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Wooden Ford pickup truck.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...3119#post77483
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...605#post123327
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...834#post119274
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...671#post118388
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...221#post126471
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...265#post126677

Very neat woodworking done. What wood was used?

beautiful job but I'd hate to have to do the body work after a crash

CJ5. I wonder how much of this is wood, or laminate, or faux finish.

https://diqn32j8nouaz.cloudfront.net...n_cj5_jeep.jpg

With today's vinyl wrap technology it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to do it in vinyl but quite difficult to make all of the grain patterns remain true.
I used to know a wood grin paint artist who cold pull it off with a brush but he would be more expensive than simply building out of wood to start with.
Laminate overlay could be as hard to keep the grain structure true to form as a wrap would.
so my vote is it is probably real wood in at least some areas

thats so sweet.Ive wanted to build a life size wooden car for most of my life. it's awesome that somebody have beaten me to it in the fashion it deserves. awesome work to whoo everrr did it.

we had a thread a couple years ago about wooden cars carved out of wood

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Originally Posted by Frank S

we had a thread a couple years ago about wooden cars carved out of wood

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Wooden cars carved out of wood! You don't say. :p

It would be even more impressive if the wooden cars were carved out of soap. Or ice. Or ham.

I haven't found the tread yet and indeed it could have been on another forum
but in searching I have found another interesting wooden car
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...mborghini.html

Thanks for posting Frank. The writer's statement, under the second picture that it was "carefully carved", is in my opinion incorrect. I suggest that a normal steam bending process was followed in achieving the rounded wheel arches, for instance. Nevertheless it is indeed great workmanship.

How about this one
https://youtu.be/VwbD4fteu9s
or this one
https://youtu.be/nGN75UVvMYQ
Of course the idea is not new
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/build...ny-sports-car/
And this one
https://vimeo.com/11031468
and way back in the early days of the automobile many bodies for trucks were made of wood
One of which was an electric. A friend of mine owns one
https://bringatrailer.com/2018/01/20...lectric-truck/

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Originally Posted by Stokestack

Wooden cars carved out of wood! You don't say. :p

It would be even more impressive if the wooden cars were carved out of soap. Or ice. Or ham.

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unfortunately one cant drive around in a freezer .....unless you are 007.