Wooden Vespa
Maybe you're not a metal bender and your welding skills are not the best, don't despair, there's always wood. Portuguese carpenter Carlos Alberto remade a Vespa with an absolutely beautiful laminated wooden body.
Not much to say other than, Wow! Very nice.
Link: Carpinteria Carlos Alberto via Jalopnik
More photos below:
Wooden Vespa
Wooden Vespa
Wooden Vespa
Since Azzy asked about a wooden motorcycle, I thought I would add this photo of an all wooden motorcycle by the same craftsman.
All wood motorcycle by Carlos Alberto
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I’ve always loved Vespas and their 2-stroke simplicity, functional design and charismatic personality. You give me wood, Carlos.
Son of a beech! I have some friends just pine-ing for this. Oak K, teak it easy!
Gorgeous.
Very nice too. Incidentally there is a Wooden Manx Norton in the National Motorcycle Museum nr Birmingham UK
That’s some serious woodworking skill . I like it .
Wow.
Now that’s green transportation.
Fantastic!
I have wanted to male exactly this for a long time. I guess now I don’t need to. Beautiful woodwork, my hat is off to Carlos.
Er…that would be make, not male. Though that ties in nicely with the whole wood theme.
Beyond impressive. Paul, buy this thing for the first piece in the Kneeslider museum.
Wow, that is a fantastic work of art…
First I had a wooden whistle but that one wooden whistle…
Then I got a steel whistle and steel it wooden whistle…
Next I got a lead whistle but they wooden lead me whistle…
So now I got a tin whistle and now, I t’n whistle…
Did you hear the one about the wooden horse…
wood’n shit.
Una meraviglia , un’opera d’arte su due ruote !
The talent out in the world is simply amazzzing!
Wonderful looking scoot!
I cringe at the thought of it geting knocked over or laid down – because really, how could you *not* ride it?
Nice work. Reminded me of the wooden supercar that is being built right now.
Some woods have the flex and strenght, expecially with the right glues, to make for a very good vehicle.
Who wants to do the first all wood bike?
Azzy, the same fellow already did a motorcycle, too. I added the photo above.
I had an old Honda with wooden brakes…
-todd
Wow, a wooden thumper. Is that a Yamaha 250 on there? Or a 125? Puts a tear to my eye…..
(My first bike was a 1980 Yam SR250 that I restored from a hunk of forgotten metal)
get going down a bumpy road and I bet the front fork catches fire on that bike.