[colmo]

As often is the case, I was brainstorming late last night on MSN, and I jokingly suggested taking a leaf out of the Morgan car company example and equipping an RC car with a wooden chassis.

Then I started to think how it really could be done - what thickness, what type of wood, what quality. It would be heavier than carbon fibre, certainly, but there's no reason it couldn't be as strong as glass fibre composites (which are, after all, a man-made copy of wood - nature should sue for copyright theft...).

My reason for even thinking of it was this: "Imagine the face of the racer you've just beaten with a car made of wood..."

And if it does break (as it likely would), you can lament "My car wooden go..."