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TR Tiki Rider Member South Orange County, CA Joined: Oct 05, 2002 Posts: 497	TR Tiki Rider Posted posted on Sat, Mar 5, 2005 6:21 PM On 2005-02-20 06:24, tikicar wrote: Cars are what I do for a living so I always have different stuff. Currently our old cars in the garage: My wife has a 1971 Karmann Ghia that is a 50,000 mile car all stock. It is a exact car of her first car I bought her several years ago as an anniversary present. I have a 69 Olds Vista Cruiser wagon. 70,000 miles. In process of gathering everything (trim etc) pieces I want before taking it apart for a repaint and new wood. Paint is just old and a few minor dents etc. All stock except tinted windows and Rader Tri Rib wheels to give a good 60s look. Dual exhaust also. I want it to look like a pit wagon at the drags in the late 60s like I remember. I will add a few speed parts from the era. When I build a car I usally don't put anything on it newer than 3 years past the age of the car. I also have a model A and a 24 chevy. that are in the works. The chevy will be built as a old Indy race car style car. The model A will be a Jalopy style running the stock 4 cylinder with speed parts. My cars are built on a budget. I have built several magazine and show winning cars. I am just not into that anymore. I like my stuff to look nice but I drive them. My preferance has always been 50s-60s cars mostly. I really like early super stock drag racing style stuff. I could talk about cars all day. Thanks for asking. Scott I too had a "71 Ghia. Brings back memories. In fact bought it new October 1971. I baby'd it,took care of it. It was original and clean. the speedo was going around a 2nd time. One summer evening in 1996 while it was parked in front of my residence as I watched tv. I heard a sudden and horrible crash. I about fell off my couch.I ran outside and saw in dis-belief that my 71 Ghia was now totaled and parked on the sidewalk on 3 wheels. Some very drunk lady had come around the corner sideways in her toyota and crashed into it. That ghia was a fine car and ran just about forever! It was cool though in a couple of days she contacted me and wrote me out a check for $3000. aloha and enjoy that Ghia!

On 2005-02-20 06:24, tikicar wrote:
Cars are what I do for a living so I always have different stuff. Currently our old cars in the garage: My wife has a 1971 Karmann Ghia that is a 50,000 mile car all stock. It is a exact car of her first car I bought her several years ago as an anniversary present. I have a 69 Olds Vista Cruiser wagon. 70,000 miles. In process of gathering everything (trim etc) pieces I want before taking it apart for a repaint and new wood. Paint is just old and a few minor dents etc. All stock except tinted windows and Rader Tri Rib wheels to give a good 60s look. Dual exhaust also. I want it to look like a pit wagon at the drags in the late 60s like I remember. I will add a few speed parts from the era. When I build a car I usally don't put anything on it newer than 3 years past the age of the car. I also have a model A and a 24 chevy. that are in the works. The chevy will be built as a old Indy race car style car. The model A will be a Jalopy style running the stock 4 cylinder with speed parts. My cars are built on a budget. I have built several magazine and show winning cars. I am just not into that anymore. I like my stuff to look nice but I drive them. My preferance has always been 50s-60s cars mostly. I really like early super stock drag racing style stuff. I could talk about cars all day. Thanks for asking. Scott

I too had a "71 Ghia. Brings back memories. In fact bought it new October 1971. I baby'd it,took care of it. It was original and clean. the speedo was going around a 2nd time. One summer evening in 1996 while it was parked in front of my residence as I watched tv. I heard a sudden and horrible crash. I about fell off my couch.I ran outside and saw in dis-belief that my 71 Ghia was now totaled and parked on the sidewalk on 3 wheels. Some very drunk lady had come around the corner sideways in her toyota and crashed into it. That ghia was a fine car and ran just about forever! It was cool though in a couple of days she contacted me and wrote me out a check for $3000.
aloha and enjoy that Ghia!

Post #144875 by Tiki Rider on Sat, Mar 5, 2005 6:21 PM