BBT’s retail shop will remain open between Chrismas and New Year with modified opening hours, as follows.

Tuesday 24/12
08.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 25/12 & Thursday 26/12
Closed!
Friday 27/12 & Saturday 28/12
10.00 – 16.00
Monday 30/12 – Wednesday 01/01
Closed!

Our wholesale dept. will be closed.  NO deliveries, forwarding & shipments will  be possible.

We’ll be fully operational again on Thursday 02/01/2014 from 8.00 hr.

Many thanks for your understanding.

Normally we don’t post twice a day, but this is an exception, because the last day in Taiwan is over and we want you to inform as close as possible….

This morning after breakfast we went to the Taipei central station for a High Speed train ride to Taichung, a city in central Taiwan, home of Vintage Speed, our partner for Stainless exhaust, roofracks and shifter systems…

Can you read the train tables?

No space shuttle, but the Taiwan High Speed train. Taiwan has developed a lot the last 20 years! Train operated flawlessly, everything works here so smooth and cheap! 40 euro for two tickets, with reserved seats….

Oh yes we will…

Old sign for a Vintage company, we arrived!

Beetles everywhere, Lee started as a restoration company…

Now many of the cars are used as R & D

Wowh! early vert behind the fence!

Final stage of the prototype for a Type 3 exhaust, finally an alternative….

Hey I know this car! Lee’s brother bought it from us about 12 years ago!

Whoeps, another room full of cars…

Production area, almost all is made “in house”, very clean and well organised production operation…

Welding robot, now you know why the welding on the Vintage speed exhaust is so nice! Also they weld with a special mixed gas, because they want the welds not to turn black as a normal MIG weld would do with Stainless Steel… and believe it or not the spit rotation system is based on a Belgian BBQ Lee ever attended!

356 Abarth replica… nice, but only on special order…

The meeting with Vintage Speed was very good, we’re even more proud now we stay the only official distributor for Vintage Speed in Europe, nobody can beat our price! You want a quality exhaust with nice welding in stainless, or a good shifter, a nice roofrack from the Vintage Speed line? Don’t delay call your BBT distributor today!

Oh yes…. when you need a Taxi whenever in Taichung area…

The way back to Taipei we had a train from Cartoon Network, my son would have loved a ride in it!

That was the Taiwan travel report, tomorrow morning early we have a transfer flight to our next destination, so no travel Blog, but two other very interesting posts… Hopefully Tuesday you get to know where we ‘ve landed, a new VW adventure for sure! So stay tuned!