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oceanair
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Location: Victoria, BC
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Went for a drive and found myself parked, looking at myself and my 1970 sweet Ghia. |
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RHough
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Location: Canada
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| oceanair wrote: |
Went for a drive and found myself parked, looking at myself and my 1970 sweet Ghia. |
Best color!  |
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e&m_ghia
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Joined: April 04, 2011
Posts: 418
Location: NoVA
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A small thing...
E. went antiquing and found a nice AAA emblem for Virginia. We're members, and we're in Virginia!
It came with a license plate mount, which wouldn't fit. A trip to local hardware stores provided cable clamps & threaded rod, combined with other little bits & pieces M. made a nice little bracket for a bumper blade. Nice offset, can still open the engine lid, and you can see the car paint behind the cut-outs in the emblem.
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kingkarmann
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^^^^^
Nice addition!
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mountainkowboy
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Joined: April 06, 2008
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Location: Socal
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Moved the engine from storage into the newly completed shed/shop to go on the engine stand for assessment! WoHoo its getting closer to "back on the road"
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78 Honda CB750K
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e&m_ghia
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Joined: April 04, 2011
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Location: NoVA
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Another small thing, but safety related...
Ghia brake lights aren't the brightest... And the season is getting darker, earlier.
Finally found time for putting in a 3rd brake light. Used the popular LED strip light technique: Alpena MaxLED from a FLAPS. They were kind of sparse, so we doubled them up to increase the density.
Went into the engine lid vents, above the rain tray. LED strips went on a rubber strip, so go in cleanly using 3 existing screw-holes. (No pic's yet, it was late when finished - search forum under "third brake light" for lots of similar arrangements.)
Looks like it will work, sitting out on the driveway. |
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mountainkowboy
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Location: Socal
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Started the tear down of the engine to figure out its condition and what direction to go next
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aero3113
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Joined: March 03, 2013
Posts: 196
Location: Setauket, NY (Long Island)
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Added a Wolfsburg badge.
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c21darrel
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Joined: January 22, 2009
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Location: San Dimas
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CiderGuy
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Joined: December 23, 2013
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Location: Bucks County, Pa
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I have not done a thing for the last 3 plus weeks. cant work on it, cant drive it, cant clean it... but i did talk my brother-in-law to take me for a drive over the weekend. 
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I had a cast that went over my knee, I almost killed my ex wife in bed one night when I tried to turn over in my sleep and nailed her with the cast .....
How the hell did you do that? |
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c21darrel
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Location: San Dimas
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lasslo
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Joined: September 01, 2004
Posts: 206
Location: sweden
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 6:54 pm Post subject: Tranny mount |
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Fixed new(better?) tranny mount
And started to put the new engine together, 1835cc
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Miaghia
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Joined: August 11, 2013
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Location: Cincinnati
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| Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 6:50 pm Post subject: New carpet installed |
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New carpet installed
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Altema
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Location: Lower Michigan
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 10:54 am Post subject: Re: New carpet installed |
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Wow that looks nice! Which company is the carpet from?
Paul |
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Miaghia
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Location: Cincinnati
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 1:00 pm Post subject: Carpet source |
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| From newton commercial in the UK. Several pics in the ghia forum under posting new square weave. Check it out |
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O2COOLED
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Joined: May 22, 2007
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Location: Pac NW
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 10:34 pm Post subject: Re: New carpet installed |
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| Altema wrote: |
Wow that looks nice!
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X2! VERY nice!
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RHough
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Location: Canada
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Does going Autocrossing count?
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pabloghia
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Location: California
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Thought I would add some color and
installed the Euro style taillights.
I still have my original Hella lights just in case
I want to go back. The red portion is
not quite as dark as my other lights.
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Fiatdude
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Location: now in MO.
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Yeah, whole lot of fun to sleep with!
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Darn Darrel -- -- Water skiing????
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Does going Autocrossing count?
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You Betcha it does -- Did you have fun?????
Well I souped mine up a little
Then I decided it was time to start making some changes to it -- Where or Where to start------
Had some cash in my paypal account that I needed to spend, so ordered a Dry sump pump and crank pulley from CB -- will need to mount my crank trigger onto it -- -- Now I have to make a oil tank and decide if I'm finally going to move the oil cooler to the spare tire bay up front or not -- I still need to move the fuel lines from underneath the car, so might just make it a quad run of lines - two 1/2" lines for fuel and two 3/4" for oil -- running them inside under the passenger seat and near the 'new' oil tank which set on the floor behind the passenger seat
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c21darrel
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