Time for a new project:

Project Budget Blaster!

I found this by chance locally. It's a 1973 Karmann Ghia coupe. Painted Texas yellow and running on Riviera alloys. Apparently it was in a front end crash in the south of France 15 or so years ago and driven back to the UK where it has not been touched. It looks like a US spec car to me (seatbelt warning light, mph speedo). It is amazingly solid, the body bolts all came out very easily and the channels are nice and solid, there is just a hole in the driver's side floorpan but that's easily fixed. I am going to fit a fibreglass front end for budget reasons and because Gary (of the Speedster Clinic) has a mould that he is going to let me use.

Plans include a quick strip down and repaint of the chassis, it'd be a shame not to as it is unbolted now. Then I will make up some sort of front end framework for the fibreglass. I've always thought Ghias were crying out for a radiator behind those big grills so I will fit one for an Alfa engine, sticking to a low budget still.

To see what it might look like when finished, take a look here and here, same colour, same wheels.

This was first site!	a bit of surface rust on the chassis will be easy to clean up. The inner wings are in very good condition (what's left of them!). There is a bit of filler on the scuttle but I'll redo the original repair to improve things.
The brown isn't rust, just glue residue form the carpets	Rear seat area with back folded down. I love those pop-outs! There is also a heated rear screen...
Pretty solid channel, just needs cleaning up	Finally, the rear end, the big late lights don't look too bad, they are staying anyway as I am keeping to my budget theme
Waiting for the pan to be finished before being reunited	Riviera alloys already on the car