This week we have 2 great products!

We’re proud we can finally offer a perfect alternative exhaust for your 181, Thing, Acapulco, Trekker or whatever You want to call the Volkswagen type 181 leisure car. The exhaust is made by Vintage speed and offer the same quality and fit like any other Vintage Speed exhaust. Good quality and good looking too!

Finally the perfect solution for your “Thing” exhaust issues!

3280-400 Exhaust – THING ‘Vintage Speed’ with pre-heat risers / Stainless steel – T181

Especially for competition engines. Reduces the resistance. The gear wheel of the camshaft is adjustable to accelerate or to delay a few degrees with regard to the crankshaft.

1624-2 Straight cut cam gear Type 4

Yesterday evening we enjoyed a cool night in Tokyo, good restaurants and cozy bars seems to be part of the Japanese life and culture… did we mind??? not really although Jet lag was triyng to kill us real hard!

Try this restaurant, next time around, a real extreme Japanese experiment… the food was so good, I simply forgot to take pictures…:(

Leaving the restaurant, we dived into Tokyo night life, the city is so cozy!

Transport is no problem, cabs are EVERYWHERE….

I mean EVERYWHERE….:)

Streets are more like manicured, Tokyo leaves a very very clean impression to us, @ every visit…

We ended up in a cozy bar from a VW friend… Mr Hide Wakabayashi in his “Cafe Streamline”… interior is all made by himself…. and on special request he play You a couple of real cool tunes on his “Gipsy” guitar…

Everything You need fir us, thirsty people, and small food too!

You can find Cafe Streamline on Instagram…

Or here is the full business card… show to any cab driver and You’ll be there!

After the night came the morning, a cool day with lots to do… some local VW friends decided to give us some side viewing today … yammie..

Weather conditions let us  end up in a real fancy shopping mall, this beetle was in hat store… thanks God we don’t understand Japanese so couldn’t translate… “Plse no Pictures”….:)

Local Candy store making artisanal sweets…. cool to see and taste… 

Time for lunch… I choose this!

Happy meal from yours truly!

The other side of the shopping mall was a museum, all free! wowh! All set up by Toyota! Thank You a lot Mr Toyota, you’re a nice guy… Domo Arrigatou…

The setting of the museum was unbelievable nice! No big by any means, but just nice, with a LOT of detail…

Toyota 2000Gt, the only Japanese production model that I know of the Million dollar value club… the real Japanese  super car from the seventies…

Outside fountain with more classic cars, as said set up was real nice…

Some buildings in Tokyo are really mind-blowing, a pleasure for the eye!

By the time we came back to hotel night started… let’s find that next good restaurant….

Oh, You need some publicity for Belgian chocolate in Tokyo? Here it is! believe me or not, this is Japanese for Belgium chocolate…:)

Another night in Tokyo is awaiting us, we’re 9 hours ahead of home, so while You work through the afternoon, we’re at dinner already…:)

stay tuned for the next update tomorrow… I hope…

Yes, I’m an addict KLM frequent flyer, their planes take me always where I have to be…; and this 747 Kombi was no exception…

Ah!! Japan! That’s the destination… a week full of fun, full of Volkswagens, and full of excellent food! Yes, I’m in!!

Some impressions???… Arriving at Narita international airport in Tokyo, most easy is to take the bus to the city center and your hotel, very convenient transport…

If You like to travel by train, it’s a little cheaper, it’s a cool system and it works incredible, (more later this week about rails!) but as said, You first have to figure it all out….

Publicity everywhere…… small and BIG signs… thank God we don’t understand all the crap…:)

yep, we definitely don’t understand everything…:)

You can choose your food mainly on the street at every restaurant, mainly by pictures, but here they had samples…

Coffee for  a welcome…. yes we do like Japan, we love You!

Shinagawa station, we stay very close, so this will be the start of our daily excursions…. this is normal density, rush hours are way worse….

and now… a shower and go for dinner… more Japanese updates tomorrow…