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I want to do something absolutely unique
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I had a vision for a certain form of a car. For me it was always a big happiness to design
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design and I like to mix the modern line with the retro classical lines
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Giulia is a one-off wooden concept car built by carpenter Peter Szabo, a Hungarian who
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now lives in Romania. He got the idea around three and a half years ago while finishing another project
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I was building a wooden carriage, horse carriage, and when I was finishing and I said I would
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like to try out also to build a car, wooden car. I want to do something which doesn't exist
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all around the world. You can find a hard wood concept car, very good quality. It is
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almost impossible to find all around the world. Peter's original design drawings took him a couple of days, and then he spent a month
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making a 1 to 10 scale maquette. I was working with one of my friends, Maitrej Czobor
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He was the leader of the technical and mechanical work. And after one year, I had to make a bigger interior workshop
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because my workshop wasn't enough. So after a couple of months, I started to build a car
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the carousel the body of the car on ash wood The whole process took three years and eight months It costed 18 euro for me and 4 an hour but also a happy time because I was crazy
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to work with and it was a big happiness for me to build it up
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Julia has the axles and gearbox from a 1983 Ford Taunus. The car that also provided her
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with her 110 horsepower V6 engine. It is not important to have big speed with
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Until now, I tried only here in the village. It was 80, 90 km per hour
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But I think in a highway, it could go faster. Peter has combined traditional carpentry with modern technology
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With that tablet, you are touching the screen and the lamps, the GPS and the music
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The car was shown off to great acclaim at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2015
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Every positive reaction of people makes me happy. In Romania, a lot of people are working with their hands
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They know to build up something with your own hands, it's rather difficult, and they appreciate it
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I am happy when I see their face and their reaction about it
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Given the amount of time Peter spent on the car, thankfully his family approved
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My wife and our children, they are proud of this car and of their father
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And he's already thinking about his next project. I have already in my mind a futuristic design for a car, also out of wood, but with electric engine
