24 september 2012 - Meetings
Yesterday the Vintage Waasland Vw afficiando’s organised there annual meet and greet VW show downtown St Niklaas city, very cool and for sure right in an area of big aircooled VW movement…
The shadow of the beautiful city hall tower called us very welcome!
BBT crew showed up in force! From left to right that’s our 1959 beloved SO23 Westfalia with 1969 color matched Westfalia Passau trailer, the everywhere we go 1965 BBT Back up truck crew cab, Pascal’s 1960 lowered camper with bounce bus trailer, 1949 pre export, 1952 unrestored convertible, Arlette’s 54 ragtop, and Linda’s 1960 immaculate convertible….
but also other lovely cars showed up, like this cool Type 34
and the typical “all VW shows must have one” mandatory Herbie replica, we like this one…. well done….
BBT Hans and lovely girlfriend Leentje having a wonderful time…
Hippies? where?
despite the bad weather, still many VW’s showed up…
automatic with a Borg Warner transmission, they don’t come any better….
BBT Arlette and Werner sampling local burgers….
Rene Reel is still alive and kicking’! Rene is one of the very well known VW veterans in Belgium and this show was in his home town, time to bring the immaculate restored Ghia vert out he must have thought! Congrats Rene, nice car!
Hot Bonito replica!
Photographer Paul Peeters had withstand forecast and showed up in one of Belgiums most beauty Type 34’s… Paul’s work You can always follow on his pretty impressive website http://www.ppress.be one of our favourites!
welcome to Belgium, country of chocolate, beer, splits and ovals…
now this is what I call the “right stance”
Belgian toy, a lot of fun for the owner for sure!
line up was cool, cold, wet and impressive…
Markee was loaded because of the weather…
and the BBT crew did there best….
Maybe I had enough beers? Time to go home….
the way back, just a cool picture…
Whatever the weather, we had a great day out… some times local VW shows, give more fun like big international events, thats for sure!
23 september 2012 - Friends of the house
Now this is Holiday!
BBT’s Frank with his Westy and Boat on the island of Elba, Italy… You think he enjoyed his holidays? You bet!
22 september 2012 - Friends of the house
This information was published on the VWB internal newspaper.
Last weekend the Volkswagen do Brasil Kombi has celebrated 55 years.
They have made about 1.5 mio Kombis on that period and still today the Kombi leads the market niche for light utility vehicles with a daily production of 90 units!
Cheers to VW!