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Sad news reached us today that Bruce Meyers, the inventor of the Beach Buggy, left us yesterday at age of 94.

Bruce passed away yesterday, Friday, at his home in Valley Center, California USA om a blood disease called myelodysplasia.

Several nice articles been published about Bruce, where Autoweek gave a real nice time line about our heroes history. You can read the full article HERE

On several occasions we met Bruce and his wife Winnie and everytime he impressed us so much being a real and humble man.
One occassion was really remarkable as we met Bruce together with Friend of Da Houze Jacky Morel.

Jacky was the guy who we can be put easily responsible for bringing Bruce back into the VW world a mere 20 years ago.

Bruce is on the right of the picture….his wife Winie in the middle.

Bruce and Winnie recently sold their company so the future of the Manx is garanteed. Bruce was very happy about that, so we hope he left is peace.

Gracefull we will remember part of Bruce everytime we see a Beach buggy.

Thanks Bruce, you really brought us hours of VW Fun!

Winter weather is over in Western Europe. But winter seems really bad in certain areas of USA and in Greece (of all places)…

Besides the headlines of the pandemic that was the biggest NEWS this week, but not for BBT….

BBT brings you also this week the NEWS  what’s new and back in stock from this week…

Everything for your Volkswagen.

With the  latest arrivals of our Silver Weld Through line we have now  the B-post for late Single cab Splitties.

As all of our SWT metal parts we made these B-pillars exactly like Volkswagen used to do back in the day. We deep draw press the components and bring them together on professional made welding jigs. And of course we have both sides, left and right.

0890-916 B-post Complete Left, single cab – Bus 01/64-07/66 SWT

0890-917 B-post Complete Right, single cab – Bus 01/64-07/66 SWT

This week we like to present you also our brand new hinges for the tailgate of your beloved bus.
These hinges are made exactly like original by our famous reverse engineering technology.

Many many times worn, plied, cracked or (partially) missing, we ran out of used ones so we decided to bring you new ones…:)

As a part of our SWT program we guarantee a perfect fit!
These hinges are sold by the pair (left and right)

0157-310 Hinges tailgate (pair) – Bus 08/63-07/71 SWT

We bring also the springs for the tailgate…. Sometimes missing, sometimes worn and many times tired and not keeping your tailgate open anymore, or at least not like it should.
Replace those old tired springs with our state of the art brand new springs that will keep your tailgate open, all the way. Like when your bus was brand new….

The two distance rubber buffers  come along in this kit. Really necessary to mount these two small buffers to prevent anti-rattle.
These springs  fit all wide tailgate buses from 1963 all the way up to 1979.

0157-320 Torsion springs tailgate (pair) – Bus 08/63-07/79 SWT

We add a lot of hardware lately, so we’re sure you get the right screws to mount the right parts.
Our latest addition was this little screw with a countersunk head of 3.9 x 13mm.

This screw is used to mount the interior mirror of your split window bus (Find HERE or HERE), they mount also the sun visors of your splittie bus (HERE) and also on most sunvisor clips (full application HERE).  Achtung! Sedan beetles use different screws, you can find HERE.

 Correct hardware is wonderfull and we’re glad we found  them out for you!

8762-3913 Screw countersunk head S/S 3.9×13 Din783c

This week we get also a lot of parts back in stock. We list here the most important and oldest backorders….

0891-026 B-post outer panel (40cm) – Bus 08/67-07/79 left

0891-511 Jacking point complete front – Bus 08/67-07/79 right

0891-232 Rear sidescreen panel left – Bus 08/67-07/79
0891-233 Rear sidescreen panel right – Bus 08/67-07/79

0890-45 Ribbed floor panel pick up – Bus 08/52-07/79

0077-020 Bumper splash pans – Bus 08/67-07/71 (pair)

0890-656 Chassis section behind front axle right – Bus -07/67

We hope we informed you well  about what’s all new…. for any further information, drop us a call +32 36 33 22 22 or email on Info@BBT4vw.com

We start our journey with the new parts and we’ll bring you new NEWS next Friday, stay tuned!

We stumbled accross this little movie on the internet we thought was too cool to pass on…

Early Porsches and Otto Maztthé’s “Fetzenflieger” just a little wintermovie to sit back and enjoy…. if you love the cars!