Volkswagen Karmann Ghia

some canceled Volkswagen sports car and release it as a Porsche.

What about like a modern Karmann Ghia? No.

No, that's too much.

That had

when I was in high school and even college.

And my first car was a '55 Chevy Bel Air convertible, um-

Oh

... coral and charcoal gray.

Yeah.

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JR the convertible guy.

I am.

Okay.

I also, my first car was a Karmann Ghia.

I fantasize about a vintage Karmann Ghia.

I also have a Jeep and I'll probably be getting a Porsche.

I do love cars, but I prefer vintage over anything.

Those are smooth little cars.

I love a vintage little car, you know, Aston Martin, little MG, maybe a Karmann Ghia.

Oh, yeah.

Super cute.

And this was built by Karmann, who, you know, famously built a lot of the Sciroccos, a lot of the-

Yeah, like Karmann Ghia.

Yeah, yeah.

Uh, big builder of, of really cool cars in Germany.

My wife has a favorite too.

Hers was the Carmen Ghia.

And when we crossed the bridge of, you know, hey, if you're going to be a part of this hobby with me and, you know, you're going to do these shows, you know, me and my buddy put on several shows throughout the year.

My wife, you know, rolls her sleeves up and just gets, you know, all involved and totally, you know, gives her support as well.

So, yeah, man.

That's awesome.

Bit by the bug slash bit by the Carmen Ghia.

But that's cool to hear about your wife's favorite as well.

Yeah.

And then that actually leads to, I don't know if you remember this story, but, um, this woman had been married, been, was married to a, uh, a semi-famous NFL player.

And, uh, the, it came out on a podcast that she said the reason she got divorced was because of the enormous size of his male member.

Mm-hmm.

Ooh.

That-

A woman? [laughs]

Uh, uh, that, um, uh, uh, Jess brought into the building yesterday.

Yeah.

Yeah, so the aviation culture and, and a lot of guys that own small planes, I know when I owned a small Cessna, there was, you know, a guy two door down, two doors down from my hangar had a, you know, couple, he had a Thing and a Karmann Ghia, and it, it, you just never seem to be too far away from them, no matter where you went, but e- you know, particularly in the, the industry I was in.

So- Time moves on.

My father, who was an interesting character in his own right, a podcast worthy of itself, the guy was a recovered drug addict.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I had a guy get ahold of me who wa- who had a Karmann Ghia.

He decided that he wanted it done for his wife's birthday.

Anyway, we saw at the dealership they had a, what was it, a Gia? Is that what it's called? G-H-I-A? That orange...

Oh, Karmann Ghia.

Karmann Ghia.

Yes, Volkswagen.

Okay.