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"The folks at Volkswagen hired the Ghia studios in Turin, Italy to design a sportier body for the Bug chassis, but their designs truly stunk. However, Chrysler Corporation's show cars were being built by Ghia at the time, and Exner's Chrysler Special was in one of the studios as the Volkswagen execs walked by. They demanded to have THAT design instead, shrunk down to 3/5-scale, with the grille removed (none was needed) and the taillights changed. After the Karmann-Ghia was introduced, the Volkswagen execs sent a letter to Exner, saying "We apologize if the cars are somewhat similar". He wrote back saying "Similar?!? Hell, they're identical!"
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Posts in this Thread:
- retro designs, sak, Sat, 7 Dec 2002 16:09:17
- Re: retro designs, rodel, Sat, 7 Dec 2002 16:40:45
- Re: retro designs, johnw, Sun, 8 Dec 2002 09:53:54
- The Karmann Ghia styling actually developed from Virgil, RS
, Mon, 9 Dec 2002 14:44:14- PS, RS
, Mon, 9 Dec 2002 16:05:29 <-- Viewing This Message - Here's the link, RS
, Mon, 9 Dec 2002 14:44:59
- Karmann Ghia, rodel, Sun, 8 Dec 2002 13:02:21
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