Dick Kvetnansky was washing cars at a gas station near Washington, D.C., when he first spotted the fake. It was a yellow Ferrari Testarossa, but it had an engine that sounded an awful lot like a Chevrolet. He knew the discrepancy instantly and it gave the Slovakian an idea.
Fast-forward and Kvetnansky started creating his own fakes. He built fake Ferraris and fake Lamborghinis, spending several years creating versions of the top sports cars. Hollywood even used some of Kvetnansky’s cars in crashes for their films.
Eventually, Ferrari cracked down on the Slovak and said he was harming their image. He was forced out of the replica business and had to enter the kit car design business with an entirely new enterprise. It was after creating roadster kits built on a Honda Accord frame that he started to make an entirely new sports car.
Today, Kvetnansky is backed by Slovak investment firm CI Holding and is hoping to take on the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini with something he’s calling the K1 Attack. He has since called out any competing sports car for a speed challenge, claiming his car is the fastest.
Whether the K1 Attack will find its way to any dealer remains to be seen, but it may wind up challenging those cars found on the Lamborghini dealer lot or in the Ferrari factory, adding new speed to an industry often dominated by two Italian carmakers.
