20 december 2021 - Meetings
WOW, or Winter on Wheels in full, was fun again.
We drove 6 split window buses out and gathered with all of our petrolhead friends for gas talk and coffee…
It was the Christmass edition, several cars and bikes dressed up for the occasion!
One tractor, but a cool one…
Abarth anyone?
Face mask duty everywhere, also outside, Corona rules been enforced strictly!
Tall car or small guy?
Give me wings and I can fly…
Nice line up of our favorites…
Bizar …. and there was two…:)
Despite the grey, drizzling and overcast weather a lot of full classics showed up… always nice to see, not so to fuel up….
Sleek lines, Andre Citroen knew how to draw cars…
Early oval ragtop… Standard!
Always cool to check out, and pick your choice, ragtop… or three spoke steeringwheel, in this case… both….
Where’s the goldfish swimming?
Not here…
and here neither….
Don’t miss out the next edition, every third sunday of the month, from October till March
Winter op Wielen Brasschaat (wixsite.com)
17 december 2021 - NEW
For this last BBT news of the year we might get the word out of the most important fact of the year that Arlette will leave BBT after 34 years being responsible for accountancy and the complete financial side of the company.
That’s right after Arlette healed pretty well from her illness she decided she wanted to explore a life without BBT.
Bob will be sole owner and manager of BBT from Jan 1st. 2022.
Of course Arlette and Bob did the split up in the most easy way and split up as friends.
BBT News will continue to bring you most important news, inside or outside our company.
We like to thank you for following us and prepare for a new and exciting new year!
Stay tuned and enjoy.
Standard beetles came with their own very small version of headliner.
These headliners have been made exactly as original in plain vinyl, not perforated.
Standard headliners cover only the central part of the roof.
The B-pillars and part around the rear window are not covered but painted in the outside body color.
Our Standard headliners are proudly made in Europe.
We supply two lengths; up to 1971 use 138cm and 1972 and later models use 135cm.
This has to see with the enlargement of the rear window for the 1972 model year
We used to sell these under shop no. W544-2901B and W544-2900B, but made them now full worthy BBT partnumbers out of popular demand.
2903-100 Headliner (Standard) – Beetle -08/71 white (138cm)
2903-110 Headliner (Standaard) – beetle 08/71- white (135cm)
We enlarged our door lock line last week with the left side door lock for beetles 1967 and later.
The right side is not completely finished yet, but will join soon!
These door locks fit all beetles 1968 and later except doors in convertible beetles for the 1971 till 1973 model years.
Made in a really good quality we’re happy we have a decent door lock to offer for the late Beetle now.
The door lock catch for 07/66 can be found HERE
Our entire family of door locks you can find HERE
0436-202 Door lock left – Beetle 08/67- (not cabrio 08/70-07/73)
The little flat spring that holds the adjusting wheels on the backing plates of your drumbrakes dare to break.
To avoid this you have to replace the entire backing plate we stock most of these lttle springs HERE
Today we add the little flat spring for 1302/03 Super Beetles front drum brakes or Type 3 rear.
Sold each.
In our hardware line we add this M7 bolt and spring washer .
Mainly used to hold the dust plate onto your front spindles for disc brake cars.
The dust plate is mounted with three of these bolts each side.
Undoubtly this bolt and washer have several other usage as well.
8700-07-012 Hexagonal bolt full thread M7 x 12 Din 933
8753-07 Spacer spring M7 Din 127B
3550 Seat padding rear backrest T1 -64
All Bus Brake boosters back in stock!!
1208-450 Brake booster – Bus 08/70-12/73
1208-5 Brake booster – Bus 01/74-07/79
0889-380 Bumper retainer panel front left – Karmann Ghia
1451 Square grommet rear axle ‘Swing’
1239-040 Brake spring kit front – Beetle -11/57, rear 11/53-10/57
If your starter bushing is worn or you wish to simply replace it as part of your restoration then look no further.
The below bushing is for stock pre 65 – 6 volts starters on pre 65 transmissions.
If you’re after a 12V version, please use BBT ref 1594
1594-06 – Starter bushing, 6V – pre 65 Beetle & Bus
Another great little part is this guide roll for the engine lid support spring.
It’s made of high quality materials and treated just like how it was made originally using the necessary plating and hardening processes.
Should you need the clip too that holds it in place, please use BBT ref 0438-281
0438-280 – Guiding roll for engine lid support spring – Bus 12/63- 07/73
Our last shout out goes to our top quality smoothies, aka no logo, hubcaps, a great alternative should you want something a little different.
Find our entire hub cap assortment to be found here
If you are unable to find what you’re looking for – we are here to help!
Give us a call on +32 (0)3 633 22 22 or email info@bbt4vw.com
The BBT News Team wishes you a wonderful weekend, for next week a very Merry Christmas and from there a real smooth transition into the New Year.
May 2022 bring you more and better, we will be bringing you BBT news as we’re used too!
16 december 2021 - NEW
This was not the most easy part to remanufacture and especially not as easy as it looked at first side.
But we simply had to do it.
The infamous Red Plug for the early bay window bus steering box.
Perfect reproduction with the little O-Ring around the neck and the little spring inside.
Although the head of the plug is slightly different diameter on late model bay windows this baby does the job perfectly on the late bay steering box as well.
Officially released last week on BBT news, today we release the press picture for all of you, our trusty Blog readers.
We choose for a nice packing in sliding cardboard boxes (quantities of 100pcs)
We always loved the Volkswagen sliding boxes from back in the day and decided to recall that feeling to all of our trusty workshops, customers and distributors.
Designed and remanufactured with pride, for all of us to enjoy!
1368-330 Sealing plug Steeringbox Bus 08/67-07/79
