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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Newbie here

Well, it has only taken me 3.5 weeks to get her to new home in North Carolina but I finally got her home yesterday. Overall, she needs some TLC on the inside but all in all she is in fairly good condition. Of course, as soon as she arrived it started to rain but that didn’t stop me from taking her out for brief drive. For the past year I have been searching for small project for my father (80 years old) and I to do. So naturally my first stop was over to see my parents and to surprise the Colonel (Ret. US Army). It made his Sunday afternoon and the weather was appropriate; cold and dreary it brought back memories of being stationed in Stuttgart and Nuremberg in the late 60’s; he had a blast. My girls named her “Lucy”, I know not a German name but it has stuck.

The rockers and body panels appear to be free of rust and bondo. Naturally the clock doesn’t work - that’s the first thing the Colonel noticed. “They never could figure how to get them to work correctly!” But let the madness….I mean fun begin.

First on the list, dashboard, dashlights, door panels and carpet. Oh yeah....2nd gear

Cheers,
Sean


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's great you can enjoy summer fun with your Dad.
Looks like you snagged a nice one.Cool
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 10:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cleaned up and painted a new to me narrowed beam. Had red in the garage already and was too lazy to go buy something else. Laughing

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Bought some used 34ICT's as well.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 12:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sdinges wrote:

]Newbie here

Well, it has only taken me 3.5 weeks to get her to new home in North Carolina but I finally got her home yesterday.
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Cheers,
Sean


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Congratulations! Indeed it looks like you were able to find a very solid base to begin with.
Good luck with it!
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 12:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sdinges wrote:
Newbie here ... For the past year I have been searching for small project for my father (80 years old) and I to do. So naturally my first stop was over to see my parents and to surprise the Colonel (Ret. US Army). It made his Sunday afternoon and the weather was appropriate; cold and dreary it brought back memories of being stationed in Stuttgart and Nuremberg in the late 60’s; he had a blast. My girls named her “Lucy”, I know not a German name but it has stuck. ]


Sean

I have no doubt that there will be many stories told in your family long after the car has been fully restored. I once sat next to a Dutch lady in her 70s who had been equipped with a small spy camera in Holland during WW2. Her own children were unaware of the fact that their mother could have been shot as a spy by the Nazis. I then gave my own mother (now 87 but no longer able to remember) a notebook and asked her to write down our family history as best she could. I learned that a small American plane had crash-landed in the cornfield on our family farm in South Africa during WW2 and that my mum had nursed the US pilot back to health - his wedding ring had caught on the fuselage when he jumped out of the cockpit and stripped the flesh to the bone. He would not leave the aircraft and it took weeks for the SA Air Force to arrive and take him and his plane to a secure base.

My mum always said that she admires a man in a uniform, and I asked her, somewhat mischievously, if she'd fallen in love with the American pilot - she spoke no English back then and was 16 years old - and she just smiled and said, "But he was married."

Ask your father to tell you all his stories. This is one Ghia restoration where the car is of less importance than the company.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 2:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sdinges wrote:
Newbie here
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Looks good Sean,
Good luck to you, your Dad, and the Ghia
Have fun.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2014 6:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Finished the tie-road replacement that was just supposed to be tie rod *end* replacement. That damn passenger side outboard never broke free, even after using heat and all of the tricks I could find on the internet. A few other minor issues were found and remedied while her nose was in the air in the garage, along with completing a good re-lubing of the front end.

Also, while waiting for UPS to arrive with the tie rods on Monday, a couple of hours were taken to restore the fresh air inlets. The PO's paintjob had sprayed the outer screens and the inner screens a bit as well. The 50years of crud in the inner screens, channels and filters was pretty amazing, but cleaned up nicely. When taking a shakedown to City Star Brewing in Berthoud, I hit the fresh air levers and it sounded like a jet engine had just fired up. Yeah, it works now.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2014 7:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What year is the coupe?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2014 9:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

1964, it's in my sig line.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2014 10:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jeromerino wrote:
1964, it's in my sig line.


Thanks. Are those the 70's style bumpers on it or did 64's have those too?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2014 12:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think you may have my Ghia confused with another.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2014 12:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I definitely did Smile
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2014 6:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jeromerino wrote:
I think you may have my Ghia confused with another.

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Nice car, great scenery.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 2:15 pm    Post subject: Master cylinder install Reply with quote

Well this was fun; it actually was fairly easy. At least now I have better brakes and I am not losing brake fluid like crazy.

The worse thing was the clean-up of all the brake fluid in the drivers floor board.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 10:43 am    Post subject: Re: Master cylinder install Reply with quote

sdinges wrote:

The worse thing was the clean-up of all the brake fluid in the drivers floor board.


Had that happen to me with my Bug, what a mess. I now check my brake lines every chance I have Smile .
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 4:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Left Saturday morning and spent the weekend at the new house getting things done. Got home this afternoon to fine I left the key on in the Ghia........good thing I had the coil unplugged!
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 1:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yesterday we drove 4 hours one way to go pick up someone elses failed project. A 1973 Karmann Ghia in pieces, with many new and old parts like new brakes, ( doors, trunk lid, hood, some extra glass) from a 1971 donor car.
The car also comes with dealer installed AC, and many new parts ( headlight assemblies, mirrors, engine parts and metal replacement panels).
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Took the '71 out of the shed and hosed all the pollen off and we went for a drive to a 5k walk/run. Beautiful weather in SC today and the car just drove like a champ. My wife got in and said that it smelled like her grandfather. He owned an early 60's beetle; she was a little misty-eyed as we drove down the driveway...all in all, a great day.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My daughter talked me into running her downtown in rush hr last night. I decided it would be a good task for the Ghia. It's about an 8 mile open run until the cities traffic hits and then it's about as much time navigating through the bumper to bumper as it took to get there. The Ghia performed outstandingly Very Happy
Had one fellow in another car beside me at a red light tell me how he loved Ghia's.
I really need to get it looking as good as it runs Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 8:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I put quite a few miles on mine today as well. Took my son to see a car that someone is giving him, then I used the Ghia to charge the battery so I could turn the engine over and get oil pressure up on the other car after going though the checkup. Then I did a food run to get pizza, beverages, and snacks. After that was running another one of the gym rats... er, I mean kids, up to the gym. Then it was a too brief nap and off to another city for a basketball tournament. After the game, it was four hours until the finals, so we went home and came back. Best thing about these trips (aside from going home with a win), was five round-abouts each way, so that gave me twenty of them! My wife does not like them, but the Ghia and I do! There was little side traffic, so for most of them I just slowed and shifted into second and powered my way around. Ironically, a standard Golf was playing along and handled much flatter (of course) but was getting left behind leaving each roundabout. Irony Cool
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