'62 Karmann Ghia project

[noexit]

Hey, I'm new here, but have been posting on The Samba for about a year. I drive a '74 Super, and I just picked up a '62 Karmann Ghia coupe a few weeks ago. I've stripped all the bondo and found all the rust, and I'm getting up the courage to make the first cut. I think today's the day.





Actually, I got 1 and 1/3 Karmann Ghias.

[doc]

Nice. Ghias make great projects! Please keep us posted.

doc

[noexit]

Since I got a new job right after bringing my Ghia home, I've spent a lot less time than I'd like out in the shop. My goal for the last few weeks has been to spend at least 1 hour a night working on it, but it's been so cold that I don't think I got out once last week. So far this week though, I've spent 2 hours a night.

Here's what I've been doing.

Cutting apart the rockers. I'll have to replace the outer and inner on both sides, but the heater channel is good.



Picked up a couple long blocks for cheap. Hopefully I'll have enough refurbishable parts to get me on my way to a good engine.


I've welded up one door opening, and I''ll have the other side done tomorrow. I hope to have the body off the pan this weekend so I can start work on restoring the pan.

[doc]

More pics of the heater channel repair, please.

Would you mind if I moved this topic to the Karmann Ghia forum? I think it will get better attention there.

doc

[noexit]

Hey yea. Good idea...

[noexit]

This is as much as I have done on the rockers so far. I cut enough to know what I was going to need to do, but completion of the rockers will wait a bit I think. I'm going to concentrate on the pan first.


I just got finished welding up the door openings. This weekend I'm going to try to get the body off the pan.