Subject: A new car maker in India?
17/04/2015 @ 01:49:23: eLMeR: A new car maker in India?
Made by an Indian carpenter and his son, based on a Maruti 800, and said to have a top speed of 120 kmph, it doesn't have a name for now:
http://elmer.re/images/minipic.php?img=IndianWoodenCar

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: Appar 25.
Carpenter + wooden car: a new trend arise?

(Wood bodies for cars are said to be ecological...)
17/04/2015 @ 02:40:59: Sandie: A new car maker in India?
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
17/04/2015 @ 03:30:16: eLMeR: A new car maker in India?
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:
18/04/2015 @ 02:46:45: Sandie: A new car maker in India?
I know, was just looking for an excuse to upload my Morgan factory pictures. :grin:
04/05/2015 @ 19:12:44: Sandie: A new car maker in India?
Another three created by a Chinese carpenter: http://www.carnewschina.com/2015/05/04/chinese-man-builds-electric-car-out-of-wood/
04/05/2015 @ 22:33:46: dsl: A new car maker in India?
(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.
05/05/2015 @ 22:30:10: cl82: A new car maker in India?
Let me guess: His name was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rootes,_1st_Baron_Rootes , wasn't it?
05/05/2015 @ 22:38:28: Sandie: A new car maker in India?
Ha!
05/05/2015 @ 22:55:31: cl82: A new car maker in India?
I know I should feel sorry, but I just could not resist...
06/05/2015 @ 01:18:01: dsl: A new car maker in India?
At least it wooden't rust ...
06/05/2015 @ 15:38:00: Gamer: A new car maker in India?
I remember a similar joke:

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