Sunday, November 14, 2010

Wooden Vehicles

Wood Funeral Cars

Two hand-carved funeral cadillacs were recently discovered in an antiques barn in Argentina. Read more and see more pictures of both cars. LINK

Wood Cadillac :: Jack Nickel
Jack Nickel created this wooden Cadillac using 1,000 board-feet feet of wood, five gallons of glue, 60 pounds of drywall screws, and four gallons of varnish. Read more about it and it's two engines. LINK

Wood Vespa :: Carlos Alberto
Carpenter Carlos Alberto created a beautiful wooden Vespa. See all of the photos with lots of process images and close ups at his site. LINK

Wooden Harley
This life-sized 1940s Harley replica is carved from primarily teak and took about 200 hours to create. However, I have been unable to track down the name of the creator. Read more. LINK

Wood Decorated Beetle
This VW has been covered in more than 20,000 pieces of Oak and then varnished. LINK

Wooden Jeep :: Lee Stoetzel
Lee Stoetzel creates artistic sculptures from wood. In addition to the Jeep shown here, he has also created a VW camper and a chopper bike. Check out all of his wood pieces and some photography at his site. LINK