When I drove my 52 Convertible to its second owner in Paris about 10 days ago (see Blog report HERE) Mr Thomas told me that he used to own a schwimmwagen before the convertible and participated in a club for Schwimmwagens in Paris in the fifties, he had plenty of pictures what we went through for almost two hours… some of these pictures I could not resist to share with you here below!!
Cool beautiful period photographs!
The club called “Autocross” and they even had a cool logo!
All the pictures are made between 1951 and 1959… here at the salon nautique in 1953!
They used the schwimmwagens mostly for holidays all over France, swimming suits mandatory!
They had up to 6 schwimmwagens participating! Even back then!!
Action!! This was the president of the club!!
Some pictures are a real work of (photography) art!
Camp out!!
Some converted their schwimmwagens real bizar! This guy was a friend, not a member, and lived in a ski resort, only car that could reach his house was a schwimmwagen!
This was the Schwimmwagen of Mr Thomas himself how he bought it!
Those were the days!!
Happy sunday to everybody! Greetings from the incredible Ben Pon Show, watch this Blog for a full report!!
On their way to the Ben Pon show Xavi, Massimo and friends came by BBT to say hi and a visit to BBT’s Volkswagen paradise!
All the way from Barcelona, they got stuck in belgium rush hour with 5 buses!
Proud Bus travellers!
They enjoyed strolling through the BBT shelves a lot!!
They even visit the “hidden Caves” of BBT NOS dept!
See You all this weekend in Amersfoort on the Ben Pon show!!
Brand new this week is the brake pedal push rod for all T1 and T2 buses!
This is the rod between end of the lever of the brake pedal and the master cylinder somewhere right under the driver’s seat. Because of the length of the rod you can adjust to use in either split or non servo bay window buses! One size fits all!!
Comes complete with mounting pin and clip.
0276-540 Push rod between brake cylinder and brake pedal – Bus 03/50-07/79 Non servo
Also brand new in our program is this very high quality gasket for your type 4 engine manual fuel pump. Made from top-notch gasket material! The fiber fuel pump base is already available under BBT 1690-4 and the fuel pump itself is BBT 1685-200. With this high quality gasket we have all those parts for your Type 4 engine.
Upper and lower gasket are the same so you need two of these for one car.
Only for carburetted engines, fuel injection have electric fuel pumps, which we offer at a real competitive price under BBT ref 1686-200
1690-940 Fuel pump gasket fuel pump flange to engine case Type 4
Seat cover set fronts & rear euro beetle sedan ’73 black
TMI43-1131-11 € 124.00 excl.
0890-790 Holder for spare wheel – Bus single cab
€ 112.50 excl.
The BBT FPU team wishes you a super relaxed weekend, maybe we see you at the Ben Pon show in Amersfoort Holland?
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