how about a mostly wooden supercar?? projected 200mph…
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!
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.
- No interference
- 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??
Joe has some fun toys !!