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BulliBill
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 Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 8:35 am Post subject: Any Fall color tour photos of your Ghia? |
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Feel free to post up any nice Fall color touring photos you took of your Ghia this year (2014).
I'll start:
My '70 Ghia Coupe had been penned-up in the back of my garage by an immobile '59 Double-Cab project for over a year and a half, and had only been started an a couple of occasions inside the garage. I finally have the Double-Cab mobile again, and the day was beautiful and the Fall colors were approaching their peak, so I pushed the DC out of the garage and jump-started the Ghia to take it on a drive. After a quick wipe-down, I threw a bag of tools into the car just in case, checked that the fire-extinguisher was properly charged and ready to go. My wife Kathryn jumped in and away we went. I had a half tank of "old" premium gas so I immediately stopped to fill the tank with fresh premium fuel for the trip. We live on the outskirts of St. Louis, MO, so I took off on a back-roads trip through as much rural countryside as possible. We crossed the Mississippi River into Alton, IL, turned north and then cruised the 1776 powered Ghia up the scenic Great River Road to Pere Marquette State park to check all the Fall colors along the way.
It was a lot of fun to get the Ghia out on the road again after her long forced hibernation, and she ran very nicely!
On the way back home we took a route that gave us two different ferry rides across both the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers and back to our home. A very nice and thankfully uneventful Tour!
Okay, who is next with 2014 Fall Color photos?
Bill Bowman
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Coeur D'Alene - Lake Shore Volkswagen
Mission VW - San Fernando
Thornton VW - Stockton
Thanks for any help!
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thruhiker74
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 8:55 am Post subject: |
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Sorry, couldn't resist. 
Autumn in the desert isn't quite what I used to get back in Upstate NY. Still, can't beat the dry air for lack of rust![/img] |
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John Moxon 
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BulliBill
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 7:45 am Post subject: |
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That's not a road, that's a trail! You could barely squeeze a Vespa by your stunningly beautiful Ghia!!! Nice shot John!
Bill
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Mission VW - San Fernando
Thornton VW - Stockton
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John Moxon
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WooleyNelson
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:07 am Post subject: |
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| We have bicycle paths here in Indiana that are wider than that!! |
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John Moxon
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thruhiker74
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 11:32 am Post subject: |
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| My goodness John, you live in a fairie tale! Absolutely gorgeous! |
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-Zodiac-
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 11:46 am Post subject: |
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Very nice indeed John, looks like a painting!
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John Moxon
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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| thruhiker74 wrote: |
| My goodness John, you live in a fairie tale! Absolutely gorgeous! |
| -Zodiac- wrote: |
| Very nice indeed John, looks like a painting! |
Well you live in the "New World" and I live in the "Old World" but although this is nothing really unusual we don't all live in places like this. Most modern housing areas don't look very different from modern US housing areas...we just have a housing stock that goes back a few hundred years more than the "New World". That means when we're looking for an attractive backdrop for our Ghia pictures we don't have very far to go. Those pictures are all within two miles from where I live. 
BTW "thruhiker74"...go and take a picture outside Mission San Xavier del Bac when you have some time...I love that place.
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thruhiker74
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Ha, thanks John, now it won't look like I thought of going there myself!
Been meaning to get down there since the day I got my Coupe. It's only about 5km from my house. I'll get there soon and even bring my real camera to get some shots for you. |
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John Moxon
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dcat917
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clarkare
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I placed a picture of my Ghia on the Sticky " Post your Ghia" a few weeks back but I thought that I would add it again to my post. The Ghia is parked outside a small chapel near to my house in France. Picture taken summer 2014....not quite autumn though
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moogie32
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Here's my '63 taken a couple of weeks ago by Stock Steve
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123386
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It may be officially Fall, but in Arizona mother nature is still holding on to summer. It was a high of 91 degrees when I snapped this photo on my drive to the lake today.
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Samer1275
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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Here's my '63 taken a couple of weeks ago by Stock Steve
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Love this!
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BerneseMtnDog
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2014 9:43 am Post subject: |
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It's been too rainy to do much touring lately so my driveway tree is about it for colors at the moment.
Steve
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kingkarmann
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Beautiful photo's one and all!
I plan to do a last drive for the season on Sunday. We have plenty of leaves on the ground around here. Maybe I can coax the wife to snap a couple of pics.
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BulliBill
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| Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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Here's my '63 taken a couple of weeks ago by Stock Steve
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Now that's what I was talking about when I started up this thread! Keep 'em coming guys/gals!
Bill Bowman
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Coeur D'Alene - Lake Shore Volkswagen
Mission VW - San Fernando
Thornton VW - Stockton
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