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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
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Wooden supercar
"Joe Harmon, a graduate student at NC State, took on a very ambitious graduate project: building a high-performance, mid-engine super car from wood. "Splinter" could top 240 mph when completed later this year,"
Full Article Flickr Photo Album Joe Harmon's website on the car
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I saw this car at the PRI show last year in Orlando. It looked cool for sure, but 240 mph.....don't think so.
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If you follow the link to his flickr page, the photos of the build progress are great.
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WOW! That is just amazing. I'm sure the loom is custom made, along with a number of the tools/processes he's having to employ to pull this off. Although, I love his high tech approach to determining the wheel well arches.
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For what he spent on clamps he could have got a nice Porsche.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: an island, upper left coast, USA
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240mph "Splinter" ?
... ouch.
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1973 Porsche 914 1.7 very modifed
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1978 Porsche 911sc Targa 3.0 
