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Hand-built wooden VW Volkswagen Beetle, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Oct 2013
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Wood You Believe It: Man Makes Volkswagen Beetle From Wood
A man has made a VW Beetle - out of wood.
Momir Bojic has hand-built the impressive Bug with mind-boggling patience, using high-skilled woodworking to create intricate detailing.
Everything from the bonnet to the gearstick has been carved by Momir in his garden workshop - with help from his understanding wife Nada.
The couple also created wooden fittings for the pedals, wheel caps, bumpers, front turn signal lamps, tail-lights, wipers, door mirrors, steering wheel, parcel shelf, dashboard, glovebox lid, clock and even the radio aerial.
Amazingly, the car features thousands of thumbnail-sized, finely sliced sections of oak designed to replicate the style of the commonly seen wooden-tiled roofs in Momir's homeland of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Each tile involved a process involving no less than 23 separate procedures, including cutting, chamfering, bevelling, drilling and smoothing, before they could be applied to the vehicle.
Momir, who is retired and in 'his 60s', spotted the 1975 Beetle used as a base-model for sale at a fair and got a metalwork company to take off the roof, doors and strip the chassis.
He says: "The price certainly seemed reasonable, but what really clinched the deal for me was the fact that it had a trailer hitched on the back. In my country, a trailer is a very useful item to own - it makes carting goods of any description very easy - and so I paid the vendor and took delivery of the combination.
"At the time, I told my wife Nada that I was none too sure exactly what I was going to do with this addition to the household, but whatever decision I came to it would be something original and worthwhile."
Thankfully, Nada soon joined the woodwork project after seeing how long it had taken her husband to complete the very first sectio...
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