These Handmade Driving Machines Are Like Nothing Else on the Road

A barn in Minnesota is the kind of place where a classic car collector might find a vintage vehicle that, with a little help from a reproduction specialist, could end up being worth something in a few years.

But Christopher Rünge doesn’t deal in classics. In his barn, on a family farm outside Minneapolis, he builds his cars by hand, one at a time, by himself, without a blueprint. Aside from the occasional help from his teenage son, the man works alone. He estimates it takes 2,000 hours to get one built.