Ugly duckling - karmann ghia

The cosmetic surgery for the ghia started at m. Sarkelas garage at mantsala city, and as we thought the ghia needs a bit of tin work ;-) but its at the good hands of welding wizard mika. This ghia was bought from texas, couple of years ago, and i have to admit that they know the art of "bondoing" :-) the body has a lot of bondo, aluminium tape, screws, awfull tin repairs, and rust... But theres also positive stuff, under the bondo layers, anyways, the layout for the "bond-shell"

Is something that only frankenstein would love, as a car... Lets see how it turns out.

:-) great ideas are coming to my mind... But check out this blog for more...

veljekset hämärä - strikes the karmann!

heheh, ok, this time i got things a bit forward... 

in the "no cuts – no glory" way.

one rear valance got out of the way :-) 

and i tryed the pop-up a bit higher, 

but it needs a bit tweaking, welding and a lot of magic. :-)

it looks promising though... i  also started to lower the rear, 

but the bolts are pretty tought to open, when your 

muscles are 50% of the old ones. ;-( 

i also took one old front light to get the some mock ups, 

and i have some ideas of some smaller details too..

what would look also cool... but that comes later...

 

have to locate more old school fuel tank cap.

but if nothing will show up, this will do fine.

these fookses, well, ....you will see pretty fast...

 these are the openings that i wanted to try, :-) meow?

hmmmm... what to do with the headlights?
good for me i have a solution in monday. :-)
...hmmmm..more secrets?

ghia update - getting the BMW M3 looks

dual-bolt pattern, 5-130 mm porsche, and 4,5" mopar bolt pattern, ARP race studs,

pretty long, but looks correct to the this application, i cut some 5 cm of the wheel arches, 

to get more space.  have to get a welder to make it pretty, ;-)

theres gonna be more tricks, when i have to power to carry on.

its getting a bit of BMW M3 looks