The Elkhart Collection.Courtesy of RM Sotheby's
- A payroll-processing CEO was accused of a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme and filed for bankruptcy, and now his enormous car collection will be auctioned off to pay the debts.
- The ridiculous stash comprises more than 240 cars dating from 1903 to the present, and includes several vehicles worth $1 million or more.
- The priciest cars include a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing, a 1952 Ferrari race car, a 1969 Lamborghini Miura, an Aston Martin DB5, and a 2006 Ford GT Heritage.
- The assortment of cars, dubbed "The Elkhart Collection," will be sold through RM Sotheby's on October 23 and 24.
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A payroll-processing CEO was accused of defrauding KeyBank and former clients out of millions last year. Now, he's resigned from the company, declared bankruptcy, and his enormous collection of 240-plus cars will be auctioned off to chip away at more than $100 million in liabilities.
Najeeb Khan — the founder and former head of Elkhart, Indiana-based Interlogic Outsourcing, Inc. — amassed a fortune totaling roughly $98 million, and Khan's 281-vehicle collection accounts for approximately $31 million of that, according to court records reviewed by The South Bend Tribune.
Now that Khan has declared personal bankruptcy, a judge has ordered that his massive car collection be sold off to pay creditors.
That stash of cars — which will be sold through the RM Sotheby's auction house as "The Elkhart Collection" on October 23 and 24 — has scores of exceedingly rare and highly valuable vehicles, including a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing, a 1952 Ferrari race car, and a Ford GT supercar previously owned by Wayne Gretzky.
According to RM Sotheby's, Khan's vehicles "range in value from $10,000 through to the multi-million-dollar mark and represent nearly every category within the collector car market."
Check out some of the most expensive cars in Khan's collection, along with rough estimates of what they may be worth at auction:
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