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Sunday, November 26, 2006
People's dream car, December 1961
The new VW 1500 Ghia featured on the cover of the German equivalent of
Popular Mechanics
. The photo and headline sum it all up: high style for the aspirational middle class.
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the VW 1500 and a journal of my
progress in restoring a 1962
VW 1500 Karmann-Ghia.
parts i'd like to find
• uncracked '62 Type 34 lower dash pad (from chassis 0 042 251 or earlier)
• uncracked Type 34 upper door pads
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T34 World
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Type 3 tachometers
Obsolete Air-Cooled Documentation Project
Lars Neuffer
Karmann Ghia Ersatzteilservice
Volkswarenhaus
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