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Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:36 pm

1) Found a sweet set of original grills on Ebay that looked almost new. I put them in the slots on the front to look at them. They looked really nice. I didn't screw them in place. Later, I forgot about them and rode down the road with them in. They fell out about 300 yards down the road. I found them the next day as flat as pancakes. I was pretty sick.

2) I have a 2 car garage. The Ghia is in one bay. The other bay had a go kart frame hanging from the garage door rail in the next bay because I needed to paint it. I wasn't paying attention and opened the garage dooe with the button. I heard a large crash. When the door went up it broke the strings holding the go kart up and it fell on the side of my Ghia and made a dent.

Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:44 pm

Dumbest Thing = Buying a Ghia.

Smartest Thing = Buying a Ghia

Which one applies depends on the day of the week!

Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:21 pm

What a response!

Have to agree with you NOVA Ghia Owner - I drive myself nuts some days but others are bliss.

TC/TeamEvil, you scare me!

But boy I really laughed hard at your contribution Ghia1 - and you probably did the right thing leaving that particular girl back in Florida.

Sat Jul 01, 2006 3:35 pm

jh72i wrote:
But boy I really laughed hard at your contribution Ghia1 - and you probably did the right thing leaving that particular girl back in Florida.

I don't understand why she was turning the key if he was under the car jumping the gap with a screw driver.....

Sat Jul 01, 2006 4:58 pm

70 140 wrote: jh72i wrote:
But boy I really laughed hard at your contribution Ghia1 - and you probably did the right thing leaving that particular girl back in Florida.

I don't understand why she was turning the key if he was under the car jumping the gap with a screw driver.....
Come on, 70 140. It's a good STORY. :lol:

Sun Jul 02, 2006 6:35 am

1.) bought a Ghia when I was 17, moved off to college and gave my brother permission to move it out of his driveway and sent to the scrap yard. (that was 30 years ago, I'm atoning for that transgression now).

2.) really non-Ghia...fried a valve in my 68 sunroof autostick Beetle on a hot July day in W. Lafayette, Indiana...didn't know jack about aircooled's, left the car, title and all, to the shop there, couldn't afford to have the 'engine rebuilt'! If anyone knows where that car is now...

Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:56 am

70 140 wrote:

Quote: I don't understand why she was turning the key if he was under the car jumping the gap with a screw driver.....

My gapping the starter to the solenoid would cause the engine to crank but it wouldn't actually start and run unless the key was turned.

After depositing her, a guy showed me how to use a piece of romex running from the starter to the battery to get the cranking started. Then I was able to turn the key myself. Of course, I then had to remove the romex until the next time I needed to start the car.

Wait a minute now... Are you guys gonna tell me 27 years later that it wasn't necessary to have her turn the key after doing the gap. I just thought of something... Could I have simply turned the key first, then gapped with the screwdriver? With the car in neutral, of course. Yeah, but then, what would I have needed her for? Hmmm.

Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:32 pm

Left the garage doors open while mowing the lawns, an original paint, low mileage, museum piece Lowlight Coupe safely inside...

...until the neighbor's tomcats snuck in, and sprayed the wheels (original Lemmerz aluminum rings and the car's original 1957-vintage Continental whitewalls) and the windshield and rear windows, discoloring the otherwise pristine and original Brilliant Red paint on the front and rear decks.

I used another piece of German precision machinery, an RWS Diana target rifle, to settle the score.

Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:25 am

Icy wrote: lemke wrote: Mine would probably be: using fiberglass to repair rocker panels on a 'vert - really stupid.

You went to the Roachghia school of body repair?

Least I have a few running VWs, Fucker. Fiberglass pans have held up for 7 years now, and not a problem in the world with them, even on a VERY low Ghia and lots of abuse. What the fuck have you ever done to keep a Ghia on the road, besides cut them up into little pieces?

Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:33 am

While toting a secdond 4x4 to the body to help lift the body of the dolly and onto the pan, I tripped on my too large coveralls and fell forward and down. HARD!! :oops: Caved in my right front heander on top just behind the headlight. :cry: This happened the day after my car came from the paint shop. ALMOST quit and sold the car right then and there. :x

Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:39 am

roachghia70 wrote: Icy wrote: lemke wrote: Mine would probably be: using fiberglass to repair rocker panels on a 'vert - really stupid.

You went to the Roachghia school of body repair?

Least I have a few running VWs, Fucker. Fiberglass pans have held up for 7 years now, and not a problem in the world with them, even on a VERY low Ghia and lots of abuse. What the fuck have you ever done to keep a Ghia on the road, besides cut them up into little pieces?
Quick retort there Roach. Icy made that comment on June 28. Today is August 1. :lol:

Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:42 am

A day is a year, and a millineum is but an instant.

Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:42 am

Me to my 16-year old son: "Hey, you crank it over while I pull the fuel line and see if the fuel pump is working."

Whump!

Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:48 am

iowegian wrote: roachghia70 wrote: Icy wrote: lemke wrote: Mine would probably be: using fiberglass to repair rocker panels on a 'vert - really stupid.

You went to the Roachghia school of body repair?

Least I have a few running VWs, Fucker. Fiberglass pans have held up for 7 years now, and not a problem in the world with them, even on a VERY low Ghia and lots of abuse. What the fuck have you ever done to keep a Ghia on the road, besides cut them up into little pieces?
Quick retort there Roach. Icy made that comment on June 28. Today is August 1. :lol:

I don't hang out in the Ghia forum on a regular basis, Iowegie. Even I have got my pride.

Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:16 am

I don't know if its the dumbest, but it Definately Wasn't good. While completely redoing my Interior, and putting new floor pans in. I had half the spare parts in a Barn. Well The Barn Burnt to the ground one day. Talk about an expensive loss!

Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:35 am

This did not happen to my Ghia, but instead my '66 Beetle with the metal sunroof. I had just got it and started to tow it home. I took the previous owners word that all the sunroof hardware was there. Oh all of it was, but just not holding the sunroof in place. Lets just say at 55mph with correct crosswind, the sunroof flew about twenty feet in the air before the semi behind me flattened it when it rolled over it. Can you say sick in several languages. Needless to say I got another one from a guy in South Carolina later since a good one was not to be found, WITHOUT THE WHOLE CLIP, here in rusty Michigan.

Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:13 am

retrowagen wrote:
I used another piece of German precision machinery, an RWS Diana target rifle, to settle the score.
Coffee spewing out the schnoz on that one. :o

Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:07 pm

Dumbest thing? That's easy... Thinking I could completely restore a fairly clean looking 72 Ghia for under $4000.... SIGH....

Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:58 pm

72Coupe wrote: Dumbest thing? That's easy... Thinking I could completely restore a fairly clean looking 72 Ghia for under $4000.... SIGH....

s/72/56/ = me

Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:30 pm

OK, I posted a reply earliar. and Hopefully this is my LAST ONE!!!! Ok, I put a new wood grain dash face on my ghia 2 months ago. Since I'm finishing my interior restoration. Well While installing my new Cd player I had to weld a bracket in the truck to secure it. Well right when I stopped welding, I saw a lot of smoke. Ran around to the other side.and my dash was on fire. I got some rags and put it out. Thankfully I caught it when I did. its about he size of a baseball on the lower part of the dash. Hopefully after some touch up paint. You wont be able to tell.