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Two LHD Vw Karmann Ghia
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General question- not having time or money for a project like this but ...... if you come across a good body for say a KG or a T3 , and all the parts were lost so don't come with the raw body, do you take it on and bet that you come across a donor with the parts you need at some point in the future?

reason it comes to mind, I happened across Wayne Carini (sp?) chasing classic cars the other day and he was in a half collapsed barn of a guy who used to restore model A's and he had literally hundreds if cars worth of parts in an attic but no bodies and I was thinking the parts are two a penny off rotten bodies - get a good body and you will find the parts eventually?
 
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chewy356 said:
General question- not having time or money for a project like this but ...... if you come across a good body for say a KG or a T3 , and all the parts were lost so don't come with the raw body, do you take it on and bet that you come across a donor with the parts you need at some point in the future?

reason it comes to mind, I happened across Wayne Carini (sp?) chasing classic cars the other day and he was in a half collapsed barn of a guy who used to restore model A's and he had literally hundreds if cars worth of parts in an attic but no bodies and I was thinking the parts are two a penny off rotten bodies - get a good body and you will find the parts eventually?
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Ghia trim and interior parts are hard to find and not cheap

So a rotten car but complete still fetch good money
 
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...dunno about a bargain, but it this 1300S has been liberated out of the shed...

Previous restoration that needs restoring again, which probably won't fill an potential buyer with optimism, but I spose it did get saved at that stage....
 
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...I've always wondered if there was a trend of 'badging up' 1600's as 1300S' - as I mentioned on another thread on these I remember one on an estate in Monaghan - same estate as one of the relatives lived n it was definitely orange but had 1300s badging.
That one was modded with flared wings n wide Weller n 'a duck tail' - I was a kid at the time n he showed us round the car n started it up; sounded very lairy - the owner seemed fairly sure it was 'a real 1300s' as I remember him explaining about the insurance n the 'different name of the tin' marketing ..

On another note, it's a shame really their isn't some of these 70s n 80s modded or souped up Irish beetles recreated or 'tribute to' builds - I remember getting the gra for bugs cause of these sort of cars, rather than any 'cal looker' which i didnt even know about ...they were everywhere when I was growing up n each one seemed very different from another
 
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I’ve seen a few of the 80s bodykit whaletail type bugs with Weller 8 spokes up here restored to high standard, all part of the history! I’ll dig out pics if I can
 
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