Build Sue's Wheels
Showy “Wheels” for My Sister – In a Bottle, of course, by Charles A. Hand, Jr

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It is in a 30 ml serum bottle and took about three weeks to make. The two inner base pieces and three auto sections were carved from Poplar. The headlights are bits of round toothpicks plus a dab of putty. Taillights were sanded from modern (composition) round-headed pins.
Tires were sliced from the small end of a Paper-Mate brand Den, painted black about their perimeters, with punched styrene disks glued into each. One disk matches the red car color topped by another disk of chrome (red & chrome from an unused AAA bumper sticker). Phone wire painted black forms the steering wheel.
The car interior was painted white. The windshield is of clear plastic, trimmed with (ciq. pack) foil. After 6 or so (failed) experiments, a simple(r) tool evolved to aid in the installation of that. A bike spoke was another useful tool.
The bottle base is a scrap of South American Purpleheart - sold at a fine woodworking firm for making pens. The knot about the bottle neck is of fishing line, and the original rubber stopper was replaced with a cork. Unlike most vehicles, these wheels should not entail any expenses on her part.
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