Wainwright Motor Corporation was incorporated in Michigan on June 24, 1981, by Basil Earle Wainwright, a British-born confidence man who ran fraud schemes across both the United States and the United Kingdom. Nicknamed "King Con" by the press, he was convicted in 1983 on 22 counts of theft, fraud, and forgery, and his history included dealings with race car designer and driver Carroll Shelby and with the Ford Motor Company…