📰 Auto News Splinter Wooden Supercar gets its body

[Dasfinc]

http://jalopnik.com/5042498/splinter-wooden-supercar-gets-its-body

Splinter Wooden Supercar Gets Its Body

We've been following the progress of the Splinter since early this year when the radical wooden supercar being built but some woodworking students came to light, and now we get get to see the body. In a flurry of activity leading up to its display at the International Woodworking Fair, the folks behind Splinter managed to get the wooden body hooked up to the wooden chassis. The body itself is made of a basket-woven wood overlaid with a resin and pressed together in a mold — basically the wood version of carbon fiber. Check out that interior too; wow.

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[Yaj Yak]

i remember when this thing began... so badass.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

SWEET! i love this thing! i havent checked it out in a long time though....his website is bad-ass too.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

its getting a twin supercharged northstar wasnt it??

 

[IDAFC21]

pinocchio would be SO pimp rollin in that thing...