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John Moxon Samba Moderator
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Gary Person of Interest
Joined: November 01, 2002 Posts: 17069 Location: 127.0.0.1
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Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:48 am Post subject: |
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_________________ West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) |
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John Moxon Samba Moderator
Joined: March 07, 2004 Posts: 13935 Location: Southampton U.K.
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c21darrel Samba Member
Joined: January 22, 2009 Posts: 8206 Location: San Dimas
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Nice find Gary, looks like it has a dehne fuel gauge. |
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Altema Samba Member
Joined: June 20, 2010 Posts: 2903 Location: Lower Michigan
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Pretty car, but that roofless bus in the last photo looks interesting as well.
Not sure how comfortable I'd be in traffic though...
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retrowagen Samba Member
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The Ghia-Aigle Coupe is interesting and pretty. Ghia-Aigle was an independent Swiss-based offshoot of Carrozzeria Ghia; they shared a designer or two briefly but then worked in separate spheres and had nothing to do with another. The Ghia-Aigle Coupe was one of many coachbuilts from independent coachbuilders (such as Rometsch, Wendler, Drews, Hebmüller, Beutler, etc.) trying to either grab contract work for Volkswagen (as Hebmüller and Karmann had successfully done, Hebmüller semi-successfully, that is), or individual commission work from wealthy Europeans seeking a stylish, exclusive, and trouble-free economy car. At the time it was built, Ghia-Aigle was in the midst of a three-year relocation in Lugano, Switzerland (Canton Ticino, an Italian-speaking region of CH), not its namesake Aigle (Canton Vaud, a French-speaking region of CH).
Right around the year 2000, the VW Automuseum bought a few interesting coachbuilts, and have restored them, including the gold-colored Beutler Coupe and this car. The original Ghia-Aigle featured (much better looking) hubcaps in place of the current, rather mundane wheel combo now seen, was not painted an art deco color, and did not have a Super Beetle shift knob.
Complete history about this individual car here: http://www.ghia-aigle.info/cars.htm
More history about the coachbuilding firm here: http://www.ghia-aigle.info/index.htm _________________ David Ruby
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DONGKG The Araneta Boys
Joined: August 28, 2006 Posts: 5475 Location: Cainta, Rizal, Philippines, "A Certified Type 3 and Karmann Ghia Maniac"
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Endopotential Samba Member
Joined: February 13, 2012 Posts: 186 Location: Pacifica, California
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Of all the cars reputed to be predecessors of our Karmann Ghia, this one seems to come the closest. What a gorgeous body. There are a lot of design cues that fortunately got passed on.
This one just sold for $1.8 million.
Hmm, just a matter of time before our KG's start racking up 7 figures?
http://money.cnn.com/gallery/autos/2013/03/13/ameila-island-million-dollar-cars/5.html
The sleek body on this Fiat was created by Ghia, an auto design company most famous for its work with Chrysler. In fact, when Chrysler executives got word that this model was in the works, Chrysler designer and engineer Paul Farago put in an order for this particular car, the first of only 15 made. It caused a sensation as it hit the roads in the United States and was even featured in Motor Trend magazine. |
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John Moxon Samba Moderator
Joined: March 07, 2004 Posts: 13935 Location: Southampton U.K.
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 1:29 am Post subject: Re: Fiat 8V |
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Endopotential wrote: |
Of all the cars reputed to be predecessors of our Karmann Ghia, this one seems to come the closest. What a gorgeous body. There are a lot of design cues that fortunately got passed on. |
Yes I have to agree on the design cues being passed up for the Karmann Ghia. I think the timelessness of the KG shape is its simplicity...no design gimmicks, which is usually what dates a design faster than any other. The KG design simplicity was surely aided by the need to create a car to a tight budget.
Although costing considerably more than the Beetle the Karmann Ghia was cheap for a hand built car. _________________ John.
Judson Supercharger Information on The Samba
My 1958 Shorrock Supercharged Karmann Ghia
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