We’ve seen cars made of wood before. Some take the shape of a showcase issue in museums or similar car-related facilities. Others have been the sensation of small cities China. Today we want to discuss a gifted craftsman from Texas. This man is not a petrolhead, but he sure carves his way through wood like one.
Meet Isaac Cohen, an Israel-born carpenter who moved to Huston, Texas in 1979. He has spent most of his life turning big pieces of wood into pure art. He has been designing and making custom furniture to meet a wide variety of uses for over 35 years, but it’s safe to say his turning point was the moment he decided to breath in some of his talent through a bigger, faster, stronger contraption, one he could literally drive and show others too.
This is how he started handcrafting the drivable works of art, which are completely street-legal and custom built. His first project was a beautiful vehicle named Splinter he built back in 2002. It wasn’t just a big ambition, Issac’s first wooden car was also meant to be a great gift he’d make to himself for his 50th anniversary.
Splinter was built on the remains of a vandalized Honda Accord, and it took about 5,000 hours of work. The resulting contraption is 21 feet long and 7 feet wide while the steering wheel alone took over 260 pieces of wood to create. Don’t think of it as a retro car, though, considering its creator made sure everything stay as futuristic and technologically advanced as possible. Take the doors that instead of handles are opened via a remote control.
The second vehicle took less than its older brother to make, a roughly 2,000 hours of work. Slider was created in 2007 and was built on the chassis of a 1976 Volkswagen Beetle. This breed comes with a stereo system, a television and a rear-view camera to enhance visibility. The last one in the line is what you’d call the heavy wooden truck, but we’ll leave you with Barcroft’s video below to discover than one.
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