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I can't believe I waited almost an hour for this

I've worked with VWs for over 50 years and I wanted to get my hands on this car soooo bad. Loved the video.

OMG that 48th minutes paid off for the two days of hard work. I was so excited when I saw this girl running

For one that ain’t a mechanic, I love your tenacity. You’ll soon become an expert at VW’s. 👌💕👍👍👍

I love the shape of the Karmann Ghia. I think they are smarter and better looking than a porsche. The Karmann has a lot of character in the style. I watched Mustie1 do his red and white one.

Great video and how you have taken us on your journey with all the issues that you have addressed one by one.

my first car was a 67 bug. I learned all about points, condensors, adjusting valves, Jumping the starter, learning to shift without a clutch, carbonmonoxide poison, heater boxes, radios, stereos, hot wiring, replacing fenders and bumpers for cheap, retread tires keeping your oil full! Loved every year of it. Bought the Idiots guide and felt invincible!!!

Found the reason it stood still for 45yrs. No body couldn’t get it started!!!

My deepest condolences go to the poor engine for this mis-treatment!

one of the greatest engines ever made! Simple and reliable. Real VOLKSTECHNIK :-)

Hey, there’s a lot of negative comments. We all start somewhere and learn from mistakes.

Thought I'd posted this comment last night after watching this entire video with my fingers crossed on both hands for you CT - willing the engine to fire up!...eventually, you got this wee beauty running - Congratulations! Man I love the sound of an air-cooled VW engine running - it's music to my ears!

CT, set your idle screw clockwise to raise the rpm at idle to keep it running, your timing is off set it, your vacuum advance wasn't hooked up, you have a vacuum line on the carb not hooked up, which will make it run rough and idle badly, when checking for spark don't remove any spark plugs, just remove a plug wire from the plug and stick a screw driver in the wire and hold it next to metal with a gap and turn the engine over and see if it sparks a nice strong spark. if no spark, pull the coil wire from the center of the distributer cap and hold it near metal to see if it sparks to check the coil, by listening to the engine, make those adjustments and should be ok.

I hope you get to drive it to the show & give us a walk around of this sweet Ghia . Good to hear your getting the OG parts refurb'd....don't forget to do the valves and oil 👍.

I got a buddy around the corner, retired guy. He buys cars and builds em. He loves VW's. Built some really nice machines in the last 3-4 years.....one of his latest, an S-10 frame, a 350 V-8 and an auto trans. Put a VW body on it, and yeah, the motors up front. Wild little machine, lol.....

Your job is really cool. This carburetor is manufactured here in Brazil. I remembered my childhood. My father had a VW Brasilia. I have helped him to repair his car many times. It is very good. This Karman Ghia deserves a total restoration. True work of art on wheels! A hug!

Interesting watching you go through the troubleshooting for this engine. For future reference, if you ever suspect the condenser again, on any points ignition system. you can simple disconnect the wire from the condenser to see if it fires. Otherwise, the condensers hardly ever shorts out, therefore disabling the system. It's function is to help keep arching down across the points as they open and close. And the whole system works via the voltage from the battery runs through the primary side of the coil to the points. The points being closed allows the build up of a magnetic field in the coil. Then when the points OPEN, it creates the spark in the secondary side of the coil connected to the spark plug. The coil is basically a transformer and increases the voltage to spark the spark plug on the secondary side of the coil. The "dwell time" is that time the points are "closed". Hope that helps a little... Keep the videos coming Thumbs Up!

That engine bay is every mechanics dream come true. Not only is just about every single part of the engine very easily accessible, there is also acres of wide open room to reach around and work in

Thanks for sharing. Lovely car with so much potential. I recently put my Austin Atlantic back on the road after many years of storage. Started quite literally at the filler cap and rebuilt or repaired or replaced everything. Fuel tank was good but rusty so acid dipped cleaned and given new internal coating. Fuel pump rebuilt. Carbies rebuilt engine oil system redone. Water pump replaced etc Runs well and 're registered but next job is to remove head and service valves as compression on no. 3 is not correct. It's so rewarding doing the job yourself and you learn lots. Cheers