The lowlight chasing a Porsche near Chimay...

2110 cc running on my lowlight Karmann Ghia

2110cc is going on...

The 2110cc is going on... ;-)

Custom Rev Counter

Ok, I found an Autometer tachometer fitted in the dashboard when I bought the car.

Whatever you think about Automoter tachs, I thought it didn't match the style of the car at all. It was like a punch in your face. So I managed to have a tachometer better suited to the rest of the car...

I bought a Porsche 914/4 tach on ebay.de paying a few euros...

I stripped it..

I wanted to mix it up with one of the Ghia clocks I have...

.. in order to get something similar to the early optional VDO tachometer for ghias. I say similar, because early 6v tachs for lowlights don't reach 7k RPMs...

So I worked with Photoshop and create the face. Then had it printed by a friend, and then put on the OG plate of the clock:

I tried different possibilities...

then I attached the modified plate to the tachometer mechanism

I sprayed the orange pointer in white, then put a round black sticker in the middle...

I had to bend the pointer a little so that it didn't touch the chrome trim.

and this is the final result after some time

Not perfect but I like it!

Zinc coating

Some pieces needed new zinc coating...

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After:

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and after:

Much better!

Italian License Plates

This morning I went to the motorization offices and took my license plates.

This is the fourth VW I take to Italy from abroad.
They took one month to give me the plates, then you need to wait some more weeks to get the log book. In the meantime you can drive with a temporary paper. When you get the book, you can go to the PRA (Public Automotive Register) to register the car under your name. After that you can also go and pay the road tax. Easy? Not that much...