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The Bus Tub….

Nope, its not ours, … sorry

Happy sunday, keep on dreaming!

The UK suffers from supply from “elementary” goods, gas shortage at pumps even certain shortages in grocery stores…
Brexit took away cheap East European workforce and look who pays the toll.

In USA no less than 70 ships lined up before the port of Los Angeles waiting for handling.
Hardly no truck drivers want to drive in there anymore to pick up cargo.

They never know when they will be back, sometimes it takes days, just to pick up a container…
Since the pandemic supply is a major issue!

No supply problems with BBT, our warehouse is filled up pretty well and more backorders arrive daily now.
We bought massive at all our suppliers and that seems to pay off now pretty well.

Our shelves are bursting, with even more to come.
More new products as well… only last week we had over 25 new arrivals!

It’s Friday, welcome to BBT News.

Make yourself more visible!

Fall started, less daylight, we drive out more in dark, rain, cloudy and overcast, less visibility in short.
Protect that Classic Volkswagen in these rough circumstances with a better visibility.

Our led bulb inserts for your semaphores might help more than a bit!
Just replace your standard bulb with these ingenious set ups.

Besides way more bright light they make your semaphore flashing too at the same time!
Technological progress for your own safety.

Order yours now!

0661-085 LED bulb for semaphore 6 Volt / flashing (pair)

0661-285 LED bulb for semaphore 12Volt / flashing (pair)

We see too many messed up spring plates lately, so we decided to stock from now on most common spring plates.
Oval window or later swing axle beetle and split window bus for you to choose from.

Brand new, made by a factory with over 50! years of experience.

1437-105 spring plate rear, left/right – Beetle 10/52-07/59

1437-125 spring plate rear, left/right (swing axle) – Beetle 08/59-

1437-210 spring plate rear, left/right – Bus 03/55-07/67

Where your accelerator cable leaves the chassis it’s guided in a flexible tube to your engine.
This tube is called the accelerator cable Bowden tube.

Besides two models Bowden tubes for your beetle you find HERE we  also stock  the one for your beloved Type 3.
Type 3 accelerator Bowden tube has a complete different end to fit in its specific engine sheet metal.

Top quality made in Europe.

Clutch cable Bowden tubes you can find HERE

0910-530 Accelerator cable Bowden tube – Type3

Besides the bolt we stock for the spring for your engine lid and treasure chest on your 63-92 buses (click HERE) we now have  the correct bolt for the engine lid and treasure chest support on your bus up to 1963.

This bolt fits also the front hood support on your pre 53 beetles and holds the back rest of your rear seat on 56-65 beetles.

The shoulder of this bolt is 9.85mm.

0438-276 Bolt engine lid support – Bus 03/55-12/63, Beetle Hood -53, rear seat 08/56-07/65

  

Finally we get covers for your bus or beetle  back in stock in a premium quality for our ever low price…
We’re ready to sell right at the start of fall season, keep your car dry with our top class covers!

0459 Car cover – Beetle (Sedan)

The bus engine lids are back!

So much SWT came back in stock, including these engine lids!

0157-420 Engine lid – Bus 05/58-12/63 SWT

More Silver Weld Through

Split window bus engine cradle kits now back in stock.

0890-631 Engine cradle kit (3pcs) – Bus 03/55-07/67 SWT

Our huge delivery from TMI came in finally.

Most seat covers are available from our shelves again

3125-040 Seat cover black (basketweave) conv. 68-69 TQ

More mechanical parts again available …
A small extraction here,
We’re so happy we finally received so many backorders…

1744-5 Exhaust valves T4 1968-

1934-100 Bolt for crankshaft pulley Type1

T25/T3/Vanagon lovers beware!

Also for you BBT has a lot of parts available…

7670-082 Sliding door handle – Bus 08/84-08/92

The little shifter boot for real early beetles is again available !
This is a proud BBT production,

Made on German tooling!

0701-1 Shifter boot for stock style shifter – Beetle/KG -07/60 BBT

We got also a small supply from our roof rack manufacturer… hopefully we’ll get more soon!

4870-222 Roof rack 4 bows – Bus 03/50-07/79 (Stainless steel)

Look in the mirror!

Top quality convex mirrors for your T25/T3/Vanagon now back available !

0474-320 Mirror – Bus 05/79-07/92 right convex – German

Our warehouse is full of more arrivals to unpack at time of writing so we expect to raise the infill on your orders tremendously.
Meanwhile we keep adding new products weekly so stay tuned on our news for all further updates.

The BBT news team wishes you a happy early fall weekend!

Did you celebrate a 100.000km mark once for one of your cars?

Porsche (and VW) did celbrate the first (collective) 1.000.000 km of their test cars…

On september 23rd September 1937 there was a celebration held at what looks like the Kornwestheim barracks near Stuttgart. This was the base from which the test drives were run because at that time Porsche had no place to store all 30 cars and support at least 60 drivers plus his own mechanics and engineers. The celebration was in the honour of the W30 cars reaching a collective one million Kilometres of driving.

In the photos we can clearly see cars 3 and 4. For some reason car 3 is getting a special mention. Perhaps at this time it was the furthest traveled? It did participate in Alpine runs together with car 4. A large wreath was presented to car 3 and its drivers. Glasses of Champagne was served to the participants.

Champagne glasses being charged in readiness to mark the occasion.

Check out the welding gas bottles to the right and a W30 in the far background.