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lemke
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 Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 9:11 pm Post subject: What About These Bumpers? |
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Check out these bumpers on this late model Ghia – I wonder where they came from…? Way better looking than stock, IMO.
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waxhead
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| Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 7:29 am Post subject: BUmpers |
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| Naahh - too straight. They don't follow the curves of the car... |
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coad 
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| I've heard there is a way to mount 60's Volvo fenders to a late Ghia. Could this be that? |
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johan_l
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have also heard that... you mean bumpers and not fenders? in sweden there are plenty of old volvos, still every ghia I have seen uses either no bumper at all or original bumpers...
what volvo model would that be? Amazon, PV, Duett? Think they all have bigger bumpers... 140 models would be to wide...
looks like notch-back-bumpers to me?
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Gary
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Are you sure those aren't Ghia bumpers with the overriders removed? I have seen people weld the three different sections together for a straight blade appearance.
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lemke
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| Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Norman wrote: |
| Are you sure those aren't Ghia bumpers with the overriders removed? I have seen people weld the three different sections together for a straight blade appearance. |
Could be, but as you may know, the later (post 1971) Ghias had those snowplow bumpers. If they are modified Ghia bumpers, then they are obviously early ones. |
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lemke
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| Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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I believe I have figured out where those bumpers came from. The pictures that I posted were found in the Ghia gallery, and I was too tired last night to notice that these pictures were taken at an event in Columbia, so I would bet that those are Brazilian Ghia bumpers. I recall seeing a picture in the now defunct Ghia-Gab from House of Ghia that had a photo of a Brazilian Ghia. Except for a few minor body and interior differences, it was virtually the same as a late sixties Ghia. If memory serves, it had these kinda bumpers. It also had the fake wood dash, but Ghia of Brazil took that look even farther – they extended the wood look to the door panels. I recall reading that in Brazil it was the common form of transportation for hookers. That gave the car a bad reputation in Brazil. I found a grainy picture of a Brazilian Ghia, but the bumpers still don't look quite the same:
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coad
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| Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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| johan_l wrote: |
| have also heard that... you mean bumpers and not fenders? |
Yup. Bumpers. When you get to be my age, mental lapses are apr for the course. |
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Rome
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| Did not the late Ghias ('72 on) use the same bumpers as the Type 3s? If so, then would not those blades in the photos be EARLY T3 ('69 and earlier) bumpers without the overriders? |
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