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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 6:20 am    Post subject: A Thing VS. A Tesla Reply with quote

Is this a first?
A chance meeting in Silicon Valley CA.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 6:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Thing is cooler!
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 8:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The Thing is cooler!


Agreed! I'd take the Thing any day.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 6:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not getting off my thing...but I'd swap keys with her for a day.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 9:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

These Tesla's are ganging up on me… I can’t escape…. It’s like a bad conspiracy dream! They keep looking at me in my Thing as I am driving down the road…
There following me...! Surprised

Actually this is the 3rd one this week and a large hand full in so many months. I need to document this more and turn it into some Horrible Kafka story. Shocked

These Tesla’s are like the new Prius around here…



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PostPosted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 4:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is one that parks in my work parking garage... I've parked next to it a few times... Additionally there are several in my area.

I cant find a picture just this second, but the best parking lot parked next to for my Thing was at the end of this row of cars: 2000 Ferrari, 2008 Ferrari, 2001 Porche, 1969 Aston Martin, and my Thing. * It was for a movie so while it actually happened, it wasn't chance real life.

*The movie was "The 2 Bobs"
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 7:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

rrankin wrote:
There is one that parks in my work parking garage... I've parked next to it a few times... Additionally there are several in my area.

I cant find a picture just this second, but the best parking lot parked next to for my Thing was at the end of this row of cars: 2000 Ferrari, 2008 Ferrari, 2001 Porche, 1969 Aston Martin, and my Thing. * It was for a movie so while it actually happened, it wasn't chance real life.

*The movie was "The 2 Bobs"


IMHO the Thing is cooler

What can you accessorize the Tesla with? Fuzzy dice?
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 7:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"A man is known by the company he keeps."

Those Teslas know where to park!
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 10:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I was in and near LA back in early September for an outdoor wedding (108º F Shocked ), I was pointing out Teslas left and right to my wife. Here, I might see one Tesla every month or two.

By contrast, we saw one Thing. We did see quite a few air-cooled VWs in general, though.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 30, 2014 2:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is the last straw! Now I know it is a conspiracy when they build a Tesla Dealership less than 2 miles from my house…! Shocked

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 10:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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No Tesla in my garage
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 11:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tesla has nothing on a Thing!


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PostPosted: Sun Dec 28, 2014 12:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love the electric thing.
Anyone here know anything about it?
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