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Wooden Volkswagen Beetle Consumes 50,000 Oak Pieces
By Rich Christianson
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Bojic applies some tender loving care to his wooden Volkswagen Beetle, which features some 50,000 pieces of oak.
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Momir Bojic, a Volkswagen retiree of Bosnia, and his wife used some 50,000 tiny oak shingles to refurbish this 1975 Volkswagen Beetle from its wooden pedals and wheel caps to wipers, dashboard and body.
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Even the car's tail lights feature oak wood lattice
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The steering wheel and dashboard - all oak.
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The Volkswagen logo, a crowning wooden touch.

Usually wood and beetle in the same sentence in not a good thing. Think pesky, menacing tree-killing bugs like the Mountain Pine Beetle, Asian Long-Horned Beetle and Emerald Ash Borer.

But Momir Bojic's wooden Volkswagen beetle is nothing to fear. In fact it gives cause to celebrate the beauty of wood and beetle "living' in harmony.

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A retiree of Volkswagen who lives in Bosnia, Bojic and his wife spent an intensive 18 months giving a 1975 Volkswagen Beetle a wooden makeover. The finished product of this labor of love consumed some 50,000 tiny pieces of oak for everything from the body to the dashboard, steering wheel, gas and break pedals, windshield wipers and dashboard.

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