If you’re not familiar with the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, the short version is this: every March, the Omni resort on Amelia Island, Florida becomes ground zero for the collector car world. The Concours itself is one of the most prestigious in the country — legitimately in the conversation with Pebble Beach — and the surrounding week draws every major auction house, dealer, and serious collector you can name. Gooding Christie’s has run their sale alongside it for sixteen years now, and it’s become one of the most anticipated consignment events on the calendar.

Gooding Christie’s arrives this year on the back of a $234 million year, and the 2026 catalogue reflects that momentum. At 132 lots it covers a lot of ground — pre-war exotica, a California Spider that will headline the week, serious Lamborghinis, a handful of Porsches worth talking about. Bidding opens Thursday, March 5 at 3:00 p.m. EST with the main Friday session at 11:00 a.m.

The 968 Turbo S is what drew me into this catalogue — and once I was in, the rest of the sale turned out to be pretty hard to put down.

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1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider

Estimate: $16,000,000 – $18,000,000

Chassis 1963 GT is a 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider bodied by Scaglietti — delivered new to Auto Becker of Düsseldorf in Argento over grey leather, specified with Weber 40 DCL6 carburettors, Borrani wire wheels, an Abarth exhaust, and open velocity stacks. It’s among the rarer SWB Spiders to leave the factory with covered headlights and a hardtop, which makes the spec sheet a lot more interesting than average.

Ferrari Classiche came through with full Red Book certification in June 2011 — original chassis, body, engine, gearbox, and rear axle. A 330 GT five-speed has since been fitted, with the original gearbox retained with the car. Dennison International handled the restoration, and it walked the Tour d’Elegance at Pebble Beach in 2010.

The $16–18 million estimate is real money by any measure, though it’s worth noting that a 1961 SWB California Spider Competizione sold for $25.3 million at Pebble Beach last August — Gooding Christie’s own house record. This car won’t touch that, but it’s a certified, Classiche-blessed SWB Spider with provenance and a legitimate restoration behind it. They don’t come along often.

1993 Porsche 968 Turbo S

Estimate: $900,000 – $1,200,000  |  1 of 14 Built

Porsche built the 968 Turbo S in 1993 only, and strictly as a homologation exercise — they needed a road car to qualify the 968 Turbo RS for ADAC GT competition. The plan was 100 units. They built fourteen, including a prototype, then quietly shut it down when someone apparently did the math and realized a 305-horsepower transaxle coupe doing 0-60 in 4.7 seconds might cause some awkward conversations in the 911 Turbo showroom.

This one, chassis WP0ZZZ96ZPS890068, was ordered directly through Porsche’s Racing Department by Czech tennis star Helena Suková. She spec’d it in paint-to-sample Zermatt Silver over black leatherette with corduroy inserts and kept it in Monaco until 2014. It then passed to German racing driver Andreas Knapp-Voith, then to Michigan-based Porsche collector Michael Kelter — who made a habit of finding and preparing Turbo S examples — before landing with its current owner in early 2024. The odometer reads 18,872 miles through all of that.

Under the hood, the 3.0-liter inline-four runs a KKK turbo, air-to-air intercooler, and revised engine management — jumping from the standard car’s 237 hp to 305, with 369 lb-ft available from 3,000 rpm. Brakes came from the 964 Turbo S, the wheels are three-piece Speedlines, and the gearbox is a close-ratio six-speed Getrag with a limited-slip diff. Auto motor und sport called it one of the best handling cars Porsche had built. That’s not a small statement.

The last Turbo S at auction brought $792,000 in 2021. If this one crosses $1.2 million it’ll be the first example to hit seven figures — and given the mileage, the provenance, and the fact that most people at the sale will never have seen one in person, it’s not hard to imagine the bidding getting there.

1969 Lamborghini Miura P400 S

Estimate: $2,100,000 – $2,400,000  |  Arancio Miura

Chassis 4248 was completed in October 1969 in Arancio Miura — the orange that Lamborghini literally named after this car — over black leather with beige cloth seat inserts. Delivered new to Autoelite on Viale Cenisio in Milan, it had moved to Japan by 1973, turned up in the Japanese motoring press mid-decade, and eventually made its way to the States.

The P400 S is the middle Miura — the one that fixed the original’s rough edges without softening the experience. The 3.9-liter transverse V12 still shares its sump with the four-speed transaxle, which is either charming or alarming depending on your disposition. The S brought better carburetion, a proper windscreen seal, and a cabin that didn’t quite rattle your fillings loose. Marcello Gandini’s body is unchanged, which is all that really matters.

At $2.1–2.4 million this is a meaningful step below the SV — a P400 SV at last year’s Amelia brought $4.46 million at Broad Arrow — but an original-color, well-documented P400 S with Italian delivery history is exactly the car where that discount starts to feel less justified once you’re standing next to it. The Friday session will tell us a lot about where the market thinks the S belongs right now.

1971 Alfa Romeo Tipo 33/3

Estimate: $1,000,000 – $1,400,000  |  Without Reserve

Curtis Leaverton Collection — 2nd Overall, 1971 Targa Florio

Chassis AR75080*019* was built by Autodelta in the summer of 1970 and debuted at the 1000km of Zeltweg that October. Its headline result came at the 1971 Targa Florio, where Andrea de Adamich and Gijs van Lennep took it to 2nd Overall — one of the most demanding road races on the calendar, over 72 kilometers of Sicilian mountain roads per lap. After the season it was retired and parked in the back of Autodelta’s workshop, where it sat untouched for 13 years until the shop closed in 1984.

South African collector David Cohen bought it directly from Autodelta, had Tony Merrick authenticate it, and sent it to GTC Restorations for a full restoration overseen by Bobby Bell of Bell & Colvill. It sold through Brooks at Goodwood Festival of Speed in 1999, eventually ending up with Curtis Leaverton, and has been maintained by vintage racing specialist Wolf Motorsports since. It took first in class at the inaugural Le Mans Classic in 2002 and continues to race.

The Tipo 33/3’s 3.0-liter V8 makes around 400 horsepower in a car that barely registers on a scale. About 20 were built to this spec. It’s offered without reserve from the Leaverton estate, with proceeds going to children’s cancer charities — which is a meaningful context for a lot that could easily clear seven figures.

1991 Jaguar XJR-15

Estimate: $900,000 – $1,200,000  |  Without Reserve

Curtis Leaverton Collection — 1 of 28 Road Cars Ever Built

Tom Walkinshaw Racing built the XJR-15 on technology pulled directly from the XJR-9 that won Le Mans in 1988 — carbon fiber monocoque, all-carbon bodywork, a 6.0-liter V12 making around 450 horsepower, just over 2,200 pounds. The cabin is exactly what you’d expect from something built by a racing operation rather than a car company. There’s no apology in it.

TWR built 53 total: 25 for a one-make support series at Monaco, Silverstone, and Spa in 1991, and 28 road cars for private sale. This is one of the 28, finished in deep blue. It’s been maintained to the standard you’d expect from a collection where everything was kept ready to use.

At $900K–$1.2M without reserve, the price reflects what the XJR-15 road car market actually is right now. It’s not cheap, but 28-unit production with a direct lineage to a Le Mans winner doesn’t come cheap. This is the kind of car you read about for years and then one day it shows up in a sale catalogue — and then it’s gone again.