1972 | Volkswagen Karmann Ghia 1600

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As is so often the case, remarkable origin stories like this one tend to leave a trail of equally remarkable cars and ownership stories in their wake. This Type 14 is certainly a charming case in point.

The current owner’s father bought this sunny looking example of the Type 14 oeuvre as a new car in August 1972 to coincide with the advent of the new “L” registration suffix. The Karmann Ghia was supplied by VW dealers Jim Alves of Street in Somerset. The retail price was an unimaginably reasonable sounding £1,614.09 with Jim Alves offering a useful £39.09 in discount. A part exchange allowance of £530.00 was made against a 1965 Volkswagen TL Fastback. This remarkably straightforward provenance lends this Type 14 a rare and desirable status – that of a UK supplied, factory right hand drive car with a single family ownership history.

As if this wasn’t temptation enough for VW connoisseurs and aficionados, this example is largely unrestored with a diligently logged and documented service history. We say “largely” on the basis that the coupe was repainted in its original hue in 1983 and benefitted from a full engine rebuild in 2014.

This excellent Type 14 passed from father to son in April of 2003. In December of that year a handwritten note was scribed into the service book, noting “100,000 miles recorded.” On the day of our shoot, the VDO odometer was showing 8,407 attesting to the meagre additional mileage covered in the intervening 23 plus years.

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