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morgan8899
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Joined: January 17, 2018
Posts: 32
Location: las vegas
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Added a hidden trunk lock, behind the fold down recessed license plate.
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ehicks99
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Joined: April 21, 2023
Posts: 3
Location: Virginia
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2023 5:59 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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I removed the passenger seat with the goal of recovering it. Does anyone have pictures or instructions on disassembling the seats on a 73 Ghia?  |
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sputnick60
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Joined: July 22, 2007
Posts: 3916
Location: In Molinya Orbit
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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 Jul 19, 2023 3:11 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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Installed headliner in my vert and tinkered with a bunch of other little things to tighten up what remains. Moving on to top cover install.
Check my thread for updates.
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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gorbur
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Joined: October 10, 2010
Posts: 187
Location: West of Calgary
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2023 1:00 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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Back working on the Ghia after a 4 month hiatus.
The push is to get the all the rust repair done and off to get stripped before fall. Final piece was an improperly placed patch panel over the drivers rear wheel well. That and some inner fender rust through.
This was the first sign of trouble a small blister through 4mm of filler.
Unfortunately the prior repair was lapped.
Inner rust through cut out
Inner patched and primer applied.
Outer in place, rough ground with primer.
I drove this car for years thinking it was fairly solid. From 30 feet away it looked fine and drove just as well. With that, planned on the body restoration to be "basic".
Reading through others restoration posts it should have been apparent the consistency of what to expect. Next weeks project is to clean up some of the dimples on the nose.
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73 - Ghia Cabriolet, currently under resto
76 - Type1, 1776, full restomod
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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: Thu Jul 20, 2023 1:46 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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Great looking work!
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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gorbur
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Joined: October 10, 2010
Posts: 187
Location: West of Calgary
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2023 4:26 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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Thanks Jeff, Your restoration is one I follow closely. Now that your on the convertible top its really going to be helpful.
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73 - Ghia Cabriolet, currently under resto
76 - Type1, 1776, full restomod |
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Marcdeb
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Joined: May 22, 2019
Posts: 3038
Location: Vermont
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2023 4:35 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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Looking good. You make it look so easy. How fortunate you are to have the skills needed to attack this sort of project. Looking forward to seeing more progress.
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Marc
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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desmato
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Joined: January 03, 2016
Posts: 56
Location: Michigan, USA, Earth, Milkyway, Universe,... Bottom of some being's shoe !
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2023 5:05 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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FINALLY got it off to body/paint ! So many little things for him to do, i call it "death by papercuts"
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kiwighia68
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Joined: October 20, 2013
Posts: 2877
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2023 12:45 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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A 6-monthly ritual here in New Zealand for classic cars: Getting a new Warrant of Fitness.
I was first in line on a chilly winter's Saturday morning, to the frustration of the men behind me because the inspectors had no clue how to handle a classic VW. What usually takes 15 minutes took an hour.
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Festina lente - hasten slowly
1968 Ghia named Emiko
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Artistic gearhead
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Joined: June 26, 2022
Posts: 86
Location: Vancouver Island
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2023 5:11 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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Replacing all exterior body rubber on front and back of my 69. Little Carmela love helping “gampa” work on his car. She knows how to lug bolts already.
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jeffrey8164 
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Joined: January 06, 2018
Posts: 3820
Location: Georgia
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 10:30 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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That is too precious. Enjoy it while it lasts. My granddaughter is already to the point where she doesn’t wanna hang out with us old folks anymore.
Well this week I had to pull my engine to fix a main seal leak.
Turns out the dowel pins were just barely longer than the depth of the flywheel so it wasn’t holding tight. I think I Dodged a bullet as there’s no damage to the dowels or the flywheel and the endplay is still .004.
So I ground a little off the ends, put a new seal and now it’s on the shelf.
Since it was out, I decided to change the cam and heads, so I’m ending up just building a new motor.
Now I have to figure out what to do with this one. It’s perfectly good. It only has about 3000 miles on it so I don’t know if I’ll sell it or use it as art.
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Volkswagen!
Turning owners into mechanics since 1938.
“Let he that is without oil throw the first rod”
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jeffrey8164
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Joined: January 06, 2018
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Location: Georgia
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 10:47 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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Since I’m waiting for parts for the new engine ( I opened up my Total Seal rings to find 3 of them broken and too late to whine about them) I picked up some control arms for my front passenger side. Now I can get positive and negative caster. Yay! No more eating tires.
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Volkswagen!
Turning owners into mechanics since 1938.
“Let he that is without oil throw the first rod”
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Filipke
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Joined: October 10, 2017
Posts: 91
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2023 9:50 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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Did Some welding today
How do you guys seal these 2 vertical openings between the front outside rocker/middle part and the last part of outside rocker?
Weld them complete close? Leave them open with little seal or kit in between?
Thx for the advice!
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modoc_333
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Joined: April 22, 2023
Posts: 14
Location: Alabama
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| Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2023 8:17 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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| I had a very productive week. The car would drive but not right. And only sometimes! Replaced battery and terminal ends. Replaced and adjusted accelerator pedal. Tuned the carb. I was only getting the first 30% of throttle and it was running rich. Runs like a top now! Did some clean up on running wires and got my heater handles fixed. Adjusted the parking brake. Almost like a new car in my eyes. Plenty to go though. |
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smitty9006
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Joined: December 07, 2008
Posts: 17
Location: Seminole. FL USA
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2023 8:55 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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Replace the steering wheel and shifter, installed coco mats, cibie fog lights, removed bumper guards…
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Marcdeb
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Joined: May 22, 2019
Posts: 3038
Location: Vermont
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smitty9006
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Joined: December 07, 2008
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Location: Seminole. FL USA
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2023 11:48 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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Beautiful Ghia!! Looks like it could be brand new.  |
Thanks marcdeb! |
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mouse action
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Joined: May 15, 2022
Posts: 132
Location: East curse
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| Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2023 4:22 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your ghia this week? |
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When this car got delivered the battery came loose and bounced around in the engine compartment causing all kinds of ugly,,after looking at it for a year it was time to fix it.
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Marcdeb
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