Indonesian trip… Garage tour in Yogyakarta

The committee of Yogya VW festival took us on a tour after the festival, amazing!

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We started at BBT customer and friend of the Houze Smart Volks from our friend Roshid

2015-11-23 05.12.18 2015-11-23 05.13.03 2015-11-23 05.20.50The Boss…Mr Roshid,

2015-11-23 05.27.42 They make all kind of metal parts, all by hand…

2015-11-23 05.37.51 Chassis alignment…

2015-11-23 05.40.34 fitting and adjusting…

2015-11-23 05.40.46Top metal labor, You wouldn’t tell, but these guys knows exactly what they’re doing!

2015-11-23 05.41.40 2015-11-23 05.42.27 2015-11-23 05.42.33 next projects?

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Our group of visitors with Mr Roshid, his wife and there one year old baby..

2015-11-23 06.39.14 Next stop… the shop from Lulut…

2015-11-23 07.07.50 2015-11-23 07.09.28 in house cafe is always cool…

2015-11-23 07.09.52 2015-11-23 07.10.02 2015-11-23 07.10.21Serious work here… all made in-house…

2015-11-23 07.13.32 souvenirs and awards all over the place…

2015-11-23 07.13.47 top-secret beetle transmission…

2015-11-23 07.14.28 in-house made frames…

2015-11-23 07.18.55 and bikes…

2015-11-23 07.25.46 mild to wild!

2015-11-23 07.33.05 Next stop, the Ghia manufacturer place…

2015-11-23 08.31.45 very wild customs been made here too!

2015-11-23 08.32.00 2015-11-23 08.32.17 2015-11-23 08.33.59 again, state of the art metal work!

2015-11-23 08.37.11 building Ghia’s from scratch…

2015-11-23 08.37.33 2015-11-23 08.37.39 2015-11-23 08.38.10 and more projects are awaiting finishing…

2015-11-23 08.38.28 fibreglass action!

2015-11-23 08.40.27 metal and fibre glass shop…

2015-11-23 08.45.11 a tool box from one of the metalworkers…

2015-11-23 08.45.46 finishing touch..

2015-11-23 08.46.02 also here heavy metal resurrections of Volkswagens..

2015-11-23 08.48.44 doglegs been made “in-house” too….

2015-11-23 08.49.11 2015-11-23 08.49.38unbelievable 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!

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  1. Secret transmission… with side shifter???
    Is that ZF lying next to it for the same gearbox?
    Interesting 🙂

  2. no side shifting rather as foot shifting!! and the “ZF” is not a ZF, but a home made reduction box, to let it crawl up to steep hills! crazy technology!

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