Tom Tjaarda didn’t plan on spending his life designing cars. Though he grew up in Detroit, where his father John penned cars for Ford and Lincoln, Tom majored in architecture at the University of Michigan. But in his senior year, he decided to create a sports car for an industrial design course.

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