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Stay cool and enjoy your VW and your sunday!

Man could call it a form of art, but after all its the end of a bug…and its a sad view….

Picture comes from a German Junkyard many many years ago….

Another Friday, another BBT News for you.

We’ve been pretty busy last couple of weeks, a LOT of delivery’s came in, we never experienced so much goods coming in at once before. And from those supplies there’s several older back orders solved as well as arivals of a whole bunch of NEW products.. oh, don’t we all love NEW products in this BBT NEWS?

Let’s start with more part n°’s from our supplier Vintage Speed.
Vintage Speed choose BBT as main hub for their European distribution, so many more Vintage Speed parts will come into our program in the upcoming months.

For those who don’t know yet, Vintage Speed is a prime VW & Porsche parts manufacturer heavily specialized in Stainless Steel exhaust from an extreme high quality. Full factory tour you can find HERE

This exhaust is made especially for bus lovers driving stock engines, or at least single carburetors as the exhaust come with pre heater risers.
Fits perfectly on VW buses build between 1960 and 1967.

Vintage speed exhaust give more ground clearance, so been perfect for lowered cars too!
All Vintage Speed items we do stock currently You can find HERE

3280-204 Exhaust ‘Vintage Speed’ with pre-heat risers / Stainless steel – standard tailpipe, Bus 60-07/67

Vintage Speed designed and manufactured also these ultra-cool accelerator pedals.
Will fit in all Beetles and Ghia’s 1957 onwards, and in your Type 3 that’s build after October 1964.

Way more control, and a smoother acceleration pedal operation guaranteed.

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0260-100 Accelerator pedal Rally ‘Vintage Speed” – Kever/KG 07/57-, Type3 10/64-, Type181

0260-110 Accelerator pedal HTE Rally ‘Vintage Speed’ – Kever/KG 07/57-, Type3 10/64-, Type181

In our aim to supply simply all VW bus engine lids we come one step closer.

We add the engine lid for the Brazilian Kombi made between 1967 and 1981.
Decent quality and fit this will replace your old worn engine lid in a blink of the eye.

In Brazil all engine lids come pre pressed with 6 License plate mounting holes. We started up a production without these holes, as they’re absolutely useless in Europe. The BBT engine lid for your Brazilian Bus is smooth because of that and you can drill the holes where you want them to be, or don’t drill holes at all…:)

All other Bus engine lids we do stock already you can find HERE

0157-350 Engine lid – Bus Brasil 01/67-1981

We add also the fuel pump for the Wasserboxer engines for your beloved T25/T3 bus to the BBT range.
Replace the old worn out pump with this quality European made pump, for flawless operation…

All other stock style replacement fuel pumps you can find HERE

Exclusive for you, the carefully BBT NEWS reader, we can tell we’re working on more original looking models for all mechanical fuel pumps.

1685-300 Fuel pump standard CT, CZ, WBX – Bus 05/79-07/92

Next we have the metal dustcovers below the steering column on your beloved Bay Window buses.
To explain better these dust covers sit right on top of your steering shaft coupler  BBT # 1369-5

Many times, missing, damaged, rotten or bent we offer now a perfect replacement for both models.
That’s right we have two different models depending model year to choose from.

The early ones do carry also a plastic ring in the center what you can find under BBT # 1370-725

1370-730  Lower steering column cap – Bus 08/67-03/74

1370-735 Lower steering column cap – Bus 04/74-07/79

Magnesium Engine cases from the OE Volkswagen tooling are back in stock!

1656 Engine case from VW do Brazil 1600cc / std (Magnesium)

The brake shoe set for 1302/1303 Superbeetles for the front arrived back on our shelves as well.

The mounting kit for this set is BBT # 1239-09

1231 Brake shoes front – 1302/1303, Type3 rear 08/63- BBT

We also received a mass amount of bumpers back from our chroming plant.
All models of our own European Bumper Chrome program are back available from our shelves now.

We also did receive a huge load of Brazilian bumper (econo models) This bumper was a longer time not avaiable and is now back in stock!

BBT is your Bumper HQ worldwide!

0012 Bumper front – Beetle 08/67-07/74 (EUR) – Brazilian Chrome – square model

Ok, let’s face now some new challenges like Brexit, or an incredible French and German strict lockdown coming up, but especially more NEW BBT product arrival.

Let’s mix it all up and let’s call 2020 our Corona Year…

Dressing up Christmas trees and experience short days and long nights in northern atmosphere we can happily say, well, it’s almost over… if….2021 will be different anyway, well that’s the question…

Happy weekend everybody

Your sincere BBT News team.