ultra vw mystake ???

[speedwell]

keith in the ultra vw n°4 in the cal look archive , the one who's talking about bug in31 the last one 
there's a picture of an kg  and you said  terry shepard drove the old ex race shop ghia  , but i found some pictures of the race shop ghia in 85 /86 , and you know that the last bug in was in 83
the car on your picture is very similar , but if you look closely the car has the nostrill and it look like an flipfront with Fast ties in levels of the door 

and in the middle of 80's it was rick mc garity who's the owner of the car

I criticize not at all the made work keith, on the contrary I am very fond of archives which you proposes us every month.
But I just wanted to make a small research work to see if I knew well my history, here is which is made

rgd
fabs 

[speedwell]

and here're some pictures taken from  85/86 vw trends

[speedwell]

 

[Fastbrit]

Issue £4? Jeez, I guess you've got more time on your hands than the rest of us!

[speedwell]

Issue £4? Jeez, I guess you've got more time on your hands than the rest of us!

[Russell]

wow what a great looking car, looks great when it goes.....

Can you believe that someone would want to try there hardest to Break it.......

Oh know ive just realised that ive wrecked another original drag car, the race shop paint scheme is wrong it should be orange as the original car was........ sorry guys.

Well keith is Speedwell correct are we looking at 2 different cars here ?

[benssp]

Russell,you need to go to the garage and cross examine the wunderbug to find out it's whereabouts between 83 and 86

if cars could talk! I bet the ghia would be saying "I had a nice rest for 20 years, got put in a container on a boat and then some journo guy gets in me and brakes one of my limbs!"

[Fastbrit]

Gimme a car and I'll break it – ven my own.

Yes Fabs, you're right and I'm wrong. I think! 

[Wray]

So does any one have pictures of it when it was orange that they can post?

[speedwell]

  just ask wray 

[Wray]

Thanks fab's but

That looks as if it was Orange in the 90's as the car in the back ground is quite modern

So was it originaly Orange then the Race Shop, McGarity, Orange and finally Race Shop again

now i'm confused

[speedwell]

here's the car  before the raceshop paintsheme

[speedwell]

 

[speedwell]

Thanks fab's but

That looks as if it was Orange in the 90's as the car in the back ground is quite modern

So was it originaly Orange then the Race Shop, McGarity, Orange and finally Race Shop again

now i'm confused

when chris morley buy the car in the 90's , the firebird trans am look like an 97 model behind raceshop kg

here's an advert for the raceshop when she was for sale in the mid 90's

[Bruce]

.. in the 90's as the car in the back ground is quite modern....

That particular body style of Pontiac Firechicken first appeared in late 1992.

[Russell]

$ 8000  f%^$ me ? 

[Fastbrit]

$ 8000  f%^$ me ? 

Is that how much you charge in Aberdeen now? Surely all the Polish girls are better value!

[Bill Schwimmer]

They are 2 different cars, Terry Shepard & the Race Shop Ghia. I think Doug Berg may have painted Terry's car but I cannot remember for sure. It was in Roger Crawford's shop in the mid 80's painted metallic blue & they unchopped the roof. It was there for a while . When it was @ Roger's it was a very nice race car. It was sold in the late 80's or so & I have not seen it since. hope this helps  Bill

[Fastbrit]

Cheers Bill for clearing that up! Wonder where Shephard's car ended up? Japan?

[Wray]

Just noticed that it looks as if it has a VW front beam in it's first guise and the fuel tank is in the front 

Wray

[speedwell]

a VW front beam

not sure about that