Western Europe is soaked.
We can’t remember when it was more wet than today.
Farmers land, wood lands, water everywhere…
However, mild temperatures awake nature early.
The early natural life of the year.
Our Volkswagens seem to wake up as well.
Looking for a new season, new adventures.
Finishing that restoration, hunkering for road trips.
We feel the vibe, do you?
Let us help you with more and better parts to keep that vibe alive.
Welcome to the BBT News.
Never mentioned in the books but found and questioned by several people on their bus.
It is this mystery ring we bring you today.
Made after an original model.
We assume this ring was ment to eliminate the play or vibrations between lock and body,
Original mounted from the factory, only for a brief time.
Even it has a VW part no. molded in but never mentioned in any year parts book.
But it is here, it is cool, it’s functional and looks good.
This ring goes between our lock BBT # 0429-450 and its seal BBT # 0723-095
If you want perfection, BBT is your partner.
0429-451 Ring tailgate lock – Bus 08/63-07/66
Beetle front hood lock on the front apron has a dustcover.
This dustcover or protection covered your lock from 52 up to 67 model year beetles.
Many times missing, we bring you the perfect solution with this super nice reproduction.
Up to1967 Beetle front hood lock and handles, HERE
1968 onwards Beetle front hood lock and handles, HERE
0424-210 Hood latch cover – Beetle 08/52-07/67
Nobody brings you more correct body parts than BBT.
We decided it was time to bring back the “diamond cut” bumpers.
That is right, split window buses had a change in bumpers for the last three years of production.
After the pressed bumpers Volkswagen came out with larger stronger bumper on the bus in 1959.
Named slash cut after the slash character on your keyboard.
For the 1966 model year Volkswagen changed the end of that bumper to a small point named it diamond cut.
Nobody ever reproduced the diamond cut bumper before, but BBT does now.
Deep draw stamped on one piece cast tooling in our Silver Weld Through factory.
Finished in a decent coat of L82 Silver White correct for most buses.
More diamond cut Splitty bus bumpers from BBT productions in silver white color coming soon.
Slash cut splitty bumper (bare) HERE
US style splitty export bumpers HERE
0012-602 Bumper front – Bus 08/65-07/67 (Euro) Ivory
After the OE stamping plant lowered their quality on these bus floorplates, we had a tough job to turn that around.
We had to convince them to bring them back in 0.9mm thickness, as they used to stamp them for VW originally.
A bunch of email, video, and PM’s later we finally got a go for the production.
Now they feel back to normal, stiff, and strong.
We do appreciate the feedback from our customers/distributors in the quest to bring this quality back to OE levels.
Without that feedback nothing would have changed.
Now for all of us back to enjoy in 0.9mm thickness, exactly like original.
Thank you, guys!
0891-760 Floor plate left – Bus 08/70-07/79
0891-770 Floor plate right, slidingdoor – Bus 08/70-07/79
We finally managed to get our BBT brake drum program up to speed!
Tired of those Chinese brake drums?
BBT brings the perfect alternative out of our brake drum foundries in Brazil.
Some models already are back in stock, more models will be coming soon!
1270-001 Disc brake – Beetle/KG 08/66-, Type3 08/65-07/71 BBT
1287-01 Brake drum front – Bus 08/63-07/67 BBT
BBT News team wishes you a dry weekend.