Monthly Archives: July 2013

With all visit and the tours, convoy, shows etc all for Volkswagens and with so many international visitors  last two weeks we only can be so happy we met so many friends, family, customers and suppliers, we have some pictures here to show, with people instead of cars…:)

Before the start of the festivities we thought to hang up our Lolypop VW sign, did You catch it during your visit? it wasn’t exactly easy, and we needed team work here, or what friends are for!

Friday june 22nd,  06.00 o clock, BBT Convoy day starts, the bakery deliver the catering fresh bread, rolls and the meanwhile infamous Belgian “Koffiekoeken” with his split window delivery truck, did You catch the bakery truck that early on Friday morning? Team spirit was very high here, even that early! …. ah, this is the Belgian Koffiekoeken….  don’t they look good? They all drove to Hessisch Oldendorf same day, in all participants stomach’….:) just one of many “down the road pictures”, isn’t it amazing Old Volkswagens put so many people in movement! BBT Hungary and BBT HQ vans having their chat! My very best Southern Californian buddy Rick Sadler (from Bugpack fame) with wife Lynn and daughter Kai on a terrace at HO same terrace, acouple of hours later, the terrace actually served almost like my local BBT office, the whole friday afternoon and evening all friends came and went .. extreme cool, here we see in the back ground John Henry, Brian Holcomb, Steve from BBT Spain, Arlette and Werner and our own Pascal… at the table is Annelies, Oval Dean and Beatrice his girlfriend… Holland versus France, are we taking soccer here? PP (Vintage import)and Ilonka (Pinocar), not a couple, but by coincidence next to each other, very cool! and our personal mascot for the weekend, in the back of our car!oeps, who is this sexy guy in shorts here? don(‘t look like one, but he’s a top hunter, hard to believe huh, maybe that’s his natural camouflage… one of BBT’s top car hunters from Pinocar fame
Paul Rui (Oslo Norway) drives with Tom and Shelly Niedernhofer the BBT’s 52 convertible in the tour on Saturday… part of the BBT team, Gonzo is telling a good joke it seems… Godson Dennis and girlfriend Seffi, both very happy they went along!  a picture that’s really important to me, with my friend Jacques Mertens… a man who I pay a lot of respect to, he collects split window beetles since 1969, probably the longest of everybody  in Belgium!  BBT’s 1958 double door samba made a lot of people happy!  Francis Baptist parking his Lowlight convertible very special moments with my friend Ron Fleming (Fat Performance) and Darrell Vittone son of the founder of EMPI, so special!  and Seffi with Leentje, girlfriends from BBT guys, but actually considered almost BBT girls themselves….:)Very good  friends from the Bay area, Mark Merrill, wife Peggy and nephew Nick….
I was called on stage on Saturday night at HO, for a reward to bring the convoy over, was very nice to stand between the major and the head of the Police…. yes I did felt very safe….:)
The BBT reply to reward was a drivers Badge… the only drivers badge given to a non participant is always the show we go to organizer….
Ray Shubert and Family in the BBT Kubelwagen and last but not least, a very very happy Oval Dean (BBT Athens Greece) with wife Beatrice and yours truly before part of our collection….I must have seen at least a trillion people more, old friends, good friends, new friends and go on, I feel real bad I did not make more photographs, but mainly I was too busy talking, to all people not on the pictures above but met last two weeks, you’re all in my heart buddy’s, that’s for sure!

Despite weather and terrain conditions, and some more malfunctions in organisation we had another wonderful weekend in Chimay.

so sad the race track kept wet on one side so the race was one lane only! But could not slow down the fun… Saturday night was huge, and we experienced that all…

We hope to get You pictures anytime soon, today we let you have our BBT booth already…. just for You to enjoy…

Alain was working with us all weekend

Old Blue, a former US race car was flip crashed, flipped over and was all into pieces, they let crush into a cube, and kept it behind the shop, until we found it… the smallest VW race car in the world? the most compact for sure… BBT had it on display.

Sunday crew came in form of Saartje, Stephanie, Tim and Kurt… thanks guys for helping us making it happen!  all BBT private production on display, or a big part of it at least….:)

we brought out the radical split…. its still for sale, didn’t sell over the weekend…. some overviews looked almost like an old VW garage…. we thought it was cool, hope You enjoyed…

BBT’s Teufelheb, meanwhile, was pretty busy on the track, special Thanks to Steve (Steve’s VW shop) Ray Schubert, and Rick Sadler for all the help! and Hans for playing our favorite toy….

I have to thank all BBT people and friends that helped to make this happen, my wife and children, Dennis and Seffi, Alain, Koen and Miriam, Dirk, Randy and Ray, Bart,  Hans and Leentje, the great Gonzo, Long Hair Pascal and Annelies, Kurt, Saartje, Tim en Stephanie and the american BBT buddy’s Bill, Brian, Tom and Carson who drove cars over and back, Helped with pack, transport, build up, attend, explained, discussed, took booth down, loaded up and brought it all safe back to BBT HQ, today is unpack and wash day, to make sure autohal is back to normal, and we can start our weekly cores in a close to normal way!

EBI 5 is history now, but we didn’t miss a single beat of it… Thanks to Kobus, Fred and Mike to organize this mega beautiful event