Pat, All good questions. I don't think we will ever know the true
answers to some of your questions but I am willing to take a stab at
some of them.

> Most cars have a hood scoop. But some came without it.

As for the hood scoop, keep in mind that each of these cars were hand
made and Italian coach works craftsman often modified a design just
to experiment.

> Many cars have a front scoop under the bumper as part of the body,
ala a Mangusta. Most don't. (you can just make it out on the red one
with the white top, if you go to the brochure in the photos section.)

As for the scoop under the bumper, I noticed this myself a few months
ago and I wondered about it too. My car doesn't have the scoop.
My
car is number 45 and wonder if Ghia started with the scoop under the
car and at a particular number decided to make it cleaner. Maybe the
members on this list can chime in with their car number and the if it
has a hood or under bumper scoop.

> Some cars have chrome strips beneath the doors with spring loaded
jack- hole covers. Most don't.

This one has perplexed me. From what I have been able to see, most
if not all of the original factory photos don't show a chrome
strip
over the jack-holes covers. I believe that some people have covered
them up because the holes aren't the most appealing.

> The turn signal indicators, the blue high beam indicator, and the
green (non operating on mine) light seem to vary in thier dash
placement. As does the blank brass plaque on the glove box. ( I have
an ad mentioning it being there so you could pesonalize your car.)

I have posted a drawing in the literature section of the web site
which details the entire dash and what each switch is suppose to do
and what all the lights on the dash are for. Not many of the switches
or lights worked on my car when I got it. I had the entire
electrical system reengineered and rewired. Originally the car had 6
fuses, a few inline circuit breakers and just a few relays, my car
now has 26 fuses and a lot more relays. The wiring on these cars is
way underrated. If you are having electrical problems, I recommend
that you don't use the 1966 Barracuda wiring harness.

As for the plaque, mine is also blank. Does anyone have a name on
theirs?

> The license plate lights on the rear bumper vary greatly.

My car doesn't have a license plate light but if I look closely
to
the bumper, it looks like at one time the lights were on the bumper
and someone removed them and smoothed off the surface before
rechromeing. I think the actual placement should be like a Ghibli:
on the bumper.

> No side view mirror appears in the brochure (nor were there ones on
many Italian cars of this era.) Did Ghia of Beverly Hills add them
in order for the cars to be legal ? If so is the "correct" mirror
the same as a barracuda's?

There is no correct mirror for the car but I can tell you that it
probably should not be a Barracuda's. In addition, due to the
placement of the wind wing, a mirror is almost useless. My car has a
mirror but if it didn't, I don't think I would add one. That
being
said, this is an Italian car with an American drive train. Look at
what is on a Ghibli. A Ghibli has a bullet shaped mirror where the
back half of the bullet contains the mirror and rotates around the
front half. The manufacture of the mirror on my car is Talbot & Co.
in Berlin.

> I assume that all the cars left the factory with front end
emblems. Many are now missing (not that hard to imagine). Also,
obviously ghia made up the script emblem on the rear. Is the front
one unique to these cars to?

I have a number of people trying to find me a front nose emblem and
it doesn't seem to exist and it doesn't seem to have been
used on
other cars. In understand that it was very fragile which is probably
why they didn't last 35+ years. I'd like to have them
recreated and
when I do, I'll probably have a few dozen made.
>
> I also assume that all the cars left the factory with Plymouth "S'
options:
> The cooling fin valve covers.
> The low 16" "273 commando" air cleaner pan. (not the small, tall
ones seen on many barracudas. And in the brochure.)
> The exhaust resonator. (as seen in the brochure.)
> Many of these are missing/swapped-out on these cars today.
>
What I find interesting about your question is the air cleaner pan.
You are the third Ghia owner that doesn't have the low air
cleaner,
myself included. I suspect that only a few cars came from the Ghia
factory with this air cleaner on the car. The rest of us had a
simple air cleaner installed. Therefore, a case can be made that the
air cleaners on our cars are original.

> The above also makes me wonder about the non-plymouth parts. What
Ghia bodied cars do they also appear on:

> Headlamp bezels ?

Don't know about this one but of the four bezels on my car, one
is
not quite like the other so I would be curious to the answer.

> The radiator (and expansion tank)?

My expansion tank is plastic. Fits are works perfectly. I have
posted pictures on in our group. I don't know if it is original
or
replaced. I suspect it should be metal.

> I most often hear Maserati. The dash switches ? Older E-Type
switches seem to match perfectly.

Ah, the switches, I have had a number of people trying to find these
switches because I wanted a new set. I really liked the Maserati
switches that are still available for the early Ghibli's with the
little pictures on the end. The problem is that the Ghia's dash
has
switches that the Ghibli doesn't and visa-versa. The E-Type
switches
don't have the same toggle type. I think what Ghia did was find
a
switch base and then custom made the toggle part that presses on to a
stud. I took on the task of disassembling each of my original
switches and then cleaning them out. While my mechanic reengineered
the wiring, we made do with what we had. Everything works as it
should now but we didn't use some of the terminals on some of the
switches. I have posted a picture of the switches when they were
removed from the dash so if anyone finds a supply, please alert the
group.

> The gauges ?

I don't know the answer to this question. Anyone else?

> The tail lights? I seem to recall this was mentioned in a recent
eBay auction.

This is a very interesting question. The Ghia used the base from a
60s Alfa Guilia and they custom made the lenses. In the US at the
time, all taillights were red for the brake light and red for the
turn signal. The Guilia had red for the brake light and yellow for
the turn signal. Over time, the US allowed this red and yellow
taillight. I have been told that you can't find a nice set of
red-
red taillights because so few were made. There is a company in Texas
called Re-Originals that has the red-yellow lights available new.
The ones on eBay were red-yellow. The final bid was about $75 less
than the price from Re-Originals. I purchased a set of the red-
yellow lenses and they look great on the car. I will probably
forever be looking for the red-red lenses but the search is half the
fun.

> The exterior door handles ? also on Mangustas. etc.

The door handles are of the Mangusta and very early Pantera type.
Fairly easy to find.

I hope this information helps, let's keep the dialog going.

Brad