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Karmann Ghia Books
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Cover Title - Author - Publisher Comments ISBN
Repair Manuals
Volkswagen Owner's Handbook
Floyd Clymer
Clymer Publications
1957 Edition  

Volkswagen Owner's Handbook
Floyd Clymer
Clymer Publications
1961 Edition  
Volkswagen Owner's Handbook
Floyd Clymer
Clymer Publications
1962 Edition  

Volkswagen Owner's Service Manual
Floyd Clymer
Clymer Publications
Includes information for Beetle, Ghia, and Type 2  

Volkswagen Service Manual
Floyd Clymer
Clymer Publications
Good general repair manual for Beetle and Karmann Ghia  

Volkswagen Owner's Service Manual
Floyd Clymer
Clymer Publications
Good general repair manual for Beetle and Karmann Ghia  
Volkswagen Owners Handbook
Floyd Clymer
Floyd Clymer Publications
9th Revised edition
1967 and earlier Bug and Ghia
 

VW 1300 & 1500 Technical Manual
Henry Elfrink
Henry Elfrink Automotive
1967 edition.  Covers Beetle and Karmann Ghia  
VW Beetle from 1968
P. Harris
Intereurope Ltd
1200, 1300, 1500, 1600 engines, covers Beetle, Karmann Ghia, and Type 181 901610-35-6
Volkswagen Service Manual
Bentley Publishers
Model Years 1966-1969, Beetle and Karmann Ghia.  The official manual. 0-8376-0416-8
P. Olyslager
Motor Manuals
1961 Edition  

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All About the Volkswagen
Henry Elfrink
Henry Elfrink Publications
Copyright 1958, this is one of the best period Volkswagen books ever published.  Elfrink knew the Volkswagen market and history, he is a good writer, easy to understand and includes many pictures. The first hundred and thirty or so pages are about the stock mechanical aspects of the car.  The last sixty pages list monthly changes to the Beetle.  There are about ten pages on industrial engines, then a detailed high performance section which includes a Dietz dual carburetor setup, Judson supercharger, and ink on the Okrasa kit.  The last section in the book covers VW and Porsche powered aircraft.
Review by Lind
 
Souping the Volkswagen
Ford Clymer Publications
Published in 1959  
All About the Volkswagen
Henry Elfrink
Henry Elfrink Automotive
1962 edition.  Covers Beetle and Karmann Ghia  

All About the Volkswagen
Henry Elfrink
Henry Elfrink Automotive
1964 edition.  Covers Beetle and Karmann Ghia  
Sofort Helfer
VW 1200/1300/1500 Kafer
Karmann Ghia
by Dieter Korp
   
Sofort Helfer
1500 (bis July '66)/1600
Variant/Karmann Ghia
by Dieter Korp
   
Volkswagen 1300, 1300A, 1500
From 1965
By Russek
  0901610097
Bentley Manual
Super Beetle, Beetle, and Karmann Ghia
1970-79
  0837600960
Haynes Beetle & Ghia Copyright 2006
#96008
1-85010-729-7
Picture/Reference/History

Essential Volkswagen Karmann-Ghia
Laurence Meredith
MBI Publishing Company
  1-870979-52-4

VW Karmann Ghia, 1955-82
by R. M. Clarke
Paperback, 1986
Published by Brooklands Books and Motorbooks International
The book includes reprints from Car & Driver, Road & Track, Motor Trend, etc. Nice read of original material and illustrations. ISBN-10:
0948207434
ISBN-13:
978-0948207433
Karmann Ghia Coupe & Cabriolet
by Malcolm Bobbit
  190478819X
VW Karmann Ghia
by Malcolm Bobbit
  1-87410-554-5
VW Karmann Ghia
Collection No. 1
Brooklands Books
  0907073352
Typen Compass
VW Personenwagen seit 1945
Band 1
by Halwart Schrader
Joachim Kuch
  3613021056
Typen Compass
VW Personenwagen seit 1945
Band 2
by Halwart Schrader
Joachim Kuch
  3613021862
VW Beetle
by Jonathan Wood
  1-899870-26-1
VW Kafer & Co.
Fotoalbum
1938-78
by Walter Richter & Oliver Zinnkann
  393551736X
Lou Smog
UFO-Alarm
 
  9.789064.219542
Autos fir Dich!    
Die Edel-Kafer
by Bernd Wiersch
  978-3-7688-1971-8
VW Kafer
einschliesslich Karmann-Ghia
by Jonathan Wood
   
VW Kafer Cabrio
1949-80
Schrader-Motor-Chronik Series
   
Fahrzeugsammlung    
Air-cooled Volkswagens
By Colin Burnham
   
Sorts Car Classics
by Iain Ayre
   
Volkswagen Karmann Ghia
by Laurence Meredith
  3-61301-698-2
VW Karmann-Ghia
By Stuart Johnson
  3-89365-535-2
Karmann-Ghia
By Stuart Johnson
  1-85532-509-8
Zeitreise Karmann Ghia
Unterwegs in Karmann Ghia
by Lutz Gaas
  9805832-4-4
Karmann Ghia
Der VW im Gala-Kelid
by Peter Kurze & Lutz Gaas
  3768817245
VW Karmann Ghia
Gold Portfolio
1955-1974
Brooklands Books
by R.M. Clarke
  1855207184
Karmann Ghia
Coupe and Cabriolets
Schrader-Motor-Chronik
  3-961387-062-2
Auto Collection No 49
VW Karmann Ghia
 
French  
Karmann Cars    
Modell Fahrzeug
1993
German Magazine  
Karmann Coupe and Cabriolet
by Malcom Bobbitt
   
Automobile Quarterly    
Kult Cabrios
by Jurgen Lewandowski & Marion Zellner
  3896521950
Les Archives du Collectionneur
1939-69
Volkswagen 1100-1200-1300-1500 Karmann Ghia
Revue Technique
French 2726899277
Volkswagens of the World
by Simon Glen
  1903706939
Volkswagen Model History
by Joachim Kuch
  1859606458
Die Kultautos der 60er Jahre
by Egbert Schwartz & Nikolas Waldura
  361330600X
Veronica knows best
by Nancy K. Robinson
Fiction 978-0590405096
Das Grosse VW-Cabrio-Buch
by Lars Dohmann & Jost Niemeier
German language 3-89365-315-5
Die Grossen VW
by H.-G. Mayer-Stein
German language 3-9803665-0-2
VW Karmann-Ghia
Schnittige VWs aus Osnabrueck
  3-926917-03-2
VW Treasures by Karmann
by Jan P. Norbye
  0-87938-202-3
Info und Tipps rund um historische Fakrzeuge
ADAC Oldtimer-Ratgeber
   
Vom Kutschenbauer zum Auto-Karossier
by Dieter Kust
German language  
Karmann Ghia Coupe & Cabriolet
by Malcolm Bobbitt
  1-90370-605-X

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