1960 Ghia (one year only parts list)

[Need59]

Hey everyone I have been searching high and low looking for a list of 1960 ghia only parts list. I have found a few but was wondering if anyone has seen one on Samba and can send me a link to it.

1.Gas tank
2.Washer Bottle
3.36hp engine
4.front air grills have 3 mounting screws
5. wiring
6. seats are 58-60 thin backs
7. ?
8. ?

I always tell everyone I am restoring a 1960 ghia and they say how hard it to restore because of all the one year only parts. I ask them what all the parts are and they have no idea..... so any info would help!!! thnks

[John Moxon]

You'll probably find this 1960 bodywork manual of use from the Archives: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/manuals/1960_karmann_ghia_workshop_manual.php

The changes aren't set out as a handy list so you'll have to trawl through the book and make a note where it indicates the changes were made.

You might like to let us know your Vin # as some of the item you've already noted aren't correct...like item 6 for example...thin back seats were '55-'57.
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[wolfgang klinkert]

The following text was copied from this posting:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=344617&highlight=model+changes


1960
'60 Model Year (Ch# 2 528 668 thru 3 192 507) August '59 thru July '60

* First Modern Body
* Headlites at tip of fender. (To end)
* Air vent grilles enlarged, bars held by tear-shaped surround. (To end)
* Taillite, pointed oval, at tip of rear fender. (Thru '69)
* Wheel arch openings reshaped. Opening now flows more towards back of car.
* Quarter window hinged and pops-out.
* Ghias still use the famous, venerable 36 hp engine. Split case transmission, with a non-synchro low gear is also standard equipment.
* Last year in which a fuel tap lever as well as fuel gauge was installed.
* Ghia loses its unique steering wheel and horn-blowing ring. Forever after, wheel/ring is an era Bug item.
* An arm rest is first installed on left-hand (driver's door). Previously a cloth strap was used to close left door. Right-hand door always carried an arm rest. (Between 1960 and 1966, a span of only 6 years, 14 different colored vinyl/fabric arm rest covers were used. No wonder finding original, correctly colored interior upholstery material is nearly impossible. Parts departments must have engaged in open mutiny, because from '67-up, all arm rest also fits Beetles. AND were only available in black.)


But I think, the rarest specialities are in a 1966 model.
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[Need59]

Thnks for the body link it had ally of good info. My mistake on the thin back seat. But it is still the same seat from 58-60. Its so strange to me that there isn't a list put together already. Guess I just have to keep doing my research.

[smuenchrath]

wasn't the ribbed dash pad also a 59-60 item?

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=803758
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[pbaptist]

[retrowagen]

I agree with Patrick, and would also add that the front seat upholstery pattern (the piping) is slightly different on the August 1959-July 1960 cars versus the earlier 16 September 1957-July 1959 cars. The seat structures beneath are, however, the same.
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[lemke]

1960 had a one year-only passenger front floor mat - It's pretty much the same as the later models, but it has "slit/oval" shaped mounting holes at the top instead of the round holes.