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Sat Dec 24, 2011 2:12 pm

happy x-mas!

Tue Dec 27, 2011 2:51 pm

in 1961, volkswagen showed this karmann ghia type 34 coupé on the internal car exhibition called iaa; with a lowered front end, wider rear rims and wheels, double rear lights and a double piped abarth exhaust:

Tue Dec 27, 2011 2:54 pm

looking almost like the vw 145 tc from brazil, volkswagen had several prototypes with changing forward and backward lights, grill elements, air intakes and bumper versions:

Wed Dec 28, 2011 1:00 pm

here is a pic from a 1976 karmann ghia light pick up truck for the australian market:

Wed Dec 28, 2011 1:12 pm

prostreetnotch wrote: here is a pic from a 1976 karmann ghia light pick up truck for the australian market:

Nice work, except the steering wheel is on the wrong side of the vehicle :lol:

Tue Jan 03, 2012 2:01 pm

here is an early version of the karmann ghia (55-58; low light) station wagon hanging on the production line in osnabrück:

Wed Jan 04, 2012 7:01 am

YOU Sir, have too much time on your hands! :lol: :lol:

The two below are still my favorites. The top one more practical, the bottom one coolest looking. Those rear side windows are not gonna work in the real world though...

Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:33 am

thank you for the flowers! :wink:

here is another rare picture of a karmann delivery van; the photo must have been taken until 1958:

Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:43 pm

here is a rare ad from beginning seventies from brazil; it shows the vw tc 145 sw, a four door station wagon with a flat 1600 ccm motor and 65 hp.

Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:03 pm

a street scene in the late fifties in stuttgart:

Fri Jan 06, 2012 3:46 pm

another rare picture of the "fertigungsstraße" (production line) in the karmann car factory. nice station wagon!

Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:31 pm

prostreetnotch wrote: another rare picture of the "fertigungsstraße" (production line) in the karmann car factory. nice station wagon!

These really exist? This would make the perfect car to take a sunday drive every day.

Sat Jan 07, 2012 1:34 am

Flush_GHia wrote: prostreetnotch wrote: another rare picture of the "fertigungsstraße" (production line) in the karmann car factory. nice station wagon!

These really exist? This would make the perfect car to take a sunday drive every day.

No they don't...all Photoshop images. This is the only thing that worries me about this thread, somewhere down the line we're going to get a lot of questions about the rare KG Shooting Brakes. :?

Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:06 am

yep! you´re right! this is what i do in the evening (my free time!!), when my wife is looking desperate housewifes or what else!!
and as you see, this thread is called "photoshop games on ghias". so, all pics in here are fakes!

Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:09 am

and to make you think about these looking real pics, i "create" a little story (of course fake too!! :wink: ). in times of google and wikipedia everyone believes in what is written or can be seen on the internet!

Sat Jan 07, 2012 12:53 pm

:idea:I want to make one like the root beer one up top, then it will snip the back of bra's through all the suburbs 8). "No desperate wives needed".

Sat Jan 07, 2012 2:47 pm

prostreetnotch wrote: and to make you think about these looking real pics, i "create" a little story (of course fake too!! :wink: ). in times of google and wikipedia everyone believes in what is written or can be seen on the internet!

Well, I know thay are well-done fakes, but the advertisement for the 1976 Ghia made me wonder, and want!

Paul

Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:52 pm

another postcard scene from the mid sixties, taken nearby cologne dome (in the background) and the river rhein:

Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:59 am

made by tonio! best greetings to france!!

Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:03 pm

prostreetnotch wrote: made by tonio! best greetings to france!!

I almost like that one. IMO it would look better without the negative camber and radically dropped front.