Mecum Kissimmee 2027 runs January 5 to 17, after record $441m sale

A record year to follow

Mecum's Kissimmee sale is the largest fixture on the collector car auction calendar anywhere in the world, and the January 2026 edition set the bar higher than it has ever been. Held over 13 days at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida, the sale generated 441 million dollars in total sales, drew more than 140,000 attendees, and produced a single Saturday that alone totalled 259 million dollars, according to New Atlas and the Florida news site Around Osceola, which both covered the final tally. At today's exchange rate, 441 million dollars works out to roughly 4,145 crore rupees.

The headline lot was a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, chassis number 3729GT, nicknamed Bianco Speciale. Mecum's own pre sale release on the car explains the name: of the 36 GTOs built between 1962 and 1964, Mecum says this is the only one Ferrari finished in white at the factory, delivered new to British team owner John Coombs. On that record Saturday the car sold for 38.5 million dollars, roughly 362 crore rupees, which New Atlas and Around Osceola both confirm as the highest price ever achieved at a Mecum auction.

What is already confirmed for 2027

Mecum has set Kissimmee 2027 for January 5 to 17, again at Osceola Heritage Park, with 4,500 vehicles expected to cross the block, according to the auction house's own event page.

Early consignments announced on Mecum's site give a sense of the quality on offer. A 1956 Chevrolet Corvette SR1, one of six built with the rare SR options and one of only two known to still exist today, is confirmed, as is a 1965 Shelby 427 Factory Competition Cobra with 3,350 original miles, one of 23 ever built and described by Mecum as the most original factory production 427 competition Cobra in existence. Also listed are a 1965 Shelby GT350R, a 1970 Chevrolet Corvette Baldwin Motion Maco Shark coupe, the last of six built and one of three known to remain, from Dan McMichael's Baldwin Motion Collection, a 2025 Bugatti Mistral, one of 99 built and the final car with Bugatti's 8.0 litre quad turbo W16 engine, a 2004 Porsche Carrera GT ordered new for and driven by Formula One champion Michael Schumacher, a 1955 Ferrari Europa GT Speciale with Ferrari Classiche certification, one of 43 built and the only one of four with the factory's exaggerated rear fins, and a 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Gangloff coupe, chassis 57532, which Mecum describes as the only Type 57S coupe built by the coachbuilder Gangloff.

How to follow it from India

Mecum runs live online bidding through its own platform, bidnow.mecum.com, which is open to overseas registration, and the lot catalogue on mecum.com is updated in the run up to the sale, so Indian enthusiasts can track entries without travelling to Florida. All times at Kissimmee are US Eastern, which puts most bidding well into the Indian night. Mecum posts a results article for each day of the sale on its news page, which is the easiest way for Indian readers to catch up the following morning.

None of this changes the arithmetic for an Indian buyer. A car in the GTO's class, once it clears US export paperwork and Indian import duty on a vehicle this old, would cost several times its hammer price before it could even be registered here. For now, Kissimmee remains something Indian collectors mostly watch rather than bid in, but the Bianco Speciale result, and the record overall tally behind it, is still one of the clearest early reads each January on where values for Ferraris, Shelbys and pre war classics are headed for the rest of the year.

Sources

• Kissimmee 2027, Mecum Auctions
• Kissimmee 2027: Extraordinary Rare Cars Revealed, Mecum Auctions
• Mecum Auctions Announces Bianco Speciale, the Only Factory White Ferrari 250 GTO, to Headline Kissimmee 2026 Auction, Mecum Auctions
• Mecum Kissimmee auction breaks historic records, New Atlas
• Mecum Kissimmee 2026 breaks multiple records, Around Osceola