would you do 200mph in a wooden car??

how about a mostly wooden supercar?? projected 200mph…:smiley:
http://www.joeharmondesign.com/

Cool looking car! It would be a shamed if a termite was let loose on it.

Lots of good photoshop work on that site.

Wood is nature’s composite, and if done right, has a tremendous resistance to flex fatigue. It looks to me as though it’s being done right…if I’d drive a carbon fiber composite car @ 200 mph, I don’t see why I wouldn’t do so in the wood composite car.

The MARCOS (made in the UK in the 60s) had a plywood chassis with stub suspension sub-frames and a 'glass body. Didn’t do 200 mph - but 200 KPH as I recall. Some are still about today - speaks to the durability of “Nature’s Own Composite” – with a little man-made engineering to get the plys! :slight_smile:

Cheers - Jim

… or = to 124 mph.

A lot of aircraft use wood still to this day.

For instance, in the nose cone, where the radar is housed.

  1. No interference
  2. Doesn’t conduct electricity in a lightning strike.

My cars floorboards are balsa cored composite & my boats are skinned with 1/64 birch ply. Both are incredibly strong. for their weight.

you have one of the new vettes??

Yep.

http://gallery.intlwaters.com/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=10031&pos=4

Joe has some fun toys !!