World’s Fastest Log Race Car

Read about this record-setter and its team

April 23, 2016 5:50 am EDT
(DW Burnett/Puppyknuckles)
(DW Burnett/Puppyknuckles)

“The first time you see it, your brain almost short circuits—nope, uh-uh, that’s not real. But it is exactly what it looks like: a tree car. More specifically, it is a car made out of a western red cedar log with a concave mouth for a ‘grille,’ a wooden roll bar and wooden fenders, and a pair of turbines protruding from its rear. The thing looks ludicrous, like something a crazed Woody the Woodpecker would drive.” Read the full story by Road & Track‘s Andrew Del-Colle here.

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