{"id":642,"date":"2025-12-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:44:14","slug":"splinter-wooden-super-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micksgarageblog.org\/splinter-wooden-super-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Splinter Wooden Super Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">600 horse power, mid engined, rear wheel drive, are the sort of specifications one would expect from modern super cars. But not ones which are created entirely from wood. This is the Splinter SuperCar, the powerful and stylish motor made entirely from wood (or at least wherever possible).&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-CD_qcTdFuPU\/T_bVd3RrsSI\/AAAAAAAAApk\/WSmgonlk9S4\/s1600\/splinter-01.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-CD_qcTdFuPU\/T_bVd3RrsSI\/AAAAAAAAApk\/WSmgonlk9S4\/s320\/splinter-01.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">Apart from a number of components, like the 4.6L twin supercharged V8, it is completely built from scratch. A number of different woods were used and even tools &amp; machines necessary to build it had to made by the team. The exterior features a weave in the body panels which is&nbsp;reminiscent&nbsp;of a sort of brown carbon fibre and even the wheels have wooden details. Joe Harmon, the project leader and head designer actually took a weaving course so that he could create the seats that are in it all by hand &#8211; amazing!&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-GN_P0qLhYSw\/T_bVejk5-bI\/AAAAAAAAAps\/GaI_V-QWX78\/s1600\/splinter-02.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-GN_P0qLhYSw\/T_bVejk5-bI\/AAAAAAAAAps\/GaI_V-QWX78\/s320\/splinter-02.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">Even more impressive is that the car started life as a graduate project in the USA at the North Carolina State University, the designers claim it is a scholastic endeavour to explore materials, teach, learn and stimulate creativity.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">Have a look at the below video from the car&#8217;s appearance at a show in the States:<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><object width=\"320\" height=\"266\" class codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" data-thumbnail-src=\"http:\/\/0.gvt0.com\/vi\/ZBqjcSl_1tw\/0.jpg\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZBqjcSl_1tw&#038;fs=1&#038;source=uds\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"320\" height=\"266\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZBqjcSl_1tw&#038;fs=1&#038;source=uds\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">For more info on this amazing car have a look at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeharmondesign.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.joeharmondesign.com\/<\/a><span style=\"background-color: white;\"> for full details including videos of the build in progress or even better Joe Harmon&#8217;s YouTube channel&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/joecharmon\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/joecharmon<\/a><span style=\"background-color: white;\"> for build videos including some that detail the level of technology that was necessary to build something like this from wood.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Splinter Wooden Super Car<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motoring-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - 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