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joescoolcustoms Samba Member
Joined: August 08, 2006 Posts: 9054 Location: West By God Virginia
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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"Is that a Bug?"
"Your windshield is broken"
Him: "Is that a '65?" Me: "No it is a 181" Him: "O.....K...." _________________ Bad News Racing 2018 NORRA 1000 3rd in Class
Best Day Ever Racing 2022 NORRA 1000 2nd in Class and first All Female team to complete the race
Everyone is gifted. Some just do not open the package.
Looks like it was painted with a live chicken,polished with a brick and buffed with a pine cone |
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Schwankster Samba Member
Joined: January 07, 2011 Posts: 65 Location: San Antonio, Texas
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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While sitting at a stoplight in traffic: "Hey! Is that a TOYOTA?"
While pumping gas, a pretty young lady remarked: "That car is TIGHT!"
While driving through a Target parking lot: "Well, lookie there!" |
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tallman206 Samba Member
Joined: January 06, 2006 Posts: 316 Location: St.Petersburg Florida USA
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:27 am Post subject: |
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Ha Ha, just noticed the feet under the car - that was my car before replacing the floorboards! |
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joescoolcustoms Samba Member
Joined: August 08, 2006 Posts: 9054 Location: West By God Virginia
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:41 am Post subject: |
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Just came back from getting lunch.
Guy pulls up beside me at a stop light, "What is that?" I answer it is a Thing. He says "What kind of Thing?". I say it is a VW Thing. He says "What kind of VW Thing?" _________________ Bad News Racing 2018 NORRA 1000 3rd in Class
Best Day Ever Racing 2022 NORRA 1000 2nd in Class and first All Female team to complete the race
Everyone is gifted. Some just do not open the package.
Looks like it was painted with a live chicken,polished with a brick and buffed with a pine cone |
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Semper_Dad Samba Member
Joined: May 14, 2005 Posts: 3510 Location: Indiana
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:50 am Post subject: |
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joescoolcustoms wrote: |
Just came back from getting lunch.
Guy pulls up beside me at a stop light, "What is that?" I answer it is a Thing. He says "What kind of Thing?". I say it is a VW Thing. He says "What kind of VW Thing?" |
Flashbacks of "Who's on first" _________________ Walküre Restoration Thread: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=737492 |
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booch Samba Member
Joined: July 03, 2008 Posts: 784 Location: Ambler, Pennsylvania
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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 8:51 am Post subject: |
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While getting gas yesterday:
Lady: "Is that a Thing?"
Me: "Yes, it is."
Lady: "Volkswagen or Jeep?" _________________ Old City Oil Drippers Northeast |
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joescoolcustoms Samba Member
Joined: August 08, 2006 Posts: 9054 Location: West By God Virginia
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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Going through a Taco Bell drive thru, the "want fries with that" attendant asked "do they still make those?".
Me, "yeah, just have to special order it from the Hummer dealer". _________________ Bad News Racing 2018 NORRA 1000 3rd in Class
Best Day Ever Racing 2022 NORRA 1000 2nd in Class and first All Female team to complete the race
Everyone is gifted. Some just do not open the package.
Looks like it was painted with a live chicken,polished with a brick and buffed with a pine cone |
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BNMike Samba Member
Joined: November 12, 2009 Posts: 333 Location: Hot Springs, SD
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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The guy that delivered my lathe asked "is that a Thing?" so, at least he knew what he was looking at
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InkAnkUnk Samba Member
Joined: February 02, 2011 Posts: 29
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:42 am Post subject: |
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I was stopped in a parking lot the other day. The guy asks,
"You can pull the doors off that car also, right?"
"yep"
He elbows his friend, "We need to get us one of them, open the top, pull off the doors, and take her into the woods. Four guys would be able to hunt from that thing"
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Van-go108 Samba Member
Joined: November 23, 2006 Posts: 2995 Location: Southwestern, NM
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:35 am Post subject: |
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I think that's what the German Military thought too. _________________ "Okay, so there's 6 beers and 5 of us. You know what this means don't you? 4 of you are going to have to leave."
1973 Thing
1957 Continental Mark II Click to view image |
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Yarkle Samba Member
Joined: August 03, 2009 Posts: 1218 Location: the Hills of Western Maine
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:28 am Post subject: |
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When I was deployed to Somalia, we had kind of an ad hoc motorized unit, and we were referred to as the "gun slinging f**ks in trucks", as we basically drove around as that fellow suggested. |
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landkholdings Samba Member
Joined: March 11, 2008 Posts: 250 Location: N. GA
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Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:52 am Post subject: |
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Clank! Clank! Clank! I think it's just a cv, but it sounds bad. |
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BNMike Samba Member
Joined: November 12, 2009 Posts: 333 Location: Hot Springs, SD
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Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:28 am Post subject: |
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InkAnkUnk wrote: |
I was stopped in a parking lot the other day. The guy asks,
"You can pull the doors off that car also, right?"
"yep"
He elbows his friend, "We need to get us one of them, open the top, pull off the doors, and take her into the woods. Four guys would be able to hunt from that thing"
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The guy who owns the other Thing in town claims he hunts coyotes that way
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wes.outside Samba Member
Joined: September 08, 2008 Posts: 121 Location: Cody, WY
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Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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I was driving down our main street last night. It's about 7, and because we are a tourist town in the summer, the sidewalks are packed. Suddenly, this 50ish guy steps out past the parked cars and into the street.
Gives me the Heil Hitler salute as I drive back. I just yelled "NATO doesn't do that" and kept going.
Are the german army references as common for everyone, or am I just lucky? _________________ '73 Thing
'86 Vanagon Syncro with Westfalia Poptop |
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Syncroincity Samba Member
Joined: April 15, 2007 Posts: 1557 Location: New York City
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 2:47 am Post subject: |
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I haven't owned a Thing for several years, but I've had four of them. I've heard most of the comments related here, including the floating... VW actually used that tidbit in an advert from about '67, years ago I found this ad in an old LIFE magazine in my grandparent's house;
It was VW started that one!
My last Thing had a bumper sticker from the Thing Shop:
"DONT STARE AT MY THING!"
When I lived in Daytona, it was no big deal... they used to have a rental fleet of orange Things for beach cruising. When I moved up to New York City, it was like I had landed in a UFO. _________________ '86 Syncro CHC Top AAZ Turbodiesel
'04 Passat Variant 4Mo 5MT
Vanagon Build: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=466866&highlight= |
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robdcat Samba Member
Joined: July 08, 2010 Posts: 39 Location: Temecula, CA
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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Too many comments to list. Two today: "That's tight", and "NICE!"
And then this...
A woman stopped me in a parking lot today with an unusual Thing story. Some time ago, her family and some friends went camping at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. One of the friends drove a VW Thing. He had a bit too much to drink at the campfire, then hit the dunes by himself in the Thing. The next morning the campers noticed mysterious tire tracks on all the doors. Seems the driver had gotten stuck in the sand, tried like crazy to get unstuck, then as a last resort, took the doors off the car and placed them under the tires for traction. Not so good for the doors, but it worked! |
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joescoolcustoms Samba Member
Joined: August 08, 2006 Posts: 9054 Location: West By God Virginia
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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Today:
"Wanna sell it?"
Thumbs up from a driver in a Yellow Spyder.
And why do almost all Miata owners wave at me? _________________ Bad News Racing 2018 NORRA 1000 3rd in Class
Best Day Ever Racing 2022 NORRA 1000 2nd in Class and first All Female team to complete the race
Everyone is gifted. Some just do not open the package.
Looks like it was painted with a live chicken,polished with a brick and buffed with a pine cone |
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Semper_Dad Samba Member
Joined: May 14, 2005 Posts: 3510 Location: Indiana
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J.Glo Samba Member
Joined: October 13, 2008 Posts: 176 Location: Dayton, OH
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 7:01 am Post subject: |
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joescoolcustoms wrote: |
Just came back from getting lunch.
Guy pulls up beside me at a stop light, "What is that?" I answer it is a Thing. He says "What kind of Thing?". I say it is a VW Thing. He says "What kind of VW Thing?" |
haha that was almost the exact conversation I had @ the DMV _________________ 66 fastback |
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HMVWNAB Samba Member
Joined: September 23, 2006 Posts: 1089 Location: Sunshine State
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 7:38 am Post subject: |
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From a teenager in a Jetta at the gas station after he asked me if that was a Thing I was driving, "I have never seen one in person before" |
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