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Scavenger Hunt: Drive Me Wild

Posted April 25, 2017 10:42 AM by dstrohl
Pathfinder Tags: classic auto classified sale

Due to the format of our Hemmings Find of the Day feature, we don’t always get to highlight the more unusual vehicles in the Hemmings.com classifieds, but that doesn’t mean they’re not worth checking out. And there are some oddities and off-the-wall one-offs sprinkled throughout the listings, among them the all-wood 1936 Ford above.

Your task is to find the wildest, wackiest, or just plain bizarrest vehicles lurking in the Hemmings.com classifieds. The cars that most represent the spirit of individualism. The stuff that won’t ever meet itself while driving down the road. Whaddaya got?


Editor's note: This post originally appeared on Hemmings Daily.

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04/25/2017 2:09 PM

So this wooden classic, the axles are wood, the engine is wood also? Really??

I can just wait until the wooden gas tank permeates through with gasoline, and the whole thing goes up in a puff of smoke, after the loud bang, of course.

My find: stealth custom interior and body design

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04/25/2017 8:00 PM

Nah, the ad just says wood exterior and interior.

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04/25/2017 11:14 PM

Does the insurance policy cover termites?

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04/26/2017 3:10 PM

Wonder if that wood holds up against the northern plague - road salt - any better than steel.

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04/27/2017 9:38 AM

Maybe not. The only thing that holds up against road salt is HDPE, but it gets sun-checked easily, so try black polypropylene, except both those plastics are not rigid enough, and are combustible pretty much. I would say concrete, but who wants a concrete car, and the rebar in it would cause it to spall when that corrodes.

Polycarbonate?? At least the car would make it to the scene of the crash.

Carbon fiber composites? I would not count on it lasting any better than a painted steel panel in the test chamber.

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04/29/2017 9:47 PM

I like the car made from copper for the Copper Development Assoc'n.

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05/01/2017 10:34 AM

So that's where all the pennies have gone...I knew they went to a de-cent cause.

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Gave me laugh!

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