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Marcdeb
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Location: Vermont
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 Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:32 am Post subject: Re: Ghia Owners...Post Your Ghias |
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TDCTDI, Your photography skills seem to be right up there with your mechanical expertise.
I'm impressed with both.  |
That’s quite the honor considering I just make the shit up as I go in both fields. 
For what it’s worth, I started downloading pics to instagram under “the_ghiapet”. |
I'm amazed. Your photography reflects someone with a lot of training. Obviously then it's a natural talent! The pictures are such that they keep me staring at them to make sure I don't miss any detail. I really think you could make an awesome Calendar with these pictures. The only problem would be picking just 12 photos!!
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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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Marcdeb
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Joined: May 22, 2019
Posts: 3035
Location: Vermont
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| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:37 am Post subject: Re: Ghia Owners...Post Your Ghias |
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| I'm pretty sure I've seen that tree in the background of nearly every single Scooby Doo episode. |
It's amazing how ominous a Crepe Myrtle looks in B&W. I was making a U-turn when I saw the low fence, then it's proximity to the Crepe myrtle. I wasn't even trying to get the car in the pic but I kept moving around the tree to use it to obscure a cable box (Barely visible just under the right edge of the tree.) and a guy-wire. The bright green modern stake (up the center of the car.) & telephone pole (Just to the right of the car.) is masked by converting the image to B&W. |
I dunno. Their’s something more generally disturbing about the South in b&w:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/YsPV4qageTWRjFF58 |
That's because of how that image was altered &/or processed in B&W, Judging by the shadows, that was an extremely bright, sunny day, that image would be no where as ominous or moody in color.
Here's mine reverted back to original.
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Certainly gives a totally different picture but I find them both equally beautiful pictures.
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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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TDCTDI
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Joined: August 31, 2013
Posts: 12858
Location: North Carolina
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| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:51 am Post subject: Re: Ghia Owners...Post Your Ghias |
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| Marcdeb wrote: |
| TDCTDI wrote: |
| Marcdeb wrote: |
TDCTDI, Your photography skills seem to be right up there with your mechanical expertise.
I'm impressed with both. |
That’s quite the honor considering I just make the shit up as I go in both fields.
For what it’s worth, I started downloading pics to instagram under “the_ghiapet”. |
I'm amazed. Your photography reflects someone with a lot of training. Obviously then it's a natural talent! The pictures are such that they keep me staring at them to make sure I don't miss any detail. I really think you could make an awesome Calendar with these pictures. The only problem would be picking just 12 photos!! |
Again, THANK YOU! I have never taken any photography classes or , outside of some classes in middle school, any formal art classes. Most of these images that have been selected are single image of sometimes dozens from many different angles & viewpoints of the same scene.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
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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didget69
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Joined: July 22, 2004
Posts: 4927
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
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| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:46 am Post subject: Re: Ghia Owners...Post Your Ghias |
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Stalked by The Ghiapet.
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Something I personally do not want to see some dark and stormy night. |
I'm pretty sure I've seen that tree in the background of nearly every single Scooby Doo episode. |
... Chris is familiar with Scooby D-oH'...
bryan - the Non-meddling Kid.
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calexican
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Joined: June 11, 2008
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Location: El Paso, TX
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| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:12 am Post subject: Re: Ghia Owners...Post Your Ghias |
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Inspired by Ghia pet, took this shot near the Rio Grande in a pecan grove. |
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TDCTDI
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Joined: August 31, 2013
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Location: North Carolina
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| Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2020 9:20 am Post subject: Re: Ghia Owners...Post Your Ghias |
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Since it is likely that it will be removed or destroyed, I made a special trip to take a photo before it is lost to history. The General Robert E Lee monument in Richmond VA.
With a riot as a strong possibility tonight, police were out in numbers & there was a steady stream of rollbacks & tow trucks clearing the streets of potential hiding spots & fire hazards. |
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
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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LVGhia72
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Joined: April 22, 2020
Posts: 282
Location: Lost Wages
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| Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2020 11:33 am Post subject: Re: Ghia Owners...Post Your Ghias |
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Sad 
History, despite it's wrenching pain, cannot be erased, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Could someone school these idiots!!! |
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KGCoupe
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Location: Putting the "ill" and "annoy" in Illinois
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| Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2020 12:14 pm Post subject: Re: Ghia Owners...Post Your Ghias |
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Inspired by Ghia pet, took this shot near the Rio Grande in a pecan grove. |
Until seeing this photo now and the way the shadows obscure the bottom half of the familiar nose, I never before realized just how similar the design of the Porsche 356 is to the Karmann Ghia when viewed head on. |
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 6:32 am Post subject: Re: Ghia Owners...Post Your Ghias |
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| calexican wrote: |
Inspired by Ghia pet, took this shot near the Rio Grande in a pecan grove. |
Thank you sir. I hope all of my exploits & photo proof inspires everyone to go drive their VWs & share their adventures with the rest. Even the most mundane or derelict surroundings is enriched by the mere presence of a VW.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
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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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2020 3:17 pm Post subject: Re: Ghia Owners...Post Your Ghias |
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
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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Rsellen
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Joined: July 20, 2018
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Location: Glenmoore, PA
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| Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 5:46 pm Post subject: Re: Ghia Owners...Post Your Ghias |
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74 Ghia - sort of.
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Dave Humby
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Joined: May 24, 2020
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Location: Southampton UK
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| Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 9:30 am Post subject: Re: Ghia Owners...Post Your Ghias |
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A couple of pics from today from the south coast of the UK. Alexa is a 1971 LHD originally from Monterey. |
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John Moxon 
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KGCoupe
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Location: Putting the "ill" and "annoy" in Illinois
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| Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 12:52 pm Post subject: Re: Ghia Owners...Post Your Ghias |
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The Ghia clan is gathering in the Southampton area and they're all very nice ones too. 
Looks perfect Dave. |
Indeed. One might even say that the number of Karmann Ghias there is approaching Titanic proportions! |
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 5:25 am Post subject: Re: Ghia Owners...Post Your Ghias |
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
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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Tahlequah
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 6:02 am Post subject: Re: Ghia Owners...Post Your Ghias |
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My $100 KG
My horrible vert project
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evan94
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 12:53 pm Post subject: Re: Ghia Owners...Post Your Ghias |
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jwp67
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 1:54 pm Post subject: Re: Ghia Owners...Post Your Ghias |
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I'm legal!!! After 8 months I finally got my plates and pulled it out of the back yard. She went on her first little excursion and I am grinning from ear to ear. I know it is not perfect, but IT IS MINE! Super Super Happy!
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 2:18 pm Post subject: Re: Ghia Owners...Post Your Ghias |
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Great job y’all, they ain’t gotta be perfect to enjoy every minute of them.
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An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
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