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I just now saw it on Cool Tools, the Do It Yourself tv channel.
www.joeharmondesign.com Nice, very Nice! it has a 700 horsepower engine behind the seats.It isn't quite ready to hit the road yet, according to Chris Grundy at Cool Tools. There have been a few other people who have built wood cars before. cuhulin |
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On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:17:43 -0600, Don Stauffer
> wrote: wrote: >> I just now saw it on Cool Tools, the Do It Yourself tv channel. >> www.joeharmondesign.com >> >> Nice, very Nice! it has a 700 horsepower engine behind the seats.It >> isn't quite ready to hit the road yet, according to Chris Grundy at Cool >> Tools. >> >> There have been a few other people who have built wood cars before. >> cuhulin >> > > >Nothing new in the world! Earliest cars had quite a lot of wood in >structure. Some classic cars of the twenties and thirties had bodies >partly or mostly done in wood. In this case the wood was for appearance, >with exotic woods with fine finish. Original station wagons all had >wood bodies from cowl back. Many early trucks had wood bodies. > >My '53 MG-TD had a body with sheet metal over a wood frame. Earliest >Model Ts had same body structure. > >Wooden wheel spokes & hubs were very common. Wooden frames common. >Never heard of wooden engine, though. Probably would have to be rebored >quite often :-) Think Ford used wood frames on the A's or T's, and burned the scrap into charcoal. A's according to this. http://bbq.about.com/od/charcoal/a/aa071997.htm Start of Kingsford Charcoal - and the BBQ revolution maybe. --Vic |
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Those old ''Woodie'' vehicles are nice, nice looking anyway.My 1914 Ford
Model T Runabout Roadster has some wood body parts, wood spoke wheels too.Nice. cuhulin |
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On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:42:38 -0600, Vic Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:17:43 -0600, Don Stauffer > > wrote: > wrote: >>> I just now saw it on Cool Tools, the Do It Yourself tv channel. >>> www.joeharmondesign.com >>> >>> Nice, very Nice! it has a 700 horsepower engine behind the seats.It >>> isn't quite ready to hit the road yet, according to Chris Grundy at >>> Cool Tools. >>> >>> There have been a few other people who have built wood cars before. >>> cuhulin >>> >>> >> >>Nothing new in the world! Earliest cars had quite a lot of wood in >>structure. Some classic cars of the twenties and thirties had bodies >>partly or mostly done in wood. In this case the wood was for appearance, >>with exotic woods with fine finish. Original station wagons all had >>wood bodies from cowl back. Many early trucks had wood bodies. >> >>My '53 MG-TD had a body with sheet metal over a wood frame. Earliest >>Model Ts had same body structure. >> >>Wooden wheel spokes & hubs were very common. Wooden frames common. >>Never heard of wooden engine, though. Probably would have to be rebored >>quite often :-) > > Think Ford used wood frames on the A's or T's, and burned the scrap into > charcoal. A's according to this. > http://bbq.about.com/od/charcoal/a/aa071997.htm Start of Kingsford > Charcoal - and the BBQ revolution maybe. > > --Vic Small part right, big part wrong. The Ford Model T and the '28-31 A (there was a Ford 'A' back in '03, he restarted the numbering in '28) were both steel frames. Ford used wooden panels in the floor, specifically from forward of the front seat to the firewall and (I think) sometimes farther back. Some of the lower-production A bodies that were built by outside vendors had wood reinforcing, but by '28 all of the Ford-produced bodies used steel reinforcing; any wood was for attaching upholstery and not for strength. Chevrolet used steel panels over a wood structure up through 1936, if I'm getting my dates right -- there was a joke among '50's hot rodders about the result of a collision between a Ford and a Chevy -- on the one hand you had a bent Ford, on the other you had a pile of sheet metal and dry rot. Dunno about Dodge or any of the other off-brands. -- www.wescottdesign.com |
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Dodge (Dodge brothers) made major componets for Ford Model T and some
other auto/truck companies too.Back in the 1960s or 1970s, some Chevrolet axels assemblies (front wheel/four wheel drive, I think) were made by Dodge. cuhulin |
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Don Stauffer > wrote in news:4b12acb7$0$48227
: > wrote: >> I just now saw it on Cool Tools, the Do It Yourself tv channel. >> www.joeharmondesign.com >> >> Nice, very Nice! it has a 700 horsepower engine behind the seats.It >> isn't quite ready to hit the road yet, according to Chris Grundy at Cool >> Tools. >> >> There have been a few other people who have built wood cars before. >> cuhulin >> > > > Nothing new in the world! Earliest cars had quite a lot of wood in > structure. Some classic cars of the twenties and thirties had bodies > partly or mostly done in wood. In this case the wood was for appearance, > with exotic woods with fine finish. Original station wagons all had > wood bodies from cowl back. Many early trucks had wood bodies. First all-steel-bodied car: 1903 Vauxhall. First all-steel-bodied closed car: 1924 Dodge. I don't think US automakers went to all-steel bodies across-the-board until about 1935 or so (excepting woodie wagons, of course). > > My '53 MG-TD had a body with sheet metal over a wood frame. Earliest > Model Ts had same body structure. New-built Morgans /still/ use an ash frame. Believe it or not. <http://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/technical/faq.phtml> > > Wooden wheel spokes & hubs were very common. Wooden frames common. > Never heard of wooden engine, though. Probably would have to be rebored > quite often :-) I wood think it wooden run... -- Tegger |
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Not many years ago, Ford reproduced/manufactured six brand new 1914 Ford
cars. cuhulin |
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On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:24:31 -0600, cuhulin wrote:
> I just now saw it on Cool Tools, the Do It Yourself tv channel. > www.joeharmondesign.com > > Nice, very Nice! it has a 700 horsepower engine behind the seats.It isn't > quite ready to hit the road yet, according to Chris Grundy at Cool Tools. > > There have been a few other people who have built wood cars before. > cuhulin Look up "Marcos". |
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