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That must have taken a bit of time under the tarp eh?
 
Holy cow. I thought my 74 had alot of rust! Is this worth salvaging?
 
Yep, my daughter convinced me when she was a sophomore in college to be allowed to drive my Euro 323i BMW (if she stayed on the President's List, she could have my BMW; if her grades slipped she drove the Ghia: I didn't get my BMW back until after she graduated from law school!)...I told her to take her Karmann Ghia to her grandmother's & to protect it from the weather...now, there were several options: 1st: put it in gramma's carport with gramma's car, 2nd: put it in the barn in a corner where the hay is stored, 3rd: cover it with a blue tarp.

She tried, I've gotta give her credit....she bought a new tarp & pulled it over her car & went all around the tarp with bricks - brick-to-brick - so it wouldn't blow off.

When I retired from the Army a few years later & got time to move it here, I had to replace the passenger floor & other parts of the belly pan & body...she tried, she really tried - & she was proud of herself & her gramma because they did such a good job of protecting it.

Well, I've redone the body & its just waiting for me to get it to the paint booth (though I think I'l pull the body off the belly pan & do everything again)...right now, it sits in its own little garage (my 'German Room' with her deceased gramma's '73 Bug & my 380SL) waiting for me to get around to finishing it.

I look at it this way: she started driving it when she was 16; drove it until her Sophomore year in college; never wrecked it; never had a serious problem with it; drove my BMW through college & law school without wrecking it or having problems; she's 35 now & still wants it....I can rebuild the Ghia, I did it once before!

Here's a photo of it when I finished the serious bodywork:

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Think if I was going to store one I would build a frame of 2x4s and bolts just high enough to give about a foot clearance all around when it was up on blocks, at least a foot off the ground as well. then cover with a blue tarp with lots of room for air to get all around and under.
 
It's not blue, but I feel pretty safe with this tarp...

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Think that should work.
 
Rick - it would work better if you laid some plastic on the ground & then put plywood over it to make a floor that repels moisture.
 
It is on jack stands on a concrete slab.
I know there's not that much detail in the picture /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

I should clean out the dead grass that's blown in there & accumulated and get that vine removed - gives it too much of an outdoor look.
 
That's why I love my barn to store those next projects in.

Mark
 

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I want a barn...

Frank, that's a lot of rust, even for one of your projects. Is that worse than the last Bugeye you did?
 
I think plastic underneath is a great idea, protects from the moisture even from a slab.
 
The wife has a barn.
Unfortunately, it has three horses in it.
I need somewhere for my BGT, and I'm hungry.

I was going to throw a tarp over the GT this winter, thanks for the heads up Frank.
 
spritenut said:
Cut up now and engine trans out.
It's what I did tonight after dinner.
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tell me you're only grabbing some parts - please

Mark - I drove through Arthur & looked everywhere for that barn - too many barns to choose & itwas snowing - dang - I like barns too.
 
That tarp did a heckuvanumber on that bonnet!!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
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