SUBTLY DOES IT (FOR US!)

“I’m not normally a fan of yellow cars, but I liked the Castilian Yellow and it suited the Ghia’s curves”

here are certain Karmann Ghias that look just right, and dare we say Simon Larsen’s ’67 US import is one of them. There’s no air ride, the slammed suspension is static and combined with those JGE Kosmic rims and that rare factory Castilian Yellow paintwork, aesthetically we reckon he’s nailed it.

Simon and his family are certainly no stranger to air-cooled VWs, his dad having purchased a ’58 Bug for his first car. “My dad always liked Beetles and in 1990 he managed to get hold of a fire damaged 1974 1300 which he repaired