Click above for high-res gallery of the Splinter Wooden Supercar
You may remember our post on the Splinter wooden supercar late last year. At the time, the grad students behind the project being led by Joe Harmon only had renderings of what the Gaia-approved exotic would look like. They deserve extra credit, however, for having the actual car ready for the International Woodworking Fair in Atlanta last week. While they’ve yet to reach the running prototype stage, they did marry the car’s body to its all-wooden chassis. Renderings are one thing, but seeing photos of the actual car is inspiring. The body is comprised of basket-woven wood that’s coated with resin in a mold, which we suppose makes it a different kind of carbon fiber altogether. Next up is actually fitting the drivetrain, which thankfully is not made of wood, and getting the Splinter moving under its own power. We may have doubted at the beginning that this project would ever be completed, let alone be this cool, but consider us converts.
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First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October 1973
[Source: Building the Splinter via Jalopnik]