Jerry Nickel's Wooden Cadillac.

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Car & Vehicle, Pictures on April 15, 2006 at 2:42 pm


From the website:

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.

Link (via TechEBlog, Thanks Steve!)


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One comment to "Jerry Nickel's Wooden Cadillac."

  1. Miss Cellania
    April 15th, 2006 at 9:06 pm

    He couldn't give this one to me. I've always been told not to take a wooden Nickel!


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