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forum_emoticons.html	[quote=eLMeR,61762]Made by [url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-02/mohinder-singh-lotay-poses-with-his-handmade-wooden-car/6367126]an Indian carpenter and his son[/url], based on a Maruti [i]800[/i], and said to have a top speed of 120 kmph, it doesn't have a name for now: [url]http://elmer.re/images/minipic.php?img=IndianWoodenCar[/url] This kind of job has already be done in 2009 by another Indian carpenter, also on a Maruti basis. But this one has a name: [url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/art/lakshmanans-wooden-car-journey/article44451.ece]Appar [i]25[/i][/url]. Carpenter + wooden car: a new trend arise? [i](Wood bodies for cars are said to be [url=http://www.designbuzz.com/10-wooden-cars-ensure-minimum-carbon-footprints/]ecological[/url]...)[/i][/quote]
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Gamer

I remember a similar joke:

What happened to the car with the steel wheels, steel chassis and steel engine?
It steel wouldn't go!

dsl

At least it wooden't rust ...

cl82

I know I should feel sorry, but I just could not resist...

Sandie

Ha!

cl82

Let me guess: His name was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rootes,_1st_Baron_Rootes , wasn't it?

dsl

(Blowing the dust off a very old joke..... ) The man who built a wooden car with wooden wheels and wooden tyres and a wooden engine - but then it wooden't move.

Sandie

Another three created by a Chinese carpenter: http://www.carnewschina.com/2015/05/04/chinese-man-builds-electric-car-out-of-wood/

Sandie

I know, was just looking for an excuse to upload my Morgan factory pictures. :grin:

eLMeR

I thought also about Morgan and about a lot of pre-war car makers, of course, but these cars were/are not made by carpenters :wink:

Sandie

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Carpenter + wooden car: a new trend arise?

They've been doing it in Worcestershire for some time:

http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb428/JohnSandie/Photo0189_zpsdd98b72f.jpg

Though they leave the wood solely to the frame and make the bodies from aluminum:

http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb428/JohnSandie/Photo0193_zps075ef0a6.jpg

http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb428/JohnSandie/Photo0187_zpstssxqw1t.jpg