10 Of The Largest Private Car Collections In The World

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Collecting rare, vintage, and exotic cars has agelong been a quintessential indulgence of nan super-rich. Yet, immoderate return this passion to obsessive heights, filling their garages pinch immoderate uncommon wheels they tin get their hands on.

Each collector (including oil-rich royals, ex-rock stars, and business moguls) has a different accuracy down nan madness. Some pursuit "bigger is better". Others are devoted to a azygous theme: American muscle, European sleekness, aliases simply bold civilization colors. For a few, nan norm is simple: if it's for sale, it's mine.

Within these sprawling collections dishonesty century-old relics and icons expensive capable to bargain a high-end business jet. Among nan uncommon prototypes and one-offs are acquainted marque suspects: Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini, Porsche, and Aston Martin of different ages and sizes. Referring to these purely arsenic statements of wealthiness is to miss nan larger picture. They are metallic and alloy odes to nan storied history of nan automobile manufacture and a quiet effort to sphere its very psyche for early generations. That said, present are 10 of nan largest backstage car collections successful nan world.

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When discussing backstage car collections, 1 sanction stands retired supra nan rest: Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei. The 29th monarch of nan tiny, oil-rich kingdom of Brunei has 1 of nan astir awesome fleets connected nan Planet. It's a gathering that boasts an estimated 7000 cars, including 380 Bentleys, 450 Ferraris, 134 Koenigseggs, 179 Jaguars, 209 BMWs, and 574 Mercedes-Benzs. That's surely a batch for immoderate automobile geek to feast their eyes on, but nan prima attraction is undoubtedly nan Guinness World Record 500-plus Rolls-Royces, immoderate of which were custom-built to his specifications. His relentless patronage done nan 1980s and 1990s is often credited pinch rescuing Rolls-Royce and Bentley from financial decline.

The 450-strong Ferrari postulation is nary little staggering successful opulence and rarity. Amongst them beryllium a fleet of four-door 456 GT Sedans (never produced for nan public), one-of-thirty FXXs, and nan moreover rarer Mythos conception cars, of which only 2 were built.  bespoke creations for illustration nan Bentley Buccaneer and a Pininfarina-designed Jaguar XJ220.

The Sultan owes his awesome car shed to his elder brother, Prince Jefri, whose automobile obsession fueled a $5 cardinal automobile empire. Don't expect an unfastened showing, though. His postulation is truthful secretive that astir of what is known is acknowledgment to leaked photos aliases insider reports. Most of nan cars still gleam successful pristine craft hangars and warehouses nether nan watchful eyes of mechanics, but others person reportedly fallen into neglect.

Mark Pieloch tin beryllium rightly termed nan astir devoted musculus car enthusiast connected nan planet. That's because nan Florida-born pharmaceutical entrepreneur commands nan largest musculus car postulation successful nan world: an astonishing 280 American musculus machines wrong a broader fleet of 440 vehicles housed astatine nan American Muscle Car Museum successful Melbourne, Florida. Pieloch's narration pinch rides is an obsession that has brewed since childhood, erstwhile he spent chore money connected Matchbox cars. What began arsenic a boyhood fascination turned into a lifelong pursuit successful 2000, erstwhile he began collecting nan existent thing.

His depository is simply a temple of musculus car horsepower. Inside beryllium rows of Mustangs, Challengers, Camaros, Corvettes, Dodge Vipers, Shelbys, Chevelles, and fundamentally each different musculus car to ever grace asphalt. 29 Yenko Chevys spanning each exemplary and style, alongside much than 50 Shelbys, are worthy noting, but truthful is nan complete lineup of Indy 500 gait cars from 1955 to 2017. Then there's the automobile jewel — a Ford GT40 Le Mans.

Of nan non-muscle cars successful his fleet, Pieloch has developed a typical sensation for Porsches. He owns complete 66 models, ranging from nan newer 2023 Porsche 911 Dakar to nan 1971 Porsche Carrera RS Lightweight and each exemplary of nan Porsche Tractor. It whitethorn shrink beside nan Sultan of Brunei's successful position of sheer amount aliases quality, but Pieloch's fleet reeks of selectivity and preservation. Roughly 30% of his cars person logged less than 10,000 miles, and astir 14% person mileage nether 100 miles!

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Fashion icon Ralph Lauren whitethorn person "only" 70 cars successful his collection, but their rarity makes nan worth tally complete $600 million. Chief among them is nan 1938 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic. One of conscionable 4 built, its sleek aerodynamic build immunodeficiency its 123-mile-per-hour apical speed. In his car shed besides sits a 1955 Jaguar XKD, a 1938 Mercedes-Benz SSK (the type designed for Count Trossi), a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing, a McLaren F1 LM (one of five), a 1954 Ferrari 375 Plus (also one of five), and a one-of-36 Ferrari 250 GTO.

Of course, they are each crazily expensive. In 2014, a Ferrari 375 Plus went for $18 million. A able and fortunate purchaser astatine a 2010 auction copped nan moreover rarer Type 57SC Atlantic for $40 million. The astir weighted is possibly nan Ferrari 250 GTO, which erstwhile sold for a staggering $70 million. Lauren owns much modern racecars too, including 2 Porsche 918 Spyders and McLaren P1s, a Lamborghini Reventón, a LaFerrari (the first Ferrari pinch hybrid technology), a Bugatti Veyron, and a Veyron Supersport.

Emirati royal Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan owns complete 3000 cars worthy astatine slightest $160 million, scattered crossed 5 museums successful Abu Dhabi and Morocco. Seven of nan 8 commissioned Mercedes 500SELs cooling disconnected successful his car shed each athletics 1 colour of nan rainbow, and nan eighth is vanished successful a blend of each 7 hues. He's not dubbed nan "Rainbow Sheikh" for nothing.

The sheikh besides owns nan world record-holding Hummer H1. Standing 21 feet gangly (as precocious arsenic 2 stories) and weighing 60,000 kg, it's nan largest conveyance successful nan world, afloat equipped pinch a kitchen, bathroom, lounge room, and luxury penthouse. And, yes, it moves! 

Among nan collection's supersized machines besides sits a 100,000-pound 1950s Dodge Power Wagon, nan world's largest pickup truck. The tires are originated from an lipid rig and nan windshield wipers are borrowed from an water liner.

At 86, erstwhile Royal Navy mechanic Rodger Dudding has nan largest classical car postulation successful Europe. Studio 434 is weighted astatine $51 million, and it is known for its postulation of Aston Martin Lagonda saloons, erstwhile branded among nan ugliest cars ever made. Clearly, Dudding didn't deliberation truthful erstwhile he stashed 24 of them (including some nan first and past ever produced), becoming nan largest collector of nan model. The Lagondas person a spot successful his heart, but not complete nan 1955 Morris Minor owned by his begetter and a 1968 Jensen Interceptor FF; these 2 cars sparked his lifelong obsession.       

Other eye-catchers see a 1911 Vulcan — nan oldest successful nan postulation — a 1938 Jaguar SS, a DeLorean, a 1925 Citroën 5CV, a 1998 Bentley Continental T, a reddish 1967 Karmann Ghia, and a big of British icons for illustration nan Ford Capri and Jaguar XJ. Dudding's tastes widen to modern luxury too, pinch vehicles specified arsenic a Mercedes SL and a 2017 Rolls-Royce Wraith gracing nan lineup. There are besides 65 motorbikes for two-wheeled fans, including a 1962 BSA Rocket Gold Star.

Dudding has been much than happy to show them to crowds of automobile visitors aliases rent them to movie productions aliases weddings. His cars person appeared successful "Peaky Blinders" and successful Brad Pitt's "Allied."

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Owned by Cuban-born mattress tycoon, Michael Fux, this dazzling postulation of much than 150 exotic cars, including 15 Rolls-Royces, is weighted astatine $50 million. Fux is intentional astir firsts. So intentional that successful 2023, he took transportation of 2 $442,000 Rolls Royce Spectres to unafraid his spot arsenic nan first American customer of nan electrical vehicle.

As it turns out, not moreover nan astir avid customer tin skip nan Rolls-Royce waiting line. So, while his bespoke Spectre was still successful production, Fux's tempered his impatience pinch a Tempest Grey portion consecutive disconnected nan statement until his custom-made car arrived successful 2024.

But if there's 1 point Fux loves moreover much than being first, it's color. He's nary "rainbow sheikh" but he holds nan grounds for nan astir civilization overgarment shades ever created for Rolls-Royce. There's nan Fux Red Candy Phantom Drophead Coupé, nan Fux Orange Cullinan, and nan Fux White Ghost. And past there's nan legend: erstwhile placing nan bid for his McLaren Senna successful 2018 (the first delivered anyplace successful nan world), Fux reportedly took disconnected his ain greenish footwear during a mill sojourn and handed it to nan technicians truthful they could perfectly lucifer nan hue for his car's finish. For personification truthful obsessed pinch making each thrust a individual statement, it's only earthy that Fux is ne'er awkward to stock his artistry, pinch Instagram being his preferred platform.

Ken Lingenfelter has complete 250 cars to his name, housed successful a 40,000-square-foot car shed successful Brighton, Michigan.  As nan erstwhile proprietor of Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, a institution that specialises successful high-performance modifications of GM vehicles, it's only earthy that his storage teems pinch Corvettes ... astir 150 of them.

Highlights see nan 1954 Chevrolet Duntov Mule, nan world's first V8-powered Corvette, which he splashed $318,000 on astatine a 2009 auction; a 1963 Split-Window Coupe; a 1985 Bitter SC Coupe; a Karl Kustom Corvette; a Superformance Grand Sports Corvette; Lingenfelter "Trans Am" — fundamentally customized Camaro Z/28s, and a front-wheel-drive Oldsmobile Toronado. His sensation isn't constricted to American metal; nan postulation besides houses exotics specified arsenic a 2008 Lamborghini Reventón and a 2012 Ferrari FF.

Several times a year, Lingenfelter's sprawling installation opens its doors exclusively for kindness events, turning visitors' appetite for automotive sightseeing into donations for investigation institutes.

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It doesn't matter really aged it is — if it has wheels and intrigues him, erstwhile TV big Jay Leno is uncovering a abstraction for it successful his 181-car collection. That explains why early 20th-century marvels for illustration nan Doble steamer, a 1907 Advance Steam Tractor engine, a 1928 Bugatti Type 37 A, and 1936 Cord 812 stock nan aforesaid tile pinch mid- and late-century icons for illustration nan 1969 Lamborghini Murai, 1970 Dodge Challenger, Ford Galaxie, and nan much modern sleek lord specified arsenic nan 2004 Porsche Carrera GT, 2014 McLaren P1, and 2026 McLaren W1 hypercar. It's a mishmash of wheels from each era.

Among his astir unsocial creations is nan EcoJet. This jet-turbine-powered supercar is simply a merchandise of collaboration betwixt nan teams astatine Leno's car shed and General Motors. Leno treats his cars not arsenic an investment, but arsenic a living, breathing passion project. Restoration efforts are painstaking, pinch 1 car taken retired each time and moreover a 3D printer employed to recreate hard-to-find spare parts. It's nary astonishment that Leno seldom sells: his past waste successful 30 years came successful 2021 erstwhile he parted pinch his 2015 Tesla Model S P90D.

Putting a value tag connected Leno's fleet is arsenic difficult arsenic valuing antiques. Some estimate nan worth of Leno's garage at $52 million, but fixed that his 1994 McLaren F1 unsocial is worthy $20 million, this is apt a blimpish figure.

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Famed arsenic nan drummer of British stone set Pink Floyd, whose grounds income transcend 250 cardinal worldwide, Nick Mason has 1 of nan rarest backstage car collections around. Of course, "rare" cannot beryllium added to a fleet if it doesn't incorporate 1 aliases much of only 36 Ferrari 250 GTOs, a 1962 masterpiece. Mason owns that, alongside a big of different uncommon Ferraris: an F40, a 512S that appeared successful nan 1971 movie "Le Mans," a La Ferrari hybrid, and a 1953 250 MM.

Other prized possessions see a McLaren F1 GTR, famously acquired successful a switch pinch erstwhile McLaren leader Ron Dennis for Mason's Indy car; a meticulously maintained 1927 Bugatti Type 35B, a 1935 Aston Martin Ulster, a 1937 Maserati 250F, and a 1955 Jaguar D-Type.

The oldest gem successful Mason's fleet is simply a beautifully preserved 1901 Panhard Et Levassor, complete pinch its unfastened carriage-style body. Incredibly, he has taken this French-made four-wheeler connected agelong drives crossed awesome cities successful England. Mason's lifelong passion for each things motoring (which includes participating successful nan prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans) hasn't gone unnoticed. He's been inducted into nan Motoring Hall of Fame, making him nan only individual ever to clasp that grant alongside a spot successful nan Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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Ion Țiriac has been referred to arsenic nan man pinch forgotten Ferraris. Anyone pinch a individual fleet of 350 cars is bound to person a fewer gems gaffe their mind, moreover if it includes 2 super-rare Ferrari F40s, arsenic successful nan 86-year-old Romanian billionaire's case.

Housed successful a 23,680-square-foot automotive temple successful Otopeni, Romania, nan Țiriac Collection showcases astir half of nan erstwhile tennis player's singular lineup. It reasonably includes hallmarks of a coagulated collection: a 1976 Aston Martin Lagonda, a 1957 1900C Super Sprint Coupe, a 1988 Challenge Race Car, a 2009 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Stirling Moss, a Jenson Interceptor, a Porsche 918 Spyder, and yes, Rolls-Royces. And not conscionable immoderate Rolls-Royces, 2 exclusive 1953 Phantom IVs, a exemplary that was only sold to royalties and heads of state.

Each conveyance successful nan postulation is started monthly to guarantee it remains successful cleanable moving condition. Any motion of trouble, and a car is instantly dispatched backmost to its shaper for servicing. Enthusiasts incapable to make nan visit to Romania but still crave nan acquisition of stepping into a world-class car shed tin effort retired nan Țiriac Collection mobile app's immersive 360º virtual tour.