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We don’t want to talk about the weather this week, the Belgian weather was what it is known for, pretty unpredictable and every day completely different….
We neither want to talk about politics, last week showed us again how far politicians are from the real world. If we would manage a company like they manage a country, bankruptcy would just be around the corner.

Also the Corona pandemic we will not highlight too much this week, we think after over a year just about everybody is tired of it.
One of our main countries of production, Brazil is doing really bad, with several provinces and cities in complete lockdown already the biggest metropole Sao Paolo will go in lockdown from this Saturday for a full two weeks to start with.

That’s a really bad situation, in first place for people who live there… there’s nothing good on a complete lockdown. Question is how much is “complete”?
Many factories already struggle, as mentioned before raw materials are risen to record heights.

Steel is up to 200% in a year time, but also cardboard became way more expensive.
We follow the situation daily and have all contact channels open, looking for solutions and things we might still ship, but we will miss several suppliers.

We hope shipping departments from our suppliers can stay open and we will still have “some” sort of supply, of course we keep you updated.
Supply of goods is in more parts of the world a real disaster. But again, we do what we can to try to fill up our stocks.

Besides the bad news we managed this week again to have several new items for you, just to make your VW life easier….

Check them out.

We have finally received the first load of the “early” bus middle seat for buses made from 1955 up to 1963.
Middle seats fit all buses from 1950 all the way up till 1979 if necessary, mounting is exactly the same.

Difference is in the details.

Split window middle seat has a non-locking folding back rest, Bay window needs a locking folding back rest.
For early models split window bus the back rest folds straight forward.

The later model split window bus lets turn the back rest more to the inside when folding down so creating more space to access the rear row of seats.
The later model we had already longer time in our program.

We just received our second production run of the late model together with our first run of the early model.

Both in stock!

3400-310 Middle seat frame bottom and back – Bus -07/63 SWT

3400-320 Middle seat frame bottom and back – Bus 08/63-07/67 SWT

Full trailer load of glass came in this week under this addition to our glass program.
For the rear of your Beetle convertible we used to have the heated glass BBT # 9000-100.

To save you the mess and/or the fight with the electricity and/or the wires in your fresh new headliner, we now offer the rear window for the most common convertibles also without heating.
We have to admit that early convertibles just look better without heating in the rear window, don’t we?

9000-110 Rear window – Beetle convertible 08/62-05/74

Even Volkswagen must be one of the most structured car manufacturers worldwide, though they still have some “mysteries”….
This is one of the few “VW mysteries” we came across…

We made this bracket to hold the bump stop on the rear axle of your 64-67 split window bus with one mounting bolt hole to the reduction box under BBT # 1459-250 since 2019.
However we knew even back then there was another model with same application, but that mounted with two bolts onto the reduction box.

That means there are also two models of reduction box housings.
We checked all available sources, books, microfilm and ETKA. We could not find any different VW part number, neither for these brackets, neither for the reduction box housing.

We will bring you these two models under the same OE VW reference.

BBT # 1459-250 has one bolt hole for fixation to your reduction box, BBT # 1459-251 has a two bolt fixation to the reduction box.

We have both models covered now.

1459-251 Support suspension stop rear – Bus 10/64-07/67, Type181