I picked the car up a few weeks ago, it's a '69 coupe, it's a factory right hand drive UK car of which there are only a handful left here (most Karmann Ghias in the UK are imports from California or South Africa) its been off the road for 5 years. I'm in the process of stripping the interior and mechanical parts to prepare for some sill, heater channel, door bottoms, rear inner arches and spare wheel well repair. it has come with no engine, bumpers or front screen, engine is being built hopefully for about 3 months time, just need to find the time to do the bodywork. It's an early '69 so has the 4stud wheels & disk brakes, but still has swing axle rear suspension.
The pans don't appear to be in too bad a shape, with only a couple of small holes at the lowest point of the passenger floorpan. There have been some repairs around the rear shock mounts which someone has done the classic welding over the rust rather than bother cutting it out. I spent an afternoon grinding away the old rust underneath to reveal solid metal, I've got a beetle repair panel for this and will need to fabricate something to join the boot floor to the arch.
The passenger side has some similar rust starting although no quite as bad as the drivers side.
I'm having the sills done professionally as they are on the outside you can see them!
On the bright side, it looks like like the engine compartment is OK, including the battery tray and it appears the back of the rear arches have had new bottom(s) put in at some point which means they are also good.
The old repair ground back to remove the rust it was patching up, in some points the patches were 3 deep! I stripped off the rest of the paint from the inner arch to make sure there were no more horrors lurking !
Front footwells seem ok, can anyone tell me what the three holes are for in the dash? Also I suspect the black VDO clock isn't the original unit.
Thanks,
Carl.
