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Lesley shared a picture with us he recently scored at a local swap meet.

It’s about the road National 4 better known as the old road between Brussels and Luxemburg, before there was a freeway.

It’s in the community Tenneville more exactly in the small town of Wembay.

The building still exist today, was restaurant on the picture, became a bank later on and a bookstore after that, now… its empty, and that cool oval window aside is gone too….

Enjoy your Sunday….

May we expect a solution for the cramped ocean shipping of late?
Might be, traders booked real early freight for the Christmas season, what kept shippers busy during summer months instead of early fall.

Also some signals of fading global demand  pop up…
Let’s hope we get soon back to normal shipping schedules and shipping prices, what would be better for everybody.

Meanwhile we don’t change anything, and keep on adding new parts to our inventory every week for you.
It’s Friday, welcome to BBT News.

Let’s start with rather something not all of us need, but when you’re the one who should need it you might take a deep breath as we make those now  available.
That said…

Let us introduce the piston and liner kit for the late Mexican fuel injection 1600cc ACD engines.
These piston and liners are very specific and fit only the ACD engines.

With many of these final production Mexican beetles sold through German grocery stores at the end of the production they floated all over Europe.
We traced these piston and liner kits down in Mexico ourselves and are happy we can offer them from our shelves.

1699-100 Die cast piston kit 85,5 mm – 1600i ACD

These little plates are a real necessity to mount the fuel tank in every split window pick up.
Mounted on the floor they keep the belts around your fuel tank.

Sold by the pair.

0492-908 Floorplate fuel tank mounting belt Pick-up – Bus- 03/55-07/67 (pair) SWT

We carry our chrome emergency brakes already for a longer time under BBT # 0521.
We enlarged the line now with the same emergency brake but in black color to keep the original look.

Originally made for Beetles up to 1964 with this kind of hook up for the emergency brake cables, they will fit every year Beetle, Ghia, 181 or Type 3 1955 and up. We should mention the length of emergency brake cables can be slightly different for 1965 and later models.

Most easy is to install the emergency brake, measure with your old cable what’s short or too long and check measures HERE which BBT reference to order

0521-100 Emergency brake handle kit – Beetle/KG, Type181, Type3 – Black

We now bring you  the economic version of our ever popular Bosch W7DTC spark plug.
The main difference is that  BBT 2014-W7DTC has three electrodes while our new BBT 2014-W7DC has only one.

This results in price making BBT 2014-W7DC a little more economic than BBT 2014-W7DTC.
BBT 2014-W7DC and BBT 2014-W7DTC will fit both your DF/DG T25/T3/Vanagon wasserboxer engines.

Now we leave the choice up to you…

2014-W7DC Spark plug Bosch W7DC

The carburettor spring for upright single carburettor engines is widely known under BBT 2115
Now we bring you also the spring for Type 3 and type 4 engines with original dual carburettor set up.

An absolute necessity because nothing beats the correct original length of the spring with a correct hardness.
Buy yours now for smooth acceleration and easy cruising.

2116 Spring, original double carburettor – Type 3, Type 4

We stay with our original dual carburettor set up for Type 3 and Type 4 engines.
We also bring you  the specific nipple that hooks up the accelerator cable to your linkage system.

These specific nipples  come with a small recess below to fit exactly in the bracket from your carburettor linkage.
The regular BBT nipples for the upright single carburettor set up can be found HERE

0917-250 Nipple accelerator cable double carburettor – Type 3, Type 4

Perfect Silver Weld Through engine lids for your splitty bus are back in stock!

0157-440 Engine lid – Bus 08/65-07/67 SWT

Finally our Westy louvered windows came back out of production.
After almost 5 months!! shipping time they docked earlier this week…
We have plenty in stock now!

6610-100 Westfalia louvre window complete, knob right – Bus 08/67-07/79 SWT

0485 Quarter grills – Beetle 08/70- (pair)

0876-1 Cross panel front 1302/1303

Also the choke elements for the PDSI & PDSIT carburettors came back in.
PDSI carburettors you  find on Type 3 and Type 4 engines originally.

2183-015 Choke PDSIT left

We got them back in, for our ever low price!
The late baywindow front shift rod.

Plies with everybody who take the first time a front axle from a bay window bus…:)
We bring you a very cheap replacement and we have plenty in stock now…

1403-450 Shift Rod front – Bus 08/75-07/79

Steering box shims for the Brazilian kombi steering box came back in and are available again from our shelves!

1368-207 Shim 0.12mm for Steering box – Bus Brasil -83

BBT 0351 is for many the prefered choice for their window U channel, yours too?

Back available in huge quantities from our stocks now…

0351 Window channel in U-form – Beetle 10/52-, Bus 08/67-07/79, Type3

Small items require sometimes the most energy to find a good producer, this was not different.
Proud we announce we got this thiny spring back in stock now, and as always, in our good quality!

1239-400 Spring brake adjustment – Bus 08/70-07/79

We got also our first delivery of Haynes manuals after Brexit.
All Haynes manuals are back in stock now…

9322 Haynes manual 1302-1302S

BBT news team wishes you a splendid weekend, enjoy the last summer weekend at full!

Lesley is a very loyal BBT customer from south of Belgium, and lives very close to the flooded areas.

Thanks God he, his family and his bus was saved from the water and the bus makes good progress with all BBT Silver Weld Through panels.

Lesley does everything by his own and this is really his first “bus resurrection” as he tends to call it.

Thanks to Lesley’s constructive feedback we could address several little flaws to the factory in order to move up the quality even more of our SWT product range.

Thanks for the cooperation Lesley and keep up the great work!