Why does a wood toy car have to be plain and boring? How about making it look like a Shelby GT500 Mustang?!  I used the GT500 as inspiration for this project.  It’s not supposed to be an exact replica.  I want a kid to be able to play with it so I cut back on some of the molding and super fine details.  I was thinking about woodworking Christmas gift ideas and DIY gift projects.  I noticed my old wooden truck from when I was a baby and thought it would be fun to make a wooden car.  I spent a ton of time looking up pictures of beautiful cars (woe is me) and drew a picture that I think captures the essence of the GT500. 

I knew that I wanted the center to be a dark wood.  I thought wenge might be too splintery for kids so I chose walnut.  The outside needed to be a lighter color and I maple seemed too light for what I was wanted.  I went with white oak instead.  Funny enough, after I started making it and looked up wheels online I found a wood car design that’s really similar so here’s a link to that because I want to be transparent that sometimes ideas manifest in different ways: https://toymakingplans.com/muscle-car-silhouettes-69-mustang-68-charger-71-cuda/

I left my car unfinished.  Something about it just seemed right to me.  If I were to apply finish it I would probably use a food safe hard wax finish like Osmo.

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