Karmann Ghia Convertible 1972 White on 2040-cars
Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States
Body Type:Convertible
Vehicle Title:Rebuilt, Rebuildable & Reconstructed
Engine:air cooled
Fuel Type:Gasoline
For Sale By:Private Seller
Make: Volkswagen
Model: Karmann Ghia
Trim: white
Options: Leather Seats, CD Player, Convertible
Power Options: Air Conditioning, missing AC compressor
Drive Type: auto stick shift
Mileage: 94,500
Exterior Color: White
Warranty: Vehicle does NOT have an existing warranty
Interior Color: Black
Safety Features: factory seat belts
Number of Cylinders: 4
Bought in 1988, 93,000 mi., as restoration hobby, it was white. Rusted headlights, rocker panels and foot went through the floor when first put duck taped top down. Kraco radio
1990 Stripped car of everything and flat bedded to welding shop for 3 years. All rust cut out and metal replaced and new floor pan. Body squared and made solid. found out original color was orange
1993 assembled car, new shocks, brakes and fluid, and exhaust, reviewed engine (OK), then drove to friends body shop. Kept for 3 years all body work done (see pictures) and then several coats of Mercedes white paint and clear coat. Sand blasted all rims, black inside/silver outside. Car now always kept in a locked garage.
1997 Specialist in Dover, NJ put in new carpets, new leather on seats, new convertible top. Then added Panasonic amfmcd with 5x7 speakers that sit on rear seat with Velcro...sounds great.
2002 Drove 100 miles to retirement village in Whiting, NJ, again garage kept, just used for local concerts and drive around. Plates: "QQ 72 Karm", did not put more than 100 miles per year.
2008, stopped driving car except for start up 4x/yr and drove around the block to keep gaskets wet and rotate flat spots on tires. Now too old to do any more work or enjoy the car as I used to.
Car is FOB Whiting, NJ, suggest flat bed as it has not been driven far in a long time. current mileage is 94,500. It will start now and runs good.
Car will come with many extras, cover, manuals, spare parts. Auto stick shift works great, factory AC is missing compressor. Tons of additional pictures to substantiate.
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Fri, Aug 31 2018While the automotive and technology worlds have been pouring billions into autonomous vehicles (AVs) and preparing to bring them to market soon as shared robo-taxis, Apple has mostly sat on the sidelines. Of course, Apple is the last company to ever make its intentions known, and the super-secret tech cult giant hasn't been totally out of the AV game based on the clues that have slipped out of its Cupertino, Calif., citadel over the past few years. Related: Apple self-driving cars are real — one was just in an accident News first broke in 2015 that it had assembled an automotive development team, in part by poaching high-profile talent from car companies, to work on a top-secret self-driving vehicle project code-named Titan. (Thank you very much, Nissan.) Apple also subsequently broke cover by making inquiries into using a Northern California AV testing facility and receiving a permit to test AVs on public roads in California. But then as the AV race started to heat up in the last few years, Apple reportedly began scaling back its car activities by downsizing team Titan. More recently, Apple's car project has shown signs of life with the hiring a high-level engineer away from Waymo and luring one Tesla's top engineers and a former employee back to Apple. It also inked a deal with Volkswagen to provide a technology platform and software to convert the automaker's new T6 Transporter vans into autonomous shuttles for employees at tech company's new campus. That is a far cry from giving rides to Wal-Mart shoppers, like Waymo is doing as part of its AV testing in Phoenix. But this could be the perfect time for Apple to enter the AV market now that ride-sharing is reaching critical mass and automakers and others are planning to deploy fleets of robo-taxis. Apple could easily establish a niche as a high-end ride-sharing service – and charge a premium – given its cult-like brand loyalty and design savvy. The growth of car subscription models could also play in Apple's favor since is already has many people hooked on paying for phones in monthly installments – and eager to upgrade when a new and better model becomes available. To achieve this, some believe Apple will fulfill co-founder and CEO Steve Job's dream of building a car. And as the world's first and only $1 trillion company it's sitting on a mountain of cash that certainly gives it the means. But other tech darlings like Tesla and Google have discovered how difficult it can be to build cars at scale.
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