Yes, that is a wooden splitter.
With chicken wire. So it's like titanium-reinforced carbon fibre. Sort of

It's awesome. You could not have that car and not laugh. I'd remove the pedobear and the "Free Candy" stickers, but it's ideal for its purpose - it's a great toy to enjoy with unfettered enthusiasm. I like the contradictions in it. It looks like a barely functional junkmobile patched together by some hick with barely a clue, but the truth is more or less the opposite.