Car details

Owner:

Georg Otto, Karlsruhe

Type:

343, VW Karmann Ghia 1600

Year:

1969

color:

Toga White L90C

Body:

Folded wheel arches, red taillight glasses, white parking light glasses, white turn signal glasses, Empi GTV badge, Talbot mirror

Interior:

Stock seats with additional headrests, upholstered with black leather, Fat Bisquit design, Simpson seatbelt, two-point Simpson seatbelt on passenger side, original 14 inch Empi GT steering wheel, original Gossen Type 34 tach, Gene Berg shifter

Engine:

Type 3, 1776cc, AS 21 case, tie-rods, lightened flywheel, eightfold doweled, 69 mm stock crankshaft, forged 90.5 mm Mahle pistons and barrels, modified 041heads, 39 mm inlet valves, 35.5 mm outlet valves, HD Remmele valve springs, 94 g Scat lifters, W 120 Engle camshaft, straight cut Magnum gears, compression ratio 9.85:1, short Type 3 intake manifolds, two 40 IDF Weber carbs with velocity stacks, Crossbar linkage, elektric Pierburg fuel pump, blue Bosch coil, Bosch 009 distributor, 38 mm Thunderbird header, Thunderbird Single Quiet muffler, both ceramic coated, HD oil pump, small oil sump, external 520 mm oil coller, oil filter

Transmission:

Stock, code letter "DC"

Chassis:

Front end lowered three outer splines, rear end on stock height, Spax shock 14-fold adjustable

Brakes:

CSP discs on front end, rear end with drums with Krämer hubs in 5/130 pattern

Wheels/tires:

Mahle "Gasburner" polished and detailed in 5.5Jx15, on rear with 5 mm spacers, Firestone wheels in 145-15 front, rear in 205/65-15

History:

Georg bought the Karmann from an elderly gentleman in Hannover in summer 1992. The car was at his first owner then and had just 65.000 km on the clock with the first engine. In summer 1996 he got the bigger 1776cc engine. In 1997 some nice guy drove backwards into the parking Ghia. A new front mask and a complete new paintjob has been done by Dannenhauer & Stauss in Stuttgart. Since June 26th in 1998 the Karmann is on the road again. Being a Resto Cal Looker until then, it's a traditional Cal Looker since 2000.

Best 1/4 mile ET:

17,252 s

Feature(s):

VW Trends 3/05 (USA), Street VWs 3/05 (J)

Thanks to:

Christoph Moos
Gisela Balbach
Gregor Schilling
Peter Köhmann
Ulli Geißler
Wilfried Wittkuhn

Last update:

06/03/2008