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Kukie is doing good just bought himself a brand new BBQ, at least that’s what he told everybody….:)

sometimes we get asked like how we get cars in and out containers, last week our good friend of “Da House” Dave Warren, a real professional photographer was here and made a beautiful feature of unloading a car from a container…. a rock solid 1974 super beetle (that’s 1303 for Europe) blessed with a small engine fire, (everything looks worse like it really is) and I don’t think, this baby needs that much to come back on the road… but first the unloading part!

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Another day in the BBT warehouse….

another container rolls in, straight from Dallas Texas on board our feature car, nicely loaded by yours truly on his last US trip, see previous Blog Posts in the travel section…

we build a custom ramp, after all the years we became pretty handsome with the nail gun….:)
car had an engine fire, nothing bad, except it makes up for a cheap cheap cheap project!  we start to free the wheels, they’ve been blocked with side wood and wood before and after the wheel, and strapped down with ropes… get everything out underneath…. then we lift the whole ramp just enough to knock the pillars from underneath, so we can sink and incline the ramp so the car can be slowly taken out without touching the doors… precision forklift work for the helpers, also how to lift a convertible on its rear suspension and chassis strengtheners require some experience…… and out it is!
and this is how the ramp looks empty…:) and what is the feature car???

a 1974 Super beetle 1303 project, kind a cool and especially solid survivor, except for the floorplates…

dull paint, car stands for over 10 years inside as good as everywhere!  strengtheners, we saw way worse!  so dry inner fenders, isn’t this illegal? or only close? anyway we can handle!  very cool project, and yes it is for sale, don’t let it slip away! all further information ONLY at Bob@bbt4vw.com

With all visit and the tours, convoy, shows etc all for Volkswagens and with so many international visitors  last two weeks we only can be so happy we met so many friends, family, customers and suppliers, we have some pictures here to show, with people instead of cars…:)

Before the start of the festivities we thought to hang up our Lolypop VW sign, did You catch it during your visit? it wasn’t exactly easy, and we needed team work here, or what friends are for!

Friday june 22nd,  06.00 o clock, BBT Convoy day starts, the bakery deliver the catering fresh bread, rolls and the meanwhile infamous Belgian “Koffiekoeken” with his split window delivery truck, did You catch the bakery truck that early on Friday morning? Team spirit was very high here, even that early! …. ah, this is the Belgian Koffiekoeken….  don’t they look good? They all drove to Hessisch Oldendorf same day, in all participants stomach’….:) just one of many “down the road pictures”, isn’t it amazing Old Volkswagens put so many people in movement! BBT Hungary and BBT HQ vans having their chat! My very best Southern Californian buddy Rick Sadler (from Bugpack fame) with wife Lynn and daughter Kai on a terrace at HO same terrace, acouple of hours later, the terrace actually served almost like my local BBT office, the whole friday afternoon and evening all friends came and went .. extreme cool, here we see in the back ground John Henry, Brian Holcomb, Steve from BBT Spain, Arlette and Werner and our own Pascal… at the table is Annelies, Oval Dean and Beatrice his girlfriend… Holland versus France, are we taking soccer here? PP (Vintage import)and Ilonka (Pinocar), not a couple, but by coincidence next to each other, very cool! and our personal mascot for the weekend, in the back of our car!oeps, who is this sexy guy in shorts here? don(‘t look like one, but he’s a top hunter, hard to believe huh, maybe that’s his natural camouflage… one of BBT’s top car hunters from Pinocar fame
Paul Rui (Oslo Norway) drives with Tom and Shelly Niedernhofer the BBT’s 52 convertible in the tour on Saturday… part of the BBT team, Gonzo is telling a good joke it seems… Godson Dennis and girlfriend Seffi, both very happy they went along!  a picture that’s really important to me, with my friend Jacques Mertens… a man who I pay a lot of respect to, he collects split window beetles since 1969, probably the longest of everybody  in Belgium!  BBT’s 1958 double door samba made a lot of people happy!  Francis Baptist parking his Lowlight convertible very special moments with my friend Ron Fleming (Fat Performance) and Darrell Vittone son of the founder of EMPI, so special!  and Seffi with Leentje, girlfriends from BBT guys, but actually considered almost BBT girls themselves….:)Very good  friends from the Bay area, Mark Merrill, wife Peggy and nephew Nick….
I was called on stage on Saturday night at HO, for a reward to bring the convoy over, was very nice to stand between the major and the head of the Police…. yes I did felt very safe….:)
The BBT reply to reward was a drivers Badge… the only drivers badge given to a non participant is always the show we go to organizer….
Ray Shubert and Family in the BBT Kubelwagen and last but not least, a very very happy Oval Dean (BBT Athens Greece) with wife Beatrice and yours truly before part of our collection….I must have seen at least a trillion people more, old friends, good friends, new friends and go on, I feel real bad I did not make more photographs, but mainly I was too busy talking, to all people not on the pictures above but met last two weeks, you’re all in my heart buddy’s, that’s for sure!