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    Amazingly Accurate Historic Wooden Race Cars

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    Image of LuciferV8 LuciferV8
    11/25/09

    In reply to Amazingly Accurate Historic Wooden Race Cars
    That is true skill. Hats off to you, Mr. Tatman!
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    Image of Turboner Turboner
    11/24/09

    In reply to Amazingly Accurate Historic Wooden Race Cars
    This sure beats Tom Hanks' Maserati in that episode of Busom Buddies where they are stranded in the mountain cabin. It didn't even have a tape deck.
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    Image of günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi
    11/24/09

    In reply to Amazingly Accurate Historic Wooden Race Cars
    my lego building ass has just totally been kicked.

    and i deserved it. you rule mr. tatman
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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    11/24/09

    In reply to Amazingly Accurate Historic Wooden Race Cars

    I guess he missed the obvious.
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    Image of skaycog was here skaycog was here
    11/24/09

    In reply to Amazingly Accurate Historic Wooden Race Cars
    This guy is truly an artist.....what incredible detail. I especially liked the Ford GT40 (woodn't you know).
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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    11/24/09

    @skaycog was here: Hah hah hah. Woodn't. Hah.
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    Image of skaycog was here skaycog was here
    11/24/09

    @mr_dude: Forgive me; I'm just board.
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    11/24/09

    @skaycog was here: For the first time ever, a GT40 can be accurately described as "lumbering".
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    Image of skaycog was here skaycog was here
    11/24/09

    @smalleyxb122: I saw what you did there. ;)
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    11/24/09

    In reply to Amazingly Accurate Historic Wooden Race Cars
    The Lotus is carved from Balsa, just as Chapman would have wanted.
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    11/24/09

    In reply to Amazingly Accurate Historic Wooden Race Cars
    His kid is going to own pinewood derby.
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    Image of nicjasno nicjasno
    11/25/08

    In reply to All-Wooden Speedball Special Roadster Built, For Sale In St. Louis
    SINGLE WHEEL DRIVE ? You mean only one wheel gets power? WTF? And yes, those are 2cv wheels.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    11/25/08

    @nicjasno: A live axle with a differential gear would require a bit of engineering given the orientation of the sprocket on the engine. With only 42 or so HP on tap, SWD shouldn't be too much of an issue on dry pavement.
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    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    11/24/08

    In reply to All-Wooden Speedball Special Roadster Built, For Sale In St. Louis
    I want new square engines, brilliant.
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    BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ was starred BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ was unstarred
    Image of Cognitive Friction Cognitive Friction
    11/24/08

    In reply to All-Wooden Speedball Special Roadster Built, For Sale In St. Louis
    I bet this still does better in a front crash than a Smart Fortwo
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    Image of layabout layabout
    11/24/08

    In reply to All-Wooden Speedball Special Roadster Built, For Sale In St. Louis
    Crackpipe! Clearly some people like it,but i'll pass.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/24/08

    In reply to All-Wooden Speedball Special Roadster Built, For Sale In St. Louis
    "...complete any collection" my ass! This car IS the collection.


    The pedestal sits proudly in the center of the house. And running up to the pedestal, a pair of sturdy ramps runs down to floor level, whereby the car can reenter the world via a pair of double doors, to the driveway, thence to the street. On the street - any street - is where this car belongs.


    To own this car and not drive it, to sit and merely look at it without ever hearing the peculiar exhaust note, would be a terrible crime.


    Was the original builder's name, by any chance, Imhoff?

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    Image of Comrade Teargaskov Comrade Teargaskov
    11/24/08

    In reply to All-Wooden Speedball Special Roadster Built, For Sale In St. Louis
    Oh my god damn.
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    Image of mechimike mechimike
    11/24/08

    In reply to All-Wooden Speedball Special Roadster Built, For Sale In St. Louis
    A wooden, French car. I thought the British had the monopoly on cars made out of old trees, a la the Morgan?


    This is twelve kinds of awesome and fifteen kinds of dangerous. But most of all, it is beautiful- beautiful in concept, beautiful in execution, beautiful in its simplicity...beautiful.


    Just be careful, though. That hydropneumatic suspension combined with the wood might make the car think its a boat. All of a sudden you've got a chain-smoking, cheese-eating Amphicar, which would then be promptly sunk by some sort of ass-engined Nazi U-boat.

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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    11/24/08

    @mechimike: The body is American, the suspension and wheels French, but the engine is British.
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    Image of civicdrivr civicdrivr
    11/24/08

    In reply to All-Wooden Speedball Special Roadster Built, For Sale In St. Louis
    Im gonna buy it and put a Hayabusa engine in it. Hoonage to the max.
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    Image of thunder; now eta-powered thunder; now eta-powered
    11/24/08

    @civicdrivr: Don't even think of such sacrilege. This is art you're talking about.


    If it's wood car hoonage you must have, build it yourself; the plans are right there. All it takes is a few sheets of plywood, some 2x lumber, a junkyard, and just a wee bit of your time (talk about PCH).


    I love this concept. If only one of the Big Three could mass produce something simple, fast & fun like this... Oh yeah; DOT gets in the way.

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