12 may 2015 - Meetings
Pascal had a lot of fun with its Bugster (a real homologated Baja kind a bug that was made in Belgium) on the local VW meet in Schakkebroek Belgium. But the good weather made not enough mud in his eyes, even tough the Bugster didn’t show that much of its white color anymore… very funny later on in the restaurant….:)
still pretty white when he started!
Small show, but so cozy, always the best!
More friends of Da BBT Houze!
Splasie made its splash!
11 may 2015 - Cars for Sale
Hard times to full fill that dream to find an affordable early Bay westfalia? This might be the fulfilment of your dreams!
1971 original Westfalia…
Body is better as average, but still need a set of rockers and some repairs to make perfect, but this can be also the perfect base for your off-road Westy, where body is not most important!
The body is straight for sure, and besides the rockers it had some dents filled with filler, not a lot but some spots…
Cabin is all complete and decent…
Cab floors, my very first measurement to judge a bay window are very very good, we like that shiny, don’t we?
Interior is there, as You can see, no kitchen block… we can supply eventually for a small extra…
Engine is present and running strong, the brakes do work, this car is a driver for sure… but as always we do recommend a good service before take the public roads …
A real cool beast huh? I liked it at first sight, do You?
This car is present at BBT HQ Brecht Belgium…. for more detail pictures, questions, information, pricing or any other info, most easy by email on Bob@BBT4vw.com
10 may 2015 - Friends of the house
Saturday night after a healthy filled day of VW activities (see Blog posts from last week and yesterday) we’ve been invited by the vice president of the WOB Käferclub. Driving over through Wolfsburg area we came across this building….
Our general WOB host Bjorn and Pascal clearly had a great time!
I think Bjorn was pretty hungry!
and Pascal too!
Perfect food, perfect atmosphere, thanks so much for this beautiful dinner!
The day after (last Sunday) it was time for Automeile… Bjorn arranged a small ad in the local newspaper….
It was unbelievable how many people came by that still knew the bus, used to drive along in the glider club, even had old pictures from it etc etc…
Automeile is a general car event, the Beetle club Wolfsburg was strongly present and had the team “wedding”!
or the garage find Scirocco 1… also from one of the club members…
and a “raised from the body” Brasilia, a lot of people tried to figure out what this was all about…:)
A small tour in the area led us to the “Porsche hutte”, this house was from Dr F Porsche when he lived in Wolfsburg to oversee the construction of the factory!
from the garden man had unbelievable beautiful views from the factory!
BBT does recommend Castrol too, ask for BBT’s Castrol Classic at your parts shop!
We also drove by the VW bad, the swimming pool granted by Volkswagen to the city of Wolfsburg in 1951!
pretty authentic …
This picture from 1961 show how much activity there used to be! In summer time it’s still in use!
Herr Rolf Riesen, brought a bunch of pictures to my Samba from my Samba, as he saw my ad in the Newspaper, he made dia’s back then so we get all pictures in color too! Thank You so much Herr Riesen!
Woeps, a motorcycle with VW engine…
Mandatory group picture, BBT with the Käferclub Wolfsburg! This team made us stay in Wolfsburg really unbelievable! Thanks guys!
Some more pictures from this trip that I could not resist to share with all of you!
Yours truly had the time of its life!
Double door “see” through to the old power plant!
Nice overview over the factory!
My samba behaved like a star!
Sandkamp gate of the factory, this used to be the main entrance of the factory… all workers of the plant came through this gate to produce your car back in the day, now its only the entrée for research dept (FE)
with Mike’s 60 ragtop we’re almost back in the sixties….:)
Time to hit the road back home… what a weekend… and to finnish with one of most beautiful sunsets I ever experienced…
Yours truly driving home, thinking about what a ball he had all weekend long…
some pictures I came across this weekend, all the pictures carry my samba bus!
What a trip, what a trip, can’t thank all members of the Käferclub Wolfsburg enough for what they did for us, for the dinner saturday night (man that was good food!) for the drive around in the 60 rag, for the “kaffee und kuchen” on Sunday, for all the help with translating and talking to people, etc etc.
But a very very special Thank You for my friend Bjorn Schewe, who really did crazy things to make sure we had the time of lives, well Bjorn you’re succeeded big time… we will never ever forget your hospitality anymore…. and the experience of this awesome “Wolfsburger wochenende”…