Topic: Solved -PJ390- Creative Car Craft Bugatti

[Paul Jaray]

Know the story? For 1 point, please respond below to identify the vehicle pictured, and the builder.

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[Otto Puzzell]

 

[whcgt]

 

[Pelland]

It's a Bugatti............or is it really?

Actually this is a 1973 Lincoln Continental that has been customised by Creative Car Craft in California.  The car was marketed as a modern take on a nostalgic theme with ultimate luxury in mind.........in this case the result was a rather tasteless 1970's version of a Bugatti Royale complete with authentic Bugatti horseshoe grille.  As Bugatti was defunct at this time no official "Type" designation was allocated to this project and there is a fair chance that the Bugatti name and badging was "Pirated."  The cars were marketed in 1976 but were too expensive in comparison with a factory built Caddy.

[Paul Jaray]

Correct again.
How or even whether Sherman and Kent, who planned to build 2 of these cars through Kent's Creative Car Craft in Hawthorne, obtained the rights to the Bugatti name remains unknown.

[Vincent Vell Vet]

Possibly stealing the name, the proportions, the lines, wht else could be wrong with this?
Oh yeah, it's based on a '73 Lincoln (first bad year). What a freakin mess!

[whcgt]

  $66,000 + in 1976 No way! ..."my hotrod Lincoln"... Back then, you could have bought a used Lamborghini Miura & a DeTomaso Mangusta for the price of this urban bovine machination.