62 Beetle "Gretchen"

good to see it

It leaks a little too.

here's a few i've been with holding and now for the new owner to add his opinions, can't wait to see her progress, she deserves it and has been a real good car to me, enojoy!

Well guys I haven't done anything to Gretchen since I got her except drive it everyday. Love driving it and the responses I get from people. I do have Jerry building me a roof rack for her. I'll be picking it up Sunday. My question is what color should I paint the rack? The car has the faded (patina a little) look to it so I don't want the rack all shiny. I want the rack to match the look of the car. Plus I need some really cool stuff to go on top as well. Any ideas?

Oh and I'd like another inch lower out of the front end if possible, actually the whole car down another inch. How would I go about doing that.

id go for silver

I like em black, but there is chrome down below so silver would bring some of the shiny up on her. It all depends if you want it to stand out or kinda blend in.

I was thinking about doing one in "rhino lining" seems like it would durable enough, but I've never had anything with that spray, maybe someone who has can chime in.

I have a couple of trinkets to put on the roof rack when you get it. And I can help you out on getting that lower stance as well.

Awesome Tim! I've been looking all over everyday for some trinkets to put on it. I'll try to post some pics tomorrow.

Just a few pics, and the new roof rack. I gave it a few coats of flat black for a base coat.

Well it's been long overdue for some tinkering. Ha! So my plans were for a lower stance, quieter exhaust (only for more ground clearence and because I leave my neighborhood at 6am) and some different color wheels. Everything I touch usually tears up so the whole process took forever. I picked up a used factory exhaust for cheap and bought some drop spindles hoping that would satisfy me. After figuring out I couldn't do the drop spindles myself, thank you Jesus Tim Baker was to the rescue. And a quick turn around too. BKR is where it's at. Finally after getting home from Tim's I had to throw them on.

The first pic on the ground. Plasti Dip Blaze orange wheels as well. Don't worry peeps it pulls off when I get tired of them.

then I had a oh crap moment , that's not gonna work so I yanked the sway bar off.
then I backed her out and snapped a pic in the dark.
And then the next morning.
I'm gonna finally get her back on the road again and save some fuel back and forth to work.

Almost forgot, huge thanks to Nick Brooks aka Brooks829 and Tim at BKR. Thank you guys for the help.

I always like the dechromed look on her- nice ride!

Gettin lower and lower You may as well pull that lower adjuster bolt off now, or smack it off in the near future looking good!

Looks great. One of the lowest bugs I have seen.

Sup guys, I bought Gretchen from Brooks424 in August '14 as my daily driver and have been enjoying her ever since.. It's really cool to see the pics! I'll have to post some soon as she looks a little different now...as for now there are pics on instagram @#gretchenbug or just google #gretchenbug and click images

Good you found the thread! I could not find it the other night at Summit

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