1 february 2015 - Fun
Many people ask me if there is still a lot of americana left in the US… for sure there is, not too much in the over urbanized places, but once you go to the country side, americana is still part of the daily life, big time… as Hot Rods are… I thought these where a couple of good examples of what I call patina in a time capsule, when was this picture taken? 1965 or 2014?
It fit all so nice together….
31 january 2015 - Friends of the house
Volkswagen sold 6.12 million brand new cars all over the globe in 2014, but the number “VW Currywurst” they sold was even higher. I knew already from a couple of factory visits that Volkswagen in Wolfsburg had their own butchery, where they made the workers life time favorite “currywurst” a kind of sausage that taste not bad at all with the Volkswagen Ketchup (yes they make ketchup as well!) .
The “currywurst” is available in two sizes (12.5 and 25cm long) and production increased by no less as 10% with a 6.4million units sold during 2014!!! besides the “currywurst” Volkswagen make also a couple of other “wurst” so total “wurst” production came over 7.8million.
Most of these “wurst” is eaten in different VW factory cantina’s as lunch, but in Germany all the “wurst” have their own proper part n° (Originalteil) and principly can be ordered at any dealership (originalteil).
We couldn’t trace the partnr’s so far….
But there is more, as cherry on the cake sauce on the wurst, Volkswagen produced and sold no less THAN 536,826 kilograms of tomato sauce to serve with the wurst…
In total over 30 employees work in the butchery and they produce Volkswagen wurst for over 40 years. They even produce a vegetarian wurst but that’s what they in the factory say, no surf, no turf….
Thanks to autoblog.nl for the information.
30 january 2015 - NEW
Welcome to BBT’s weekly Friday Product update ! This week in our FPU some cool stuff with exhausts and fuel pumps !
A new add-on to our large line of top quality stainless steel exhausts from Vintage Speed.
Type 3 lovers, here’s the exhaust you’ve been waiting for!
3280-330 Exhaust, Vintage Speed Abarth, without pre-heat risers, Stainless steel, Type 3
But maybe even better is this fuel pump. High pressure fuel pump to feed the Fuel injection buses with US specs made after 1974.
But… can also be used on Aftermarket Fuel injection systems or heavy Turbo engines…
These pumps are European manufactured and very well-tested at our premises, top quality, for a real honest price (we don’t like to write “cheap”…:))
1686-200 Electric fuel pump for Injection All Fuel Injected aircooled VW’s
OE part nr. 311 906 091D / 251 906 091 / 043 906 091
Back in stock !!
The best of the best! Our 25/30Din Hp (that’s 36Sae Hp) stainless steel repop of the infamous Abarth exhaust is fresh out of production and readily available from our shelves for you!
1053 Albarth exhaust, 25/30 hp – Stainless steel
