11 august 2023 - NEW
Summertime, …And the livin’ is easy….
The most beautiful summer song was written in 1935 by George Gershwin & DuBose Heyward.
Given eternity by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong in 1957 as well Janis Joplin in 1968.
Multiple times covered every time since…
Did you know it started out as an opera song?
There were no VW’s yet in 1935 otherwise they would have been included…
Fish are jumpin’ …and our VW’s ride……
VWs just belong to the summer, or does the summer belong to our Volkswagens?
Summertime is beautiful, let us take that VW ride!
Every week we try to make that VW ride easier and more enjoyable, with more and better parts.
Welcome to BBT News.
We do offer bolts and clamps to fix the middle and rear seats in buses.
We bring you now the bolt to hold your seat in forged steel. (100% as original OE)
These bolts are manufactured by the OE manufacturer in a private production run for BBT.
We try to find a solution for the wing nuts also.
Complete clamp sets with die-cast bolts and nuts we offer HERE
8072-050 Bolt for fasten middle and rear bench – Bus 50/07/79 OEM
We add some extra window guide channels to keep your door window nicely guided.
For more window guides click HERE
0371-130 Window guide channel in door rear – Beetle 01/58-07/64
0371-200 Window guide channel in door rear – Bus 08/67-10/74 left
0371-205 Window guide channel in door rear – Bus 08/67-10/74 right
We received a large order of ENGLE cams.
All references back in stock!
1626-100 Camshaft kit Engle W-110 (Master)
1626-110 Camshaft kit Engle W-110 (Master II)
BBT news team wishes you a really chill summertime, let the fish jump and leave the cotton high, your dad can be rich or your mom good looking, but drive that VW baby, and leave all your troubles behind!
Off course in this beautiful summer, our thoughts go out as well to all that cannot enjoy summertime as we do, with natural disasters for our friends in Slovenia, Greece, Portugal, Scandinavia… summer is not always fun for everybody! Keep the spirit guys! Never forget, every dark cloud has a bright border.
4 august 2023 - NEW
How fortunate are we to be part of our beautiful Classic Volkswagen community?
With friends worldwide, magazines, parts distribution all over, shipping, shows, communities…
You name it and the Volkswagen community delivers.
World leaders should look and take a lesson…
We are proud we can continuously supply more and better parts to “our” community.
Some brand-new releases this week, as every week.
Welcome to the BBT NEWS.
We complete our line front axle grease caps.
Grease caps are sitting over the nuts adjusting the play on your front wheel bearing.
Most Volkswagens have at the left a square hole for the speedo cable and at the right there are completely closed.
Today we present you the grease caps for T25/T3/Vanagon.
Originally Volkswagen placed a small rubber plug covering the square hole on a “left” one to use on the right side.
We made a proper right side without (square) hole.
We made what VW should had made but didn’t.
We finished our T25/T3/Vanagon in black paint, exactly like original.
These caps will not fit all-wheel drive Synchro models.
Our complete family of grease caps for your classic Volkswagens HERE
We make all our grease caps to exact OE specifications.
1359-650 Greasecap spindle left – Bus 08/79-07/92 BBT
1359-660 Greasecap spindle right – Bus 08/79-07/92 BBT
After years of research, we found a good manufacturer for chrome lock covers.
Volkswagen used chrome lock covers on several applications.
We are proud to present you the 100% correct lock cover for 67-68 treasure chest locks.
Exactly used on last year Split window and first year Bay window single cab pick-up truck.
100% exactly like original stamped in high grade chrome steel.
Complete with spring that helps the upper lid cover the hole in the lower lid.
To stay in place we made the covers with correct length of the legs in the back.
The earlier “butterfly” model and later Bay window model with the tab are in development too and will be released soon!
0428-310 Treasure chest lock cover pick up – Bus 08/66-07/68
Absolutely not happy with the existing reproduction and after losing another one we decided the market deserved better.
We made our new engine lid lock cover for Split window bus with correct long legs.
That is right, we started from an NOS model and made the legs same length as original.
Once the correct length legs plied to keep the cover in position its fixed and keep on sitting.
You do not need glue, Loctite or TEC-7 anymore to keep our lock covers in place.
100% exactly like original stamped in high grade chrome steel.
Complete with spring that helps the upper lid cover the hole in the lower lid.
Now you can mount your engine lid lock cover exactly like it was meant to be.
The seal for the engine lid lock cover you find HERE
The engine lock you find HERE
0428-2 Engine lid lock cover – Bus 03/55-07/65
0404-12 Endpiece licenceplate – Karmann Ghia (pair)
0616-315 Indicator housing front – Karmann Ghia 11/63-07/69
0759-410 Seal indicator front – Karmann Ghia -11/58
2411-050 Cap wipershaft base – Beetle, KG, Type 3 -07/69 (pair)
The BBT NEWS team wishes you a wonderful weekend, full of peace, love and understanding.
28 july 2023 - NEW
What a week we had @ BBT HQ.
Never ever we received so many goods at the same time.
Long backorder list melted as snow in the sun.
Our infill went up with close to 10% in a week.
New products came in as well.
We are happy to present them here, now and in the upcoming weeks.
Welcome to BBT News.
After the last Brazilian OE producer stopped production, we had to find new sources.
The 56-64 Volkswagen Beetle deserved its proper emergency brake boot.
More off, besides a rather poor quality, the Brazilian boot had the wrong grain.
But it did the job, kind off, even only available in black color.
Any longer available meant we simply had to team up with the producers from our split and oval emergency brake boots.
After a lot of trials and errors we’re very happy with our final result.
Specially to find the correct surface grain we had to redo the tooling several times.
Persisting, we found a company that could etch the tooling correctly.
Exactly the grain used by the German Volkswagen factories.
Finishing our own tooling meant we could choose colors!
Black being available before but was only correct for Standard and Brazilian made beetles.
So now we made them correctly in grey for perfect finish of any German made deluxe or export model 55-64 beetle.
The black colored ones are at the same time back available with correct surface grain.
Proud of this production, we finished them with a small BBT logo and OE part number on the underside.
Our entire family of emergency brake boots you find HERE
Available worldwide at the finer Volkswagen parts shop!
0707-505 Emergency brake boot – Beetle/KG 08/55-07/64 grey
0707-500 Emergency brake boot – Beetle/KG 08/55-07/64 black
“Squeezed” between the upper and lower part of the rear corners on a T25/T3 or Vanagon, this little piece of metal is subject to corrosion.
Now available brand new for easy and correct replacement.
Check out this part on our X-view for T25/T3/ Vanagon replacement metal HERE
0424 Front hood handle – Beetle 08/52-07/67
0438-03 Lock catch door – Beetle 08/66- left
0438-04 Lock catch door – Beetle 08/66- right
0510-015 Shifter base – Bus 50-07/79
1405 Shift rod coupler – Beetle -07/63, Bus -07/67
0558 Sunvisor right – Beetle 46-07/59
0559 Sunvisor left – Beetle 46-07/59
The BBT News team wishes you a wonderful weekend…