Yes, that’s how long it has been, that a couple of american VW friends decided to organise a “Back to the fatherland tour”

Thriving spirit behind the whole thing was Bill Collins and he gathered a whole bunch of VW friends from East and West Coast to participate on this crazy trip… all in early VW iron they wheeled all over the USA , UK and mainland Europe with Bad Camberg as their final destination.

We, at BBT HQ, hosted them a lunch break on their way through Belgium.

Here are some of the participants on the BBT parking lot, in front is Martha, the famous all original oval window beetle from Bill Bowmann from St Louis Missouri, co driver was Tom Niedernhofer before he moved to California.

Times flies as we all can see, but fond memories are here to stay forever!

BBT Frank found this weird spider on his way to deliver BBT customers in the South of France…

This week we do have some serious small stuff You always will need when restoring your car properly….

First brand new addition to our BBT stock program is the spring for the brake pedal for your bay window bus

0276-220 Spring brake pedal All Bus 08/67-07/79
OEM number: 211 721 163C

Same time as the spring for the brake pedal we also have the stop for the accelerator pedal from all years Bay window buses new in our program.

0284-110 Accelerator pedal stop All Bus 07/67-08/72
OEM number: 211 721 625A

Last but not least we have the seal between the Fuel floater and the gastank for the later years of the air-cooled crew. A dry or broken seal can give You a lot of gas odor inside the car, dangerous (gas burns You know) and not very nice neither!

0493-990 Seal for fuel gastank sender All Super Beetle  1302/03 – and for Bus (T2b)  73-79  and for all years T25/T3 vanagon buses  
OEM number: 113919131A