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Bill Hunter's 1967 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Coupe ?A Long and Winding Road

Most people have never heard of a VW Karmann Ghia but you would be absolutely amazed at the number of them still going about and the number of enthusiasts world wide. Just Google Karmann Ghia and you젳ee what I mean. For most of my life I had a hankering for an old car to tinker with but being busy raising four kids and having several extra jobs to earn a crust I never got round to it. Every New Year my resolution would be to t this year?but something always got in the way. Finally when the kids were all up and flown the nest I realised, 幍 Iயt so young anymore, if I donय it now I never will? In 2001 I started doing a bit of research into what kind of car I would like to restore, thinking back to my youth and trying to remember what kind of cars I used to like. The Sunbeam Talbot was always a favourite and sure enough, do a search on the web and thereబenty out there, however I had a vague recollection of a sporty VW coupe I used to admire and after much head scratching I remembered the name ?span class=SpellE>Karmann Ghia? I did a search and wow! there seemed to be millions of them out there, with owners clubs all over the world and as much advice as anyone could ever need. When I saw them I just fell in love with the car and new this was for me, the great thing is they are based on a VW Beetle chassis and running gear so are basically a very simple car. One of the sites I found described the Karmann Ghia as ⴠon Wheels?and for me there couldnࢥ a better description.

I found the Karmann Ghia Owners Club (GB) http://www.kgoc-gb.org/ and lo and behold they have a bulletin board where people were buying and selling, asking for help, all kinds of things so I posted a notice saying that I was looking for a project if anyone had a car to sell. Sure enough a chap called Graeme Harker from Newcastle contacted me to say he had one in a warehouse for ten years! I was very interested and went down to see it and decided there and then to take it. After negotiating a price we got a van and trailer and brought the kit and caboodle up to my garage in Edinburgh where it has been ever since, apart fro a brief sojourn north to Classic Restorations in Alyth, Perthshire, http://www.classicrestorations.co.uk/,?more of that later.

This was the car sitting in a warehouse in Gateshead when I collected it

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