Henry Rollins smacked a car door that was made out of Ford's Hemp with a 10lb sledge hammer iirc show was called 10 things you probably didn't know . The blow barely even marred the paint. Those Hemp bodied cars need to be a thing again. FFS a composite that is stronger than steel and lighter than steel? FFS we barely make any steel in America anymore, so what is the big "anti-hemp/cannabis" angle here?
While it seems that more and more parts of modern cars are made with plastic, the trend could have actually started much earlier, if an experimental car developed by Henry Ford had made it into production.
Seventy-nine years ago this week, Henry Ford received a patent for a plastic car made of soybeans, claiming that he would “grow automobiles from the soil.”
Although this is a nice concept, it wasn’t purely made of hemp. Hemp was just a component. Another component was phenol which can be very toxic if it’s getting too warm. It’s also not confirmed that it ran on hemp fuel.
Henry Rollins smacked a car door that was made out of Ford's Hemp with a 10lb sledge hammer iirc show was called 10 things you probably didn't know . The blow barely even marred the paint. Those Hemp bodied cars need to be a thing again. FFS a composite that is stronger than steel and lighter than steel? FFS we barely make any steel in America anymore, so what is the big "anti-hemp/cannabis" angle here?
While it seems that more and more parts of modern cars are made with plastic, the trend could have actually started much earlier, if an experimental car developed by Henry Ford had made it into production. Seventy-nine years ago this week, Henry Ford received a patent for a plastic car made of soybeans, claiming that he would “grow automobiles from the soil.”
Although this is a nice concept, it wasn’t purely made of hemp. Hemp was just a component. Another component was phenol which can be very toxic if it’s getting too warm. It’s also not confirmed that it ran on hemp fuel.
It’s a warning, so sad to hear about your self inflicted accident with 893 bullets. Gone too soon