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Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Type 34 You can’t buy a car like this. No, not artfully rusted and dropped over polished wheels. Pretty. You can’t buy a pretty car these days. Everything is aggressive now. Bog-standard Honda Civics have a DRG1 that seems like it wants to chew your face off. Even a mini2 has a sort of tense-eyebrowed, gape-mouthed appearance like a rabid Pekinese. Friends, join me in appreciating the delicacy of this Type 34 Karmann Ghia. Even the rat-rodding it’s suffered received can’t hide the subtlety. /via RedSquareDash Type 3 (lots more photos there, too) Down Road Graphic. The face of the car. So my car designer friends tell me. ↩ Sorry, MINI. ↩ Click for high-res photo

Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Type 34

You can’t buy a car like this. No, not artfully rusted and dropped over polished wheels. Pretty. You can’t buy a pretty car these days.

Everything is aggressive now. Bog-standard Honda Civics have a DRG1 that seems like it wants to chew your face off. Even a mini2 has a sort of tense-eyebrowed, gape-mouthed appearance like a rabid Pekinese.

Friends, join me in appreciating the delicacy of this Type 34 Karmann Ghia. Even the rat-rodding it’s suffered received can’t hide the subtlety.

/via RedSquareDash Type 3 (lots more photos there, too)

  1. Down Road Graphic. The face of the car. So my car designer friends tell me. ↩

  2. Sorry, MINI. ↩