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This week some amazing new gas tanks, and also some more bus sheet metal and a very cool “Do You know…” at the bottom!

Let’s start with the gas tanks this week… brand new in our program, the square gas tanks up to July 1955.

Volkswagen made the gas tanks fancy as up to september 1952 the filler neck was 100mm, from October 1952 till March 1953 the filler neck was 60mm to change again to 100mm from April 1953 up to July 1955.

So the gas tank with the 60mm filler neck (BBT ref 0492-070) will fit your car correctly if build between October 1952 and March 1953 (Oval dash split window beetles better known as Zwitter models)

The gas tank with the 100mm filler neck (BBT 0492-080) has the pressing around the filler neck, doesn’t do anything but is like original from April 1953 till July 1955, but fit also all cars from August 1949 (VIN 116021) till September 1952, with the only difference it has a pressing around the filler neck and your original don’t…

The later gas tank with 100mm (BBT 0492-080) filler neck will fit also all model beetles from August 1955 till July 1960 (VIN 3192506) the model looks different, but dimensions are all the same… a good alternative till the correct model will be launched, but as far as we know, they’re not under developing yet.

0492-070  Fuel tank – Beetle 09/52-03/53 (for 60mm gas cap)

0492-080  Fuel tank – Beetle 08/49-09/52-04/53–07/55 (for 100mm gas cap) fits till 07/60

These profiles are on top of the outriggers and central crossmembers of your splittie bus.. there’s some different models, make sure to pick the correct ones!

Developed by BBT, made for perfection! Pressed on cast tooling, not plied on a bench!

0890-58-2 Top hat section rear under ribbed floor- Bus 03/50-07/59 TQ

0890-58-3 Top hat section center under ribbed floor – Bus 03/50-07/67 TQ

Do You know… we also supply the copper vacuum hose for the 30 Hp engines (36SAE for our american friends), this vacuum hose is almost always broken or missing or patched together. Ours is perfect fit, made to perfection on real wooden bucks…

Replace that old scruffy worn out copper vacuum line with this state of the art BBT reproduction!

2079-250 Vacuum hose from 28PCI carburetor to distributor BBT

The BBT FPU team wish You a wonderful and relaxing sunny weekend!

A real Kubelwagen? Many VW enthusiasts dream!

This dream can become reality with this real beast!

Kubelwagens should not look nice and by the letter with every nut and bolt lined in same direction. That’s not the way they’ve been build and even less how they were used!

Kubelwagens been produced to fight, to survive as long as it could, but especially to capture more land from the enemies, as fast as it could… but also save lives of soldiers so they could fight longer and Kubelwagens moved them around as quick as possible.

The expected life (or survive) time of a Kubelwagen was 3 weeks at the front… This example did exceed a little life time expectation….:)

But the good thing is, this baby looks like the real thing, no, it IS the real thing!

Rough and used, with necessary dents, scratches and traces of use…

Enough originality, KDF logo’s everywhere, but also a very cool car ready to use and enjoy!

For sure not all is correct and pointers and buffers can (and will) tell what’s wrong, but there’s also a lot right, and the car has a huge fun factor…

Do You want a Kubelwagen to look at, or a Kubelwagen to use and play? I’m always going for the later one, put this baby in the dirt and have fun!

Underneath it has a very nice pan, correct front and rear axle… and what’s important to me, never converted to hydraulic brakes, but still operates on its original cable brakes!

Dressed with “just enough” period accessories to make it believable… at first glance You could believe it left the battle fields only yesterday…

The Kubelwagen also comes with some spares, like an original Gun holder, a lot of spare bulbs, a book, and some other metal parts.

Also included in this sale is a period Wehrmacht Jerry can, an ammunition box and an original skid plate, mainly in original paint, for the buffers… or just to enjoy…:)

Power plant is a correct 24.5PS engine, dressed with some correct and some wrong parts…

But its a strong engine, fires up when You turn the key and will bring you everywhere You want to go, also off-road!

Do You like Cog Wheel VW logos? You can find quiet a few on this car!

Look the underside! I think this looks the whole deal, don’t you?

The secret of moving power with limited horsepower, transmission with reduction boxes, not only gives more ground clearance, but makes your car double as strong because of the reduction of the gears!

We took off a valve cover to check inside the engine, everything looks hyper clean, and we saw also the Cog wheel VW logo to assure its all KDF!

In a general overview we agree this car is NOT a car for buffers and pointers… This is a car for a real enthusiast, that loves the looks, wants enough originality to sleep well at night, but before all wants a car that looks right and can be used, on and off track.

This must be one of the best looking Kubelwagens we ever had.

Owning Kubelwagens and Schwimmwagens for over 25 years and used them accordingly do You know a Kubelwagen with its rear wheel drive goes further in rough terrain as an all wheel drive Schwimmwagen brother? You will be amazed how far a Kubelwagen will bring you! With a little off-road knowledge You can easily go all off-road tracks and leave many modern four-wheel drive cars FAR behind! Believe me or not but they DON’T like that! Especially not when You ask them afterwards what they need four-wheel drive for actually…:)

A lot of fun ahead, that’s what we sell here…

To get the full 120 Picture file by WeTransfer on high-resolution, or for pricing, or for any other information about this gem send me an email on Bob@BBT4VW.com , I will come back to You as soon as I can.

Oh yes, if You life far away, no problem, we ship worldwide at very competitive prices!

Thank for looking!

We will receive the assembled inner structure for the front of your splittie bus in the second week of august.

We will sell these frames under our BBT reference 0890-980 Front inner frame assembly – Bus 03/55-07/67 LHD

Pre order yours now, as first supply will be limited!

For those not familiar with the BBT sheet metal we like to inform that ALL of our sheet metal is pressed in real cast tooling exactly like Volkswagen used to do when they made the buses brand new. The assembly of different component like this inner front structure is made on professional Jigs like it was performed by Volkswagen back in the day as well…

All parts from the frame are available separate as well, this frame exist out of following part n°s

0890-18                Inner front panel (lower) – Bus -07/67

0890-181            Crossmember under dashboard – Bus 03/55-07/67 LHD

0890-187             A-post Complete Left – Bus -07/67

0890-188             A-post Complete Right – Bus -07/67

0890-975              Inner front panel Bus -07/67