3 april 2013 - Friends of the house
My friend Eric from California send through some pictures from his DKW schnellaster panel van…
After almost 2 years he finished this restoration, and today he will take it for the first outing, the maiden trip…. just look at pictures, and say wawh as many times as You wish, it might be a relief to free your emotions….
Before…. Eric bought this panel out of a tip I gave him… somewhere in California, his home state….
And after…. this is a work of art rather then a restoration….
As a reference the Honda Element is for scale reference and evidence of design plagiarism in the eyes of eric… the Honda is also for sale, I think Eric like to keep on the DKW for a while, but a lot of other projects might force him to sell eventually….
According to Eric the engine is built with an NOS crank, pistons, rods and modern sealed bearings.Very difficult to locate parts. oh yes, we can imagine!
did You check the detail into this work of art???? Well let me tell You Eric did this restoration for the most part in his drive way! We can see clearly restoration has nothing to see with equipment, but only with the will and caracter to bring things to a good end!
Eric this is another highlight of your restoration career, Congratulations, I think it’s an other outstanding finish! And an example for all old car afficiando’s how to do a restoration in 2013….. Thank You for being our friend, thank You for sharing your arts…
2 april 2013 - Customer cars
BBT Spain took on the task to make the extreme cool split ragtop…. BBT bloggers saw me delivering the car in November in Spain, and bringing the SP2 home…
Finally some time left in Spain so Steve started the labour to this cool car…. and splits have to be splits, so the oval window was cut out and modified back to split… nice job Steve, Congratulations….
1 april 2013 - Inside BBT
Some of Kukie’s snap shots of last week
The beautiful Samba started his journey to Suisse… Zürich will be his new exploration area… maybe he will meet Tina Turner one day?
Buses on the move….:) we have some Blue and white label lately… hihi
InBev Diekirch bus on its way to its first official photo shoot
Always nice to have on the service bridge
Mango is in the workshop… will be one of BBT’s ” Staff cars” @ next open house and convoy…..
very busy goods in dept… season is coming up and the revised purchase system is coming every day more and more to work…..
Packing is a big issue, and very time-consuming… we get help from a local school for kids who have study problems, so they been trained a very practical way, every week a class from this school is coming to BBT and get teached how real life warehousing looks and feel like. a very social project, where the school as BBT are very satisfied… good guys, one of next weeks we will make the a groups picture….
More pallets, every day we get loads of pallets in, quantity is everything @ BBT HQ… this was 182 boxes with chrome goodies….
Denzel baby get loaded into his cosy trailer for the UK trip
More Mango pictures, such a cool bus, almost finished….
Kukie in Denzel baby… where’s that cigar Kukie? and You always laugh in Denzel, or was it that emotional?
Oval window in customer parking lot, despite bad weather people do start driving their cars….
all picture credits to Kukie….