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c21darrel
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TDCTDI
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Oh boy, y’all gotta watch this!!!!
Some dumbfuck has already bid this poor beast up to $1100.
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rbsurfguy
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 8:26 am Post subject: Re: Example of Overpriced Ghias & Ghia Parts |
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So I don't get it, they wouldn't let you keep it or buy it back, or you just didn't want it? Was it so beyond repair it wasn't worth keeping? Just wondering. You put so much time and energy, and parts into it, and adventures, I thought you would have been willing to try and get it back.
Long Live the Ghia Pet!!
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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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 2:58 pm Post subject: Re: Example of Overpriced Ghias & Ghia Parts |
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It bent the shell enough that the passenger door wouldn’t open & the driver door wouldn’t close. EVERYTHING, that I installed was removed, with the exception of new pans, brake master cylinder, torsion housing truss, miata seats & a ragged Formuling steering wheel. Whoever gets it is gonna be upset. It’ll be fun if they show up here. 
It could have been repaired, but I wouldn’t have paid for that amount of work. I could have done a re-shell, but then I’d still have to deal with the DMV & it still would have had a salvage title, all the shit everyone wants to whine about first. I just decided to go grab another project to dive into instead.
Meet the Warthog...
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=750118
The only Thing in the history of the world lifted with parts scavenged from a Ghia.
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GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
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rbsurfguy
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 4:28 pm Post subject: Re: Example of Overpriced Ghias & Ghia Parts |
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Sounds like you did the right thing <-- Pun intended. I guess you grabbed what you could and transferred over to the Warthog! Love the name. I guess I'll have to peek over at the Thing forum to follow your adventures there. At least the Warthog looks to be more suited to your off road adventures, though won't be as fun on the dirt tracks, unless you fix a solid roll cage, just in case.
Thanks for the backstory,
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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Braukuche
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 4:57 pm Post subject: Re: Example of Overpriced Ghias & Ghia Parts |
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That just sucks about Ghiapet. What sort of asshat put their car in reverse and guns it at an intersection?
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1956 Ghia
1959 SO-23 Westfalia
1960 double cab
1960 Baja Bug
1963 stretched double cab
1962 Golde sunroof Ghia
1963 356 B coupe
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Braukuche
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2021 8:19 am Post subject: Re: Example of Overpriced Ghias & Ghia Parts |
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These guys must think it’s 2019.
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2468352
A non rusty Ghia convertible plus running for $15-$20k? Good luck with that.
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1956 Ghia
1959 SO-23 Westfalia
1960 double cab
1960 Baja Bug
1963 stretched double cab
1962 Golde sunroof Ghia
1963 356 B coupe
1963 Notchback
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John Moxon 
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Loren
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2021 9:20 am Post subject: Re: Example of Overpriced Ghias & Ghia Parts |
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Last year I helped a friend sell his 68 Ghia cabriolet. It was a really nice driver and well taken care of. No visible rust that I could see, and I looked in all the usual places. The paint had a few chips, but was really nice. We sold it for $20k . So you can still find good cabriolets in that range, you just have to be really patient and lucky  |
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Braukuche
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| Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:11 pm Post subject: Re: Example of Overpriced Ghias & Ghia Parts |
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Shenanigans!
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2468869
60 front clip or 60 on a 63 pan?
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Go Reds! Smash state!
Retirement is here!
1956 Ghia
1959 SO-23 Westfalia
1960 double cab
1960 Baja Bug
1963 stretched double cab
1962 Golde sunroof Ghia
1963 356 B coupe
1963 Notchback
1967 21 window less rusty now |
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Rome
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| Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:23 pm Post subject: Re: Example of Overpriced Ghias & Ghia Parts |
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| That wide-track rear hints to a '67 transaxle. Looks out of place on a narrow-track '63, as does the '70/'71 rear bumper. But few people would notice, along with the '60 gas tank that Brau mentioned. No manual choke knob above the ignition switch, so likely not a '60 body. |
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Braukuche
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| Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 5:05 pm Post subject: Re: Example of Overpriced Ghias & Ghia Parts |
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| Rome wrote: |
| That wide-track rear hints to a '67 transaxle. Looks out of place on a narrow-track '63, as does the '70/'71 rear bumper. But few people would notice, along with the '60 gas tank that Brau mentioned. No manual choke knob above the ignition switch, so likely not a '60 body. |
I’m thinking 60 clip, look at the later fuse box sitting in there.
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Retirement is here!
1956 Ghia
1959 SO-23 Westfalia
1960 double cab
1960 Baja Bug
1963 stretched double cab
1962 Golde sunroof Ghia
1963 356 B coupe
1963 Notchback
1967 21 window less rusty now |
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Marcdeb
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| Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 5:41 pm Post subject: Re: Example of Overpriced Ghias & Ghia Parts |
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| Rome wrote: |
| That wide-track rear hints to a '67 transaxle. Looks out of place on a narrow-track '63, as does the '70/'71 rear bumper. But few people would notice, along with the '60 gas tank that Brau mentioned. No manual choke knob above the ignition switch, so likely not a '60 body. |
I’m thinking 60 clip, look at the later fuse box sitting in there. |
Apparently, it's a Frankenstein.
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68 Karmann Ghia Cabrio Autostick
71 Karmann Ghia Cabrio
Previously Owned:
2011 VW EOS Hard Top Conv
2008 Saab 9-3 2.0T Conv
2003 Saab 9-3 SE Conv
2001 Saab 9-3 Conv
1998 BMW 3 Series Conv
1997 Saab 900 Conv
1997 Mazda Miata
68 Ghia Vert Survivor with 22,350 miles: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=768107&highlight=
71 Ghia Vert Restoration: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=726710&postorder=asc |
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John Moxon
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crocteau
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2021 4:45 am Post subject: Re: Example of Overpriced Ghias & Ghia Parts |
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| ...and who paints the air cleaner set up bright RED. |
That was probably done to distract discerning viewers from mundane issues such as the deck lid seal. On a positive note: the car does have the roomiest glovebox I've seen on a Ghia.  |
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Marcdeb
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2021 5:19 am Post subject: Re: Example of Overpriced Ghias & Ghia Parts |
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| crocteau wrote: |
| John Moxon wrote: |
| ...and who paints the air cleaner set up bright RED. |
That was probably done to distract discerning viewers from mundane issues such as the deck lid seal. On a positive note: the car does have the roomiest glovebox I've seen on a Ghia. |
Oh! That's not the passenger side air vent  
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68 Karmann Ghia Cabrio Autostick
71 Karmann Ghia Cabrio
Previously Owned:
2011 VW EOS Hard Top Conv
2008 Saab 9-3 2.0T Conv
2003 Saab 9-3 SE Conv
2001 Saab 9-3 Conv
1998 BMW 3 Series Conv
1997 Saab 900 Conv
1997 Mazda Miata
68 Ghia Vert Survivor with 22,350 miles: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=768107&highlight=
71 Ghia Vert Restoration: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=726710&postorder=asc |
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c21darrel
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VeloMikey
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Braukuche
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| Posted: Tue May 04, 2021 11:58 am Post subject: Re: Example of Overpriced Ghias & Ghia Parts |
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If it’s a what you see is what you get car then you’ll by paying out the nose to complete it.
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Retirement is here!
1956 Ghia
1959 SO-23 Westfalia
1960 double cab
1960 Baja Bug
1963 stretched double cab
1962 Golde sunroof Ghia
1963 356 B coupe
1963 Notchback
1967 21 window less rusty now |
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Fri May 07, 2021 6:31 am Post subject: Re: Example of Overpriced Ghias & Ghia Parts |
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Hahahahaha!!!!! 
https://winstonsalem.craigslist.org/cto/d/winston-salem-concours-karmann-ghia/7306897362.html
Someone gots a severely distorted take on the word “concourse”.
Love the factory green peeking out from under the dash fascia
Love the silhouette of the repositioned wheel weight.
How fucked is the lower half that you think the trim is ‘spoda follow that body line?!?
And you couldn’t straighten & polish those grilles?
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GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.
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