Damage

Posted on March 23, 2010
Filed Under Karmann Ghia

This is most of the damage we’ve found on the primered shell.

Rot in the spare wheel well

Evidence of welding on all the pillars?! Has the car had a new roof in the past? Maybe she was rolled over by a rhino or something in South Africa…

Some cracking around the nearside “nostril” airbox. The offside one is fine.

Another view of that airbox, this time from in the bonnet:

I think this is the worst of the damage. Some yahoo’s had a go at the offside arch with a hammer.

This is the nearside arch, in much better condition.

Some detail of the crude weld there:

Someone’s made some very crude holes for speakers in the rear shelf. Although the rear shelf is covered with a vinyl pad, I still want to repair this area.

Nearly there. Some dents now on the offside wing:

There’s also some damage to the battery tray that I didn’t photograph.

Some rot under the front nearside wheelarch:

And finally, some rot under the nose.

This is the worst of the damage. There’s a couple of minor dings and dents in other places, plus some crude welds that can be tidied up.

It’s clear there’s work to be done – far more than I realised when I took on this project. So I’d better get started I suppose… and to begin, I got some replacement panels to repair the damage under the nose. Now the work begins in earnest.