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Jimbuffalo
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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 Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2018 6:41 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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Registered my new-to-me 1973 leatherbeige over Bahia Red convertible in New York.
Had it shipped it from California in January and properly stored since: I've only spent 10 minutes with it!
Hope to give it a good look-over in the next couple weeks.
Anticipation is building, for sure. |
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KGCoupe
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Joined: July 01, 2005
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Location: Putting the "ill" and "annoy" in Illinois
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2018 7:49 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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| Jimbuffalo wrote: |
Registered my new-to-me 1973 leatherbeige over Bahia Red convertible in New York.
Had it shipped it from California in January and properly stored since: I've only spent 10 minutes with it!
Hope to give it a good look-over in the next couple weeks.
Anticipation is building, for sure. |
Congratulations on acquiring your new Karmann Ghia!
Coincidentally, my anticipation is building as well ... to see a photo of that little Leatherbeige over Bahia Red Cabriolet.  |
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Jimbuffalo
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2018 9:27 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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Here you go.
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c21darrel
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Location: San Dimas
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kiwighia68
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Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2018 11:46 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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| c21darrel wrote: |
| :shock: Wow, very clean, Congrats. |
Can't argue with nice. Beautiful Ghai, well presented.
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myghiarocks
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Joined: June 02, 2009
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Location: DFW area Texas
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2018 12:38 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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Beautiful Ghia, nice find
Didn't realize that global warming has made Buffalo a tropical climate, love the palm trees |
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KGCoupe
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Location: Putting the "ill" and "annoy" in Illinois
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2018 7:41 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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| myghiarocks wrote: |
Beautiful Ghia, nice find
Didn't realize that global warming has made Buffalo a tropical climate, love the palm trees |
Acquiring a Karmann Ghia - particularly one as clean and beautiful as that - can make your whole world a better place to live!
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Jimbuffalo
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 6:30 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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| myghiarocks wrote: |
Beautiful Ghia, nice find
Didn't realize that global warming has made Buffalo a tropical climate, love the palm trees |
Buffalo NY is often misunderstood. I live here by choice.
The plan right now is to wait for some spring rains to wash winter from the roads...certainly not before April. This gives me time to carve out room in the garage.
I'll give it a good looking over between now and then and start seeing what air-cooled power feels like again. Thanks for the props. |
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jeffrey8164 
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Joined: January 06, 2018
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Location: Georgia
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| Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 9:49 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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Okay. This week amongst other things, I determined I had a 4.37 instead of the 3.88 I thought I had and that I should have had from the beginning. It’s been a 24 year story. Maybe I should tell it. I told some of it in the thread I started about how to figure out what R&P I had.
It’s an ongoing saga and as I’m about to refresh the car after 12 years in the garage I’m thinking a video/pictorial thing might be fun. I’m amassing materiale for an engine and suspension rework as well as touching up some paint work that’s been scratched a bit over the years.
So that brings up some questions. Should I start my own thread for this and in what arena? Can I post video here or do I just link to you tube? I may post the raw footage as I shoot it but I did download a freeware thing for video editing so I can compile the footage into some semblance, put some voiceover and music behind it and see how groovy I can make it.
Here it was a long time ago.
I need to get a picture of how she currently rests.[/youtube] |
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sputnick60
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Location: In Molinya Orbit
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| Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 10:00 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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Hi Jeff
Absolutely YES to starting a thread. In the Ghia Forum look for the button "start new topic". and you are away.
Yes to posting your photos but please put them up here on The Samba because we can control the upkeep of them.
Recently a lot of really good threads have been junked courtesy of policy changes on Photo Bucket and the like.
Yes to video links to YouTube or Vimeo. There are buttons on the second row of the "Edit Post" frame (Right hand side) that will insert the HTML markers for you. SO 1) click the required button, 2) past the URL off your clipboard, 3) click the button again to add the HTML end code.
Sometimes that all happens at the bottom of the edit window so if you cannot see it just look down the bottom and then drag the link up to where it needs to be in the text.
Fill your boots!
Nicholas
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'65 Porsche 356C Coupe...
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rbsurfguy
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Location: Fairfax, Northern Virginia Formerly Huntington Beach, SoCal
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 11:08 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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I continue to clean and classify parts in preparation for reassembly once my Ghia is back from paint. One specific item I did was to take a chance on rebuilding the door striker following the excellent instructions in the "How To" door striker replacement/rebuild thread posted by @Era Vulgaris. The only problem I had was I didn't have to hammer so hard and didn't get to swear as much as he did, except for"Wow, that was F%@*#& easy!" I'll add my findings to that thread, but I think I figured out why he may have had such a difficult time. Find that thread here https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=688527
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1971 Ghia convertible (Body off rebuild)
2019 VW Atlas 4Motion
2012 Passat-Sold
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c21darrel
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rbsurfguy
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 11:39 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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Awesome Darrel, I love the color you chose for your Ghia, very classic looking!
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1971 Ghia convertible (Body off rebuild)
2019 VW Atlas 4Motion
2012 Passat-Sold
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Jeff's 71 Vert Restoration/Reassembly http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6...highlight= |
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c21darrel
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kiwighia68
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 4:43 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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^^Thanks. Took car to work today, biggest decision...ragtop open, ragtop closed...70+ degrees out...hmmm...
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The only thing that's not nice about this car is that it's not parked in my garage.
70 degrees F? That's a nice winter's day here in Auckland. Definitely a ragtop open kind of day.
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c21darrel
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kiwighia68
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 5:40 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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Come and get it Kiwi!!
Just bring yours as a ..you know...collateral. Free for one year, bring it back and you can have yours back. :) You will enjoy rolling onto the gas pedal with 2 litres in back.
Perfect driving weather today!, Rain expected tuesday-friday, 6 inches :shock:
Sunday i'll be out and about looking for VW parts at Drag Days swap meet. Season has officially started. :) |
My car runs very sweetly now. Engine run in after about 3000 miles and I was able to cheat behind a Ferrari the other day and take it up to 80mph - it felt effortless.
I have a shortblock with the right H- series number for my Ghia's year plus a set of Kadrons and I'm thinking of building a very smooth very quiet motor as my next project. While 1641 is cheap and easy, I've been toying with the idea to go to 1776 or slightly bigger.
The advice I have thus far is everything balanced, lightened flywheel, appropriate Engle cam, CB conrods and a particular Vintage Speed exhaust that I can't find anywhere.
And you say...?
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John Moxon
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jeffrey8164
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 9:29 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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This week I shot an unveiling video of Rose, my 70 that's been under a cover for about 12 years. I downloaded Shotcut which is a video editing freeware and started to learn it so I can start a thread on it and post video of the refresh process.
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Here is an introductory video of all the analog photos I scanned in which shows the original restoration. I should have taken a lot more. |
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Wow, very clean, Congrats.
