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MARKET LEADERBOARD

💰 The figures shared below don’t count any other sales such as car seats, memorabilia etc… All online auction sites are analyzed to put this leaderboard together.

I only include websites that have sold 5+ vehicles in the chart below.

YESTERDAY’S TOP 5 SALES

Want to dive deeper into any of these listings? Just click on the car to take you directly to the listing.

Job Opportunities

I get emailed surprisingly often with some version of the same question: do you know of any jobs in the collector car or auction world, or is this just one of those industries where everyone already knows everyone and nothing ever opens up.

The assumption seems to be that it’s small, closed, and impossible to break into unless you already have an “in.”

The reality is almost the opposite. There are always jobs if you actually go looking for them. They just don’t show up in the obvious places, and they don’t always look like “car jobs” at first glance.

One of the quiet shifts over the last few years is that the companies building the modern auction ecosystem have turned into real businesses with real teams, not just a couple of enthusiasts running a website. Once you cross that line, you suddenly need salespeople, operators, content leads, analysts, marketers, CRM managers, customer support, and people who simply know how to get cars listed and sold efficiently. A lot of those roles don’t say “automotive” in big letters, but they absolutely sit at the center of the market.

Take Collecting Cars and the broader Collecting Group as an example. What started with a tiny team is now a global operation across Europe, Asia, and Australia, and they’re hiring constantly across sales, consignment, operations, and content. Most of the open roles right now are bilingual sales and consignment specialists spread across London, Paris, Munich, Milan, and beyond, which tells you something important about how serious they are about regional depth and relationships. This isn’t just listing cars and hoping they sell. It’s boots on the ground, sourcing inventory, talking to owners, structuring deals, and making sure cars actually convert. I’ll link to their careers page below because there’s a long list and it changes regularly.

Hagerty is another good example of how “auction jobs” often look more operational than glamorous. Their Marketplace Coordinator role is basically the connective tissue that makes everything run. You’re working with consignors, contracts, photos, galleries, ownership transfers, and the hundred little details that determine whether a car has a smooth sale or a messy one. It’s less about being a car spotter and more about being organized, responsive, and professional, which is exactly why these roles matter. Platforms live or die on execution, and the people behind the scenes are the ones making it happen.

Then you have companies like Car & Classic, which is going hard on outbound sales and consignment growth. They’re hiring people whose entire job is to be on the phone with owners, clubs, and collectors, sourcing interesting cars and convincing sellers why their venue makes sense. It’s very much a modern, performance-driven sales environment mixed with real enthusiast knowledge. If you love talking cars and don’t mind high volume outreach, it’s probably one of the fastest ways to get your foot in the door and learn the market quickly.

Even Cars & Bids, which people often think of as just “Doug’s site,” is quietly re-building the company behind the scenes with support associates, analysts, and growth marketing roles that look a lot like what you’d see at a tech marketplace. Same story with Hemmings and others who are hiring for everything from marketing leadership to engineering and product.

The bigger point is that this industry isn’t just photographers and auction listings anymore. It’s marketplace mechanics. Sales pipelines. Data. Retention. Operations. Customer success. All the stuff that makes any modern platform function.

If you’re someone who genuinely understands enthusiast cars and you also bring real skills, whether that’s sales, writing, analytics, or operations, you’re actually more valuable than you think. The car knowledge gets you credibility, but the business skills are what get you hired.

So whenever someone asks me if there are jobs in the industry, the honest answer is yes, constantly, but you have to treat it like a search problem and not wait for someone to tap you on the shoulder.

I’ve linked a handful of current openings and career pages below from platforms that are actively hiring right now. If you’re serious about breaking in, it’s worth spending an hour browsing and applying rather than assuming there’s nothing out there.

Links to the jobs:
Collecting Cars careers
Hagerty Marketplace roles
Car & Classic openings
Cars & Bids careers
Hemmings jobs

The ecosystem keeps getting bigger, and the more good people who join it, the better it gets for everyone.

No Reserve Auctions To Keep An Eye On

On paper this Aston Martin DB7 shouldn’t be anywhere near a £25–30k estimate that the site gives it. It was a £107,000 car when new, it carries a proper naturally aspirated V12, it’s one of the best Ian Callum shapes ever put on an Aston, and with just 24k miles it has exactly the kind of low-mileage story that usually commands real money in this part of the market.

The estimate is mostly noise anyway because it’s no reserve, so the number doesn’t set the price, the bidders do. What’s really driving the ceiling here is psychology. A lot of people still hesitate at the idea of owning an Aston Martin, because even at £25k the running costs feel like a six-figure car, so the “fear discount” gets baked in before the auction even starts.

Which is why these keep landing in this odd value pocket where the spec says collectible but the price says used luxury coupe. If you’re comfortable with the ownership side, the math starts to look pretty compelling.

This Land Rover Discovery II is less about the truck itself and more about the auction dynamic, because the spec is pretty straightforward for the model, decent miles, Southern history, some useful mods, no reserve, but the comment section has gotten tense and the seller is clearly frustrated, which always changes how people bid whether they admit it or not.

When things start feeling combative, casual bidders don’t lean in, they back away.

On an expensive car that can mean tens of thousands. On something like this the swings are smaller, but they still exist. You’re not suddenly getting a $5k truck for $500, but it absolutely can stall momentum enough that it closes a bit softer than where a calm, clean auction might land.

And with cheaper enthusiast cars, that’s kind of the whole game. You’re not hunting for massive steals, you’re just trying to buy slightly below the natural market clearing price.

The people who understand these Land Rovers and already know the cooling system quirks, the Rover V8 reputation, and the general Discovery ownership experience, aren’t scared off by a grumpy seller or some comment-section noise. They just price the risk in and bid accordingly.

So while the drama might thin the crowd, it doesn’t really change the fundamentals.

If anything, it just creates a small pocket where the confident buyers have less competition.

I’ll be honest, I never thought I’d open Bring a Trailer and see a pool table staring back at me.

Not a garage sign or a toolkit or some random hood ornament.

An actual, 1,300-pound, hand-carved teak, Rolls-Royce–themed pool table.

Which is exactly why this thing is weirdly perfect for the site.

On one level it’s completely ridiculous. Rolls-Royce scrollwork, prewar car carvings, Spirit of Ecstasy–style figures, red Simonis cloth, leather pockets, plus a couple of giant wooden sculptures thrown in for good measure. It’s the kind of thing that feels like it belongs in a Bond villain’s game room or the lobby of a very confident cigar lounge.

On another level it makes total sense, because BaT stopped being just “cars” a long time ago. It’s basically become a marketplace for anything that lives in the same ecosystem as enthusiast garages and collector spaces, and if you think about it that way, this isn’t furniture, it’s automobilia with legs.

What I find interesting isn’t even the craftsmanship, which is clearly over the top, it’s the market dynamic. Stuff like this has almost no comps. There’s no Kelley Blue Book for custom Rolls-Royce pool tables. It’s not liquid, it’s not practical to ship, and the buyer pool is probably counted in dozens, not thousands. So the value is whatever two slightly eccentric collectors decide it is on closing day.

At $5k with a couple days left, you’re basically bidding on a conversation piece that weighs more than most cars’ engines and probably costs more to move than most people’s first cars.

Which, honestly, feels very on-brand.

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