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Homebuilt Fiat bulldozer

Mark Frauenfelder at 4:02 pm Tue, Jun 30, 2009

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If you see Kogoro Kurata's Fiat 500 bulldozer coming down the road, get ready to jump out of the way. With a top speed of 3 kilometers per hour, it's not stopping for nobody. (Via Pink Tentacle)

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Marrz

quite fashionable, but I like the origional car too much to be a big
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Big Ed Dunkel

Did I see a “Dukakis/Bentsen in ’88″ bumper-sticker on there?
Dungeonbrownies

the idea of 3km per hour is neither impressive or scary -_-
Francesco Fondi

More info on Kogoro Kurata in this post from last year:

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/23/japanese-iron-sculpt.html