Top Classic Wooden Race Car Wins at Vintage Car Show in the USA

Source: dpa | Translated by AI 1 min Reading Time

In California's Pebble Beach, the trendiest show in the vintage car world recently took place, where classic cars are also awarded. This time, wood triumphed over metal ...

Anything but a soapbox! Over 100 years old, this elegantly designed classic car of the Hispano-Suiza H6C Nieuport-Astra Torpedo type features a wooden body, making it remarkably lightweight. Now, decades later, one of them shined on the "Olympus" of vintage car shows ...(Image: NBC)
Anything but a soapbox! Over 100 years old, this elegantly designed classic car of the Hispano-Suiza H6C Nieuport-Astra Torpedo type features a wooden body, making it remarkably lightweight. Now, decades later, one of them shined on the "Olympus" of vintage car shows ...
(Image: NBC)

A unique race car with a wooden body won the prestigious "Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance" classic car show in 2025, as reported. The highlight: the 101-year-old vehicle – a Hispano-Suiza H6C Nieuport-Astra Torpedo – features individually crafted mahogany wood strips held together by 8,500 rivets. The car competed in two races in Italy in 1924. The body, built by the French aircraft manufacturer Nieuport-Astra, made it exceptionally lightweight for its time. The wooden Hispano-Suiza triumphed in the Californian town against over 200 other classic cars, including unusual vehicles like a Bugatti convertible designed by renowned vehicle designer Virgil Exner in the 1960s.

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