On my flight back from Osaka I made a stop over in New Delhi for a “Blitz” visit to some manufacturers…

India is a very different country, mostly Hindoo, people are extremely friendly, hospitality is super great, but some infrastructure… well i don’t know…:)

A small impression I like to share with all of you! …

India makes a lot of rubber parts so I visited two rubber manufacturing plants…

This guys says thank you to all BBT customers for buying the parts he makes, what gives him a job! social systems don’t really exist here, no job is pure misery!

They used to call tuk tuk but here they just say “Auto”… they been used for everything and there is thousands of them, they’re fairly cheap and transport everything… and they all drive (like all small commercial en all public transport) on CNG!

a full truck is many times an extra taxi…:)

big trucks are very impressive and very nicely “dressed up”, the Indian way!

No visit to Delhi without seeing the Taj Mahal, about 2,5 hr drive south of Delhi, if not in rush hour…:)

A grave stone for his beloved one, the King let build this memorial palace in pure marble with thousands of jewels laid in the marble, no paint! 20.000 people worked for 17 years here, and 5 more years on the surroundings! Everything is about perfect!

Another “auto” this one is a Piaggio…

But also on a bike You can transport about everything… if you’re creative, that is…:)

You can drive everything on the freeway, also heavy loaded tractors!

Another dressed up truck!

Crazy Delhi traffic!

if an “auto” is too expensive a three wheeling bike called “Riksja” is cheaper transport…

Hello BBT customers we pack your orders carefully!!

Dressed up truck in an industry sector….

I’m not completely sure about power lines, crazy engineering for sure!

A lost truck shot on my way to the airport…

Time to fly back home! some very interesting jobs awaiting me… believe me! but what a trip it was!!

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Mr Jozuka, founder (and father) of Garage Vintage passed away suddenly about 12 years ago.

I always wanted to pay respect and visit his last resting place, what was a promise to myself finally came through last week…

Together with the Jozuka family we visited the cemetery…  a very typical Japanese cemetery with a lot of respect and honour for the beloved ones… in a traditional way everything is hyper clean!

Mr Jozuka’s stone is not your typical, but teh back of a splitwindowbeetle, carved in one piece stone Mrs Michiko Jozuka did a great job as she refused twice!! Normally it had been way bigger, but the stone carvers had to start twice over again…

Respect!!

How You like the detail? Pretty cool uh?

the numbers on the license plate read more difficult as your worse Sudoku??? All the family birthdays, the birth dates and the founding dates of garage Vintage been all written in, now try to figure that one out!

Beautiful flowers give a nice touch to the black marble!

the cemetery is pretty large, but only one stone is very different from all others… and my old friend Mr Jozuka deserve that!

Can’t finish this blog no better as with the words on the back of the stone…

My trip in Japan comes slowly  to an end, I have to run for the airport now… but I have one more stop over, hopefully i can report You tomorrow about that one…  so stay tuned!!

Some very interesting new products this week to share with all of you!!

We offer now complete trailing arms for later 1303 “Super” beetles… in very good quality at unbeatable prices!

1334-060 Trailing arm front Left complete – 1303 08/73-

1334-070 Trailing arm front Right complete 1303 08/73-

Replace your broken or worn out speedo with this very nice reproduction, fuel gauge is not included, but we do offer separately…

2691-100 speedometer KM/H – all beetle 08/67-

When your split window bus has safari windows the choice of antenna’s is very limited, we now offer the antenna in exact the same model like Volkswagen did back in the day, this is as it should be… time to play that radio Franky!

0432-800 Antenna Safari – Bus -07/67 Chrome

The BBT FPU team wish You a wonderful weekend!