Post #143975 by exotica59 on Tue, Mar 1, 2005 11:52 AM

Welcome all! Just reading through and saw the posts from Captin Morgan and Tikicar. Wow.....Karmann-Ghia, that sure brings back some old memories!
My Grandma bought one new in the middle to late 60's ( I'm at work and will have to check the year later)It was a pale yellow one. After a few years She decided to have it painted red. In 1976 I got the car since it was good on gas and my high school was about 20 miles away from our house. I loved that car so much, I had to have my friends push start me a few times back when something or another was wrong with it. After I married, the car was passed to my brother to drive out to highschool and to his band gigs. I still smile when I think of 4 pretty big guys all squished into that car on their way to a show, following behind the truck full equipment. One day one of the guys feet went right through the floor boards in back. Didn't stop us from using the car though, My youngest bro was next in line and he drove it till it was pretty much all rusted away. We even had the motor saved for many years, hoping for a later project. The motor probably went with the farm when my folks sold. I hadn't thought about that in years....good times....