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    All-Wooden Speedball Special Roadster Built, For Sale In St. Louis

    Tryane II Continues March of Wooden Cars

    "Splinter" Apparently Popular Name For Wooden Cars
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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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    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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    Image of DoctorNine's D9 Cat DoctorNine's D9 Cat
    11/24/08

    In reply to All-Wooden Speedball Special Roadster Built, For Sale In St. Louis
    Yes I know this is in St. Louis, not Kentucky, but I can't help myself.

    I dub this ride The Louisville Slugger
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    11/24/08

    In reply to All-Wooden Speedball Special Roadster Built, For Sale In St. Louis
    This is a piece of art, not just a car.
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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.
    11/24/08

    In reply to All-Wooden Speedball Special Roadster Built, For Sale In St. Louis
    It's on Ebay now. [cgi.ebay.com]
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    11/24/08

    @Mike the Dog: Thanks! will update.
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    Image of wrx-tyrannosaurusWrx wrx-tyrannosaurusWrx
    11/24/08

    In reply to All-Wooden Speedball Special Roadster Built, For Sale In St. Louis
    Got wood?
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    11/24/08

    In reply to All-Wooden Speedball Special Roadster Built, For Sale In St. Louis
    Is it just me, or is the engine in backwards? It appears the carb is facing the front.
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    Image of top-dead-center top-dead-center
    11/24/08

    @graverobber- My Yugo Nova!: Well, yes and no. I'll put it this way, I think the builder chose the bizarro Ariel Square Four engine for a reason.


    The Ariel Square Four engine has vertical symmetry at the top end, and it looks like the clever builder of the car kept the original front-to-back orientation of the transmission, but spun the top end of the engine

    180 degrees. *Brilliant!*


    The engine hopefully doesn't care which way the air flows over the cooling fins, and the hot exhaust isn't regularly burning the back of occupants' heads...


    The oil tank perched on the back of the engine is original.

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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    11/24/08

    @top-dead-center: Ah, that explains it, thanks man. I didn't know that you could flip the top end around like that. Makes sense, and now I can look at those pictures and not think I'm crazy.
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    Image of Starlton Heston's Revenge Starlton Heston's Revenge
    11/24/08

    In reply to All-Wooden Speedball Special Roadster Built, For Sale In St. Louis
    I see this and all I think is, and I'm being completely honest here: Al Navarro would probably enjoy this here ride.
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    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    11/24/08

    In reply to All-Wooden Speedball Special Roadster Built, For Sale In St. Louis
    The only thing that could make this car more odd would be parts from a French car.


    Hey, do I spy 3-lug wheels? Oh snap...

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