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PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 2:01 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:49 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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OThing got a new set of glass slider window curtains from The Thing Shop anniversary sale!
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 1:50 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 8:34 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
Looks like you need a type III.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 6:13 am    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
always on the lookout for a nice old squareback. Looking for an oval ragtop or oval convertible as well!
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 15, 2024 7:18 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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Ironing out some kinks
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 15, 2024 7:59 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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Ironing out some kinks

Out of what? The rear seat pillow creases?

Your Thing is, well, a Thing of beauty!

Love it, drive it, and post more driving season pics.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 16, 2024 9:30 am    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
67rustavenger wrote:
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Ironing out some kinks

Out of what? The rear seat pillow creases?

Your Thing is, well, a Thing of beauty!

Love it, drive it, and post more driving season pics.


I love it too. Mechanically it is so so. And the front end needs to be checked out.

I wish i could drive it more. When i am not working i am taking care of my 50 year old wheelchair ridden Wife who has Huntingtons disease and needs help eating/bathing/toileting etc. So i was thankful my 79yo MIL stuck around an extra day for me to get some me & Thing time!
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 31, 2024 8:05 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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rear main seal, pushrod tubes and seals, and other seals replaced by Dugan's. Carb and distributor adjusted as needed. To be continued
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March 1956 Beetle convertible https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10419731&highlight=#10419731

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OG VW pitted and cracked windshield and seals replaced by Dugan's. Cant wait to be able to see when the sun hits it.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 01, 2024 12:23 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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Steering damper and some new skins for O Thing!!!
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March 1956 Beetle convertible https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10419731&highlight=#10419731

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Dugan's Classic Car Werks added a Blazecut i provided and now O Thing is ready for pickup!
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 30, 2024 4:34 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
Looking good! (what's a blaze cut?)
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 11, 2024 7:27 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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Looking good! (what's a blaze cut?)


https://www.mrbusco.com/collections/blazecut
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engine pull after lack of power and a knock. lost bolt wound up in the heads
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 8:32 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
Great stuff.
That bolt getting in the valves though! What are the chances?
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 27, 2024 6:49 am    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
Wow. It's good luck actually that the bolt stopped at the valve and didn't drop into the chamber. Relatively speaking of course. Did it bend the valve or mar the seat, or just prop it open?
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 29, 2024 1:11 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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That bolt getting in the valves though! What are the chances?


I have had this kind of luck since i started with VW's in 1989. If it is near impossible to happen then it will certainly happen to one of my VW's
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 29, 2024 1:13 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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Wow. It's good luck actually that the bolt stopped at the valve and didn't drop into the chamber. Relatively speaking of course. Did it bend the valve or mar the seat, or just prop it open?


yes it was luck. I stopped the minute it knocked and i lost power. The entire head was redone in and out. waiting to have the engine put back in it as it was running the best it ever had in the 6 years i have had it.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2025 4:43 pm    Post subject: Re: "OThing" Reply with quote
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waiting for rear mounts
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