Cal Look Karmann Ghia thread
Ick:
Thanks. Glad I stumbled across it. Had a beetle since there was just magazines. Bought the Ghia about 15 years back as a daily. Now it's used on sunny days and fun days. Hoping one day to get EBI. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Glauco:
might as well use this topic rather than start a new one. :)
my callook history is ok, bur far from perfect, so I was hoping one of u guys could give me an answer:
When dit people start with filling the nostrils on a karmann?
When I started mine 10 years ago I had the red Marc Souter and the babyblue jeff benedict cars in mind.
As I was (AM) truly in love with these cars I also loved the look of roger grago, Tod Fuller and of course frenchy's ghia. Those 4 cars realy pulled me in to the (particularly karmann) callook scene.
seeing the souter car in real life and knowing it is in good hands and still in it's former glory realy makes me happy. It realy is a joy to see it ride and to be able to ride along with it, like last week ;D
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I know that the baby blue Benedict car should be in new zeeland somewhere, but not sure if still in the same form?
I had a real hard time choosing a colour so I tried to make a blend of the cars that influenced me and wanted a vw porsche colour so I went with no turn signals, filled nostrils and signal yellow. for five years I was convinced this was the way to go.
until last week when I decided that the yellow just didn't go with the look so I opened the nostrills again
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now just need to convince myserf it was a wise decision... ::) And maybe try some bumpers for a change..
but to stick to my question:
I know the Souter and Benedict cars were build around the late 70s, but were they the first?
thank you
Glauco
Neil Davies:
I think the Jeff Benedict car (as you say, now in New Zealand) is nothing like it was. I seem to remember plans to paint it black and put big billet wheels on it.
Steve Tims gold lowlight drag Ghia had the nose grilles plated over but I think that was just rivitted aluminium. I'd guess it became popular as people started to race them, especially with fibreglass fronts.
Glauco:
Quote from: Neil Davies on August 21, 2019, 13:57:15 pm
I think the Jeff Benedict car (as you say, now in New Zealand) is nothing like it was. I seem to remember plans to paint it black and put big billet wheels on it.
Page 6 of this topic tells me this. Owned by a guy named QT VW here on the forum..
If would be a pita if it is black on billet wheels now...
wolfswest:
Quote from: Glauco on August 21, 2019, 09:31:36 am
might as well use this topic rather than start a new one. :)
my callook history is ok, bur far from perfect, so I was hoping one of u guys could give me an answer:
When dit people start with filling the nostrils on a karmann?
When I started mine 10 years ago I had the red Marc Souter and the babyblue jeff benedict cars in mind.
As I was (AM) truly in love with these cars I also loved the look of roger grago, Tod Fuller and of course frenchy's ghia. Those 4 cars realy pulled me in to the (particularly karmann) callook scene.
seeing the souter car in real life and knowing it is in good hands and still in it's former glory realy makes me happy. It realy is a joy to see it ride and to be able to ride along with it, like last week ;D
[ Attachment: You are not allowed to view attachments ]
I know that the baby blue Benedict car should be in new zeeland somewhere, but not sure if still in the same form?
I had a real hard time choosing a colour so I tried to make a blend of the cars that influenced me and wanted a vw porsche colour so I went with no turn signals, filled nostrils and signal yellow. for five years I was convinced this was the way to go.
until last week when I decided that the yellow just didn't go with the look so I opened the nostrills again
[ Attachment: You are not allowed to view attachments ]
now just need to convince myserf it was a wise decision... ::) And maybe try some bumpers for a change..
but to stick to my question:
I know the Souter and Benedict cars were build around the late 70s, but were they the first?
thank you
Glauco
Get rid of the nose emblem en try a set of blade bumpers, then you have your front exactly like Frenchy's KG. If you don't like it you can always start completely over again. ;D
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