OF THE MULTIPLE ATTEMPTS TO RESURRECT THE BUGATTI NAME over the decades, perhaps the least known remains the attempt by Mike Sherman and Dave Kent in the Seventies, using a Lincoln Continental as the basis for an ultra-luxury sedan. As it turns out, that car not only still exists, it’s apparently never left the state in which it was built.
Kent, through his Creative Car Craft in Hawthorne, California, had plenty of experience building, restyling, and customizing cars, with experience gained through working with Troutman and Barnes. According to Scott Sherman, his father was no slouch with a hammer and dolly either, so the two set about reskinning two Continentals in aluminum body panels, anchored at the front by the trademark Bugatti horse-collar grille and defined along the sides by long,…
