The real sad end of a VW bus…:(

Thanks to Hubert for this cool picture….

Happy Sunday…

New car sales dropped by 38% last month, and this gets so interesting… because they say lower sales have to see with struggle in supply chains.
In Europe most cars are sold on order, not like in the USA where you walk into a dealership and drive a new car home a mere hour later.

So struggle in supply chains (which exist of course right now) should only effect the delivery of the new cars not the sales.
There are more simple reasons to find… People treat themselves with a holiday, a dinner, or a wellness. Finally these things are possible again and granted.

With the Delta variant growing every day, a lot of families take a holiday now as fear for new measures are around.
It’s a tricky world we’re living in right now, not very difficult to lose your pedals….

Thank God it’s Friday, we bring you the BBT news, like every Friday, your weekly regularity.

We finally finished them, took us forever, but we’ve never been more happy with the result.
Let us present you our BBT Pop out windows with frame for your splittie bus!

Our frames are made in the right profile of extruded metal just as VW used to make them back in the day.
We choose to sell them complete with glass with E-sign for safety and security.

Glass is mounted in frame with a seal as original.
All our Pop Out hardware and seals you can find HERE

0397-200 Pop-out window + frame – Bus 05/51-07/67 SWT

We enlarge our family of high quality window regulators with the 100% correct replacement part for Brazilian kombi 1976-2007, better known as Brazilian T2.
Very specific made, they will fit European bay window buses with only very light modification, but our new design T2 euro model is almost finished as well and we expect those to arrive early fall.

Our entire family of window regulators you can find HERE
Our family of window sashes you can find HERE

0368-150 Window regulator – Bus Brasil 76-07 left
0368-250 Window regulator – Bus Brasil 76-07 right

Bay window buses rust quite often in their nose (or front) panel right under the front windshield.
The Bay window front panels we have for early bay BBT # 0891-989 and for late bay under BBT # 0891-990

With this new panel we now also supply the upper inner part for your “just below front windshield” rust repair.
It doesn’t look like what you would imagin, but it is exactly formed as original, crazy engineers VW had back in the day.

Perfect replacement panel for a perfect restoration.

0891-235 Windscreen repair panel inner complete – Bus 08/67-07/79

With our new brake fluid reservoir for T2b late bay window without brake booster we have our brake fluid reservoir family complete now.
All of our brake fluid reservoirs you can find HERE

In the upcoming weeks we expect to have most of our brake fluid reservoirs back in stock.

1257-252 Brake fluid reservoir – Bus 08/72-07/79 without Servo

Also this week we got a whole bunch of parts back in stock.
Many more arrivals are foreseen for next week and weeks after.

We are finally coming back up to cruise speed for deliveries, it seems.
Here are some of the arrivals of this week.

0890-744 Floor plate left, cargodoor – Bus -07/67 SWT

0890-870 Roof gutter front right – Bus 08/63-07/67 SWT

8981-310 Door window left – KG convertible 08/60-

8994-500 Side window left – Beetle -07/64

2904 Headliner black 58-67

0799-005 Body grommet for speedo cable 08/60-

7860 Rear deck seal – Type3 notchback 60-74

1090-3 Tube between EGR-filter and exhaust 1600cc injection

2090-100 Ignition Comps-fire, for vacuum distributor

0694-6565 Wiring harness Bus 08/64-07/65

Backing plates, these are often overlooked or ignored, yet they play such a crucial role in your braking system. They’re positioned right in the eye of the storm and with that we mean they have to withstand all weather conditions, rain, salt, mud, stone chips,.. basically all sorts of debris that’s picked up from the road.

As such they’re often rusted through and in some cases we’ve seen them bent/beaten up and thus they’re ready to throw in the bin! Our backing plates are manufactured in Germany to a high quality and with a perfect fit just like it should be!

The below backing plates that we put in the spotlight are the ones for the early split bus (’55-63). BBT stocks a variety of different backing plates and we’re still enlargng our range, to find our backing plates click here or click the links below.

1291 – Front left backing plates
1292 – Front right backing plates
1293 – Rear left backing plates
1294 – Rear right backing plates

1294-800 – Backing plate, rear right – Type2, 03/55-08/63

The next shout out goes to one of the batteries we stock. This is the battery you need if you’re looking for a Vintage Bakelite look that resembles that period retro style in your splitscreen bus. This battery is slightly larger (and much stronger) as it’s counterpart for the beetle..

The battery measures L 224 x B 173 x H 220. Please note, the battery is empty. Of course we stock battery acid too, this can be ordered with BBT # 0639 and is sold per bottle of 1L.

We recommend ordering 4 bottles to fill your battery. If you look for a similar looking battery for your Typ1, 3 or 14 plse use BBT #0637

To see our full range of batteries and accessories please click HERE

0637-200 – Battery 6V, 84 Ah (empty)

The last call out is for the early bay bracket that holds the gearbox mount.
A perfect reproduction made from NOS samples that guarantees a smooth plug and play install.

This bracket is used to install the gearbox mount which, like this bracket, was manufactured from a NOS sample and warrants a perfect fit.

1489-740 for the early bay gearbox mount.
1489-745 Transmission mount bracket – Bus 08/67-07/71

The BBT News team wishes you a very well deserved weekend.
If you’re on holiday, enjoy. If you’re only sneaking the weekend away, double the fun.
We’re back next week with more news from BBT, for your perfect VW holiday fun.

BBT Frederik arranged to get the first shipment out to our distributor in Algeria.

It took 1.5 year to get necessary paperwork for imports from the Algerian authorities for our customer.

Sometimes it’s just nice to remember how happy we are living a in a “free” country.

Congratulations to Frederik and his team for their commitment and perseverance.