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hopkin Samba Member
Joined: June 25, 2012 Posts: 2480 Location: Ottawa, Ontario
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 8:03 pm Post subject: I wonder what happened to the Thing? |
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On the way the Syracuse NY VW show (back in 2014) I spotted a Thing in a field close to the highway. At the time my cousin in Syracuse was interested in buying one, so I snapped a picture on the way home:
The following year I took another picture as the car was still in the field:
Well now a tradition was born, so I took a picture in 2016. The car had been moved a few hundred feet, closer to an old garage. There were other cars (and what looks like snowmobiles) in the field, including a Beetle:
I just got back from the 2017 show, and took this picture. The entire yard has been cleared. I wonder what happened to the Thing (and Beetle)?
_________________ 1971 Super Beetle (past)
1971 Super Beetle (past)
1974 SunBug (past)
1972 914 (past)
1991 Honda Civic (Original Owner)
1996 'Open Air' Mexican Beetle (current)
2015 Golf (current)
2017 Dune Edition (daughter's car) |
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KAmes Samba Member
Joined: February 16, 2014 Posts: 877 Location: Illinois
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 8:11 pm Post subject: Re: I wonder what happened to the Thing? |
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They've all been restored and are back on the road, of course! In that door on the left, out the door on the right, angels singing. Snowmobiles too! (should have fixed a lawn mower) Just that crappy red boat left, nobody can fix that. |
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HMVWNAB Samba Member
Joined: September 23, 2006 Posts: 1089 Location: Sunshine State
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 7:38 am Post subject: Re: I wonder what happened to the Thing? |
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KAmes wrote: |
They've all been restored and are back on the road, of course! In that door on the left, out the door on the right, angels singing. Snowmobiles too! (should have fixed a lawn mower) Just that crappy red boat left, nobody can fix that. |
All Things go to heaven _________________ What are the last 2 words of the National Anthem?
PLAY BALL! |
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ALANSD Samba Member
Joined: April 16, 2015 Posts: 341 Location: Woodstock, GA
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 8:52 am Post subject: Re: I wonder what happened to the Thing? |
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I drove by an old 60's bus for a few years parked in a front yard. No sign on it or anything. When I went by this year it was gone. Silly me for not stopping to ask about it. Hindsight is 20 20 _________________ foirmer pro guitarist with 80s band Atlanta
had vws since 1968.buses.ghia,thing....love 'em |
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Technut27 Samba Member
Joined: May 18, 2015 Posts: 97 Location: Cleveland
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2017 9:21 am Post subject: Re: I wonder what happened to the Thing? |
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Randomly saw one parked in the weeds a few times in a small town near me. Finally pulled off one day to check it out to see if I wanted it or parts just to find out that it was just a Thing body welded to an unidentifiable chassis with a 4 cylinder in the front. Sometimes I think about going back for the wiper motor. Its been there since at least 2015, I can see it in the google earth image. |
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