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Model Citizen
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Voodoo Lounge
Posts: 19,377
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I vaguely remember back in the seventies, one of the enthusiast magazines had a story on a guy that was going to revolutionize Can-Am racing using plywood for the monocoque instead of alu.
The usual mad scientist stuff; better strength to weight ratio, easier to build, easier to repair, cheaper. (The Spruce Goose was the template for the construction techniques)
Obviously nothing came from it, I tried to find an image of the prototype on the google machine, but the luck is against me.
(I did find a sports car with a wooden chassis called the Marco, but that's a different vee-HIC-ul.)
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