Your Instant Ferrari Collection Is Just $12 Million Away

If the annual Pebble Beach, Calif., auctions are the foggy highlight of summer for enthusiasts and collectors, then their balmy winter counterparts unfold each January in Scottsdale, Ariz. We’re taking a look at some of the four-wheeled stars on offer in the cactus-filled desert. Here’s what Gooding & Company will bring to the party:

All photos courtesy Gooding & Co.

So you want an instantly buzz-worthy Ferrari collection and you’re starting from scratch? Tony Shooshani is your man. He’s about to sell eight of his prized Prancing Horses - from a collection of two-dozen cars - at Gooding & Company’s Scottsdale auctions, Jan. 29-30.

Just bring along a few transporters, some white gloves and around $12 million.

“My philosophy is simply to collect the finest, drive them, and share them with the world, which in this case means some of them finding a new home,” says Shooshani, whose vast Southern California real estate holdings have enabled a childhood passion for Ferrari to turn into an adulthood with fierce ties to the Maranello company. Not content with Ferrari’s already exclusive models, Shooshani recently was selected as one of six global buyers for a custom vehicle called the Sergio, a $3 million Ferrari 458-based coupe honoring design-house legend Sergio Pininfarina.

Tony Shooshani with a few of his cars.

“The eight cars here are all unique, limited-production models, and in impeccable shape,” says Shooshani, whose hobbies now include raising prized Arabian horses, the result of being introduced to a certain white horse by the name of, yes, Enzo. (“Let’s be honest, horses were the first cars, and all horses come from Arabians. My company is called Cavallino Arabians. So for me there’s a link always back to Ferrari,” he says.)

2003 Ferrari Enzo

The Shooshani Collection that Gooding is putting under the hammer is indeed traffic-stopping stuff. First off, there are three of Ferrari’s five iconic supercars: a 1990 F40 ($1.3-$1.6 million), a 1995 F50 ($2.5-$2.9 million) and a 2003 Enzo ($2.4-$2.8 million). Absent is an ‘80s 288 GTO and a new LaFerrari. But that’s not because Shooshani doesn’t have them to offer. He has not only a LaFerrari but is also part of Ferrari’s hyper-exclusive race-only FXX K clientele list. And he has owned numerous 288 GTOs over the years, at one point parking two side by side in his garage. “What’s better than a GTO? Two GTOs,” he says.

1995 Ferrari F50

The other cars are a short greatest-hits sound off: a striking blue over cream 1960 250 GT Series II Cabriolet ($2 to $2.3 million); a 1964 250 GT Lusso ($2.2 to $2.5 million), a 100-point show car in blu sera; a 1969 Ferrari Dino 206 GT ($700,000 to $800,000), one of Shooshani’s favorite cars for its “impeccable balance”; a 1984 512 BBi ($400,000 to $475,000) that used to belonged to A.J. Foyt; and finally a rising-in-value 1988 328 GTS ($125,000 to $150,000), that now infamous “Magnum P.I.” model that actually became his very first Ferrari purchase back in 1990.

1990 Ferrari F40