The Argentine Dogo SS-2000 Prototype from 1969 is one of the rarest and most forgotten concept sports cars in South American automotive history.
It was created by racing driver and engineer Clemar Bucci together with his brother Rolando and a small team in Buenos Aires.
The car featured a lightweight fiberglass body, gullwing doors, a sharp wedge-shaped design in the style of Italian supercars, and a curb weight of around 1,543 pounds.
Under the hood was a 2.0-liter Peugeot 504 engine producing approximately 160 horsepower, paired with a 4-speed Porsche 911 manual transmission.
It also used independent suspension and disc brakes on all four wheels. Top speed was estimated at around 142 mph.
Bucci hoped to establish small-scale production and even considered a more powerful version with fuel injection and turbocharging.
However, Argentina’s economic troubles and the lack of a developed automotive industry prevented the project from progressing beyond a single prototype.
Today the Dogo SS-2000 resides in the Museo Bucci collection and is regarded as one of the most ambitious automotive projects to come out of Argentina in the late 1960s.
