The Story Behind MARTINI Collection

MARTINI Collection was founded on a simple belief: that great cars have great stories, and those stories deserve to be told well.

We are an automotive platform built around four pillars — auctions and sales, photography and film, community connections, and historical preservation. Each of these disciplines reinforces the others. The cars we sell are documented with the same care as the cars we photograph. The events we host connect the people who care about the same vehicles in our archive.

At the core of our auction work is a personal, hands-on approach that larger services can’t offer. We inspect every vehicle. We research ownership history from original invoices and paperwork. We write each listing with the kind of detail and honesty that serious buyers expect — and that sellers appreciate. Our track record on Bring a Trailer (username: DM7) and Cars & Bids (username: DRM7) reflects years of successful placements across Ferraris, Porsches, Land Rover Defenders, and specialty vehicles from private Pacific Northwest collections.

Our photography and film work brings that same standard to visual media. Whether we’re capturing a once-in-a-generation hypercar like the GMA T.50 at delivery or producing a drive film for a 1966 Ferrari 330 GTC, the goal is always the same: to make the viewer feel something true about the machine.

The Connections side of MARTINI Collection grew naturally out of the relationships built along the way. Car people are some of the best people, and we’ve made it our business to bring them together — at early morning meets, at Pebble Beach, and at private events curated for those who take the automobile seriously.

Finally, our Archival Collection preserves a rare body of motorsport photography from the 1960s and 70s — candid, track-level images of the drivers and machines that defined an era. This archive is being shared publicly for the first time, and we’re grateful to be its caretakers.

MARTINI Collection is based in the Pacific Northwest. If you have a car to sell, a story to tell, or a community to build, we’d love to hear from you.

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