a face that only a mother could love....

even this might be one of the ugliest "pretty car"

it could be better, so i ordered some panels from 

www.karmannghia.de to get the face look decent.

The guys at texas modified the front ...well ...badly.

now it really needs the help of the "plastic surgery".

i don't know, should i just give up or go with the flow?

it is ...a beauty indeed. :-) but i love "layout" :-)

 you got to have faith? don't know anymore... ;-)

some parts still needed, especially the nose panel.

ugly duckling - this time naked

This time without the flares, but drivers side welded..

I'm waiting for the headlamp area repairpanels to come from karmannghia.de,

but seems to take long, because of the bank transfer.

theres a lot to do, but i somehow fell in love with this piece of s..t, 

atleast after i used the saw to do room for the tires...

btw...what color would you choose?

at the cottage

what a day, couple of hundred kilometers with the panel van, and at the cottage, driving the ghia...

not so fast, but had to give it a bit of the pedal...

but at the gravel with a spool and power...made me take it really easy...JIMI was the co-pilot and he was very stunned of this experiment...

i took the vert out of the garage, so that i can change the oil, adjust the clutch, adjust the shifter, and even the brakes are made of new parts, they are pretty bad, the pedal feels rock hard, and the brakes stays "on"...

black ghia spy shots

the turbo-ghia is getting better and better, but pretty much

full in the engine bay, and I'm getting happier. more picks later.

Just do it! some vw action in two days.

my friday was a bit hectic, first a went to see the physiotherapist, and 1.5 hours of things and exercises, i went to inspection with the panel van, and guess what? it finally got its permission to drive, ok its almost x-mas, but its pretty warm and theres no snow. so dig up your cars and start to drive! ok, after this i drove to Kirkkonummi to loan a trailer, and after Kirkkonummi i drove to our cottage to nummi-pusula, to pick up the black turbo ghia, it was raining and getting darker....but anyways, i got the combo to helsinki city, and after the warm cup of coffee and dry shoes, i decided to drive the combo to the autotune.fi, in porvoo, huh. ok i left the ghia to the garage there and headed back to home... the clock was somewhere 10:30 pm, and i was ready for couple of beers. :-)
after this i had a bad feeling with heart, its not happy with this kind of stuff... but thats life. :-)

a low light by a surprise?

well seems like that the baby blue cab is actually a low light body modified to a newer front, not 100% sure, but pretty sure by now :-)

so should i take a step to the lowlight looking cabriolet or not? well theres a plenty other things to do, but its nice to know. my guess is that it was hit to the front and fixed with the never sheet metal, and the body color might have been paprika red.

Will see what happens...

wednesday is full of plans, like getting the ghia cabriolet to sipoo,

for some wiring & maybe other small stuff as well...

there might be for a change some type 3 slamming.

Picks comes later, and if things goes well my panel van

will get its steering sharp as it was from the factory.

 But more of that later on. In mean while

check out the ghias short clip...

Say no to lowering?

... Not ecxactly, i just have to raisen up the rear of the ghia, 

because with the engine i cant get it out of the garage, so i have to 

make it more driveable... The passenger side brakes are now pretty much ok, 

so i have to turn the car around. ;-)