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eBay find of the Day: one-off 1959 Wooden Ariel Custom

Wood. It's sustainable right? Cool, sounds like the perfect material to make new cars from. Now, the next question is how are we going to power them? The traditional American answer would be a big honkin' V8, but we're thinking something a little more, say... European. British to be exact, and it's going to be of relatively small displacement, like from a motorcycle. Sounds like a recipe for something truly unique, but that's not even the half of it. The car we're talking about was built by an enterprising woodworker in the 1950s with ... Read more →

Splinter supercar gets its wooden debut Jeremy Korzeniewski

Click above for high-res gallery of the Splinter Wooden Supercar When we first reported on the Splinter, we thought that the students at North Carolina State University had no intentions of building ...

Another car that is made from biomass ... wood Jeremy Korzeniewski

This is the second vehicle that we've shown you which is made almost entirely of biomass. The first one was undoubtedly cool and used hemp materials for the bodywork. That car ran on ethanol and ...

Trees are green, right? Then this must be the greenest car on the road! Jeremy Korzeniewski

I'm not really sure what to say about this car. I guess I'll start by admitting that this is not really a "green" car, I am posting about it anyway, because I thought you might like it. I am not ...

eBay find of the Day: one-off 1959 Wooden Ariel Custom 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Wood. It's sustainable right? Cool, sounds like the perfect material to make new cars from. Now, the next question is how are we going to power them? The traditional American answer would be a big honkin' V8, but we're thinking something a little more, say... European. British to be exact, and ...

Splinter supercar gets its wooden debut 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click above for high-res gallery of the Splinter Wooden Supercar When we first reported on the Splinter, we thought that the students at North Carolina State University had no intentions of building the unique wooden supercar. Apparently, we were wrong. As much of the interior and exterior of the ...

Another car that is made from biomass ... wood 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

This is the second vehicle that we've shown you which is made almost entirely of biomass. The first one was undoubtedly cool and used hemp materials for the bodywork. That car ran on ethanol and would be a first class ride for the right person, and it was capable of 150 miles per hour. This one, on ...

Trees are green, right? Then this must be the greenest car on the road! 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I'm not really sure what to say about this car. I guess I'll start by admitting that this is not really a "green" car, I am posting about it anyway, because I thought you might like it. I am not sure if this car is really wood under the wooden "scales" that adorn the outer skin, and I can't ...


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