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'62 Karmann Ghia - VW #3

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dvs_vw Wolfsburg Wizard

433 posts · joined Sep 2006 ·

#604438
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

bond Veteran Volks Folk

2,456 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#604440
awesome find! cool pics!

now bag it! lol

nick

dvs_vw Wolfsburg Wizard

433 posts · joined Sep 2006 ·

#604448
bond wrote:awesome find! cool pics!

now bag it! lol

nick

give me time, it shall happen! 👍

you at home from work again.....go see a movie or something, haha 😂 😁

frank2112 Officially Full-On Dubber

215 posts · joined Jan 2005 ·

#604481
Nice find, are you going to be putting back to black/red
Spare the Duct tape, spoil the job - Red Green

kombimatt Officially Full-On Dubber

271 posts · joined Nov 2006 ·

#604484
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
Lovin' the Dubs

dvs_vw Wolfsburg Wizard

433 posts · joined Sep 2006 ·

#604487
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 ]

65busser Moderator Custom Title Time!

1,795 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·

#604497
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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jonathanmayes Slammed & Awesome Dubber

78 posts · joined May 2006 ·

#604507
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? ❗

GASBNR Fahrvergnugen

894 posts · joined Jan 2003 ·

#604512
VERY GOOD!!!
SORRY BOUT THAT!

Split Rat Commited Dubber

53 posts · joined May 2006 ·

#604513
Saw this on carsales guys, great pics great buy.

tinman Wolfsburg Wizard

404 posts · joined Aug 2005 ·

#604562
Congrates on the great find. Looking forward to seeing progress pics.

dvs_vw Wolfsburg Wizard

433 posts · joined Sep 2006 ·

#604570
Split Rat wrote:Saw this on carsales guys, great pics great buy.
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!

kombimatt Officially Full-On Dubber

271 posts · joined Nov 2006 ·

#604619
Good on you - always nice to see a satisfied owner!

Well done
Matt
Lovin' the Dubs

VWFREAK VWFREAK

2,577 posts · joined May 2004 ·

#604633
All you need is rego tune up, drop it on it's guts and your ready to roll.

Sweet find.

vwkg Schnell

314 posts · joined Jan 2007 ·

#604830
Beautiful car. As I said, I would have loved to buy that Ghia myself.

boristherat Wolfsburg Wizard

563 posts · joined Mar 2006 ·

#604855
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!


1959 Mercedes Benz 190
1963 Chevrolet Corvair
1969 BMW 2002 Auto
1973 Mercedes Benz 230.6

david777 Officially Full-On Dubber

307 posts · joined Mar 2005 ·

#604923
You could buy this
http://www.carsales.com.au/used-cars/private/VOLKSWAGEN/KARMANN_GHIA/details.aspx?__Ns=pCar_PrivateSpecialFlag_Int32|1||pCar_ImageCount_Int32|1||pCar_LastModifiedDate_DateTime|1&Make=VOLKSWAGEN&__Nne=20&State=All%20States&R=1388948&state_id=0&__N=4294962746+0+834+285+257&distance=25&__Dx=mode+matchany&trecs=10&__sid=11396157704B&__Ntk=CarAll&silo=1003&keywords=ghia&Cr=4&__D=ghia&seot=0&__Ntt=ghia&__Ntx=mode+matchallpartial
and you would have a matching pair!!

dvs_vw Wolfsburg Wizard

433 posts · joined Sep 2006 ·

#604927
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 ]

bond Veteran Volks Folk

2,456 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#607251
yummy.....

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shaven Insano Dub Head

729 posts · joined Jul 2007 ·

#698004
and the end result was🥷
"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends"

empi Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,131 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#698047
This is it now.

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shaven Insano Dub Head

729 posts · joined Jul 2007 ·

#698058
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"

vwsteve karmann crazy

2,087 posts · joined Jul 2006 ·

#698078
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

1958kafer Officially Full-On Dubber

229 posts · joined Feb 2007 ·

#698096
Does anyone have any side on shots of the black ghia? I want to have a better look at the chrome BRM's.