Saturday, August 15, Jay Leno will present a car at the Gooding & Company Monterey sale that held a special place for its owner and the people who knew him. Frederic Paroutaud owned his 1967 Lamborghini 400 GT 2+2 for 30 years, until his suicide at age 58 on June 28, 2012.

Fred’s passing shocked everyone who knew him. Even Susan, his wife of 25 years, had no inkling that he suffered from bipolar disorder; and only in the aftermath did she and friends piece together the tiniest clues. No one knew Fred’s …