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    Default Splinter, the high-performance wooden supercar - a real model at full scale

    This is one awesome car....

    Splinter, the high performance wooden super car

    Joe Harmon, builder of the high-performance supercar

    Splinter was conceived, designed, and built by North Carolina State University graduate student Joe Harmon and his talented team in Joe's backyard shop in Durham, North Carolina. Talking to Joe, you get the impression that he has heard the skeptical termite taunts and canoe comparisons before. And that he understands the best way to disarm critics is with his half-smile and a just-the-facts recitation of his creation's statistics. (See stats, next slide.) With an estimated weight slightly greater than a Cooper Mini and a projected top speed faster than a Porsche, Ferrari, or Lamborghini, this car will fly. And aside from the engine, transaxle, and a few connecting parts, the car is made completely of wood.



    http://www.woodmagazine.com/communit...c=nwwood091114

    http://www.joeharmondesign.com/process.html

    http://www.joeharmondesign.com/commentsFrame.html

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    Pity all work on it stopped back in about 2008.....

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    WOW.
    Thanks for posting this one Crowie.
    Apart from being an awesome car.
    I can see a hole lot of construction methods I could use in my work.
    Or a least versions there of.
    Fantastic stuff
    I'll be spend a lot of time looking at all of it.
    Really inspiring.

    Cheers
    Trev.

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