Motoring Discussion > Wood Yew believe it	Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Dog	Replies: 51

New Wed 29 May 13 09:44   Wood Yew believe it - Dog

www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/10085585/Hungarian-man-creates-wooden-car.html Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 11:01   Wood Yew believe it - Stuartli

Knot at all...:-) There have been wooden chassis types over the years, but you have to admire the ingenuity. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 11:17   Wood Yew believe it - commerdriver

Knew a man once who went one step further built a wooden car, wooden chassis, wooden wheels, wooden bodywork, wooden engine . . . . . . wooden't go I'll get my coat... Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 11:37   Wood Yew believe it - Dog

His wife's name is ... Iron (seriously!) and, eh, the car runs on (you've guessed it) wood alchohol. :o} Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 11:58   Wood Yew believe it - Robin O'Reliant

You'd look a bit of a plank driving it. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 14:35   Wood Yew believe it - helicopter

I think I might branch out into that business Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 14:38   Wood Yew believe it - Zero

you'd be barking mad, I'd leaf it alone. Last edited by: Zero on Wed 29 May 13 at 14:38 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 14:41   Wood Yew believe it - Ted

It's knot a bad idea ! Ted Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 14:47   Wood Yew believe it - Zero

clearly you haven't twigged it. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 14:49   Wood Yew believe it - Bromptonaut

I saw one last week A plane model on the way to the beech. Guy was making a right 'ash of driving it though. A budding new technology. Need seed finance to get it into production though. He'll soon twig if any improvements are needed. Going for coat...... Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 14:52   Wood Yew believe it - Robin O'Reliant

>> I saw one last week A plane model on the way to the beech. Guy >> was making a right 'ash of driving it though. >> >> A budding new technology. Need seed finance to get it into production though. >> >> He'll soon twig if any improvements are needed. >> >> Going for coat...... >> Come on Brompt, that's a load of balsa... Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 14:54   Wood Yew believe it - helicopter

I had a wooden car that was stolen..... The thieves were so thicket that the coppice soon lumbered them...... Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 15:00   Wood Yew believe it - Runfer D'Hills

I'd chop it in. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 15:43   Wood Yew believe it - Zero

Gawd blimey, Humph and his Lumber Jack fetish again. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 18:44   Wood Yew believe it - TheManWithNoName

Oak-ay, I Cedar joke now. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 19:00   Wood Yew believe it - Dog

>>Humph and his Lumber Jack fetish again. He Pines Fir it I'll wager. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 20:49   Wood Yew believe it - Robin O'Reliant

I'm sure it was a tree wheeler. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 20:59   Wood Yew believe it - swiss tony

Probably gives a lovely bark when you nail it.... Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 21:00   Wood Yew believe it - IJWS14

I remember a programme many years ago about the "Africar" A wooden car designed for low tech production and using off the shelf parts. Don't remember whose engine was used but was Citroen suspension and track was lorry width. Two were built and driven from the arctic circle to the equator. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 21:12   Wood Yew believe it - Armel Coussine

Quite a good idea really, using box body made from locally produced plywood properly proofed, with running gear bolted on. The choice of Citroen GS parts was a mistake really, suspension too complex and engine not rugged enough. Low compression 2 litre VW flat four would have been a much better idea. Point was, Africans didn't fancy the thing at all. Whether they could afford them or not, they nearly all thought the only thing to have was a Merc or at least a Peugeot or Toyota. The feeling was that a wooden car would make them look poor and naff. VW brought out a model in Nigeria in the seventies called the Igala. It was a bit like a 411 but different. Assembled locally, kits made in Brazil I think. Fairly stark, rear engine, air cooled, the usual old VW recipe. Beetles were highly regarded by Nigerian drivers who had had them. Nigerians hated it and the operation was abandoned. I wouldn't have minded one myself but then I'm not Nigerian. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 21:38   Wood Yew believe it - Londoner

Hasn't the wooden car already been tried - the Ford Poplar? (It looked rather plane, if I remember, but they sold it at a fir price) Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 21:49   Wood Yew believe it - Runfer D'Hills

Presumably if you took it off the road you'd have to declare it sawn. Or at least send in the log book. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 21:53   Wood Yew believe it - -

The pooch is looking at me as if i'm barking, every bad joke here and they're getting worse i groan aloud. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 22:04   Wood Yew believe it - Robin O'Reliant

Saps one's patience, doesn't it? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 22:05   Wood Yew believe it - Runfer D'Hills

It's a bit of a shed. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 22:14   Wood Yew believe it - Londoner

Then of course there was the Nissan Laurel - quite a good looker once you spruced it up a bit, and various cars from the Root(e)s Group - some of them absolute corkers. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 22:14   Wood Yew believe it - Londoner

>> The pooch is looking at me as if i'm barking, every bad joke here and >> they're getting worse i groan aloud. >> He's obviously waiting for a mention of dogwood. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 22:36   Wood Yew believe it - Zero

you'll have to be careful you don't get nicked by the motorway copse. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 22:49   Wood Yew believe it - Dog

That wood be a nightmare on Elm Street. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 29 May 13 22:52   Wood Yew believe it - Runfer D'Hills

Ideal for the urban jungle though. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 30 May 13 14:43   Wood Yew believe it - Cliff Pope

Only a sap would buy it . Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 30 May 13 15:58   Wood Yew believe it - Zero

Hasn't this already been done? The Tree-bant? Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 30 May 13 16:22   Wood Yew believe it - Runfer D'Hills

Someone who drove it said it felt pretty planted and added that while at first he hadn't taken to the styling, eventually it started to grow on him. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 30 May 13 16:30   Wood Yew believe it - Zero

Well it takes motoring back to its roots i guess, Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 30 May 13 16:35   Wood Yew believe it - Robin O'Reliant

Looks a bit of an an teak to me. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 30 May 13 16:43   Wood Yew believe it - Runfer D'Hills

Locking walnuts? Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 30 May 13 17:38   Wood Yew believe it - Londoner

I went for a test drive in a wooden car once. It was OaK, but of course I twigged straight away! It was a used car, but they had spruced it up like new. The salesman was impressed by my driving. He said that he'd never seen a mango so quickly in it. I had been pushing it a bit and my palms were a bit sweaty by the end of it. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Thu 30 May 13 19:10   Wood Yew believe it - Cliff Pope

A wood-rim steering wheel comes as standard. In fact joking apart, early cars did have wooden wheels. There was a craze in the 20s for steel spoked wheels carefully painted to look like wood. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 30 May 13 21:51   Wood Yew believe it - zookeeper

trouble with wooden cars , the bushes tend to need replacing around autumn time Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 31 May 13 20:19   Wood Yew believe it - WillDeBeest

...and you have to hope the leaf springs aren't deciduous. I really wasn't going to get involved in this one. Damn! Last edited by: WillDeBeest on Fri 31 May 13 at 20:20 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 30 May 13 23:51   Wood Yew believe it - Avant

I must try to persuade our local MPs, John Redwood and Trees-a May, to get the wooden cars allotted to ministers. As a church organist, I live in hope that John Redwood will come and sing in sequoia. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 30 May 13 23:58   Wood Yew believe it - Londoner

I don't know about wooden cars for ministers, but TV celebrities have certainly had a few. (I'm thinking, of course, of The Woodentops and Edwood Woodwood) Last edited by: Londoner on Thu 30 May 13 at 23:58 Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 31 May 13 05:20   Wood Yew believe it - zookeeper

>> I must try to persuade our local MPs, John Redwood and Trees-a May, to get >> the wooden cars allotted to ministers. >> >> As a church organist, I live in hope that John Redwood will come and sing >> in sequoia. lets not forget paddy ash-down Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 31 May 13 16:12   Wood Yew believe it - Robin O'Reliant

My dad had a Ford Poplar. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 31 May 13 19:51   Wood Yew believe it - Dog

Which branch did he buy it from. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 31 May 13 20:04   Wood Yew believe it - No FM2R

Oakhampton? Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 31 May 13 20:15   Wood Yew believe it - Runfer D'Hills

Sevenoaks, Braintree, Woodford, Wood Green , New Forest, Birnam ( Who can impress the forest, bid the tree, Unfix his earthbound root? ) Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 31 May 13 20:21   Wood Yew believe it - Zero

there's been a laurel laughs in this thread. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 31 May 13 20:21   Wood Yew believe it - WillDeBeest

True story: Mrs Beest used to work with a Theresa Green. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 31 May 13 20:31   Wood Yew believe it - Runfer D'Hills

Goodness knows where I heard this one or if indeed it's a real person, but the name which has for some reason stuck in my mind is Gloria Stitz. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 31 May 13 20:58   Wood Yew believe it - Dog

Norma Stitz's sister I believe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=__5gzZaaOvY Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 31 May 13 21:34   Wood Yew believe it - TheManWithNoName

I hope they Spruce up the bodywork on Alder cars they sell. Mind you the options list ticks all the Boxes. It comes with a Pear of speakers and a loud twin-tone Hornbeam. The tyres fit the wheel Larches well. All vehicles can go 12000 miles between Service trees. The only weak part of the car are the Wingnuts. Goodnight! Reply to this message | Report message