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didget69
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Braukuche
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Now that’s a real fat chick! Perfect for the Mecum crowd, they love turds like that.
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John Moxon 
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TDCTDI
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Aww, come on y’all, that’s a genius way of covering up all of the typical rot & accident damage and none of y’all can use the go-to “filled molding”, “missing torsion cover”, “Damaged nose” talking points.  The idiots that get turned on by this will NEVER think to look under all that shit.
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rbsurfguy
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So there are window cranks on the doors but no quarter glass...that might be a problem in the rain, oh wait, maybe they are electronically operated from the space shuttle control panel on the dash....I like different, but as John said..FUUUUGLY!
Jeff
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 5:28 am Post subject: Re: Umm... No. |
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So there are window cranks on the doors but no quarter glass...that might be a problem in the rain, oh wait, maybe they are electronically operated from the space shuttle control panel on the dash....I like different, but as John said..FUUUUGLY!
Jeff |
Yeah... Ummm... I somehow doubt that they made new glass to match the altered roofline.
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Era Vulgaris
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File this under...
-Someone has more money than sense
-Just because you're rich doesn't mean you're smart
-There's no accounting for taste
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Trylon
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Can it legally sport the Ghia logo?
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xzener
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Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
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VeloMikey
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It looks like the "Linear Power" IMSA Ghia from the 80's.
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Trylon
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| Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 7:43 am Post subject: Re: Umm... No. |
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Are you a King Crimson fan, Xzener?
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EverettB
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Interesting but the engine did nothing for me, it looks like it's all cheap chrome tin and aftermarket crap.
Plus it looks like there is a huge engine tin gap under the lower pulley?
Engine pic below...
Here's all the pics, I grabbed them so they are here on the site:
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EverettB
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rcooled
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| Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 11:45 am Post subject: Re: Umm... No. |
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Obviously created by a charter member of the More-Money-Than-Brains Club 
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KGCoupe
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| Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 11:48 am Post subject: Re: Umm... No. |
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| rbsurfguy wrote: |
So there are window cranks on the doors but no quarter glass...that might be a problem in the rain, oh wait, maybe they are electronically operated from the space shuttle control panel on the dash....I like different, but as John said..FUUUUGLY!
Jeff |
Yeah... Ummm... I somehow doubt that they made new glass to match the altered roofline. |
Looking at some of the pics that EverettB posted, it appears that there is some dark tinted quarter glass in the 2nd and 3rd photo, ...
I understand that pretty much none of those mods are even remotely "in style" now, ... but there was a time in the not-so-distant past when that may have very well been a totally bitchin' rad ride.
As previously mentioned, it does look very much like this former poster star IMSA Karmann Ghia ...
... and it looks a whole lot better than this other attempt at an IMSA Karmann Ghia ...
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rbsurfguy
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Yeah KG, I wasn't sure about the quarter glass, thought it might be shadows.
The engine is definitely missing that piece of tin under the lower pulley, and that engine case bolt is definitely not kosher, but hey, it's got purple led lights in the engine compartment, so......
Jeff
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CiderGuy
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Actually I do like the suicide doors.
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kiwighia68
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| Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 12:58 pm Post subject: Re: Umm... No. |
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Probably cheaper (and easier) to build that car than to restore a rust-bucket like mine to stock, or even near stock.
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gondiwindi
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| Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 7:58 pm Post subject: Re: Umm... No. |
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