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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 9:44 pm    Post subject: Father & Son project Reply with quote

This is our 74 ghia we have been working on it since Aug03 we. some of the mods are: frenchend in type 1 bug lights, early style ghia nose vents. shaved doors shaved gas filler.frenched tail lights. motorized deck lid third tail light and the list goes on. we have more pics of the build in the gallery.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 11:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Nice - Very nice good luck with it. gonna be real sweet.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 6:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thats cool. When I have kids Im definitely gonna have a project for us. My dad was never involved with cars so I used to help with my friend Bill & his dads oval project.
Thats kick ass.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:23 pm    Post subject: rear end mods Reply with quote

here is a pic of the rear end mods we have done. the third brake light is out of a boxter and cut down to size. we shaved the lights for the plates and fabricated a new housing for them to make the decklid smooth. the tail lights are frenched in.[img]http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=70472[/img] this week end we plan on geting the body off and can start detailing the pan.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 8:27 am    Post subject: Re: rear end mods Reply with quote

custom ghia wrote:
here is a pic of the rear end mods we have done. the third brake light is out of a boxter and cut down to size. we shaved the lights for the plates and fabricated a new housing for them to make the decklid smooth. the tail lights are frenched in.
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this week end we plan on geting the body off and can start detailing the pan.


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 9:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

for some reason it did not work for me it worked when i hit previw. thanks.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 4:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks. all the credit has to go to my dad he has spent three hours a day every day for over a year now on this car. i agree that the overall look of the car has been improved.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I dig those headlights on a ghia.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The early nose vents are what interests me.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 8:18 pm    Post subject: father son project Reply with quote

coad,
thanks, they were a lot of work, and took a lot of time to fabricate, but well worth the effort. by the way, what is the meaning of JHC that a lot of people post after their name?

53 0val,
the front nose vents are not quite the same shape as the early ones, just a shape I came up with.when I get time I will post pictures of how I did it.

Saturday I made the dolly that will support the body when I seperate the body and pan. designed it so can get the lift under it to raise the body to a comfortable height while block sanding.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 7:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like the tail lights. I was going to do something similar with my Ghia.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 11:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

we fianly got the body off last night it was alot easier than we expected. we were able to position the lift arms under the wheel wells and lift the body off that way. and when it it is painted we will use good old fasioned man power to set it back on because we dont want to chip the paint. we might have time to post pics of the process later.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 10:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

posted the pictures of the body and the dolly and the rolling pan.
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/168072.jpg and
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 12:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is a fantastic job on your Ghia. I am getting close to rescuing a Ghia vert from a local boneyard for my son and me to customize. I might "borrow" your 3rd brake light idea and rear license plate light idea. Those are nice. I like the Bug lights, but Porsche flutes are even better. I'll have to tour the local foreign boneyard soon. What color will the Ghia be when you're done?
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 12:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Not only does the Ghia look great, but that's a heck of a garage you've got there - lift & all! Looks like you've got your new/rebuilt longblock in, and everything ready to put back together and go once the body is done...sweet...
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 6:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Norman
the car will be stock orange when it is done. contenplating throwing pearl in the clearcoat but have not seen any quality pearl on a giah to convince us.

teamspatula
thanks. we are working on the ghia at a family members ranch.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is the lastes we stripped the old body filler that had been on the car for over a year.
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https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/169967.jpg.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 2:43 pm    Post subject: Ghia type 1 headlight conversion Reply with quote

A couple of readers have private messaged me about how I did the type 1 headlight conversion, so I created an AOL homepage that describes the process and has pictures to show most of the steps. the address is
http://beta.hometown.aol.com/jtower6701/headlight.html

Hope you find it informative
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very interesting. Keep up the good work. Razz
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