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Welcome at this weeks Friday  product update, as every week we do have some serious product information about the BBT product range… don’t ask us where we get the new parts, but we dig them, or simply will find the manufacturer that will make it for us, this week no difference! 

First things first… the star of the week, after many investigations here we can present You a decent central lock assembly for your Bay window sliding door… this is the part that breaks the most on sliding doors and our used stocks been never that low as lately, so time for a new part, and one that works, this is a perfect quality part that will take away a LOT of your (sliding door) headaches…:)  will fit all years bay window buses, originally there’s two models but they’re interchangeable…

7570-005 Central door hinge mechanism for slidingdoor all Baywindow Bus  08/67-07/79

Same manufacturer as the sliding door central lock delivered us also this state of the art sliding door outside latch. This latch suffers many times from bad chrome, for the price we sell the new one, You never can re-chrome your old one. This is a fairly inexpensive top product to exact factory standards, get yours now!

7570-085 Sliding door handle – Chrome All Bay window Bus 08/73-07/79

Door buffers or centerwedges (the choice to name it is yours)are needed on VW Beetles build before August 1 1955 and VW buses because of the door lock was not that sophisticated enough to keep the door in position while driving.  These wedges really “center” your door in the right position to hold it there during the drive. BBT developed one type of wedge that will fit all models that ever used stock early style wedges. These buffers or wedges need to be replaced at EVERY restoration as they always are became too small for being “compressed” in the little notch in the door jam….Sold per pair. This will not fit 1955 and later convertibles and Ghias, they use the BBT ref 7044 wedge

0438-31 Door centerwedge, pair all beetles -07/55 – and all Bus -12/63

Did You buy that oval window as a basket case with all that parts missing? Is your old sunroof assembly just too bad or too worn for re-use? We have the perfect solution for you with this state of the kit containing EVERY single piece needed to get that ragtop sunroof working like new again! EXACTLY like standard this perfect made reproduction will fit like stock. There is NO difference between this reproduction and your original Golde brand factory sunroof.The guy that make these is a real KING of reproduction… don’t miss out….

0385-905 Complete sunroof assembly with rails Type 1 -55

This rail guides guide your sunroof cables to make the operation of your sliding roof of your bay window bus as smooth as can be. Mainly worn out (a cable operates like a chainsaw after many years of use)  or broken from heat and sunlight (thanks to many sun from the West Coast deserts of the USA that burns literally everything away) You can replace that old piece crap with our state of the art new guides for smooth and easy operation….

0392-120 Sunroof guide rail set, plastic all Bay window buses 08/67-07/79

It would happen one day! You work @BBT and ask for a license plate to register your bike and get this….  BBT’s junior worker Jarni inquired a normal license plate for his Moped and got this cool plate….:)

Plse read this story, about BBT customer Tom and “HIS” beetle…its amazing, if You want to find out more, You can order the book below!

The dark-blue beetle in which journalist Tom Dieusaert crossed the South American continent, a feat which gave rise to the book The Beetle Diarie (English version, 2014), is now riding around in Belgium. A well-deserved retirement and hopefully a definitive break from custom agents and border bureaucrats.

 To close the gap between Mexico City and Buenos Aires, that was the challenge of Tom Dieusaert, back in September 2003 when he started out of a half-year long journey through Latin America, with a genuine interest in the local customs and history of all 13 countries he travelled. A lot of exciting and sometimes scary experiences, which later became part of the bestseller The Beetle Diarie.

The main obstacle of the trip was not caused by the quality of the roads – most of the so-called Panamericana is paved – or the presence of Central American criminal gangs and Colombian guerrilla’s but the negative attitude of migration and custom officials at the border crossings.

In Honduras, the author even was arrested for crossing the border illegally. In spite of sharing the same language and history, Latin America is still a divided continent: In Argentina, the dapper Mexican bug could not obtain an Argentinian license plate, and could only stay temporarily on a “tourist visa”.

Since the author was not planning to dump car in a scrapyard, he decided to cross the borders on a regular basis. The last time was in 2014 in Brazil, a country where the beetle (or fusca) is very popular. Although production of the carro do povo (the people’s car) has stopped definitively in 1996, a genuine underground beetle auto parts universe still thrives in Brazil. So the blue beetle underwent a body and paint job in Rio de Janeiro. It took some Brazilian time – namely 10 months – but the result was excellent.

Then the car was shipped on a ro-ro boat towards Zeebruges and imported by Jan Hendrickx who had imported other Mexican beetles in the past. The car had to pass through technical inspection before being able to be registered in Belgium. The good news was that because of its age – 25 years on the spot – the beetle was now officially an old-timer and exempt from smog control. The bad news was that the beetle, because of a Belgian bureaucratic mess-up, had to be registered 2 times in a row and pay the corresponding fees!

Luckily now, the beetle does not have to go through any technical controls anymore and the new owner, Arthur Coppieters (who is the nephew of the author) rides around Belgium now, free as bird. When you see it pass by: Flash your lights since this Blue Belgian Beetle (O-AYE 465) is a true classic.

 The complete adventures are written in a book, (Tom is an author after all!) and this book is very very interesting, this book can be obtained in no less as three languages!  and You can order here below! 

The Beetle Diaries is available on print with Amazon and in Kindle Version (Click LINKS)

Diarios del Vocho (español) se consigue  en Amazon o en Epub.

De Laatste Rit van de Kever (De Scriptomanen) bestaat zowel in PRINTVERSIE (€ 22,5) als in E-BOOK (€ 9,99)