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Blue Baron
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:58 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Ghia photos |
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EverettB
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| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2021 2:06 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Ghia photos |
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Photo reported to be from 1960 Turin auto show
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Don't think they'd display a lowlight at the 1960 Turin show. |
Lowlight or do you mean any VWs?
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I was just referring to the fact that that 1960 was the first year of the KG facelift model with the reprofiled front wings, the car in that display is the earlier model. VW would definitely have been at the show. |
Got it, they probably got the year wrong.
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Waldo Lake
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| Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 4:16 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Ghia photos |
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Photo reported to be from 1960 Turin auto show
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Please, what is the source for Turin and 1960? The Swiss Automobil Revue published this (or a very similar) picture in their report about the Frankfurt auto show in 1957. |
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Waldo Lake
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:38 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Ghia photos |
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Thank you for the Ebay link. The text on the backside of the Ebay picture says: "NEU: Karmann-Ghia-VW als Cabriolet!" (NEW: Karmann-Ghia-VW as convertible!). The Karmann-Ghia convertible was shown for the first time at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1957. Unfortunately I don't have the following pictures in better quality, but this is the picture from the Automobil Revue in September 1957:
The German magazine Auto, Motor und Sport showed the same car from another perspective:
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2021 2:25 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Ghia photos |
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2021 11:20 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Ghia photos |
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Marcdeb
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| Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2021 3:41 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Ghia photos |
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German export plate. |
Since it has an export plate, is it likely that this car is brand new? Looks very new to me. If so, I find it interesting that the nose grills both have bent fins. Anyone that's had a non-lowlight Ghia, knows how easy these bend but I would have thought they would be very straight when the cars were new.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2021 4:23 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Ghia photos |
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German export plate. |
Since it has an export plate, is it likely that this car is brand new? Looks very new to me. If so, I find it interesting that the nose grills both have bent fins. Anyone that's had a non-lowlight Ghia, knows how easy these bend but I would have thought they would be very straight when the cars were new. |
Yes they were typically issued to new cars bought through the "US Tourist Scheme." You ordered your car through a local dealer in the US and were flown to Germany to collect your car from a reception centre and used it for a driving holiday in Germany. Return it to the reception centre and it was shipped on to you whilst you flew home to await its arrival. I have my export plate hanging on the wall above my computer screen as I type. 
As for the "bent" fins, I think its likely to be an optical illusion caused by the use of a wide angle lens and the low viewpoint.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2021 8:50 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Ghia photos |
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Is it missing the turn signal covers or are they clear? Looks like I can see the bulbs?
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TornadoRed06
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:27 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Ghia photos |
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| Looks like the capture was taken at Raffay dealer, Hamburg. |
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TornadoRed06
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:30 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Ghia photos |
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Meanwhile: please overlook the obvious Beetle because there's a classy two tone Karmann-Ghia down the line.
And for all the VW fans, there's even a Transporter in this caption too!
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Blue Baron
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