High flying build

The car

A Florida business man has built a custom body for his car. From Hemp. He said: 'The body of the car uses about 100 lbs of woven hemp.'

It's also based on, drum roll please, a miata chassis.

I will say, it doesn't look that bad.

Interesting. But I didn't see what the material is that holds the hemp fabric together.

(and it's a personal pet peeve to see people call a very dirty diesel engine good for the environment. Low CO2 isn't the only measure... )

And I would note that dent resistance isn't the same as strength and crash survival.

But for a kit car, it's pretty cool. Given the chassis, perhaps a body for an excocet?

From my understanding, depending on the type of hemp fabric, it can be worked with like carbon fiber and fiberglass. Hes pictured holding what just looks like a burlap bag, but there's a lot wrong as far as the cannabis to hemp aspect of the whole article. I do want to hunt down more about the project though.

Personally, without being physically there, I'm thinking something like my old plastic saturn. No dents, no rust, just shatters and holes.

In reply to revrico: Hemp as a strong fiber material is ages old. Like old ships. So this as that kind of materials isn't that surprising.

The interesting part about using hemp is that the plant is a weed (duh). Which means you can probably grow it anywhere. So al the poor quality land that just sits there and produces very little can be used for fiber and oil.

At least that's one of the great claims at Hash Bash.

In reply to alfadriver:

It actually makes a great use as a bumper(?) crop, like when the fields are off for the year to help not burn them out as fast, crops of hemp can rejuvenate the soil instead of just letting them sit there barren. Not to mention how much CO2 can be transformed per acre.

I do like the looks of this rear end, and I bet a lot of the cost went into molding and shaping it.