Ragtop or Sunroof for Karmann Ghia?

[fresno james]

Thank you gentlemen

I am itching to jump on this project myself at the moment !!!!

Trevor ,
The og color appears to be lizard green with a dark green roof ...

Although it was sprayed a VERY generous coat of seagull grey type of color when we first found the car ....

Was hell to strip that stuff off ....
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Kingman AZ

[Will Lennan]

ALL aftermarket rag top look bad in VWs.
If you are going to put one in put in a ORIGINAL GOLDIE sun roof. They look factory and dont leak.
Thats correct, if you put the cushion under the front lip ,when sealed it will not allow water to leak in the car.
I put a factory goldie in a ghia 20 years ago. The car is now my sons car and he shows it often.
Look under my name and search pics. You will see the car.
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Dont baby it! Drive it like it was meant to be driven. Let the next owner in fifty years worry about restoring it again.

[Rome]

[Leoniums]

I know this is an old topic but...
I was looking for a karmann ghia 2 years ago but due to some personal reasons didn't proceed with a purchase.
Unfortunately I had found here in Greece a 72 model with golde sunroof.... which is not available anymore.
Did anyone ever fit a beetle golde sunroof to a Karmann ghia?
Anyone knows if this is possible and if those sunroofs are the same?
Regards
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~Nikos

[Rome]

Nikos, I don't think a Beetle metal sunroof will work on a Ghia roof. This is probably not because of the width and contour of the Beetle panel, but the length (front to rear). I have a '77 Standard Beetle sunroof project car in my garage. I could not measure the outer metal panel because I have lots of things piled on top of the roof, and because the gap is taped up all around . However, inside the car, the dimensions of the headliner opening in the roof (not the headliner panel on the sunroof itself) is 39 Cm front to rear and ~66 Cm side-to-side. Now remember that the entire metal panel retracts rearward into the roof. I don't think there is nearly enough length of Ghia roof to contain this length (39 Cm x 2 = 78 Cm).

Here's a shot from the Gallery of an early Ghia with a Golde conversion. Look how the support rails on the underside of the roof extend all the way back to the front of the rear window inner frame. This particular Ghia appears to have a simple sliding sunroof which you pull back after unlocking it. There is no rotating crank such as found on Beetles as of the '64 model year.

A Beetle metal roof would only open about half way before the rear edge of the sunroof panel would hit against the rear window frame.

You can get a good estimate of the Golde roof panel relative length in this overhead shot. The length of the panel is less than half of the roof length.

Here are a few shots I took of a '68 Ghia with a Golde crank metal sunroof in Germany. You can see that the general crank mechanism is very similar to that of a Beetle.

Search in the gallery under https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_search.php...t_dir=DESC

[Leoniums]

Thanks a lot for the info.
I am wondering if it's worth to copy that sunroof
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~Nikos

[surfindo]