18 mei 2015 - Meetings
Zelem is a very small town and part of Halen, near Diest, about 1hr drive east of Antwerp. Every year they organise a very cool general old-timer meet. A couple of BBT’ers teamed up and drove over yesterday. The BBT Bounce bus was in place…..
On the way up….Belgium has cool country roads as well! Enjoy the view out of my front windshield! Ain’t life always a holiday looking through the windows of a splittie?
Once arrived we set up boot, and pulled out a large BBT banner on our laddertruck as usual… BBT was here!
Some early American iron was on display…
One of Europe’s most iconic brands ever made… Panhard, very special, and very inventive for its time…
Where’s my pink Cadillac? ….more American Iron… kind a cool and so different like a Volkswagen!
Our 1960 Vert made it also to this show, always nice to see one of your own cars in the line up!
Easy & relax strolling the streets and catch some nice views of a very very wide spectrum of oldies…
Opel Manta… fond memories, one of the first cars I ever had, for driving autocross, long before I had the legal age for driving a car on the public roads… yes I’m a car guy, my whole life already actually….:)
Some VW’s on display as well off course!
“Johannes” on driving tour….
But there was more, like a very large display of Vintage motorcycles… many long forgotten Belgian brands, Gillet, FN, Flandria, You name it, it was all there!
Barn finds… also in motorcycle communities a big thing!
Fantic… crazy italian brand, different bikes… used to have one like these when i was 14 or 15… found it on a local junkyard, this one was better shape though!
Real cool totally unrestored Gillet…. yammie!
Ah, was Gonzo here? No actually he wasn’t but several Iltis on display always remember to our most iconic employee ever!
Display of old tractors was amazing!
Oh yes we do love old diesel tow rigs!
Yammie Volvo… still one of the cars on my bucket lists… when somebody know of a nice 1964 for sale… I might be the buyer!
Tractors been prepared for their tour! Oh yes, these guys drive their vintage iron!
And not only the guys, I was impressed how many ladies drove along as well! It’s a real husband and wife thing… Let’s call that dedication, do you see your wife or girlfriend at the steering on one of those?????
See, feel and smell a Lanz Buldog driving get You all excited, at least it does me!
Another lady driver! On a very iconic and nicely restored Landini!
Color coded sweater for this Lady driver!
What a lot of fun! Kids drove along for free in the tour…
Imagine how much hard work a tractor like this took away from the farmer back in the day!
Old US army truck reminded me to my army days, where we had a cool M62 tow truck in our base, my absolute favorite tow truck ever….
Life music was a cool Rock’a billy band named Hometown Gamblers, sjeez these guys knew how to rock the place!
Afternoon was pretty crowded, a small invasion in a small town! but fun everywhere!
Cool Guzzi, only 250cc under what I have in mind….:)
Even big crowds showed up, the atmosphere was real cool and absolutely not stress full…
Dieter, one of the organisers here, is a real VW friend, I featured his cool Pick up already several times, but playing home this time he had several more of his vintage machinery on display, Dieter is a huge Flandria guy!
Ex BBT Kim hosted us beer and BBQ whole afternoon, thanks Kim it was good to meet up again!
When calendars fall ok we will be back next year for more!
17 mei 2015 - Fun
These two cute little pick up trucks was just a tip of the mountain… there was plenty of these cars, but driving by, this was al I could take on my camera with me….
16 mei 2015 - Friends of the house
Keith, a real BBT friend of da House from Ft Worth Texas area and super member of local VW guru club the Crash Dummies had a serious trouble coming down from a VW show…. his car caught fire while driving! Thanks God he had a fire extinguisher in his car that worked real well!
Keith’s own words….
A few weeks ago there was a big VW show down in Fredericksburg, Tx. On the way home, cruising at around 65mph when my car started running really badly and I looks in the rear view mirror and all I could see was flames! Pulled over as fast as I could and luckily had a fire extinguisher in my car. Put the fire out pretty easily but it would have been a total loss of not for the ! Luckily we had a trailer on hand to put the car on.
