61 Ghia - Mavuto's Project Fresh Paint!

Mavuto · Post by **Mavuto** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:42 am

Figured I enjoy seeing everyones photos on here so much that I'd put my recent ones from yesterday.

Ghia's look GREAT as silver cars. That basecoat looked awesome but Kandy Red was what I was after. Can't wait for the pictures outside. The car has some microflakes that are reflecting a little much in the pictures. They are tiny and small, and NOT 70's microflake. Anyhow... hope to have pictures in the Sun. 17 coats of the Kandy.... that's got to be deep. (I haven't actually seen the car in person yet).

More info on my project can be found at my Club's website. Highlights are Narrowed front beam from Franklin VW werks (Awesome GUY!!), IRS conversion from Swing in the back, and narrowed trailing arms by Bruce in Vancouver (Another great person), Turbo engine from Ken King and Concept1 in Calgary, paint by Mark Idt of Mission auto...ect. Sorry.. just excited...

http://www.clubveedub.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7668

~M
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crocteau · Post by **crocteau** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:47 pm

That's an awesome project! Nice color, too!

racelook · Post by **racelook** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:21 am

Verry nice paint !!!

Subliem Colour.

Wiebrand

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 11:52 am

I think this is a better idea of the colour. I will have pictures of it in the sun when I pick it up this Saturday. (I hope)

And the chassis

And what it came from

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I'm sort of doing these pictures all in reverse order aren't I. <shrugs>

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Mavuto · Post by **Mavuto** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 11:54 am

Rescue912 · Post by **Rescue912** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:40 pm

Yowza! Very nice, love the grey but the candy is going to be sweet...

Michael Attewell · Post by **Michael Attewell** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:13 am

Wow that looks cool, keep the pics coming!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:43 am

Thanks Michael... your Ghia is in my all time top 3 list... I'm hoping I'll like mine more. (winks). I saw the car at the shop... looked awesome but has a lot of polishing/sanding work to be done to flatten out the 20 layers of paint. Each time I've tried to pick up the car something has happened. The new timeline is tomorrow.... so if I DO actually get it, I'll take some pictures of it out in the sun before I carry it into the garage and kick the nice pan out in the snow. (sigh). What I REALLY want to see is the car under street lights at night. That will look really amazing.

Mavuto · Post by **Mavuto** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:44 am

(note to self.. make sure your logged in when making a post)

Mavuto · Post by **Mavuto** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:55 am

Car looks so different in the sun. Still need to sand and detail the paint. (As well as put everthing back on the car)

hpw · Post by **hpw** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:17 pm

Awesome looking ghia,

Have you done any more work?

Do you have anyupdated photos?

Mavuto · Post by **Mavuto** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:26 pm

Just mounted the body to the chassis this weekend. The right side is a little off... i.e... hard if not impossible to get the bolts in right now. Guess it spread out a bit over the long time I had it off the chassis. I'm also searching around and scratching my head as to where my chassis mount bolts went. Anyhow... here are the pictures as requested.

Berg 60% throw shifter, powdercoated frame. (Thanks again to the guys and girls at Gene Berg who took my phonecall Friday when I realised I had lost my instructions and had little clue as to what I was doing). The hole that is cut out there by the shifter... that's a previous owner thing

Sitting ready for the Body. (more or less. Less then more).

Cousin Dan, my father, our VW clubs Media Relations guy Andrew, and my Father all wondering why things are a little askew.

Now isn't THAT a rake to make a Camero jealous!!! ... Obviously not going to last. Mighty aggressive. (and umm.. fugly).