Talk about being fickle! On March 31, 2011, I posted an article to TTAC about MB-Tex guitar straps and wallets. In that article, there are pictures of five guitars, all made by the Heritage Guitar Company of Kalamazoo, MI. In the past three years, I've sold four of them. (The H-170 is still with me.) But I've purchased something like two dozen Couch straps since then. And now they have a fascinating new product for those of us who like Malaise accoutrements.
The Charger Wallet is made of "recycled 1970 Dodge Charger vinyl". As amusing as it would be to think of the guys from Couch stripping the vinyl right off the seats of Crusher-bound Chrysler Company Creations, in general they source their products from the replacement vinyl furnished by the OEMs and suppliers to upholstery shops.
According to Couch, the wallet is
Made in USA, handmade by dudes in California on some serious heavy duty machinery who drive motorcycles and scooters and old American Vans and Japanese hybrids and listen to King Tuff and play guitar after work.
I don't even know who King Tuff is. I know King Tubby was the remix "selecta" whose low-production vinyl LPs were the undisputed favorites of leather-jacketed British Trotskyites during the Thatcher years. And I know that Tuff Gong was Marley's record label. So I'm assuming that there's a connection.
I'll probably buy one of these wallets — I already have the MB-Tex Red and Jet Age models, and more wallets means more chances to lose my wallet. But I'll wait until the B&B take their shot at it.
(Disclaimer: We received no free wallets from Couch for posting this. But if a free wallet were to show up at Derek's house… well, that would be a mistake. Derek doesn't need a wallet. He's transitioning to Bitcoin, because the heavy-duty financial transactions required to drive an Aventador would raise the eyebrows of the Canadian Government were he to use their Monopoly Money with pictures of the Queen and whatnot.)
from The Truth About Cars http://ift.tt/Jh8LjA
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