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My Type 34 Karmann Ghia. I have owned this car for 20+ years. I even brought it with me when I moved to Australia. a...
My Type 34 Karmann Ghia.

I have owned this car for 20+ years. I even brought it with me when I moved to Australia. and despite this it's still not finished.
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    My Type 34 Karmann Ghia.

    I have owned this car for 20+ years. I even brought it with me when I moved to Australia. and despite this it's still not finished.
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    Narrowing IRS - Part 2
    If you've been following the build of the Ghia you may recall that I previously blogged about narrowing the IRS arms to help fix a tyre clearance issue that I have with the Ghia. Well having sourced another set of IRS A-arms some time back, this week...
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    Narrowing IRS
    To get the Ghia through the engineers inpection I need to address the issue of tyre to arch clearance. It had been noted by the engineer that I need to increase the clearance by approximately 10mm. There are a number of ways of acheiving this, most o...
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    Rear Parcel Shelf Installation
    As with assembling most things, whether an Ikea flat pack, or a classic car, the order in which things are put together is pretty important. This is especially true of the Type 34 interior....
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    Not every Ghia has a silver lining
    It’s been a few weeks since I posted a progress update,  not because I’ve not done anything, but simply as I’ve been too busy to be able to to spare the time to blog about it. If you’ve been checking my photo stream you would have noticed that I did ...
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    Type 3 EFI trigger wheel
    If like me you have wondered how or where you can mount the trigger wheel for your EFI Type 3 engine, well ponder no longer, the answer is here :D...
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    Rolling, rolling, rolling...
    Rawhide references aside, this weekend broaches yet another milestone in the build. For the past 5 or so years the car has sat on axle stands whilst I tinkered about with different suspension setups, but now, after deciding to postpone my plans for t...
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    Wheels and Deals
    The weekend I turned my attention to getting the rear brakes sorted out. The new backing plates and hub centres finally arrived from the states and so I could fit them up and check out clearances and offsets....
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    Steering me in
    This weekend I turned my attention to getting the rest of the brakes installed. The pedal assembly needed to be fitted and the SACO hydraulic clutch kit installed. The SACO kit replaces the clutch cable with a hydraulic setup which includes a small m...
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    A momentous occasion
    I finally finished off the engine mounts today. I decided to bolt them in rather than weld them in, mostly as I feel that it will be a lot stronger. To do this I fabricated a plate to fit on the inside of the engine bay tin. This helps spread the loa...
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    Over the top?
    I’ve been pretty busy the past few weeks, so much so that I haven’t even had a chance to blog about what I’ve managed to get done. I’ve really been getting a push on to get the car ready for the 50th anniversary celebrations that we are having in Sep...
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    Engine Trial Fit
    With the 50th anniversary event slowly creeping up, I’ve got a renewed enthusiasm for the Ghia and I’m managing to get quite a bit done. This weekend I set myself the task of getting the engine in the car as a trial fit so that I could look to fabric...
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    Front Beam Refitted
    I’ve made some good progress on the Ghia the past couple of weeks. After assembling the IRS last weekend, I stripped and painted the front beam. The front beam was already partially stripped having been removed from the car some time ago. I had previ...
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    IRS Reassembled
    Managed to spend some time on reassembling the rear suspension this past weekend. The paint I applied last weekend has not come out too bad, but the issue I had with the thinners reacting has left a bit of a mottled finish. But, as I’m now on a missi...
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    IRS Painted
      I spent this weekend finishing off painting the IRS for the Ghia. I stripped the paint from it last weekend using a combination of paint stripper and a zip wheel in my grinder. There was only some minor surface rust, so I sanded this back ready fo...
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    Type 34 IRS
    Spent a bit of time yesterday stripping down the Type 3 IRS that I will be fitting into the Type 34. This came out of the fastback doner car I bought a few months back. The suspension is in pretty good shape with no rust, dings, modifications or bits...
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    HAHA, Just after you finish restoring it

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    •   Saturday, 16 April 2011

    LOL. Book it in when you like, I'm sure you will find the rates reasonable. Wink

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    Engine out
    I got a call from the guy I bought the Fasty off of last week, turns out that another customer had crashed her Type 3 and was on the look out for a doner car. So this weekend I removed the engine and gearbox from the fasty in readiness for it to be p...
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    Replacing the Type 3 EFI
    With the new engine for the Razoredge now procured, I've been looking towards what I need to do to it to get it up and running in the razor. The engine itself is a standard Type 3 fuel injected unit that is currently still in the '71 fastback in my g...
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    New Fasty
    Regular readers of my blog will know that the Type 4 engine, and Porsche 911 gearbox that I have built for the Razoredge has been borrowed for use in my salt flat race car. Whilst pondering on how much grief it would be to get it installed in both th...
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    Sea Change
      With some deliberation, and a bit of a heavy heart, I have decided that after over 10 years of running my http://t-34.co.uk site, I am going to close it down next year. This decision is mostly due to the fact that i have too many other websites t...
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    sometimes everything seems to be trying to tell you something...
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    •   Thursday, 08 October 2009

    that thing is so nice..... dream dream. i wonder if you could get a drop tank street registered in australia?

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    wow 40 posts and no real progress.
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    •   Thursday, 24 September 2009

    Booring , no. I myself just obtained on my recent holidays 1x hella made in germany 1-91489 lens for a type 2, 2 x hella australia 900138 for type 1 and what was 2 x clear american style style lenses with fluting at the top of the lens and a small v with a dot in the v at the bottom of the lens....

    Booring , no. I myself just obtained on my recent holidays 1x hella made in germany 1-91489 lens for a type 2, 2 x hella australia 900138 for type 1 and what was 2 x clear american style style lenses with fluting at the top of the lens and a small v with a dot in the v at the bottom of the lens. I now only have one ( be more carefull next time and don't be in such a hurry to show them off to another vw enthusiest ). So if anyone needs one or has one spare let me know.

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    Holidays Part 2

    Ooooh, Triumph Thunderbird, pretty nice bike that, although I prefer the original version - The new one looks a little too much like a Harley for my liking. I think they got the Thruxton right though - same with the Bonneville 50th anniversary reissue, both very nice machines. Do you work for...

    Ooooh, Triumph Thunderbird, pretty nice bike that, although I prefer the original version - The new one looks a little too much like a Harley for my liking. I think they got the Thruxton right though - same with the Bonneville 50th anniversary reissue, both very nice machines. Do you work for Triumph? (got any cheap Thruxtons - lol)

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    oh fuck.

    harry's heading on towards 4 1/2. courtney our eldest is excellent with him, they get along really well. even when he was really young he could tell when she walked into the room.
    it is great to have her around, if we need to jump down to the shops or something she will keep an eye on him and...

    harry's heading on towards 4 1/2. courtney our eldest is excellent with him, they get along really well. even when he was really young he could tell when she walked into the room.
    it is great to have her around, if we need to jump down to the shops or something she will keep an eye on him and we know everything will be alright. we don't have to drag him out to the car then get him out etc etc. she likes it too as she can earn herself some extra $ too just by hanging out with her brother and having fun.
    i kind of like the idea of sending them out to work... if i send marnie and the girls out to work maybe i could stay home and play cars? sounds like an excellent plan... now if i could just get harry to clean up the greasy part for me...

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    Rear Suspension
    Well, it's been a little time since I actually did some work on the Ghia, recovering the interior doesn't really count as it wasn't me doing the work. So spurned by an invitation to the Victoria day of the Volkswagen in November (Cheers Grey54) I've ...
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    Life is full of surprises...
    I found out a funny thing today - my old silver '69 Ghia was originally an electric sunroof version that was painted cobalt blue with a black roof. The current owner fond out this info by sending off for it's birth certificate. This is pretty astonis...
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    Picked up the interior for the Ghia today
    Went and picked up the interior for the Ghia today. Gotta admit, I'm well pleased with the job they have done....
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    Ghia Interior Retrimmed
    The interior is finished - Went down to see it today. It looks great and I can't wait to get it home (picking it up later in the week). I went for a medium grey leather, with matching vinyl panels. The panels also have the correct heat seams in them...
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    •   Friday, 24 April 2009

    Sorry to hear about your kid, hope she's okay.

    i agree about stores opening on holidays - everything is open all of the time in the UK, one of this things I like about Adelaide is that generally everything is shut. I hope they don't change that. It's good to have a day off from consumerism...

    Sorry to hear about your kid, hope she's okay.

    i agree about stores opening on holidays - everything is open all of the time in the UK, one of this things I like about Adelaide is that generally everything is shut. I hope they don't change that. It's good to have a day off from consumerism every now and then.

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