New Cars

Yes, this is a wooden car. Forget the jokes. Anyone making more than mere decorative use of wood in an automobile has heard them all. And doesn’t care. Wood is a magnificent structural material, “God’s own composite,” proclaimed the late Frank Costin, the brilliant technologist behind the glorious shapes of early Lotus cars, the Vanwall Formula 1 car, and-significantly-the plywood chassis of the Marcos in which a young Jim Clark won some of his first races.

Photo Gallery: Splinter: Wooden Supercar – Renewable Supercar – Automobile Magazine