1968 Volkswagen Vw Karmann Ghia Convertible - Fully Restored Texas Car - Video on 2040-cars
Year:1968Mileage:18245Color: presents an exceptionally solid and straight body with a good blue finish throughout
Location:
Dallas, Texas, United States
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1968 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Convertible
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Texas Classic Cars of Dallas
1912 W. Mockingbird Lane
Dallas, Texas, 75235
Dave at 214-213-7072 or Maris at 214-616-2317
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Texas Classic Cars of Dallas is proud to present this long time Texas Karmann Ghia convertible for sale. This car was purchased from the original family in 2013. It underwent a complete restoration approximately 3 years ago. Enjoy our presentation of this classic VW and feel free to contact Dave at 214-213-7072 or Maris at 214-616-2317 with any questions.
Fly High or Fly Low, many of our photos were taken at the Dallas Love Field Frontiers of Flight Museum, located only minutes from our showroom. Be sure to visit our friends at the Flight Museum if you find yourself in Dallas, Texas.
The exterior presents an exceptionally solid and straight body with a good blue finish throughout.
The white convertible top is in very good condition, paired with a white convertible top boot.
The interior features the factory seats restored in the correct white vinyl.
The dash is clean and detailed, complete with the original gauge cluster. The 4-speed manual transmission shifts as it should and the clutch grips well. The emergency brake is functional. The Volfenhag AM/FM CD stereo, also functional.
The 1300 c.c. engine runs very well. The engine compartment is in very good condition throughout. The engine itself is dry underneath and in great shape. When the current owner purchased the car, the odometer was at around 17,000 miles which the original owner said was true mileage. The engine was overhauled 1500 miles ago. We of course have no actual documentation to verify that, but the car is in very good condition.
The undercarriage displays the original underbody throughout. The rear floor pans have been cut out and replaced. The suspension is in very good condition front to back.
The classic chromed bumpers show well front to back. There is this one section that has peeled and is in need of rechroming.
The trunk area is clean and detailed.
Enjoy our remaining photos and again feel free to contact Dave at 214-213-7072 or Maris at 214-616-2317 with any questions.
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I want to note that as a Texas dealership, we reserve the right to end this auction at any time should this vehicle sell on our showroom floor.
Volkswagen's product portfolio may be as extensive these days as any other carmaker in the business. But if you still think of the original Beetle as synonymous with the brand, that's probably because a) you're old and b) the Beetle was the company's only product until the mid-50s. Sixty years ago Wilhelm Karmann (founder of the eponymous coachbuilder) was in Paris for the auto salon and met up with Luigi Segre and his team from Carrozzeria Ghia who showed him what was essentially a "Beetle in a sports coat." A month later they showed it to Volkswagen chief Heinrich Nordhoff who, setting aside his conservative tastes, approved it for production. And so the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia was born, giving the German marque a second product line. It still used Beetle mechanicals and was built at the same Karmann factory in Onsabrück that was already assembling the Beetle Cabriolet. It took another couple of years to put the design into production, but from 1955 to 1974, Volkswagen and Karmann built 362,601 coupes and 80,881 of the subsequent convertible that arrived in 1957. Today the Onsabrück factory is part of the VW Group, handling production of the Golf Cabriolet, XL1 and Porsche Boxster and Cayman, and with that original Karmann Ghia prototype as part of its factory collection.
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