shell. michel fashioned his car from the would have a variety of fruit trees whether pear apple or cherry trees he used only once from the water valley. installing the sixteen horsepower engine was one of the easier tasks faithfully reproducing the different parts of the car s body was incredibly time consuming. said. this piece of wood here these air intakes it took three days of work so you know machine can do this so i had to do everything by hand with. a time wasn t an issue for me with you it didn t matter if i needed four or five years i just wanted to make a model that was unique. michele is something of an expert at making wooden cars but one to ten scale model ones he exhibits them in
a much loved model today with such symbolic flair that one carpenter in central france has paid homage to it like no one before him. this situ and to see partition is made of wood but you can still drive it. after five years of work the car s maker mission is taking it out on its maiden voyage through the medieval town of english. this is the first time it s been on the streets of france in russia. i guess. you like it here. instead of getting a little bicycle i ve got a little car. well you know what the idea was to build additional not any other way but my heart set on building
adventure began five years ago with this two c.v. built in one nine hundred fifty three it was just rusting away in a barn. that s need immediate for my came here thousands of times of my pencil my meter stick and paper to take all the measurements. on to clean those . then the retired carpenter began creating the car out of wood in his workshop based on blueprints sketched. i assembled everything on pieces by piece. up with a fair amount of the platform on the chassis of addition. and then i constructed my frame on the top. and then i had to until the doors the hole in the wings to fit the standard body
a digital with the full. earlier the wooden tissues or was unveiled in last central square the whole town came out to see it. the local priest even bless the car with holy water. all means of locomotion that brings people together who want to connect and unites them and that s the role of the gospel to. the destroyed you know. the to c.v.s. the legendary automobile in france it was in production forty years so it s a very nice idea to build a replica out of wood. you know you get. the dish it s always a symbol of french. the art of enjoying life to the fullest. michelle s great
to be. this is a daily event. there are literally thousands of people, mainly tourists, who ve come to see the changing of the guard. and one day charles and camilla will be in buckingham palace as king and queen. it s been a slow process for camilla to really gain public acceptance. but she s managing to do so, her big problem, of course, is she s always lived in princess diana s shadow. but she s trying to change that, and this week, for the first time, she went out on her own on an international stage. the duchess at dior. an iconic french brand. also coveted by her husband s first wife. there are obvious parallels between diana, princess of wales, and camilla, duchess of cornwall. but also, stark differences. these are camilla s first tentative steps towards defining herself outside the uk. and luckily, there are horses at