It’s impossible to quantify the billions of dollars’ worth of cars that are on display during Monterey Car Week, what with the 228 cars featured at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, the roughly 550 cars competing at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, and the assortment of vehicles at various events across the peninsula during the week, whether they be the swanky selection at The Quail, Italian gems, autobahn-going Germans, or even beaters.

The total value of the 725 cars sold in the five live auctions over the course of four days can be calculated, however—$338.3 million. That total is according to Hagerty Insurance, which carefully tracked the sales at each auction house as they happened. Seven cars sold for more than $10 million apiece, greatly skewing the $469,149 average; the median price was a more palatable $90,750. Gooding & Company brought in the most money, tallying $129.8 million for 114 cars. RM Sotheby’s bested the other auction houses with a $1.44 million average sale price and a $506,000 median. Bonhams had the highest sell-through rate, at 88 percent. Mecum Auctions sold the most cars—310—at an average of $137,733 and a median of $46,500. Meanwhile, Russo and Steele sold only one car for more than $1 million, and none of the firm’s auction results made this list. See, you don’t necessarily have to have a two-comma checkbook to buy a car at a Monterey auction. But it certainly helps.



These heavy sales totals are actually lower than the totals from the past two years. By Hagerty’s count, the auction houses brought in $428 million with 765 cars in 2014, and in 2015 the total was $397 million for 870 cars. (Here’s a rundown of the top sellers from 2014 and from 2015.) This year’s figures will likely climb a bit higher than $340 million, as auction companies close out some deals that couldn’t be completed under the big lights during auction days. In fact, three of the cars on this list—a Ferrari Daytona Spider, a Ferrari 500 Superfast, and a Ford GT40—weren’t included when we recounted the top 10 sellers from each sales day in Monterey—Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Here we bundle the top 25 overall sales from the week.