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Wooden Vespa Scooter

By Paul Crowe

Wooden Vespa
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
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
All wood motorcycle by Carlos Alberto

Posted on January 20, 2009 Filed Under: Motorcycle Builders


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Comments

  1. LN says

    January 20, 2009 at 5:27 pm

    I’ve always loved Vespas and their 2-stroke simplicity, functional design and charismatic personality. You give me wood, Carlos.

  2. Art says

    January 20, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    Son of a beech! I have some friends just pine-ing for this. Oak K, teak it easy!

  3. FREEMAN says

    January 20, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    Gorgeous.

  4. Geoff says

    January 20, 2009 at 8:15 pm

    Very nice too. Incidentally there is a Wooden Manx Norton in the National Motorcycle Museum nr Birmingham UK

  5. Jeff says

    January 20, 2009 at 8:57 pm

    That’s some serious woodworking skill . I like it .

  6. coho says

    January 20, 2009 at 8:59 pm

    Wow.
    Now that’s green transportation.

  7. tim says

    January 20, 2009 at 9:03 pm

    Fantastic!

  8. B*A*M*F says

    January 20, 2009 at 9:59 pm

    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.

  9. B*A*M*F says

    January 20, 2009 at 10:05 pm

    Er…that would be make, not male. Though that ties in nicely with the whole wood theme.

  10. j says

    January 20, 2009 at 11:46 pm

    Beyond impressive. Paul, buy this thing for the first piece in the Kneeslider museum.

  11. James NomadRip says

    January 21, 2009 at 2:24 am

    Wow, that is a fantastic work of art…

  12. hayd3n says

    January 21, 2009 at 3:14 am

    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.

  13. Rocket68 says

    January 21, 2009 at 3:35 am

    Una meraviglia , un’opera d’arte su due ruote !

  14. Tin Man 2 says

    January 21, 2009 at 8:45 am

    The talent out in the world is simply amazzzing!

  15. The Ogre says

    January 21, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    Wonderful looking scoot!

    I cringe at the thought of it geting knocked over or laid down – because really, how could you *not* ride it?

  16. Azzy says

    January 22, 2009 at 10:48 am

    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?

  17. kneeslider says

    January 22, 2009 at 11:04 am

    Azzy, the same fellow already did a motorcycle, too. I added the photo above.

  18. todd says

    January 22, 2009 at 3:11 pm

    I had an old Honda with wooden brakes…

    -todd

  19. Azzy says

    January 22, 2009 at 10:36 pm

    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)

  20. chris says

    January 26, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    get going down a bumpy road and I bet the front fork catches fire on that bike.

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