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NASCAR Legend Leonard Wood Made a 1/2 Scale Ford 427 By Hand

Leonard Wood, one of NASCAR's greatest-ever engine builders and the co-owner of Wood Brothers Racing, can still carve an engine from a block of aluminum.

The elder Wood did all of his machining by hand. Despite owning a world-class racing team and having instant access to both a full stable of racing engineers and a wide collection of modern machining tools, he refused to use a CNC machine, and even hand made some of his own tools from components he had lying around to keep to that spirit.

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Posted: 04/19/2021 at 09:56AM

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NASCAR Legend Leonard Wood Made a 1/2 Scale Ford 427 By Hand -- EDGEMAN 04/19/2021 09:56AM

Amazing. What a talent. Does it run? ** -- AZHokie59 04/19/2021 12:51PM

No idea. I have a relative who builds scale engines that run, but... -- EDGEMAN 04/19/2021 1:26PM

Can you even imagine the intracacies of an engine like that? -- AZHokie59 04/19/2021 1:37PM

Having seen some of my relative's work, I'm even more impressed with... -- EDGEMAN 04/19/2021 1:56PM

For those who don't know, Woods Brothers Racing started in Stuart, VA -- EDGEMAN 04/19/2021 09:57AM

I didn't know they relocated. Makes sense but that's really bad for Stuart -- HokieDan95 04/19/2021 10:10AM

Just looked it up. Their NASCAR team shop is now in Mooresville, NC -- EDGEMAN 04/19/2021 10:40AM

Everything is in Mooresville... ** -- accfootballrules 04/19/2021 10:53AM

Do they have a Red Lobster? ** -- EDGEMAN 04/19/2021 10:55AM

RACING -- accfootballrules 04/19/2021 10:59AM