Category: INPROFILE FEATURE – Ride of the Week
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INPROFILE: JASON’S – 1966 TYPE 3 FASTBACK ‘CREME BRULEE’
‘Here at Rothfink we love looking through Instagram and the like looking at eye candy, same as everyone else. We came across this fastback and fell in love with how it looks. We had to get the story on this car. So here it is in the owners own words…… My full name is Jason…
INPROFILE: CARLOS ‘C-LOW’S’ – 1961 KARMANN GHIA ‘BETTY RUSTY’
This is 31 year old Carlos ‘C-Low’ Mijares and his girl Niquie, hailing from city of El Paso in Texas that straddles the border with Mexico had owned this awesome ride ‘Betty Rusty’ (a 61 Karmann Ghia) for a total of four years, until she was picked up last season by Discovery channels ‘Fast &…
IN PROFILE: Kevin Costa’s 1970 Type 3 Brazilian Squareback
Hailing from the city of Curitiba in Parana State in Brazil, lives a young man Kevin Eddie Telles Da Costa (Not the actor Kevin Costner by the way !!!), we came across Kevin from being a regular Rothfink customer, who drives this super rare, Type 3 Brazilian Square Back. Kevin has been into the Aircooled…
IN PROFILE: Nils Tielen 1973 Beetle
Continuing on with a european theme from last month’s Italian ride courtesy of Dhanush Ghorbanali, we find ourselves in Belgium. Home of the most excellent beer, friendly people and not forgetting some amazing rides. Chimay/Ebi and Freddy Files both rank super highly on our VW calendar radar, so it only seems fitting that we call…
IN PROFILE: Danush Ghorbanali – 1972 Jagermeister Beetle – Italy
Danush Ghorbanali hails from Turin in Northern Italy……famous for being the home of Fiat and for being the setting for arguably the best car chase sequence in movie history, The Italian Job, as well as being home to the giants of European football Juventus (and Torino, no offence Torino fans). Anyway Danush has 3 great…
IN PROFILE: Hotaka Saito – 1968 Porsche/Type 3 Fastback 913
10 years ago we travelled to Tokyo and Kyoto for a month-long trip. And lets just say that our love of Japan will most certainly stay with us until our next trip. The people, culture, art and most of all the car culture still amazes us. As you may have already noticed, a lot of our features…
IN PROFILE: YOU-YA KONNO’S – 1965, ‘KARMANN GHIA / TYPE 34’ JAPAN
You-ya Konno had always dreamt of owning a slammed air-cooled VW which wasn’t only low but also very fast. You-ya’s ‘Razor Edge’ Karmann Ghia (as we like to call them in Europe) runs a 2276cc type1 engine and runs 1/4 mile Best E.T time , 14.5sec, which is awesome considering how low his Type 34…
Inprofile: The Lowly Gentleman – Early Bay Window UK
The Lowly Gentlemen, The Scrape Bus, that bodydropped bay, whatever you call it there is one thing that still remains the same with this bus, an early bay window from the UK and it’s incredible! And it just so happens that the owner of this rather special bay window only lives a few miles away,…
Inprofile: Yuki’s – 1958 Lowlight Karmann Ghia – japan
We spotted Yuki Kadoya’s 1958 Lowlight Ghia on the internet a couple of years ago now, and got it touch to see if we could feature on our Rothfink Industries website, so as quick as we are here’s Yuki’s ace Lowlight Karmann Ghia for you – finally 🙂 Yuki and his wife live in Mie…