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:
Since Azzy asked about a wooden motorcycle, I thought I would add this photo of an all wooden motorcycle by the same craftsman.
LN says
I’ve always loved Vespas and their 2-stroke simplicity, functional design and charismatic personality. You give me wood, Carlos.
Art says
Son of a beech! I have some friends just pine-ing for this. Oak K, teak it easy!
FREEMAN says
Gorgeous.
Geoff says
Very nice too. Incidentally there is a Wooden Manx Norton in the National Motorcycle Museum nr Birmingham UK
Jeff says
That’s some serious woodworking skill . I like it .
coho says
Wow.
Now that’s green transportation.
tim says
Fantastic!
B*A*M*F says
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.
B*A*M*F says
Er…that would be make, not male. Though that ties in nicely with the whole wood theme.
j says
Beyond impressive. Paul, buy this thing for the first piece in the Kneeslider museum.
James NomadRip says
Wow, that is a fantastic work of art…
hayd3n says
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.
Rocket68 says
Una meraviglia , un’opera d’arte su due ruote !
Tin Man 2 says
The talent out in the world is simply amazzzing!
The Ogre says
Wonderful looking scoot!
I cringe at the thought of it geting knocked over or laid down – because really, how could you *not* ride it?
Azzy says
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?
kneeslider says
Azzy, the same fellow already did a motorcycle, too. I added the photo above.
todd says
I had an old Honda with wooden brakes…
-todd
Azzy says
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)
chris says
get going down a bumpy road and I bet the front fork catches fire on that bike.