Bugazzi, Fronty Ford, headed to RM’s Hershey auction

Hmm. Two doesn’t make a trend, but this will the second Barris-built car to cross a major auction block in the month of October, after the Banacek AMX at Mecum. This one, a 1972 Bugazzi, will head to RM’s Vintage Motorcars of Hershey auction October 8-9. The Bugazzi started out as a Harry Bentley Bradley concept atop a Lincoln Mark IV platform as Paul Rimmer’s idea of an American Rolls Royce. Barris took over production from Rimmer and built about 12, one of which headed to Joe Comforte, proprietor of the Mustang Ranch. Being sold without reserve, RM estimates it’ll go for $30,000 to $60,000.

Bugazzi a bit too, umm, rococo for you? At the same event, RM’s also auctioning off this 1915 Ford Model T “Fronty Ford” speedster, equipped with a Peugeot-style Bub Wasp body, a Frontenac overhead-valve conversion on the Model T four-cylinder and Ford wide-track axles. It’ll also go for no reserve, estimated to sell for $40,000 to $60,000.

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Mystery Train

It’s a good thing that the Monterey Historics publishes a comprehensive program, because otherwise, you’d have a real problem identifying some of the cars that compete there. Check this out.

Give up? It’s a 1952 Jowett Jupiter, which came off the road in California and then got prepped as maybe the most unlikely production racing car in North America, as it’s been for years now. The car, and the effort behind it, is unbelieveably simple. Any number of these “sporting gentleman” teams arrive at Laguna Seca with full crews and NASCAR- or IRL-type haulers. Scott Renner of Los Alamitos, California, had a single crewman and towed the Jowett behind an old van. They told us they had a blast, making them our kind of guys. This is a pure driver’s challenge; look at Steve putting the spine and shoulders into this corner, running on skinnies maybe a third of the width of a Harley V-Rod’s back tire.

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