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  • PETER: I wanted to do something absolutely unique.

  • PETER: I had a vision for a certain form of a car.

  • PETER: For me it was always a big happiness

  • to design, and I like to mix the modern line with the retro classical lines.

  • COMM: Julia is a one-off wooden concept car

  • built by carpenter Peter Szabo, a Hungarian who now lives in Romania.

  • COMM: He got the idea around three and a half

  • years ago while finishing another project.

  • PETER: I was building a wooden carriage, horse

  • carriage and then when I was finishing and I said I would like to try out to build a

  • car, wooden car. I wanted to do something which doesn’t exist around the world.

  • PETER: You can’t find hardwood concept car,

  • very good quality, it is almost impossible to find all around the world.

  • COMM: Peter’s original design drawings took

  • him a couple of days. And then he spent a month making a 1:10 scale maquette.

  • PETER: I was working with one of my friend

  • Matyus Csaba. He was the leader of the technical and the electronic work and mechanical work,

  • and after one year I had to make a bigger atelier workshop because my workshop was not

  • enough. So after couple of months I started to build the car, the carrossery, the body

  • of the car on ash wood.

  • COMM: The whole process took three years and eight months.

  • PETER: It costed €18,000 for me and 4,500

  • hours. But also a happy time because I was crazy to work with and it was a big happiness

  • for me to build it up.

  • COMM: Julia has the axels and gear box from

  • a 1983 Ford Taunus. The car that also provided her with her 110 horsepower V6 engine.

  • PETER: It is not important to have big speed

  • with. Until now I have travelled only here in the village, it was 80-90 km/hour but I

  • think in a highway it could go faster.

  • COMM: Peter has combined traditional carpentry

  • with modern technology.

  • PETER: With that tablet you are touching the

  • screen, the lamps, the GPS and the music.

  • COMM: The car was shown off to great acclaim

  • at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2015.

  • PETER: Every positive reaction of people makes

  • me happy. Here in Romania lot of people are working with their hands. They know to build

  • up something with your own hands, it’s rather difficult and they appreciate it. I am happy

  • when I see their face and their reaction about it.

  • COMM: Given the amount of time Peter spent

  • on the car, thankfully his family approve.

  • PETER: My wife and my children, they are proud

  • of this car and of their father.

  • COMM: And he is already thinking about his next project.

  • PETER: I have already in my mind a futuristical

  • design for a car also out of wood but with electric engine.

PETER: I wanted to do something absolutely unique.

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