About

Christopher Sanger is president of Durant Enterprises and has been providing appraisals, insights, and expert advice on collector cars for the past 20 years.  

Christopher has been in the classic car and motorcycle and art auction industries for more than two decades. He quite literally grew up among cars as the great-great-grandson of William C. Durant, founder of General Motors, and a relative of E. Paul duPont, founder of duPont Motors. He was vice president and head of US sales for Christie’s International Motor Cars, where he was a frequent guest on CNBC and the Velocity Channel’s Chasing Classic Cars, as well as a number of other major media outlets. Christopher also worked in estates, appraisals, and valuations at Christie’s New York and is a consultant for the Winston Art Group, and has vast experience with appraisals and valuations for insurance, estate tax, fair market, and loan collateral. Christopher’s expertise in antique and collector cars has made him a valued consultant and public speaker worldwide, as evidenced by his participation as a judge at the Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance (2007–2010), speaker at the Credit-Suisse Forum at Pebble Beach (2015), the Boca Raton Museum of Art (2017), Bank of America (2018), Wells Fargo (2019), the Appraisers Association of America lecture series (2019), Goldman Sachs Apex Family Office Symposium (2022), and the Appraisers Association of America National Conference (2022). He recently co-authored Appraising: The Definitive Guide to Valuing Fine Art, Decorative Arts & Collectibles (Appraisers Association of America, 2024). Christopher has also provided expert witness testimony.

Christopher is a certified member of the Appraisers Association of America, which is the highest level of appraisal certification available, and is USPAP certified. Additionally, Christopher wrote the Collector Car exam for the AAA.