“There’s little doubt that this car is one of a kind. Nickel got the idea to build a wooden car from an article in a 1955 issue of Hot Rod magazine. Once Nickel retired from the waste collection business, he began making his dream come true. He decided to use two 500-cubic-inch Cadillac V-8 engines because someone told him it wouldn’t work. One engine and transaxle, from an Eldorado, drives the front wheels. The other engine, from a Deville, drives the rear wheels. Although the engines aren’t synchronized, Nickel said they work fine together.
It took Nickel more than four years to form the body by laminating 1-inch strips of mahogany. He used 1,000 board-feet feet of wood cut into 4,183 individual pieces, five gallons of glue, 60 pounds of drywall screws and four gallons of varnish.”
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Absolutely amazing
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Yeah, but will it pass a crash test (no pun on your name intended!)?
Yeah, but will it pass a crash test>>>>>>>>I think if I crashed in that after building it I'd wanna die anyway...If Blodgett says, Tipi tipi tipi it must be so!
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Hel l, from the subect line I thought it was some N.E. carpenter porn site.
Yeah, I gotta agree - that's a questionable title!
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