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Friday I transferred from China to Tokio Japan, for a weekend of VW fun.

BBT always loved the Japanese Vw culture and we try to attend the bi yearly VW Klassisches treffen of Flat4 of Tokio, our respectable BBT distributor in Japan.

As BBT Frederik handles all Japanese accounts he flew over for the weekend to man the booth and have direct customer contact.

Saturday night we gathered at a hotel near Mount Fuji.

The evening dinner always include some speeches, off course Nao, Big Chief of Flat 4 now, gives the opening speech.

Frederik and me been called on the podium and received the special sponsor goodie bag…

Flat4 founder Mr Komori handed out all participant plaques, to every single attendee, we thought that was a lot of honour!

Saturday morning we cruised to the show grounds… now, is this cool?

dog on the back seat!!

Gentlemen, start your engines!

The star of the show, took Kimbel Rich and Shin from HOT VW’s along in his 1953 convertible, what a lot of fun!

only happy faces…

and people in style, big style!!

Extreme cool low light single wheel trailer took part as well…

and off to the show it goes…

This is Shin & Shin, the one owns Hot VW magazine the other one is the editor…:)

Shoeshi from Strollers fame found this very special one-off Yanase coachbuild on 1953 pan. made in 1964 this is something extreme cool. recently discovered, the whole japanese VW scene thought this baby was lost for ages!

Friend Shoeshi with friend Marcel from Holland…:)

Flat4 brought out their Schwimmwagen.

Yanase, the exclusive importer of Volkswagen in Japan till the early nineties, brought out one of the four split window beetles imported by Nordhoff in 1952, this is thought to be the sole survivor.

The venue this year was just great…

the winners circle…

The BBT award this year went to this crazy original, unbelievable nice patina 1953 zwitter, sold new in japan and still rolls on its original license! a real cool car, belive me…

The Airmighty award handed by editor Niels in person went to ex BBT Chocolate brown split window beetle we drove ourselves to this show in 2015.

longest distance award went to this ubercool fastback, who traveled over 1200 km to attend the show!

Flat 4 award went to this very nice 1950 split window convertible…

The winners circle after prize giving…

How can we ever thank the Flat4 staff for putting on such a super event and make everybody feeling so good!

Great job guys (and girls) You can be proud on your team all of you!! I wish I found words to describe…

To close this Blog a picture of the BBT Award car… isn’t she lovely….

ok Monday morning in Japan now, we have a couple of company visits today and fly to Taiwan tomorrow, the Asia trip ain’t over yet…:)

How bad it can go… well pretty bad with this one as You can see…. wish we could find it as it seems like a very early car to me…

Thanks to Jos for the content

Another day in busy China to check out the Chroming plants. Because of environmental rules this is made very easy, all plants for chroming and plating are actually in one building for the whole city area!

This building house over 25 companies…:)

the center of the wheel and the rim is always chromed separately..

Chroming is a process of several baths , I mean many baths, to rinse, coat and rinse, and  rinse and rinse….:)

here the center caps for modular wheels… everything is fully automatic….

This is the real chrome actually… after the nickel…..

This is a big building… wowh, very impressive…

Food! yes, we have to feed ourselves, something they know very well how to do in China, forget about Chinese restaurants  in Europe or the USA, here everything is fresh????? you choose they prepare…

and prepared it looked like this….yammie….:)

Thanks Jimmy for taking me around today

And this is my favorite part… the sharing scooter… Thousands of this scooters spoils the cities, You scan and drive… real nice, and real cool too!

Thank you to all for the great hospitality I could enjoy in China, great country…

now its time to move on, big VW show this weekend…. in Japan! Are you joining? I’m already in the plane while writing this!