My first Beetle for 20 years, 61 Gulf Blue

After owning a 61 in the early 90s, ive got married, had 2 kids and moved house twice,and had about a dozen early or late bays, still own a 79 westy

but i had a hankering for another bug, so having found this a few months ago I finally made the 4 hr drive to see it with deposit in hand, deal done and im awaiting delivery sat

plans are a fresh mot, headliner and seat retrim and then enjoy 8)

 

that's a lovely bug mate very nice

 

Nice one. Clean looking car and a great colour. Picked a good 'un there !

 

Quite envious. Next year will be my Beetle year

 

cheers guys, needs a few jobs, but will be a winter project

 

Faaaaaantastic ,,,

 

lucky chap

 

lovely beetle and pretty much my favourite look, tasteful & great colour.

 

That is absolutely gorgeous, I'm so jealous!!!! If you ever feel like selling it for about £100 I'm up for first dibs ^-^

 

How lovely!!

 

Gorgeous, good buy!

 

cheers guys, the outside is staying as it is, im just gonna tinker with the interior which needs some lovin,headliner,carpets etc, also got a berg traction bar with it that just needs fitting, and a south african sprintstar as my spare that needs detailing to match the others

 

nice bug .

 

V smart 8)

 

few more pics

matching 145 mitchellin tyre to go on spare, needs detailing



spare matching numbers motor







running Ali t bars now



berg locker

 

nice bug, gary

 

what baysearcher said! love the subtle cal look. Deadly jealous!

 

front seats are a bit worn, thinking of putting in some classic buckets with 4 point harness, as its a 61 and has no belts or mount for belts, something like these will fit in with the nostalga sceme to the car

something like these, the back seat wont be used unless we all go out as a family, but if we do we would prob take the westy, so may even junk the rear seat completely, and make do with just the fronts