Monday, April 27, 2009

1962 Karmann Ghia

My first car was a 1962 pale blue Karmann Ghia that my folks had bought bought new. By the time I got it, the odometer had long since passed 100 K miles, but it was a sweet little machine that took me all over the state of California.

Recently the independent coach builder Wilhelm Karmann GmbH, who designed and built the Karmann Ghia, along with many others, filed the German equivalent of liquidation bankruptcy and is going out of business. Yet another icon of my youth bites the dust.


Thanks to KT for sending me the link.

2 comments:

K T Cat said...

How do you pronounce GmbH?

Kelly the little black dog said...

With your last name I though you'd know. You need marbles in you mouth. ;-)