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stanthedog
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 Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 2:18 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| anyone see the episode of bitchin rides with the silver 71 vert. I liked it. really liked the front grills and engine cover vent. wonder how much that cost for all that was done to it. |
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rcooled
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| Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 5:14 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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A light-colored coupe is parked at the curb as our subject car drives by in a scene from Martin Scorsese's 'Mean Streets', released in 1973.
Possibly another Ghia at the lower-right in the pic. Can't tell for sure...
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NOVA Airhead
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| Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:47 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| anyone see the episode of bitchin rides with the silver 71 vert. I liked it. really liked the front grills and engine cover vent. wonder how much that cost for all that was done to it. |
I remember reading their builds average $250K.
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stanthedog
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| Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 2:32 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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"I remember reading their builds average $250K."
Didn't think it was that much, but did think it was north of 100k. There paint jobs alone have to be at least 50k. |
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scottyrocks
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| Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 6:15 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| stanthedog wrote: |
"I remember reading their builds average $250K."
Didn't think it was that much, but did think it was north of 100k. There paint jobs alone have to be at least 50k. |
Pardon the question, but when you say a paint job costs 50k, do you mean all the body prep up through the paint job? I can't imagine a paint job alone costing 50k.
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stanthedog
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| Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 2:14 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| not your average run of the mill job. paint like kindig and other custom shops do. after body work, all the prep, and post prep after first coat. then final coats. more prep then clearcoat. then wet sand and polish. cant be cheap. 20yrs ago my brother painted my bug(no labor other than beer cost) took 3 days and 1500 bucks in color and clear. |
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jeffrey8164 
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| Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 2:47 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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It all depends on how perfect you want it and the overhead costs of your endeavor.
Since there is no perfection in this world, achieving it takes a lot of fun or toil depending on how you look at it.
I’ve repainted some areas on my Ghia and it makes me wish I had painted the whole thing to begin with.
To try to keep on topic, I saw a Ghia in an episode of Ridiculousness.
Can’t tell you which one though.
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malley56
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| Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:41 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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In case y’all haven’t seen the new Ameritrade commercial.. Nice green late model
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dubulup
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NOVA Airhead
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NOVA Airhead
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| Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 11:40 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| jeffrey8164 wrote: |
It all depends on how perfect you want it and the overhead costs of your endeavor.
Since there is no perfection in this world, achieving it takes a lot of fun or toil depending on how you look at it.
I’ve repainted some areas on my Ghia and it makes me wish I had painted the whole thing to begin with.
To try to keep on topic, I saw a Ghia in an episode of Ridiculousness.
Can’t tell you which one though. |
On a recent show they said they had been working on a car for more than a year to paint it. Seems crazy but I guess that is what perfection takes.
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jeffrey8164
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| Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 12:02 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Well when you have 5 people looking at it, surely one will find something.
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Canghia
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| Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:25 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| Light blue Ghia and a few beetles in movie Just Mercy in parking lot at the prison. Only noticed Ghia once and Beatles show up a few times. |
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tommu
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| Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2020 9:48 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Lovely orange Ghia in the latest Family Guy. I hope someone reading this forum works on the show 
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rcooled
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| Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 12:45 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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An early-'70s convertible steals the scene in S4, Ep15 of the prime-time soap opera, 'This Is Us' on NBC TV.
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udo dreisoerner
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| Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2020 11:11 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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yesterday the german tv channel ARD shows a movie with red karmann ghia coupe / White roof
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Blind ex-Commissioner Haller and his companion Niko have to solve a kidnapping. The hostage is not unusual, but Haller's sister. To save her, Haller relies on his razor-sharp senses and Nikos eyesight. (translate by Google)
Ghia: around 0:23 and 1:06
Video available until:05.03.2020 ∙ 11:59 p.m.
https://www.ardmediathek.de/daserste/player/Y3JpZD...n-von-wien
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c21darrel
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KGCoupe
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| Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 12:14 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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In case y’all haven’t seen the new Ameritrade commercial.. Nice green late model
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Beetle front bumper. Yikes, the things they do. |
 Yes, that's the whole point of the commercial.
If you use a Beetle front bumper on a Karmann Ghia, then you should Get Smarter.
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rcooled
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| Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2020 6:34 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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This sad decomposing Ghia convertible showed up on TV in last night's episode of Chasing Classic Cars (S15, ep4). Wayne was at Dodi's Auto Sales in Monterey CA looking for some PoS to show at the 2019 Concours d' Lemons.
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Rome
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| Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 1:21 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Terrible rust for a Ghia "found" in Calif., though possibly if left outside close to the ocean and affected by decades of the constant salty air breeze.
Nice looking late '60's Siata Spring (Italian) next to it. My parents gave me a subscription to Car & Driver magazine in ~ 1969 and I remember when that car was featured. |
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