Nope. That's the real deal, but remember - This would have been in the later 1970's or '80's, IIRC. And don't forget - The lowly Mustang II front end is sitting under a whole lot of Hot Rods built since the 1970's (Even Stan would love one, if he could squeeze it under a Speedster).
The big one was built on a stretched Mustang frame and the smaller one on a stretched Fiero. He also invested in a company that built a car called a Cumberford Martinique, but I don't think they ever got past a few prototypes.
The guy's name was Henry Burkhardt III and he started at Digital Equipment Corp. around 1963 after dropping out of Princeton, and created the highly advanced PDP-X computer (which was not adopted by DEC), was later a co-founder at Data General in 1968, then later Encore and a bunch of others. He held a lot of patents, one for the shared memory/multi-processor architecture used in all of our computers today. He also founded KSR which sold it's patents to SUN as the basis of all of their high-speed processors (SUN servers) later bought by Oracle . I only met him in passing at Data General, but his reputation there was huge.
To say that this man was a genius fell far short of reality, both on the technical and business side - His founded companies almost always made money. When he died in 2000, C. Gordon Bell (co-founder of DEC) wrote his eulogy, which can be read below. It's worth a few minutes to read about this truly remarkable person, no matter what kind of career you've had.
https://gordonbell.azurewebsit...emorial_Comments.htm
BTW: Gordon Bell introduced "Bells's Law" which, loosely paraphrased, states that computers are introduced at a constant price over time with ever increasing functionality due to advances in technology.
That's why new laptops, smart phones and tablets keep coming out with new features or faster speeds but still cost the same when new. He's worth doing a Wiki-Search on, too.