Home made ‘Womble truck’ made from 21 different cars!
on April 27th, 2010 at 9:18 pmIt may have been cobbled together with parts from 21 different cars, but this misshapened vehicle nicknamed the ‘Womble Truck’ could be Britain’s most environmentally friendly car. The unusual mode of transport can reach speeds of up to 110mph running only on chip fat and vegetable oil. It was created by sculptor and environmentalist Buzz Knapp-Fisher, who has spent the last six years modifying the automobile into an almost carbon-free mode of transport. The vehicle has been cobbled together from an array of car parts including some from a Sixties Morris 1000, Seventies Mini, a Ford, a Reliant Robin, an MG Midget, a Vauxhall Viva and a Volvo 740. It was named after the children’s TV characters ‘The Wombles’, who lived on Wimbledon Common and collected and recycled rubbish in ingenious ways. ‘I bought the Womble Truck as a wreck around six years ago and I fell in love with it straight away,’ the 48-year-old from Pembrokeshire said. ‘It was solid as a rock and I saw it as an ideal environmental project car. ‘We will have to start living a low carbon lifestyle and a lot of people in the country are using electric or biodiesel cars and so there is a growing move towards it.’ Costing only £250 on purchase, Buzz has made some modest and cheap adjustments over the years. Replacing the large petrol engine for a biodiesel engine, in the last year Buzz has managed to convert the car to run entirely on chip fat. More
