A carpenter has built a car out of wood and is now driving the car from Peru to New York City before his daughter’s 17th birthday.
Bienvenido Ortega made a promise to his then 13-year-old daughter Eneli to make a car out of wood for her 17th birthday.
His daughter told him she didn’t want a traditional ‘Quinceañera’ party for her birthday. She said she wanted a car made out of wood and wanted her father to drive it all the way from his home in Peru to her home in New York.
His daughter Eneli said: ‘What I want is for you to build me a wooden car and bring it to New York by road for my 15th birthday. I will wait for you’.
Her father spent two years building her a VW Beetle out of wood and is now driving from Peru to New York City before his daughter’s 17th birthday.
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Bienvenido said he chose the VW Beetle because “it is relatively small and the engine does not use water.point 321 |
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“Secondly, because I have made several wooden cars and I always wanted to make a Volkswagen for myself, breaking that record of making a round car with many curves. It was not so difficult for me. I found it not so easy, but not so difficult.”
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‘I told her I would travel anywhere or be in any place for the celebration’ he said.