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And this followed the Moggie
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Karmann ghia 
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Karmann ghia
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I bought it off a young guy who got It from a relative as quite a large pile of rust and turned it into what you see.
. He was a welder at JCB and spent over 4 years restoring it but needed the money to do up a house , paint job was several £ks but looked great
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Only seen one in the flesh, our foreman in tanker repair did one up, so I had insider knowledgePaul got it , VW Karmann Ghia
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Only seen one in the flesh, our foreman in tanker repair did one up, so I had insider knowledge
That was my second one
, great shaped body on the Beetle chassis. Downside was they were absolute rot boxes and as the wings etc were not bolted on very expensive to repair correctly. I must dig out the photos of what it looked like when the guy pulled it out of an old wooden garage , which fell down when the car came out as it was holding it up
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The Roadster in its proper environment with the top down and side screens off
, and yes those stainless wire wheels were a real pain to clean , 72 spokes on each of I remember correctly , and they weighed a tonne 
Is that where you got your love of Barbour coats and caps from
The Roadster in its proper environment with the top down and side screens off
In an attempt to keep dry
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ProbablyIs that where you got your love of Barbour coats and caps from
it did leak like a sieve but no worry because “they all do that” There were 2 of those with on our european road trip last summer, v nice but limited luggage space
The Roadster in its proper environment with the top down and side screens off
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A mate has one ( his 5th I believe) and regularly does weeklong trips to France with his wife and just one (not particularly large) suitcase on the rack. Moggie owners have to have a clip on brake light to use when a case is fitted as it obscures the factory one.
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A proper “barn find” was turned into this by a very talented guy ( not me by the way)
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A proper “barn find” was turned into this by a very talented guy ( not me by the way)
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Solarbeam
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Back on track , I‘ve been reflecting a bit on how to get a decent mirror finish on the discs
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Not looking bad for alloys coming up to 8 years old, 100% original
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Whilst I was at it I ran a drill bit through the holes in the disc as I’d read stories of these becoming totally blocked with brake dust etc. Thankfully very little came out but as it’s a 5 minute job with doing
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Whilst I was at it I ran a drill bit through the holes in the disc as I’d read stories of these becoming totally blocked with brake dust etc. Thankfully very little came out but as it’s a 5 minute job with doing
