‘I love taking VC dollars and turning it into jobs’: inside SendCutSend’s $2.1 billion bet on American metal

It started with a steam-powered car. That’s precisely what it sounds like, by the way. In 2017, Jim Belosic was building out what was once a Ford Model A—most famously produced in the late 1920s—to run on a steam engine. “It’s an art,” said Belosic of engineering and re-engineering classic cars. “It starts small, and at some point you’re building drag-racing cars, or a custom chassis, or a big crazy motor. I’d done a lot of that, but it had started getting boring. But saying: ‘Hey, I want to build something powered by steam and drive it around the block,’ that was problem-solving in uncharted territory.” The result: a…