Ghia Gallery

This page will have cars on it which have caught my fancy. Most of them will have been stolen off of want-ad sites, like www.thesamba.com/vw/, but there may be a few showing up from personal sites. If you see something here with no credit given and you have info, let me know, I'll be happy to add it.

For whatever reason, lately I've had a lot of interest in cars built along lines of a "custom". Not necessarily VWs, but not excluding VWs either. Add to that some time spent on volkrods.com, and I ended up with a design study that's sticking in my brain. I have no plans of doing this to the car I have now, but someday???

Yeah, I know it's obvious these are faked. That isn't the point, I was just playing around with a few ideas, namely lowering the car and chopping the top. I particularly like the looks with the top up now, compared to a stock Ghia.

These cars provide inspiration for my project,. I love that car on the right... even if the wheels do fall outside of my plan! It may well be my favorite Ghia I've seen so far. I would love to build a later Ghia cabriolet along those lines, perhaps with a 2.0 liter Type IV powering it? Too many projects, too little time...

My apologies to the owners and/or photographers of these cars, I've lost my notes on where they came from. I believe the car on the left was being sold on eBay at one time, and the car on the right was from a 1999 show in Pomona, California. Contact me if you have any information and I'll be happy to give credit.

As much as I like the look of the car on the right, I've decided to go with wheels like the car on the left.