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Update on Ford Hemp car YouTube video post

Yesterday, I posted about the Ford Hemp car video on YouTube after getting a tip from Manu Sharma. Manu followed up with me and gently corrected me that he's a he, not a she. More germane to AutoblogGreen, Manu corrects some of the information he found, including the fact that the hemp plastic body on the car is actually 33 percent lighter than a comparable steel body would be (not 44 percent). Manu found the following in the December 1941 issue of Popular Mechanics: "After twelve years of research, the Ford Motor Company has completed an ... Read more →

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