MARK LYON DIDN’T set out to master the art of forgery.

He was enjoying a lovely little business in Ferrari restoration and spares in a place called Scarletts Farm, fittingly enough, near Reading, west of London, when the 2008 financial crisis fell through the skylight. “I walked out to the engine shop and said, ‘Lads, we could be in for a lean year.’ One of them said, ‘Well, we’ve got all the parts. Why don’t we make our own cars?’”

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