priced at a similar level to RM’s: $2.1m to $2.4m and this one edges it. The Canadians single no-sale at Cavallino earlier this month was a $3.4m to $3.6m 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 in Rosso Rubino. Here Gooding’s 275 GTB/4 is in at a keener $2.9m to £3.3m and, other than the inevitable spell traveling round the world and suffering being repainted red, is an honest four-cam “finished in its sporting original Grigio Argento over black” which was delivered new to an Italian 25-year-old. The Santa Monica firm’s 250 GT Lusso is in attractive factory Grigio Fumo car fresh out of “show quality” restoration (bought for $1.226m when red in 2019) and priced at today’s retail level of $1.6m to $1.8m. 
 
Gooding Christie’s, 132 cars in total, 5-6 March at the Racquet Park, Omni Amelia Island Resort, one mile south of Amelia Island Parkway, FL 32034. See goodingco.com
 
Broad Arrow at the Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, 6-7 March 2026
 
The Hagerty-owned official partner of the (Hagerty-owned) Amelia concours first held an auction in northern Florida in 2023, grossing $28.6m. Clocking up $60m figures two years in a row after that, presenting a catalogue of 174 cars at an average mid-estimate value of $663.6k this time should give Broad Arrow its best result yet.

The catalogue was only finalised yesterday, ten days before the event. Included in a tranche of last-minute high-value cars is the black Enzo and a Porsche 959 Sport bought at RM’s Paris sale in 2017 for the equivalent of $2.1m. Today, it’s $4.25m to $5m. Another car returning to market is the North American 1990 Ferrari F40. Won at Broad Arrow’s Monterey auction in 2024 for $2.425m when it had covered 8,060 miles, the odometer now reads 8,065. Based on a mid-estimate price before premium of $3.5m, that’s $215k a mile. 

Broad Arrow’s 1972 Lamborghini Miura SV is a US-spec, late-model (split-sump, A/C) car, chassis 4976. Bonhams tried to sell it for its long term Texas based previous owner at Scottsdale in 2017 for $1.7m to $2.1m – when it had the engine from sister car ‘4992’ and vice versa. Years of negotiations have resolved this, with ‘4976’ returning to the auction scene in 2026 now matching, at $3.5m to $4m. A late 1970s repaint from original silver to blue still stands, which makes the “The best preserved, low-mileage, time-capsule Miura in existence” billing somewhat optimistic, especially as there are several Miuras with lower mileage which still have their original paint. Nonetheless it’s a good car which should sell easily.

Competing with Gooding’s Ferrari 275 GTB/4 at Amelia is Broad Arrow’s car, another bought in 2017 ($3m in Monterey) and now offered at a pricy $3.4m to $3.6m. Like so many others, from 1970 onwards it’s had a lot of US owners in short spaces of time. A Swiss car, born red with black, the car is Classiche-certified and now Blue Chiaro metallic with black interior. The accompanying 1966 long-nose 275 GTB/6C is another certified 275 and mellowed now after restoration over 20 years ago by the right people in Modena. It’s also slightly high at $3m to $3.2m. 
 
The 1968 P400 at Broad Arrow is the runt of a four-Miura litter coming up in Florida. Its early history is actually interesting: delivered new to the Saudi royal family via the British concessionaire; likely the UK motor show and Sandy Shaw TV feature car. Things go downhill from there, after a presumed mishap receiving body parts from another Middle Eastern Miura S, before being subjected to restoration in Kuwait in 2018 by that font of all Miura knowledge… Aston Martin of Kuwait. But it’s estimated accordingly: “In Excess of $1,500,000”, and does at least still have its original engine.
 
American Lynn Park’s name is a byword for authority on all matters Cobra. The 1966 Shelby 427 Cobra was owned by Park for 20 years, which is a good recommendation. Add to that a rare hardtop, more subtle rear exhaust pipes, no chrome roll hoop and its original 428 Police Interceptor motor. At a market-correct $1.45m to $1.65m it should do well. Note, as a 427 it would be more desirable but straight-talking Park kept it is an original 428. 
 
Broad Arrow Auctions, 174 cars in total, 6-7 March at The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, 4750 Amelia Island Pkwy, Amelia Island, FL 32034. See broadarrowauctions.com
 
Rely on K500 to report on all the action from the 2026 Florida sales. The recent Paris auctions broke all records and once again more modern Ferraris led the way. The more traditional setting of Amelia Island, if not Miami, will test this trend. 
 
You can download a full lotlisting sorted by make and model, with all details of day of sale and venue HERE.
 
Top photo by Alamy, the others courtesy the auction houses