Itinerant Air-Cooled

Here she is. Work in progress. Needs rear drums and a front end rebuild to be "safe".
One rear drum and the spindles were bent as she slid sideways, but she still rolls, steers and stops. Speaking of which... anyone have any 65-compatible k&l spindles just takin' up space?
The only set I can find at the shop is rusted to holy heck, races and all.

Her good side:


Her pretty face:


Ouch:


Nice butt:


Risque!:

DjEep wrote:Here she is. Work in progress. Needs rear drums and a front end rebuild to be "safe".
One rear drum and the spindles were bent as she slid sideways, but she still rolls, steers and stops. Speaking of which... anyone have any 65-compatible k&l spindles just takin' up space?
The only set I can find at the shop is rusted to holy heck, races and all.

Her good side:


Her pretty face:


Ouch:


Nice butt:


Risque!:

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That is a beautiful car. Took me 40 years or so to finally see them as pretty. What were the original colors int./ext?
Colin

Haha, will do. Didn't notice the the reply window didn't auto-resize.

I love 'em. My dad had a Volvo P-1800 when I was a kid, and these always reminded me of one, but with the engine in the right place

DjEep wrote:Haha, will do. Didn't notice the the reply window didn't auto-resize.

I love 'em. My dad had a Volvo P-1800 when I was a kid, and these always reminded me of one, but with the engine in the right place

What is the original color ext/int combination on this car?
Colin

Heavens to Betsy I like that car! I see it had a rack on the back.

Yup, gonna try to find a rack at some swapmeet this year, or have a welder friend build me one.

Well, just got one spindle done, was able to salvage the rusty ones after some pb, some wire wheel and some solvent, still nice and tight! Got the right spindle soaking now, beer break.

Amskeptic wrote:

DjEep wrote:Haha, will do. Didn't notice the the reply window didn't auto-resize.

I love 'em. My dad had a Volvo P-1800 when I was a kid, and these always reminded me of one, but with the engine in the right place

What is the original color ext/int combination on this car?
Colin

The Volvo or the VW?

p-1800 was white paint/red leather

I think the ghia was always yellow, but the respray wasn't pretty. The interior, I'm not sure, don't know how to trace it like a bus.

Also today I leather wrapped the wheel, sprayed the steering column lo-gloss black w/ yellow bracket, and the turnsignal switch yellow-base black-lever. Looks way better as opposed to the dirty white/yellow overspray they were before.

I'd post pictures, but my cell cam hates flouro lights.

Ok, two spindles and an extra 'shirey Bloody Marydown, bedtime.

Just braggin' I guess...

Where she sits now:





Took her out to Bagby hot springs on Sunday. About 400mi roundtrip; her longest yet. No major problems, no oil light at idle (I did boost the idle to about 1100rpm), only a small chirp from the dizzy when I got home. Best of all, even with 3 people in her and running Premium, she made the trip for maybe $50.

Are you going to sell her?

Sure. For you, $10,000 :D

DjEep wrote:Sure. For you, $10,000 :D

They are such strangely good-looking cars.
Colin

Indeed they are. Still amazed when folks ask me what kind of car it is.


neal

Yeah, Every time I stop for gas in her it's either "what year?" or "what is that?!?"

Need to get a ghia cruise going some time. My buddy in town has an all original tan '69 in near perfect shape that he scored last year for $1000 because it was out of gas and the PO had given up years ago trying to figure out why it wouldn't start. He poured in some gas, jumped it, and drove it 200 miles home. Lucky @$!@&%