Ghia update - Passenger side ready!

After couple of hours of wrenching, i got the parts back and now we have a working rear suspension, ok i might change the rear shock absorbers to stiffer ones, the rear feels a bit "soft" i'll check what i have. Also the engine is making me a bit worried, should i swap it to a 1600 "trasher" engine, will see bout that, i really would like to put a stroker in it, but i dont have any to put there for the moment, the strokers are mostly parts... :-/

But its better now! A good day!

Its not very high, but its high enough!

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. ;-)

Holy Crap! amazon gasser hemizon 4 sale!

This is it!

Hotrod Hemi amazon gasser hemizon

Pga verkstads bygge ska den säljas .. Ej körbar men inte så mycket jobb kvar .Delar medföljer .kan levereras körbar.nej den är inte besiktad . Ev byte hotrod , muskelbil , vanlig nyare USA bil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoErM3CjpLE&sns=em

http://www.speedhunters.com/2013/05/rat-finks-zombie-nightmarethe-volvo-hemizon/ 

180 000:-

El cheapo ghia

Last time at the cottage, i wanted to stuff the engine to the ghia, its a "trash bin 12-hundred" so not much of expectations here, but im just doing these things to amuse myself... I dont know anything of this engine, but it turns, so thats something atleast. I had a new pressure bearing so i sacrifised that to this project, and it was a good decision, the used one was toasted. What i have to do also is to raise the rear because the rear suspension is useless, too low to drive, and it will stuck in places... I would like to put winter tyres and try this sled in the icy roads.... But anyways its fun to do things. To be continued...

Braking bad - ghia update.

This is an easy task, to fix the brakes, as i have new brake parts in the boxes, the winter is coming so its no use really, but i want to do this to feel better. 

Theres not much of brake fluid in the system, but that makes sence, previous owner in california told that it was a car for the wife ;-) heh, totally rusted floors and no brakes, except the hand brake.

Whats next after the brakes? 

There is a 1200cc "montster" :-) waiting...

I hope the next updates will concentrate to the black ghia... But thats a new story ;-)

Smack my b..us up!

There you have it, this was totally my own fault, reversed the car with a trailer with a ghia on top of that, and smacked tha panelvan!!!! :-( ... Made totally my day... Ok, i know the van is not a show winner trailer queen, but still.... Aargh! Maybe he wants to go back to kangasniemi before the snow...

Baby blue Ghia update

Picked up the blue cab from wagenhaus, (it was a good visit) and took the vert ...fast to the cottage, BUT... To work alone, with a pretty steep runway, the "just drop the car from trailer" didnt go as planned... I ended to smack my panelvan with the trailer... The ghia got stuck in the trailer, well etc... The ghia is at least at the cottage, i have a smashed door in the van, and i got only half of the things done... I should get the van to the kangasniemi motor zentrum, and hopefully the rsr clone too, have to talk about this with the motorsport wizard-pekka... 

new floors are always a good thing!

A porsche boxter with ghia body

This kind of swap could be cool BUT a bit with attitude, this one looks a bit like from miami vice or so...

http://flatsixes.com/cars/porsche-boxster/kharmann-ghia-body-boxster/

Theres a lot of trashed boxters, there...

Smurffs up!!! - ghia cab update

Theres a lot of difference what was said and what is the reality, when you buy a car without having the possibiliyty to check it out first... This ghia had "a small rust hole in the floar" ... Which actually was a totally rusted out floor pan... So thanks to wagenhaus.fi & paruzzi.fi -its getting much better!!!!

Some day....

This combo would make a nice "RatRoadster" -sort of. Street driven of course. Pauter 86x94, tubbed a lot, crappy fuchs wheels, lots of slics, and a body that has not been taken care that much... ;-) ... Have to pick up this ghia from wagenhaus...