The world's largest collector-car auctioneer calls its London sale from The Peninsula on Grosvenor Place, timed each year to the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.
RM Sotheby’s, the largest collector car auctioneer in the world, calls its London sale at The Peninsula London in Belgravia on Saturday 31 October 2026. The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run fills Hyde Park the next morning.
Rob Myers founded RM in Blenheim, Ontario, in 1991, and restored collector cars long before he auctioned them. The company now trades in partnership with Sotheby’s.
It runs its own calendar, separate from the sales in the New Bond Street rooms. It is a collector motor car specialist rather than a general auctioneer with a car department, and that decides where a significant car is consigned.
A car auction of this rank runs differently from a picture sale. The lots arrive under their own power, and the condition report covers engine numbers and matching bodywork. Provenance means a continuous ownership history and a file of invoices, and a single missing document can halve a price.
A preview of the cars opens the day, and the sale follows in the afternoon. Its date puts it on the eve of the Run, which gathers London’s historic motoring world for the drive to Brighton.