the new Ghia project

[hitlers revenge]

Along with body repairs, my 2 appys are trying there luck at engine repairs. This is one of a few motors I have waiting to be overhauled.




Damn,dont you just love the tools being used on the motor. I need to lock those away.

[hitlers revenge]

Saturday morning , up before the sparrows, to get all my banking done. But the bank only opens at 08h30. So, dont waste the time start with some work......and try not to wake the neighbours and the SEATCOVER at 06h45.


Preparing for the brake overhaul today. And as everybody knows, its my favourite job.


My 2 appy's then decided to upgrade the rims as there were more colours than Josephs coat.





While we sat waiting for the paint to dry, I sorted this out. You could see nothing when it was black.

Now I need to check up on the VIN number:2555621

[1972]

Look great HR

[Pine]

Now I need to check up on the VIN number:2555621

As far as I could find out, Uma Thurman drove a blue Ghia in Kill Bill 2...

...but, unfortunately, not yours

[Pine]

(PS, looking good! )

[hitlers revenge]

Looks to be around September 1959

[Pine]

I thought '59 = LHD Lowlight?

[Farhaad]

on route to new adventure

[hitlers revenge]

"Start of 1959 model year
Last year for "low-light" headlights
Enlarged front air intake grilles"

From "The Samba" - This is what happened in August 1959

[Pine]

You want FIFTY-NINE? I GIVE YOU FIFTY-NINE!!

January
See also January 1959

January 1
Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin.
Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
January 2
CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Backstage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, The Road of Life, and This is Nora Drake.
Castro's troops approach Havana.
Soviet Union successfully launches Luna 1 spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome.
January 3
The island of Addu in the Maldives declares independence.
Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
January 4
In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana.
In Léopoldville, 42 people are killed during food fights between the police and participants of a meeting of the Abako Party.
January 6 – Fidel Castro arrives in Havana.
January 7 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
January 8 – Charles De Gaulle is inaugurated as the first president of the French Fifth Republic.
January 12
Caves of Nerja are discovered in Spain.
Motown Records founded by Berry Gordy, Jr.

Jan.3 AlaskaJanuary 13 – Cuban communists execute 71 supporters of Fulgencio Batista.
January 22 – Knox Mine Disaster: Water breaches the River Slope Mine near Pittston City, Pennsylvania in Port Griffith; 12 miners are killed.
January 25 – Pope John XXIII announces that the Second Vatican Council will be convened in Rome.
January 29 – Walt Disney releases his 16th animated film, Sleeping Beauty in Beverly Hills.



[edit] February
See also February 1959

February
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Feb. 3: Crash kills musiciansFebruary 1 – A referendum in Switzerland turns down female suffrage.
February 3 – A chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper goes down in foggy conditions near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all 4 occupants on board, including pilot Roger Peterson. The tragedy is later termed "The Day the Music Died", popularized in Don McLean's 1972 song "American Pie".
February 6 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
February 9 – Yugoslavia and Spain set trade relations (not diplomatic ones)
February 13 – TAT-2 cable goes into operation.
February 16
Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba.
A blizzard causes a massive power outage in Newfoundland.
February 17 – The United States launches the Vanguard II weather satellite.
February 18
Jesús Sosa Blanco, murderer of 108 people, is executed in Cuba.
Women in Nepal vote for the first time.
February 19 – The United Kingdom decides to grant Cyprus its independence.
February 20 – The Canadian Government cancels the CF-105 Arrow project.
February 22 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
February 26 – Author Walter Mene throws acid on a Rubens painting in Munich.



[edit] March
See also March 1959

March
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March 1
The USS Tuscaloosa, USS New Orleans, USS Tennessee and USS West Virginia are struck from the Naval Vessel Register.
Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus from exile.
March 8 – The Marx Brothers make their last TV appearance, in The Incredible Jewel Robbery.
March 9 – The Barbie doll debuts.
March 10 – A Tibetan uprising against 10 years of Chinese occupation erupts in Lhasa.
March 11
Een beetje by Teddy Scholten (music by Dick Schallies, text by Willy van Hemert) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 for the Netherlands.
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry opens on Broadway in New York.
March 17 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, starts to flee Tibet and travels to India.
March 18 – American President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill allowing for Hawaiian statehood.
March 19 – Two other islands join Addu in the United Suvadive Republic (abolished September 1963), in the Maldives Islands.
March 31 – Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida is dedicated and opens its gates.
March 31 – The Dalai Lama flees from Tibet and is granted asylum in India.



[edit] April
See also April 1959

April
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April 6 – The 31st Academy Awards ceremony is held.
April 9 – NASA announces its selection of 7 military pilots to become the first U.S. astronauts (see Mercury Seven).
April 10 – Japanese Prince Akihito marries Shōda Michiko.
April 17 – Miles Davis' seminal album Kind of Blue is released.
April 25 – The St. Lawrence Seaway linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean officially opens to shipping.
April 27 – National People's Congress elects Liu Shaoqi as Chairman of the People's Republic of China, as a successor of Mao Zedong.



[edit] May
See also May 1959

May
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May
The first Ten Tors event is held in Dartmoor.
Import tariffs are lifted in the United Kingdom.
May 2 – 1959 FA Cup Final: Nottingham Forest defeats Luton Town 2–1.
May 18 – The National Liberation Committee of Côte d'Ivoire is launched in Conakry, Guinea.
May 24 – British Empire Day is renamed Commonwealth Day.
May 28 – Two monkeys, Able and Miss Baker are the first living beings to successfully return to Earth from space aboard the flight Jupiter AM-18.



[edit] June
See also June 1959

June
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June 3 – Singapore becomes a self-governing crown colony of Britain with Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister.
June 5 – A new government of the State of Singapore is sworn in by Sir William Goode. Two former ministers are re-elected to the Legislative Assembly.
June 8 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
June 9 – The USS George Washington is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
June 14 – A 3-front revolutionary invasion by air and sea takes place in the Dominican Republic, consisting of exiles aided by Fidel Castro, whose purpose is to overthrow dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Within a few days all but 4 are captured and executed. Trujillo is killed less than 2 years later by men partly inspired by the deaths of the 1959 revolutionaries.
June 18 – The film The Nun's Story, based on the best-selling novel, is released. Audrey Hepburn stars as the title character; she later says that this is her favorite film role. The film is a box-office hit, and is nominated for several Oscars.
June 23
Sean Lemass becomes the third Taoiseach of Ireland.
Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only 9 years in a British prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumes a scientific career).
June 26 – Queen Elizabeth II and U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower open the Saint Lawrence Seaway.
June 26 – Darby O'Gill and the Little People, a film based on H.T. Kavanagh's short stories, is released in the U.S. by Walt Disney, after world premiering in Ireland.



[edit] July
See also July 1959

July
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27 28 29 30 31
July 1 – The opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway by Canada and the United States, officiated by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
July 2 – Prince Albert of Belgium marries Italian princess Paola Ruffo di Calabria.
July 4 – With the admission of Alaska as the 49th U.S. state earlier in the year, the 49-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
July 7 – At 14:28 UT Venus occults the star Regulus. The rare event (which will next occur on October 1, 2044) is used for determining the diameter of Venus and the structure of Venus' atmosphere.
July 8 – Charles Ovnand and Dale R. Buis become the first Americans killed in action in Vietnam.
July 15 – A strike occurs against the U.S. steel industry.
July 17 – The first skull of Australopithecus is discovered by Louis Leakey and his wife Mary Leakey in the Olduvai Gorge of Tanzania.
July 22 – Kumamoto University medical research group studying Minamata disease comes to the conclusion that mercury is the cause.
July 24 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "kitchen debate."
July 25 – The SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours, on the 50th anniversary of Louis Bleriot's first crossing by heavier-than-air craft.



[edit] August
See also August 1959

August
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August 4 – Martial law is declared in Laos.
August 7 – Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
August 7 – United States The Roseburg Oregon Blast kills 14 and causes $12 million worth of damage.
August 8 – A flood in Taiwan kills 2,000.
August 14 – Explorer 6 sends the first picture of Earth from space.
August 15 – Cyprus gains independence.
August 17 – The Hebgen Lake Earthquake in southwest Montana kills 28.
August 17 – Columbia Records releases Miles Davis' groundbreaking album, Kind of Blue.
August 21 – Hawaii is admitted as the 50th U.S. state.
August 24 – Cyprus joins the United Nations.
August 26 – The original Mini designed by Sir Alec Issigonis is launched.



[edit] September
See also September 1959

September
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September 14 – Luna 2 becomes the first man-made object to crash on the Moon.
September 17 – The first Navy Navigation Satellite System Transit 1A is launched but fails to reach orbit.
September 23 – The M/S Princess of Tasmania (Australia's first passenger RO/RO diesel ferry) makes its maiden voyage across the Bass Strait.
September 25 – Ceylon's prime minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is assassinated.
September 26 – Typhoon Vera hits central Honshū, killing an estimated 5,098, injuring another 38,921, and leaving 1,533,000. Most of the victims and damage are centered in the Nagoya area.
September 30 – Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev meets Mao Zedong in Beijing.

Sept.13: Luna 2.


[edit] October
See also October 1959

October
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October 2 – Rod Serling's classic anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS.
October 7 – The U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 sends back the first ever photos of the far side of the Moon.
October 12 – At the national APRA Congress in Peru, a group of leftist radicals is expelled from the party; they later form APRA Rebelde.
October 13 – The United States launches Explorer 7.
October 21 – In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright) opens to the public.
October 31 – Riots break out in the Belgian Congo.



[edit] November
See also November 1959

November
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November 2 – The first section of the M1 motorway opens between the present junctions 5 and 18.
November 12 – The Warner Bros. epic The Miracle, very loosely based on the 1911 stage pantomime produced by Max Reinhardt, is released. It is a critical and financial bomb.
November 15 – The Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas is brutally murdered.
November 18 – MGM's widescreen, multimillion dollar, Technicolor version of Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston, is released and becomes the studio's greatest hit up to that time. It is critically acclaimed and eventually wins 11 Academy Awards – a record held until 1998, when 1997's Titanic becomes the first film to equal the record.



[edit] December
See also December 1959

December
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December 1 – Cold War – Antarctic Treaty: 12 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union, sign a landmark treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent (the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War).
December 2 – Malpasset Dam in southern France collapses and water flows over the town of Frejus, killing 412.
December 8 – The Mona, a lifeboat based at Broughty Ferry in Scotland, capsizes during a rescue attempt, with the loss of 8 lives.
December 13 – Three years after its first telecast, MGM's The Wizard of Oz is shown on television for only the second time, but it gains an even larger viewing audience than its first television outing, spurring CBS to make it an annual tradition.
December 14 – Makarios III is selected the first president of Cyprus.
[edit] Undated
Pantyhose is introduced by Glen Raven Mills.
The Workers World Party is founded by Sam Marcy.
The first known human with HIV dies in the Congo. PMID 9468138
The current (as of 2006) design of the Japanese 10 yen coin is put into circulation.
The Caspian Tiger becomes extinct in Iran.
The Henney Kilowatt goes on sale in the United States, becoming the first mass-produced electric car in almost three decades.
[edit] Ongoing
Algerian War (1954–62)
Cold War (1945–91)
First Sudanese Civil War (1955–72)
Marshall Plan
Mau Mau Uprising (1952–60)
Vietnam War (1959–75)

[hitlers revenge]

Im lost for words.

[Chris]

Pine,that reminds me of the song "We didn't start the fire!".

Looking very nice HR.

[karmakoma]

59 was a busy year!! WOW.

Ghia looking good HR. Nice to see a clean vin plate , and find out it is in fact a 59!

[Eugene]

Saturday morning , up before the sparrows, to get all my banking done. But the bank only opens at 08h30. So, dont waste the time start with some work......and try not to wake the neighbours and the SEATCOVER at 06h45.

Hey Dave...you must have been confused when you didn't find the engine

[ANGEL]