The Cal-look Lounge

While surfing Google, I found this car and was wondering if anybody knows more about it? I was actually surfing for pics of David Ward's blue KG, so if you're reading this David, could you post pics of your Ghia and some information on it? (I remember seeing a blog or something about your KG, motor, heads etc.... now I can't find it)

and while we're on the topic, post pics or thoughts about your favorite KG's past and present. Some of you might remember I had a little seat time in a certain pink one... ::)

thanks
Jim R

isn't this the car you mean?

(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/450983.jpg)

yes that's David's car. I really like that KG, it is so subtle.

What about the KG I posted?

What seats does it have? (the car you posted)

Early 912?

gr
Wout

Not sure. What I like so much abotu this KG is the combination of the color and the wheels....almost 100% exact to what I'd like to do with my '67 at some point. The "shocking" contrast between the powder blue and the starkness of the wheels has a certain "cool" feel to it.

i have always loved Bernards old ghia, not to everybody's taste, but I wish it wasn't locked up in a garage it needs to be thrashed just like Bernie did.

Very nice Ghia.  I too like the color contrast between the light, bright paint against the Fuchs.  If there are more pics of the car I'd love to see it.

Here's a shot of my Ghia taken a few weeks ago at the track.  I encountered a fuel delivery problem that day and only made a couple of passes.

The current 2054 features original Lonnie Reed Wedge Ports, Italian IDA's (both from my brother's old car (circa 1980's).  Its fun.  This combo has run 13.05 with a driver-assisted slow 1.86 60' time.   :P  I've run a 1.52 60', so I think its a 12.8 combo when there's fuel running through the carbs.   ;D

Seeing your shortblock Jim, has really got me thinking about getting the 2332 back together.   ;) 

What track, David?  I love how east of the Rockies it aint a drag strip if it's not surrounded by corn.   8)

This is "Great Lakes Dragaway" near Kenosha WI (south of Milwaukee). 

Great photo David !
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I like the colour too. Similar to the "aqua blue" stuff you posted some time ago.

One of my favorite Cal-Look Ghia's............Scotts P. from DKP. Very clean. Don't know his specs of his motor, but it does sound good.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/slammed58bug/Ghia%20and%20bug/Picture026.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/slammed58bug/Ghia%20and%20bug/Picture019.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/slammed58bug/Ghia%20and%20bug/Picture018.jpg)

Thoght i'd contribute my mate's 68 Ghia to the thread 8)

cool...i haven't seen Pauls Ghia with the Empi seats installed....looks great!

i wasn't sure if he still had it....he's been keeping a really low profile for a year or two now.......say hi to him from me if you see him!

for me though i still think its really hard to beat the two Porsche india red Ghia's in Volksworld issue#1, one on Fuchs the other on genuine empi 8's with T bars and filled nostrils......very very cool........otherwise they can look a bit too restocal for me......

cheers....Jick

jim check here (http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,2514.msg32130.html#msg32130) it's an old post i made may be 3years ago  ;D

This car has "it". Any more pictures?

(http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=13223.0;attach=43837;image)

the license plate look like english  ::) and behinf that look like a shop office

Bernard Newbury's old Ghia? Fantastic car, but I certainly wouldn't call it Cal-look.

Took those photo's a couple of years ago just after the seats were installed.
Has'nt seen the road since last year after a carb problem + his work so is now planned to have a few jobs done over winter and back out next year.
Still get out for a few pints with him so will say hello and give him a kick to get back on here ;D
Always liked Brian Burrows Ghia(Ivans at some point?) as a cal looker (before he stuck all the vzi stickers all over it), will look for some pics.

The current owner has pulled all the stickers off and painted the stripes blue to match the rest of the car again. Looks good on the Ercos.  8)

Awesome car indeed.

A few french Ghias...

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Of course...  8)

Can't remember the website where I found these pics...  ???

the light blue on KG's just brings it all home.

 ;) Maybe someone can give us the link where these mountain pics are...

Fabs any news about Olive and his beige KG ? It's been a while since I saw it...

guys... come on where's the pics of Gabbard's black Ghia?

A couple of my favorites:

Ratto's U turn machine ;D

It was featured in Hot VWs couple of years ago and painted by one of the German Folks guys (Paul Smoot?), I think that's second Paprika Red car that I've seen in print.

Couple of French Ghias, the rear one was Paprika Red too.
(http://www.terovirta.com/imagesToo/2007_EBI_1130.jpg)

Tell him hi from me, haven't spoken since he fell out of the pub and broke a limb stopping him from getting to EBI.  I know he was busy with work and other things.

no news from him , i know there's some personnal things last year , and i don't went to KGM last year and this year
the pict you posted are from KGM 2010 may be they came from FRED FLAT 4 OR 70'sNOSTAGIA blog

the red one is own by salem and the yellow one by olive

Hi Nico

Maybe the glosklockner??? Did it in 2004 with my 68 and it looks similar.

gr
Wout

Thanks for the infos, there are some new pics of KGM this year on FredFlat4's blog with his KG, still beautiful. ;)

From http://fredflatfour.skynetblogs.be/

(http://static.skynetblogs.be/media/124313/dyn006_original_1000_539_pjpeg_2563819_12af3c60bc6926e2478cbeac66e9c72e.jpg)

Some Type 34s...

(http://www.vwspirit.ch/upload_membre/albums/userpics/10006/Picture062.jpg)

(http://www.vwspirit.ch/upload_membre/albums/userpics/10006/GhiaPic.jpg)

(http://www.vwspirit.ch/upload_membre/albums/userpics/10006/Picture076.jpg)

(http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/5310/rencardmenton0807026xe9.jpg)

(http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/7682/rencardmenton0807028lh5.jpg)

(http://bp0.blogger.com/_CtuGrmYusYo/Rl3mBVLkmGI/AAAAAAAAAXc/68Ftoy5PPx4/s1600/dyn001_original_700_525_pjpeg_2582637_51cd8b2c205c16227dbab532cf734557.jpg)

(http://bp3.blogger.com/_CtuGrmYusYo/Rl3mFFLkmHI/AAAAAAAAAXk/SDKMwiyDI38/s1600/dyn001_original_700_525_pjpeg_2582637_e67da6c7ee9d7dd411cff1ed808f5bdf.jpg)

Don't forget Joran's lovely Ghia....

(http://static.skynetblogs.be/media/54486/219_c1f8f34bb74b8e8ec95fcc685b29ca66.jpg)

Joran's is one of my favs BUT Fonz...what abour yours...

only drag car I've driven that I needed a good dose of Dramamine before getting in lanes

Love this car ever since I first saw it at Drag Day, I think it was 2006. Gorgeous.

I don't think either of my Ghias would be classed as Cal-look.

This is one of my favorites:

and this one:

Dan still has the car.

Good work people. Gotta love a Ghia thread

Mine, parked on a slope and the nose is still lower than the back 8)

(http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h40/russlolly/DSC00661.jpg)

Some more here, just a Facebook group I started for cool Ghias, not necessarily all Cal-Look though. I have the urge to delete the Porsche-a-like, however I think it stands as a testiomony to show how it 'shouldn't' be done. Feel free to join up

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=342028157752&ref=ts (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=342028157752&ref=ts)

Russ

Cool car & very cool guy! :)

so here we go for 80's cal look ghia  ;D ;D

jim talking about danny's ghia  ;D

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The only other shot I have of the car is this one.  Its an amazing car. 8)

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Hullet's ghia was one of my favorites for sure!  Interesting combo = 78x90 (1985cc's) nos, 4.625 R&P trans with datsun halfshafts.   8)  The "stones" looked badas$ on the rear of that car.

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Fabs there is an orange KG from San Jose in 1990 "Cal Look" Hot VW's that would be cool to see here too.

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 Jim I scanned that to 87 I have to continue, it's a work which sets a lot of time sorry about that  :-\

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low light with semaphore :o ................... ::)

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Ghia overload :)

no this was a guy that worked @ one of the Bugformances up in San Jose at the time, 1989 1990 or so.... very clean car from what I remember. Sheep and I saw it in person @ the shop way back when. Big Swedish blonde dude owned it. Nice guy and nice car.

I know the car your talking about. It is in the swap/pit area of Sacramento Bug-O every few years. I have pics somewhere. It had detailed Fuchs, T-Bars and a very clean IDA engine. I think the guy works for Bug-O-Rama Promotions.

at the time it had polished Empi 5's and a IDF or Dellortr 1835

nice thread

Weird how pictures I personally scanned end up on the interweb.

Found a couple of pics I took of it back in 2004... very shortly after the current owner had just bought it....

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/mr_fonzerelli/Ace%2020-07-04/DSC03387.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/mr_fonzerelli/Ace%2020-07-04/DSC03385.jpg)

same blue low light just after Ivan had sold it to Mark James fitted with 4" and 5.5" sprints and a stock 1600

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/streetvw/paulmark.jpg)

mark later had all the engine upgrades done 2.8 T4 motor and BRM reps which was how it was featured in volksworld

heres couple of John Walklet's 70's ghia with a big T4 motor

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/streetvw/img035-1.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/streetvw/img036.jpg)

now i see tha car jim it was a low light ghia orange
i can found it easily  i will scan and post

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fabs

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thx john

mine with nao during lets play vws shooting

fred it's SHIN and not nao  ;D

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yes sorry for mistake

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may be the st graal for the ghia fan

roger K & frenchy ghia

Great thread! Please keep the pics coming as I need ideas for my next project!

heres a few pictures of my 69 Ghia

Wow!!! I like this car!!! :o

(http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=13223.0;attach=43993;image)

Nice sutff thx Fabs.

Tribute to Frenchy Dehoux (with some Frenchy's pics......sorry ;))
Very beautiful KG like all cars rebuilt by Frenchy.
Enjoy
PS : Nice hair cut, Jean-Louis  ;D

    And where is Mike Lawless's Ghia???????????

Awesome thread with several "forgotten" cars.  Nice trip down memory lane.  Thanks Fabs and all.

Neil from GFK

another......

Here some of my favourite ghia's...

Philip Steenackers
Flatline Lowriders
Belgium

And some more...

Philip

PHILIP you forget the french brown lowlight  ;)

Philip, and yours???  ;D

gr
Wout

I was wondering how this thread had managed to get to the 4th page without mentioning Roger Grago and Frenchy's Ghias.

(http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/002/546/097/20071223/dyn002_original_640_310_pjpeg_2546097_6e5513aa30a467841a47520a7e6902e1.jpg)

(http://i26.servimg.com/u/f26/11/32/92/52/scan0012.jpg)

Always loved this pic....

(http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/002/546/097/20071224/dyn007_original_1017_546_pjpeg_2546097_b7602423512fa911724fec7eb5287d6c.jpg)

i would like to see more picture of bill de moss ghia , it's the one on the left  i don't have any pict of the car  bill(rogers) have you some ???

yes fonz that's been my desktop for many years now!

there's some cool ghia's is this topic. keep it up :)

EBI lowlight racing  ;)

jim wagelaar 58 here we go jim  ;)

Oh Yes, the lovely brown oldspeed lowlight... who said I was finished yet?  The pictures were still on an other PC, so I had to transfer first.

@ Wout: I worked on mine today!!!
@ Fonz: Roger Grago's KG is indeed an all time favarite, but I like it more with the Fuchs wheels.  Does anyone had pictures?  I know there is one in our KS's bible...  Not the new testament, but the old ;D

In case you were wondering: I loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove this thread

Philip Steenackers
Flatline Lowrides
Belgium

2 mores  :o

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Fabs more infos/pics about the bug in the middle ? (in the appropriate thread ;))

it's don metz sepia/caramel brown dkp II and in scotland now   ;) and i've no info about the car

more  ;D

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Thanks ! I didn't recognize it !  ;D

OMG, now it's for sure I have to make mine a callooker (and better start write now  :P)   :o

Keep the pictures coming  8)

gr
Wout

Are flames Cal-look?

If race cars are included, then there has to be this one....

(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a240/mr_fonzerelli2/Euro%20Cal/IMGP1573.jpg)

I used to see a red Ghia at Sac around 10 years ago. Not in the show but racing. Had 14" alloys, black T bars, IDA motor with aluminum engine compartment panel and a sweet black and red herculon interior. I never took any pictures of it unfortunately.
Does it ring a bell with anyone here?

its not sepia brown, I asked don himself, and its a To#¤ta truck color as he worked for To#¤ta, he liked the color

Be sure of it that it has to be a callooker and let Roger Grago's car be an example.  This is also a late sixties car.  Good luck

Philip Steenackers
Flatline Lowriders
Belgium

Mine with the 5 spokes

This gives me sex wee

I would take this one as an example, it’s soooo nice with the cleaned vents. ;)

Indeed Kris,
Best looking KG EVER! :)

i totally agree....one of my favourite Ghia's ever....everything about it is perfect,i think they respond so much better to that pastel color/color coded late 70's /80's style california look rather than the more factory kind of "old school" for want of a better phrase look.

Ok its getting there, I think:

I  had a feeling that you would like that car :P
But your indicators look green on the top ??? I Know the best method for getting that off: remove the whole indicator ;D

Verry nice KG but did all the effort to find a really healthy ghia with no rust in the air-intakes and then closed them would be a verry silly thing to do  ::)
My plan for my 67 is:
lotus white
original red interior (is allready at the shop to restore)
detailed pedrini's
clean stock 1500 (maybe little bit modified)
and for the callook stance it's up to you guys  ;D
whole plan is to make it pass the daily technical inspection, my 68 bug has 944 brakes and 1700 typ4 and don't want that restriction sh*t anymore  :-\

gr
Wout

(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a107/Yarmatey/wheelie-1.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a107/Yarmatey/06.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a107/Yarmatey/dynoday.jpg)

very nice.

I couldn't disagree more, filling the vents is like putting a honeycomb grill in a 32 ford, yea, it's different, but it looks WRONG!!!!!! that is one of the all time iconic noses, when you see it, you know exactly what youre looking at. just my .02

Always liked that car.    8)

That aint' no glass front end ghia either. I came very close to building a T34 racer. Cool car.

i did post the pic allready somewhere else........but because this car is that good i will post it here again, hahaha ::)

Cool thread! :)

Here's my old car - miss it badly and need another one now...

(http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q27/jamieandclaire/GhiaatBugJam.jpg)

I am sure I am committing heresy by not knowing this car, but does anyone have anymore pictures of it as loving the paint job? 

As for the nose grills, for me they make a Ghia so definitely not losing mine.  Alas, twelve years ago when I bought mine, I bought a convertible 69 (70 model) so now have the wraparound indicators but am sticking with them rather than welding up the area and putting in bullets.

I am not a big fan of two tone paint on bugs, but I absolutely love it in ghias with the black roof!!

On the back of VW Trends there used to be an advertisement (I forget the name of the retailer) with a red ghia driving through the countryside with a chrome muffler and header sticking out the back-that was a nice looking VW.

now we are talking !

a few more I jumbled up
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a107/Yarmatey/P6122707_1.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a107/Yarmatey/P6132744_1.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a107/Yarmatey/P6132745_1.jpg)
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That is a good plan, Wout, it will be a very cool car.  If you start with a really nice bases like a Karmann Ghia, you don't need a lot of modifications to make it work.  Less is more they say and for a karmann ghia it is surely true.  Perhaps a black roof ;D

Philip
Flatline Lowriders
Belgium

Something like this superb ride???  ;D Foto: SCC 08.

But with pedrini's...

gr
Wout

Wout,

That's Joran's car.  I loved the way it looked with chromed Empi Sprintstars, Empi GTV and vintage motor, like in Spa 5 years ago

Phililp

Nice engine /\!

(http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g110/simonintheshed/ghia/DSC00353.jpg)

My car's

1961 vert (orginal Fuchs  ;D)

(http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/9692/img1696m.jpg)

(http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/8392/noirmoutier.jpg)

and my Low Light (from San Jose) ;)...

(http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/6374/img9808.jpg)

(http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/365/img9067.jpg)

finally i see your car  ;D ;D

  I think this is now in New Zealand I am doing a ground up rebuild  on it .Believe at one time it won America's best KG would love to find any info on it . Cheers Harry[attachment=1] Am referring to the light blue Ghia with filled in vents

That was a cool car.  Driver was questionable...but the car was great!  ;)

Where did it end up?

wow...very cool!
what are your plans for it......restoring it to how it looked in the previous photo's?  i love that car.

cheers...jick

Only difference is it will be in black . 2276cc motor with gene berg 5 speed Airkweld bad series brakes . Carbon fibre interior . Cheers Harry

found this one the samba a long long time ago.
not very cal-look, to my eyes it seems more akin to a mercedes 300sl gullwing for some reason  ::)

if it was jeff benedict ghia  , the car won the world's most beautiful vw it was at bug in 19
keep the car as it was back in the day  ::)
 it's a piece of cal look history

here're some info about the car  ;)

fabs

ps: pm me if you want the report in high resolution

It doesn't sound like a restoration it sounds like your killing the original and resurrecting something else

Austria...but it has been torn apart and all the race goodies stuffed into a bug. IDK, but I believe it was being sold again.

hey man its your car and you can do what you like, but dont expect to make too many friends on here  :D :D
good luck with it dude.

X2!!!!!!
who needs carbon anyway? :)

no pictures of Mark French's ghia or norcal  Jim's  K burgundy ghia ?

i dont post much any more on any sites, but i still have the black vert tucked away.

(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/550229.jpg)

(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/550212.jpg)

(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/550208.jpg)

(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/407738.jpg)

my daily driver
(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/454139.jpg)

(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/414863.jpg)

jims ghia
(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/454138.jpg)

mark french's  ghia

(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/269214.jpg)

(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/269213.jpg)

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a26/JimRohn/feb/Ghiawheelie_2.jpg)

On jack stands I guess  ;D

I don't think so, look at the dual deck lid scoops :o

Is that a DKK sticker in the quarter window?

(http://static.skynetblogs.be/media/108285/dyn008_original_717_477_pjpeg_2608733_f798fa36bfb30217a4eebf7621b6cb19.jpg)

(http://static.skynetblogs.be/media/108285/dyn008_original_717_477_pjpeg_2608733_0a6dc7c1cb4ba613e86c7b04a119ef59.jpg)


You have to go on his blog, the split he's doing is unbelievable  ;)

http://ghia62.skynetblogs.be/

Heres mine. 1969 ghia vert. Hope you like it.

looks nice, 1 of my favorite model VW' s  69 Ghia Vert...

I had a pink one for a while that ran the DRKC,..I think it is in Canada now. this is my current Cal "something look" Look Ghia.

(http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z148/2manytoys_photo/downsized_0328001632a1.jpg)

From http://dhkvw.smugmug.com/

(http://dhkvw.smugmug.com/VW-CAR-SHOWS/2010-VW-SHOWS/Bugorama/IMG7410/996309367_y2zmA-L.jpg)

(http://dhkvw.smugmug.com/VW-CAR-SHOWS/2010-VW-SHOWS/Bugorama/IMG7411/996309527_Dwr7t-L.jpg)

(http://dhkvw.smugmug.com/VW-CAR-SHOWS/2010-VW-SHOWS/Bugorama/IMG7415/996310023_q9FaY-L.jpg)

Mine, too. But that looks like a '68 with the fuel flap thumb recess and the plastic rear window (pretty sure 69's were glass).

Nice car though :)

Mine! Still would like to try color coded head und tail light bezels and getting rid of the over riders (but don't like the look of three piece bumpers because of the bolts and nuts holding them together, so one piece bumpers would be way to go). Cal Look rubbers are not available for the Type 34 so that would be the next problem. Anyway, that's the way it is right now.
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superb

Perfect having it back on the road...!congrats!...and it is hopefully to see at DDD next weekend Georg! I´ll be there,too. So see you there...

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Awesome ride Georg,perfect!  ;)

Georg, there is a guy that makes cal-look rubber. I had it on my ghia before I re-did it. Email Lee Hedges and he can probably tell you, I believe it is a guy here in the states (Oregon) that made them. Are you a part of the Type-34 registry? I am sure you would find them on that site. I know that the cal-look rubber was a lot cheaper than the rubber to house the trim...granted I think I got my window rubbers back in '02

Hello all! Just joined over from VZI and this is my work in progress!!

This is as I bought it
(http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/ae180/sallyandsean/ghia.jpg)

After painting
(http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/ae180/sallyandsean/Ghia-1.jpg)

And after dropping!!!!!!!
(http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/ae180/sallyandsean/Ghia004.jpg)

 One of my ALL TIME favourite cars 

   -Georg, I wouldn't do anything to it    8)

Hmm, you could be right. But from what I know is that the glass windows started in 69 1/2. Its sitting on an irs pan but its not the original pan from the car. I bought the body cut in two pieces and used another pan.
That type 3 ghia looks awsome by the way!

Hi Georg,
To me this is the best looking Type 34 ever, one of the first as I can remember in Callook style.  Hope to see it next week at DDD.

Cya,

Philip Steenackers
Flatline Lowriders
Belgium

a friend of mine
(http://[http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8885/245n.jpg/img][img]http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/8247/237hd.jpg)

(http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/8247/237hd.jpg) (http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/2356/245jg.jpg)

Not sure about it`s Cal Look...  ::)
anyway:

nice car!  I like those ratty cars with power ;)

cal look or not, I think it's a very cool ride :)

I believe this belongs to a Bugorama Promotions employee. It parks in the Sacramento pits every year for the past 15 years or so.

(http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n138/stealth67vw/0905101345a.jpg)

(http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n138/stealth67vw/0905101344b.jpg)

(http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n138/stealth67vw/0905101344a.jpg)

Saw that one at Bug O Rama just the other day. Very cool.

here's mine at DDD

a friend took it, hope he doesnt mind :)

that's a very nice pic of your car  8)

here's another by sander/dvk:
(http://www.cal-look.nl/gallery/albums/userpics/10003/176.JPG)

My late model '72 Ghia at one of it's first shows this year  :)

(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e71/Willi76/BristolVFest.jpg)

last sunday at the vw swap meet of paris

Nice ghia, its very simple.

wanted, lowlight ghia drag car, looking for a lowlight drag car
there was the old decoppen bros car in socal in recent years ...anyone know of it?
chopped or not, with or less motor and or trans.
email me
 anthonysracingcomp@sbcglobal.net

somes....

I'm not a fan of the later model, huge tail light Ghia's, but I like that orange one above ^.  Very clean lines and the removal of the bumpers and the hidden exhaust (possible turbo?) "works" very well.  Nicely done.  Would like to see more pictures of that car.

that looks like the C.A.R.E. car show in san juan.  haven't seen that car before.  the show is coming up again Saturday Feb. 5th.

Cool vid from the DAS blog http://das.skynetblogs.be/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqMJRDNW5yM

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E11 member, Tom`s KGC in the year 1993  :o

shortly to be landing in the uk and hitting the tracks in a couple of months when finished, will be running at bug in, ebi and cal look drag day,  also this will likely be making a odd apearance or 2

(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/early-air/100_0949.jpg) being fitted up with a n/a 2387, is running a 002 bus box with berg conversion and has been narrowed to take 205-70-15's

the chassis mods

(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/early-air/100_0111-1.jpg)

and the other one (bought through here)

(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/early-air/indexphp1.jpg)
2276 n/a

From Italy

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Very nice one...  They were originaly made in this colorcombo with Red interior as a special edition called Piguelle.  Love to own one of these one day...

Regards,

Philip
Flatline-Lowriders
Belgium

That was a good deal...it just slipped through my hands. It deserves to be completed.

pat is this your low light on the video above  ???
i say that because there's a sticker on the rear windows :" too many toys"  ;D

Hey patrick,
i tried to buy it from Rick earlier in the year, but he wouldnt sell overseas at the time, i contacted him in october just for info on how he did the narrowing as i was intending to carry this out to another lowlite i own, however i couldnt believe my luck when he said he still had it!  a deal was done for a very reasonable sum and it docked here in the uk 27th december,  should collect it next week,  it shipped with some race trim seats inside it and as soon as it gets here it will be going in to have a few areas of paint ammended and then the cage and re-trim!  engine is being freshened at the moment and the ida's have just been vapour blasted, fine glass bead blasted, fuel bowls opened out and are just having the 3rd progression holes drilled and float levels set before fitting to the motor.  motor is having a fk89 fitted, compression up to 10.5:1 and is running comp eliminator heads. 

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another shot of the same car :)

Yup...the Karmann Ghetto is my Pro Gas Lowlight. If I can afford some paint, I may make it look pretty for the new year....maybe.

(http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z148/2manytoys_photo/pgghiacage9.jpg)

(http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z148/2manytoys_photo/Karmannghettodoor.jpg)

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Good eye ! I was sure I saw "too many toys" somewhere.

That's something I could do...  ;)

Indeed a very nice KG!!!!!

gr
Wout

From http://www.lets-vw.com/

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(http://www.lets-vw.com/comm/callook/_MG_1117.JPG)

dear Santa i have been a good boy  ::)

One I built about 20 years ago.Sorta "Cal Look".Sorry for the pics . Picture of a picture.Old school way.
(http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff329/L88Nova/71ghiablue.jpg)
(http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff329/L88Nova/71ghiaengine.jpg)

From http://dhkvw.smugmug.com/

(http://dhkvw.smugmug.com/VW-CAR-SHOWS/2011-VW-SHOWS/Hot-VWs-Drag-Day-Irwindale/Drag-Day-612/1215700805_QUs9g-XL.jpg)

(http://dhkvw.smugmug.com/VW-CAR-SHOWS/2011-VW-SHOWS/Hot-VWs-Drag-Day-Irwindale/Drag-Day-615/1215700904_tTKDx-XL.jpg)

superb

Hello all, thanks to James SSP who mentioned this thread to me, the car that started this thread was restored by and is sitting in my workshop In Estepona Spain, I am putting it up for sale, as i have to many other projects to finish and to enjoy, it was meant to be at volksworld show this year but due to problems with the transport company did not make it

please contact me if you would like any more details

have included new picture, with new shoes etc

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yesterday at ormesson cruise night

Perfect look !  8)

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Susy's Ghia... pretty and fast!  ;)

yeap like your KG , but for me was pretty cool with T-Bar's...

yes I know
Tbars miss me too

(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/728448.jpg)

(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/728449.jpg)

 ;)

From http://feeling.skynetblogs.be/

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Looks good Fred !
 :)

(http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z148/2manytoys_photo/busfest11.jpg)

This is an old DRCK ghia that I bought from a buddy. It was in HotVWs a couple of times.

very clean car, hated to see it go, but with two boys it was very very tight..as a two seater it was awesome.

Another DRKC Cal looker that I turned into my Super Gas car, then pulled the body and turned it into my PG car...

Still have the body. Looking for a pan to restore this beast to the street.

(http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z148/2manytoys_photo/ghiaburnout.jpg)

Was that the Pink Panther KG?

From http://blue-star.skynetblogs.be/

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From http://jc-pictures.skynetblogs.be/

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that car is awesome! :)

Blinding  8)  C stripe kit looks the Bollocks  8) 8)

Wicked looking Ghia

    You guys are teasing me by posting pictures of this yellow Ghia LOL !!!!!!!!

   Frenchy

(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/early-air/090-3.jpg)

(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/early-air/092-3.jpg)

(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/early-air/095.jpg)

(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/early-air/107-3.jpg)

(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/early-air/100-1.jpg)

mine now its just about completed...

Very nice early ghia ! Just wondering if thats a grey e brake handle boot, And if so where did you get it ? Thanks .

^^^  Nice.   8)

Dig the green square weave 8)

More pics, please !!!  8)

forgot to mention its running a 2387cc john walklett built motor with fk89 cam, comp eliminator heads 1.4 rockers etc.. its matched to a 002 gearbox with berg conversion, has shortened axles and is intensively re-worked under the rear. 

wowzers, that even sounds bad ass!
just wondering, why an 002 and not an 091 gearbox?

Greetings from DRA....

i cant take the credit for the box conversion,  it was done prior to my purchase.  it has been re-worked and has extra gusseting,  hope i wont break it!

(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/early-air/8064e403cfa8eb4c-2.jpg)

(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/early-air/327446_2385834491695_1425755951_2871884_5076116_o.jpg)

(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/early-air/056-7.jpg)

(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/early-air/055-7.jpg)

that lowlight is soo awesome...... i miss my 56  :-[

From http://pat.be/

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(http://67looker.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/peteghia-copy.jpg)

Mint.

DKP II ghia I got from Bill Rogers

I'm kind of surprised there's only a few photos of Tod Fuller's KG

(http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16829.0;attach=54864;image)

(http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=4252.0;attach=13607;image)

Here is my -59 Ghia.

(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/939194.jpg)

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Found it on the NET with the following info:

purchased this 1962 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia in 1971 for $500 from an active USAF colonel (the colonel actually had his ‘grunts’ stick it in a hanger and spray it with the camouflage paint they were using to paint the fighter aircraft!).  We left it camouflaged but otherwise stripped it bare, reinforced the frame, put Porsche disk brakes on it and installed a Hewland gearbox.  We then welded up a set of VW Type I heads, ported ‘em, dropped in bigger valves, built a 1906 ‘cc’ motor (88 mm pistons/78.4 mm Okrasa forged crank) with dry-sump lubrication, a Sig Erson cam and then topped it all with Weber 48 IDA carburetors (182 HP@6500). I gave the guys with the ‘SS’ big-block street Chevy’s fits with that little car!

In 1983 it had the following spec:

Car      1962 VW Karmann Ghia
Engine      6 cyl/2.8 litre Porsche RSR sprint
(single plug/350 HP@8300)
Ignition      Joe Hunt/Vertex magneto
Induction      Two, triple Weber 46 IDA carburetors
Transmission      Hewland 5 speed dogbox
Differential      Solid spool
Brakes      Porsche racing ventilated disc/alloy calipers
Tires      Front/205/50/15  Rear/255/50/15
Wheels      Three piece BBS
Springs      Torsion bar front/rear, rates are 1500 lbs per inch for the rear
Shocks      Bilstien 50/50 (custom phalvfed from Churmany, Ya?)
Weight      1900 lbs.
Performance      VAAARRROOOOOMMM

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Love it  8)

This post needs reviving  :D
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Maybe a bit narrower up front than I’d like but it’s the only way I can still run a 155 tyre.

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An old favourite mentioned earlier in this post, surfaced again at a show last year.

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Found this at VolksWorld Show last year, perfect.

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Fat chick on earlies

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I've just realised how much I miss mine. When those six numbers come up I'll stick one in the collection!

That is excellent, 145 80’s up front?

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Is this your car, Tom?

Since I had 15x5.5s all around, I went with 165/65s & 195/65s. Both fit 5.5 nice IMO

68K mile California car, never restored, super og..... sold it about 6 months ago Sam.

This thread is inspiring me...  Thanks Jim.

[[attachment=1][attachment=2]   I did few changes to my ghia through the years before I sold it to Ron Greiner. I now think the best look was with the 4.5 alloys all around and with the rear bumper. The car was a 1970, but I put on the smaller -69 front turn signals. Fun days...  Bill

What was the set up at the front, stock width beam, dropped spindles etc?

Front - Dropped spindles, adjusters, 2" Beam, 15x5.5 Fuchs w/165/65/15 Continentals.
Rear - Stock height 15x5.5 Fuchs w/195/65/15 Continentals.

can't believe there have been no pics of Clive Househam's Ghia from 1986/87 - built in the UK and still looks the same today.

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Roger Grago's Ghia...  :o

Photo: Roger Grago RIP.  :'(

A couple of shots of my '62 coupe on Flat4 fuchs and a 2110cc oxy in the rear
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Absolutely loving this thread and forum. It's inspirational. Still a way to go on mine. Has a fully built John Maher 1600, standard other than electronic ignition and balanced/blue printed. Previous owner had it built, runs like a dream, shame the bodywork doesn't match the engine.. :D :D :D :D

It's a Ghia 'vert, and therefore is cool. Pair of 36 DRLAs and a decent exhaust would wake it up a treat! Welcome to the forum, always the first tab open on my phone.

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. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

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

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.

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...

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

Waving the flag

(https://i.imgur.com/AOQSn1d.jpg)

https://www.facebook.com/danny.gabbard.7/media_set?set=a.2254896176355&type=3

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Just to be funny in front of the polish and wax crowd, we did this prior to going hunting for races on Whittier Boulevard. My 2110cc 48IDA car was the one on the right, the 1835 was a younger brothers car. Cruising them without wiping off the polish sure got attention. About 1982. The neighbor guy was like saying, what are you guys going?

Our 3rd car, the Red 1959, 1914cc is below, belonging to my youngest brother sometime in the 1990s

Here is what I am doing with parts and engines from my 1969 Ghia in my Avatar, and my old 1973 Porsche 914 V8 car. So working on one Formula car to get a Porsche 2.4 based engine, and another totally home built to get the old 2110cc from this car, and mostly 914 mechanicals. So the spirit of my Ghia and Porsche will live on, in these race cars.

Well, well, well.  I'm guessing the kid I sold it to ran out of talent somewhere...  Hopefully he took it back to Santini.

:o :o :o

and by the way welcome joe

I had never seen that picture before.  I didn't even know the car had been crashed.  Picture saved and thank you!

What a downer ...  :-[

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Here’s my 80’s callooker 56 ghia I sold awhile back

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Nice, clean and simple is the best, my onion.

i just pulled the tarp from my 68 vert
had it since 98 and drove it for ten years when i was over to the states. then a rear ender put an end to this. it now rests in my garage for 14 years and counting.
wonder if i will ever get to it...... :'(