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 dvs_vw
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| posted on July 30th, 2007 at 11:55 AM |
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'62 Karmann Ghia - VW #3
Picked this Ghia up on the weekend, too good a buy to pass up and this will probably take 1st place over the oval for my project car. Its a 2 owner
and has been parked under a house for 29 years, and the last rego sticker reads 5/1978. Its done 53k miles, and is very, very solid, very very
straight, complete and in damn good nick...apart from some rust in the base of the nose where the washer bottle spilt and was left to rot a hole. Its
originally a black exterior/red interior ghia as you can tell by the dash/doors, but was painted factory pacific blue/white in '68 when the guy I
bought it off had owned it for a year and was sick of maintaining black and was sick of the heat! Has a factory radio and the interior is mint, but
dirty, doors are schmick and roof lining is unmarked etc, original motor, all factory sekurit glass and came with some mint condition booklets,
pamphlets, radio instructions and service history logs.
Anyway, enough chat, pics below!
PS: thanks Nick for the loan of the rims/tyres, massive help!:thumb
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bond
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| posted on July 30th, 2007 at 12:06 PM |
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awesome find! cool pics!
now bag it! lol
nick
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| posted on July 30th, 2007 at 12:20 PM |
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That's one nice old girl - well done on the purchase!
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dvs_vw
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| posted on July 30th, 2007 at 12:41 PM |
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posted by bond
awesome find! cool pics!
now bag it! lol
nick
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give me time, it shall happen! 
you at home from work again.....go see a movie or something, haha 
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| posted on July 30th, 2007 at 04:03 PM |
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Nice find, are you going to be putting back to black/red
Spare the Duct tape, spoil the job - Red Green
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| posted on July 30th, 2007 at 04:11 PM |
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Great find. How did you manage to hear about this one?
Looks very neat and tidy. Small amount of rust sounds like a bonus too!
Matt
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dvs_vw
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| posted on July 30th, 2007 at 04:48 PM |
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Frank, nah, after having the black jeep, I can't think of a worse colour for maintaining in the current conditions of non-washing restrictions!
It'll be a Ghia correct, 2 tone combo...maybe single tone though, but I have the colour/s in mind!
Although I'd imagine factory black/red ghia's to be a bit of a rarity, so it might pay to do it, but I know I'd regret it.
Only other rust apart from the base of the nose is a few bubbles along the bottom of the doors, and around the drivers side headlight.
[ Edited on 30-7-2007 by dvs_vw ]
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| posted on July 30th, 2007 at 05:33 PM |
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Great find Michael. Geez the fleet is growing at a rapid rate. Congrats...be great to go back to black, but I can imagine what a summer in a black VW
would be like up there.
Go Nudgee.
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| posted on July 30th, 2007 at 07:24 PM |
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NICE one Michael...!
Tell us the story - where did you find this one?
From what you've said I thought you were having enough trouble fitting the '59 and the oval in the garage?  |
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| posted on July 30th, 2007 at 07:46 PM |
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VERY GOOD!!!
SORRY BOUT THAT!
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| posted on July 30th, 2007 at 07:54 PM |
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Saw this on carsales guys, great pics great buy.
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| posted on July 31st, 2007 at 05:01 AM |
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Congrates on the great find. Looking forward to seeing progress pics.
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| posted on July 31st, 2007 at 09:11 AM |
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posted by Split Rat
Saw this on carsales guys, great pics great buy.
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yeah, no big secret find, just gotta get on them early when they pop up. The owners were determined to sell to the right person, and I got in early
and seemed to fit the bill, showed them the $$'s and snapped it up!
Jon, the 59 is now living elsewhere temporarily, the ghia is in the back of the garage, and the oval is in there aswell, its a very tight fit, and if
the Ghia was lowered it wouldn't fit as the oval's bumper is under the ghia's!
Brad, the fleet stops here, I'm banning myself from even looking at For Sale ads now! The addiction bit quickly, and its now understandable why all
VW owners can't really ever only own 1 at a time....but the Ghia has always been a fav, and now I feel I have the 3 I want!
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| posted on July 31st, 2007 at 06:09 PM |
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Good on you - always nice to see a satisfied owner!
Well done
Matt
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| posted on July 31st, 2007 at 07:10 PM |
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All you need is rego tune up, drop it on it's guts and your ready to roll.
Sweet find.
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| posted on August 1st, 2007 at 09:00 PM |
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Beautiful car. As I said, I would have loved to buy that Ghia myself.
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| posted on August 1st, 2007 at 11:40 PM |
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Congratulations, you now have a dream garage, what else could you wish for.
Oval, Ghia and 59.......you are one lucky fella, well done dude!
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| posted on August 2nd, 2007 at 02:44 PM |
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You could buy this
http://www.carsales.com.au/used-cars/private/VOLKSWAGEN/KARMANN_GHIA/details....
and you would have a matching pair!!
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| posted on August 2nd, 2007 at 02:59 PM |
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matching pair, but that ones a hell of a lot more....a polish, a vacuum and a bit of weekend cleaning, plus a battery and a tune and mine would be the
same for under $10k, maybe not quite a schmick or concourse though.
[ Edited on 2-8-2007 by dvs_vw ]
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| posted on August 17th, 2007 at 02:12 PM |
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yummy
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| posted on August 17th, 2007 at 02:14 PM |
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yummy.....
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| posted on March 1st, 2009 at 08:06 PM |
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and the end result was
"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends"
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| posted on March 1st, 2009 at 09:41 PM |
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This is it now.
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| posted on March 1st, 2009 at 10:58 PM |
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ohhh yeah... thankx empi... i didnt realise this was JNR's
"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends"
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| posted on March 2nd, 2009 at 06:56 AM |
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that looks awesome!
1 1963 356b porsche coupe
2 1960 karmann ghia cab
1 1965 karmann ghia cab
1 1966 karmann cab
1 1961 split ute
1 1967 split p/van
1 1952 standard bug
1 1963 ragtop
1 1960 ragtop
2 1954 ovals
1 1956 oval baja project
1 1957 oval flying flea
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| posted on March 2nd, 2009 at 09:17 AM |
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Does anyone have any side on shots of the black ghia? I want to have a better look at the chrome BRM's.
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