28 november 2015 - customers
The committee of Yogya VW festival took us on a tour after the festival, amazing!
We started at BBT customer and friend of the Houze Smart Volks from our friend Roshid
The Boss…Mr Roshid,
They make all kind of metal parts, all by hand…
Chassis alignment…
fitting and adjusting…
Top metal labor, You wouldn’t tell, but these guys knows exactly what they’re doing!
next projects?
Our group of visitors with Mr Roshid, his wife and there one year old baby..
Next stop… the shop from Lulut…
in house cafe is always cool…
Serious work here… all made in-house…
souvenirs and awards all over the place…
top-secret beetle transmission…
in-house made frames…
and bikes…
mild to wild!
Next stop, the Ghia manufacturer place…
very wild customs been made here too!
again, state of the art metal work!
building Ghia’s from scratch…
and more projects are awaiting finishing…
fibreglass action!
metal and fibre glass shop…
a tool box from one of the metalworkers…
finishing touch..
also here heavy metal resurrections of Volkswagens..
doglegs been made “in-house” too….
unbelievable to see what these people can make with hardly any tools, in this last garage they had a workforce of over 150 workers… impossible in Belgium with our stupid labor cost…:(
tomorrow more updates about Indonesia, stay tuned!
25 november 2015 - Meetings
That Yogyakarta is a real big thing going on right here proves the attention the press give to it… literally every newspaper covered the event… and one was kind enough to print a picture with me, my selves and I!
The Jawa Pos…. next to the Sultan of Yogyakarta… (on my left)
24 november 2015 - Meetings
Last coverage about Yogya VW show, even I could publish for a week… what a wonderful event!
crazy creations all over the place…
But… also a lot of real classics…
like this Ghia, was my second choice for the BBT award… pure style!
Barn finds anyone????
Type 3 street
Another real cool Ghia…
181 or “Thing” been called “Safari” over here… and are incredible popular as well! There are plenty all over the place…
Type 3 woody… craftmanship by hand…
and rows of beetles…
BBT sprints… popular wheel choice over here…:)
The beast!!! Crewcab that took away the BBT award!
Now that was what took me away.. if VW sue everybody for their stupid logo, let’s create our own logo… what about this one???
1957 bus from BBT friend of Da Houze Buda! Cool huh???
another cool bus…
Pictures all weekend long with all different club representatives and members… VW scene is huge in Indonesia…
The Indonesian way of a super charger… and they do run fine!
local artist… crazy guy… finishing the bus for the raffle! Yes! They give away this bus!
Outside buses all over, If you thought VW buses be popular in europe, that’s nothing compared with this!
Awards on the main stage!
Lady of Mr Rosau from the crew cab took the BBT award home…
What a show… always over too fast…:(
Tomorrow we go on a shop tour, there’s also some news about a Newspaper… and more pictures about this beautiful country… I think Indonesia is the last piece of paradise on planet earth… stay tuned!