58 patina ghia

[calexican]

Had to post this here so it can be seen correctly... Instagram seems to cut off the borders and messes up the balance of the photos... I must be doing something wrong there.

[dc]

Good composition - I like the leading lines of crop rows - it visually ties the clouds to the patina paint
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1963 Karmann Ghia

[Trylon]

Remarkable what a Karmann Ghia adds to a landscape!
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1973 Porsche 914 2.0
1959 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia
1979 Volkswagen Rabbit
1973 Volkswagen Bus
1970 MGB-GT
1962 Oldsmobile Jetfire

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[TRS63]

What a picture

Antoine
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My 62 ragtop daily driver:
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=728873
My 914 restoration&lightweight project :
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9698432#9698432
Resurrecting a 60 ghia : https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=713906
My 52 Standard Zwitter :
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10086685#10086685

[calexican]

Thanks gents. I seriously got lucky with the rows symmetrically placed in the window. I parked the car, got out, centered, took one shot and that was it.

[calexican]

Thanks to John Moxon for the ‘oil paint’ filter here, I think this is beautiful.

[aerosilver]

Great shot

[KGCoupe]

[rich caramadre]

calexican, I love how you have approached your car. Although I just finished my 2nd oval beetle down to bare metal and new shiny paint I really enjoy cars that look their age. My next project is this 58' Ghia. I am so torn whether to take your approach or totally restore it. I'm leaning toward fixing the rust and getting it running and enjoy as it is. We will see if I feel the same after I get into the repair work. Cheers.

[calexican]

Thank you! I think your car has great potential for a patina ghia. I didn’t fix any of my rusted parts... would still love to do that, but I can’t really afford to do it right, and don’t have welding skills, so I dream on looking at other people here on the samba do it. Something kind of great too just leaving it original, (this is what I tell myself) and cruise down the road care free. Keep us posted, you can always do a full restore later after you get her running and driving and enjoying.

[calexican]

Feeling good about this... been needing to replace tie rod ends since forever... turns out to be a pretty easy job if you get the tie rod tool... the left side was original, so I’m waiting for the complete assembly to come in to finish up.

[calexican]

Here’s the old and the new.

The old one looks to be original.

Installed! Now I got to get an alignment.

[calexican]

So nice to be back on the road, solid front end and good alignment. Looks like we might have good photo for some album art.

[John Moxon]

[calexican]

They don’t... I haven’t met them, it’s a used car lot, very small and I haven’t seen them open in a while, usually there are cars parked where I parked, so I popped in there when it was vacant and took the shot. I was thinking that could be a cool oil paint filter shot too.

[John Moxon]

[finster]

how about a photo on a starry night...?

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[calexican]

Ha ha ha ha!! I’m sure he would a loved it.

[calexican]

Thanks a lot John. I think it’s great.

[John Moxon]