Self-Taught Mike Vetter Designs and Builds Incredible Cars

As a teenager, Mike Vetter fell in love with the Lamborghini Countach. Like most teenagers, he couldn't afford one. But he did manage to scrape up $2,500 for a kit body, and another $1,700 for a used Pontiac Fiero. With no mechanical training—Vetter was working at a Burger King at the time--he taught himself to graft the kit body onto the Fiero and get it to run. It took 2,000 hours of labor, but a year and a half after he'd started, Vetter had the closest thing to a Lamborghini that he...