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shoebird
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Joined: September 15, 2021
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Location: Duisburg Germany
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 Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 6:21 am Post subject: ´58 Lowlight from Germany |
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Hey everybody, im mike from Germany and I recently bought myself my all-time dreamcar, a early coupe.
Its a 1958 lowlight in cardinal red in pretty good shape for its years.
It was sold to California and now came back to Germany.
Already has a Airride, a narrow beam and some empi wheels, but im not really happy with the wheels.
But here it is:
(Will post more pictures when I work on it)
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rbsurfguy
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Joined: August 10, 2008
Posts: 1757
Location: Fairfax, Northern Virginia Formerly Huntington Beach, SoCal
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| Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 7:24 am Post subject: Re: ´58 Lowlight from Germany |
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Welcome Mike! Beautiful Ghia and the stance is awesome! Those are pretty classic wheels and they look good on that car, but I can understand wanting to change them. It's like a woman with shoes, they kind of make the look of the outfit.
Can't wait to see more of this lowlight!
Jeff
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1971 Ghia convertible (Body off rebuild)
2019 VW Atlas 4Motion
2012 Passat-Sold
See my build on The Samba at:
Jeff's 71 Vert Restoration/Reassembly http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6...highlight= |
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shoebird
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Joined: September 15, 2021
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Location: Duisburg Germany
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| Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 7:56 am Post subject: Re: ´58 Lowlight from Germany |
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| rbsurfguy wrote: |
Welcome Mike! Beautiful Ghia and the stance is awesome! Those are pretty classic wheels and they look good on that car, but I can understand wanting to change them. It's like a woman with shoes, they kind of make the look of the outfit.
Can't wait to see more of this lowlight!
Jeff |
thanks! yeah but its hard to find something cool in 5x205, thinking of 15inch fuchses. but not sure. |
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rbsurfguy
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Joined: August 10, 2008
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Location: Fairfax, Northern Virginia Formerly Huntington Beach, SoCal
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Rome
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Joined: June 02, 2004
Posts: 9641
Location: Pearl River, NY
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| Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2021 8:40 am Post subject: Re: ´58 Lowlight from Germany |
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Willkommen zum Samba, Mike. Did the Ghia's suspension modifications (narrowed front beam, airride, non-original wheels, etc.) cause any problems with your insurance or registration process, and especially with the TUeV?
That right side mirror is probably useless for you as driver to see anything behind you. When I fitted a mirror to the right side of my '64 Ghia, I mounted it near the front edge of the door. Much better and useful field of vision. Then I relocated the driver's mirror to the door also, but that was before the car was painted so that the 2 original mounting holes in the fender were easily covered. |
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TRS63
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Joined: December 17, 2017
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Location: Stuttgart - Germany
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shoebird
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Location: Duisburg Germany
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 11:34 am Post subject: Re: ´58 Lowlight from Germany |
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Welcome here, really cool LL !
Greetings from Stuttgart,
Antoine |
Thanks Antoine, saw your Ghia Thread, nice work there! |
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shoebird
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Location: Duisburg Germany
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 11:39 am Post subject: Re: ´58 Lowlight from Germany |
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| Rome wrote: |
Willkommen zum Samba, Mike. Did the Ghia's suspension modifications (narrowed front beam, airride, non-original wheels, etc.) cause any problems with your insurance or registration process, and especially with the TUeV?
That right side mirror is probably useless for you as driver to see anything behind you. When I fitted a mirror to the right side of my '64 Ghia, I mounted it near the front edge of the door. Much better and useful field of vision. Then I relocated the driver's mirror to the door also, but that was before the car was painted so that the 2 original mounting holes in the fender were easily covered. |
Danke and yeah, the mirrors were installed by the previous owner and you're right the passengers mirror is useless. I will change it to the original schwanenhals on the left and no mirror on the right side.
the TÜV in Germany is awful but you can get a "classic car collectors" registration when you own more then one classic car and then you can run cars like these pretty much legal haha. well, kind of legal. |
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shoebird
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Location: Duisburg Germany
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| Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2021 12:20 pm Post subject: Re: ´58 Lowlight from Germany |
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started to polish the old paint and I am pretty happy about the patina the car has.
also happy with the bumpers after hours of polishing.
at a friends garage (you can spot a splitbus there)
and my mum gave me her old roof rack from her 1969 Ghia she owned before I was born:
Painted the front fenders to match them a bit better to the rest of the car:
But noticed that somethings wrong there.
Unfortunately it has wrong wheel cuts from an younger model.
I did not know that the lowlights have smaller wheel cuts. Anyway, I already ordered all the repair sheets. Hopefully I get them welded in and painted this winter. |
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udo dreisoerner
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Location: Germany
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| Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2021 5:13 am Post subject: Re: ´58 Lowlight from Germany |
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regards from germany
very nice low. udo
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shoebird
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| Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2021 12:35 am Post subject: Re: ´58 Lowlight from Germany |
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As i found out that my wheel arches have been changed to younger models, i decided to get that fixed and correct.
It was also missing the karmann badge on the right side.
I already got all the metal parts:
Now im searching for the correct chrome and badges.
Meanwhile i shot some pictures at my buddies garage:
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overboost
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| Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2021 6:31 am Post subject: Re: ´58 Lowlight from Germany |
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| shoebird wrote: |
Meanwhile i shot some pictures at my buddies garage:
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Your buddy's garage is spectacular. I would love a hangout place like that to have friends and cars over. Fantastic!
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rbsurfguy
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Location: Fairfax, Northern Virginia Formerly Huntington Beach, SoCal
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| Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2021 11:16 am Post subject: Re: ´58 Lowlight from Germany |
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X2!! I was going to say the same thing. Looks like an awesome place to park a bunch of old VW's, fire up the grill, and hang out!
Jeff
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1971 Ghia convertible (Body off rebuild)
2019 VW Atlas 4Motion
2012 Passat-Sold
See my build on The Samba at:
Jeff's 71 Vert Restoration/Reassembly http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6...highlight= |
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