These four Ferraris could sell for a total of £44 million

Cue Dr Evil close-up: the combined, estimated sale price of the four Ferraris in this gallery amounts to a whopping $58,000,000. That's a whisker under £44m. Yup, fourty-four million quid for just four motor cars. Admittedly, they are extraordinarily gorgeous, rare and historically significant motor cars, but still.

We'll start with the first one above. It is a 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta Competizione. The name should ring familiar: the 250 remains one of Ferrari's most desirable and iconic nomenclatures, and is responsible for turning many a grown adult into a gibbering wreck.

This particular car, expected to fetch up to $18m, is one of the first SWB Berlinetta competition cars built, and tested by Mssrs Phil Hill, Richie Ginther and Wolfgang von Trips. This car took on the 1960 Le Mans 24hrs, and finished 7th overall. It's been carefully restored by specialists GTO Engineering, comes ready in its Le Mans livery, was recently certified by the Ferrari Classiche department and is one of the finest competition cars of all time.

Around $20m could get you this rather delectable Cali Spider. Equipped from the factory with pretty much every available competition feature available at the time, it gets a race-spec engine and 'box, disc brakes all round, an endurance fuel tank (read: bigger), aluminium Scaglietti coachwork and the sought-after covered headlamp treatment.

It was delivered new to the US, where it took part in the 12hrs of Sebring endurance race, finishing 5th. Not shabby. It later raced in Nassau in 1959 and 1960, and today is presented in its original Sebring colours. It's won many awards for its excellence and is pitched as one of the greatest open-top Ferrari competition cars ever built. Just look at it...

The 'entry-level' Ferrari in this rare group of cars, and a veritable bargain at an estimated, um, $8,000,000. Nuccio Bertone drove this very car at the Mille Miglia in 1950 and 1951 (yep, just think how cool that sentence sounds), and in 1952, Emilio Getti won the Italian Sports Car Championship (in the 2.0-litre class). It was later transformed into a closed Berlinetta, then raced again in Italy and North America. It's also been in storage since 1967, and therefore is presented in 'unrestored' condition.

Still gorgeous.

Last, but by no means least, is this $12,000,000 Berlinetta. This one's a late production 'lusso' model, and when new, and in 2010 was treated to a complete concours-spec restoration overseen by Ferrari's famed Classiche department. It's since been refinished in its original colour scheme, won an award at Villa d'Este (probably again for being quite excellent), and is, well, excellent.

All are being offered at Gooding & Co's Pebble Beach auction. Reckon they'll meet their expected sale prices, and would you be mad - if you had the cash - not to bag one?