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JayC Samba Member
Joined: July 07, 2010 Posts: 292 Location: Colorado
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 12:40 pm Post subject: Re: Things heard while driving your Thing |
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Neighbor down the street...
"There was a guy in high school that had one just like that!"
After discussing further, she was a sr. when I was a sophomore at the same school and I started driving my first Thing to school!
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mondshine Samba Member
Joined: October 27, 2006 Posts: 2765 Location: The World's Motor Capital
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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mikeyj007 wrote: |
I've been surprised by the number of people who seem convinced that Things or Bugs float in general. Even my boss who has owned a Bug thought they floated. I'm guessing part of it comes from the fact that they are so light. As I recall there was a Mythbusters episode where they tried to float a newer bug but were unable to for any length of time even after they modified it. Admittedly the new Bugs aren't designed much like the older ones.
So like everything else, sure it floats but for how long.
Found these videos on YouTube.
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Anybody old enough to remember this?
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germanbilly Samba Member
Joined: October 18, 2013 Posts: 377 Location: Victorville
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 10:09 pm Post subject: Re: Things heard while driving your Thing |
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Bought my first car in 1965 in Germany a 1965 VW &1,212.00 new. Was on Victor Alert with 4 F-100's loaded with A bombs the night when JFK was shot, so yes I remember that add.
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tkelley Samba Member
Joined: January 10, 2006 Posts: 1597 Location: Where Pterodactyls crash and burn...
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:47 pm Post subject: Re: Things heard while driving your Thing |
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I heard the other day "that car is a deathtrap and shouldn't be allowed on the streets"... _________________ When the sun doesn't rise, we'll replace it
with an H-bomb explosion or a painted jail cell... |
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oldthingguy Samba Member
Joined: December 02, 2007 Posts: 146 Location: California
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Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2015 11:34 pm Post subject: Re: Things heard while driving your Thing |
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Lately I get a lot of this....." I knew someone in high school that had one". _________________ 73 914 2.0 - sold
63 single cab
73, 73 and 74 Thing - gone
64 notch - gone
60 23 window - gone
57 oval - gone
plus a few others I should have kept |
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ente_kaefer Samba Member
Joined: August 22, 2013 Posts: 241 Location: St Louis, MO
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Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 4:19 pm Post subject: Re: Things heard while driving your Thing |
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While at a local hobby shop recently, one of the customers asked where I purchased the orange Kubelwagen, and why it was painted orange and not gray or light tan. My response was that is was a suburban camouflage scheme so that the car would not stand out . . .
Maybe had something to do with the fact that I was in line waiting to pay for a 1/48 scale Tamiya Kubelwagen . . . |
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Joe 20 Samba Member
Joined: August 27, 2005 Posts: 655 Location: Ohio
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 7:44 pm Post subject: Re: Things heard while driving your Thing |
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"Ya know a propeller comes right out the back of those and they can swim. That's why he has goggles hanging from the rear view mirror."
Quote from a local car show attendee |
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oasis Samba Member
Joined: December 12, 2002 Posts: 2168
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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 5:45 pm Post subject: Re: Things heard while driving your Thing |
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"That's telling 'em." And, "You got the last word."
Whenever I am at a light rail crossing -- basically, a railroad crossing for local public transportation -- the light rail train blows its horn so impatient jockeys don't thread their way through the lowered gates and try to squeeze through. If I'm one of the lead cars, I blow my horn back at the train.
The effect was quite different with Thing's horn. Usually folks take me seriously but they knew immediately I was just having fun -- hence, the playful jeering.
I have played with the idea of getting a more serious horn for Thing ranging from something more modern to something quite illegal, but I couldn't give up the original horn in doing so. _________________ Now: 2003 New Beetle Turbo S / 1990 Single Cab Transporter / 2014 Tiguan R-Line 4motion / 2013 Tiguan S / 2002 Golf GLS TDI
Past: 1974 Thing Acapulco / 2009 Eos Komfort / 1997 Jetta GT / 2002 Cabrio GLX / 2002 Passat GLS / 1971 Super Beetle / 1993 EuroVan MV Westfalia / 1981 Pickup LX / 1985 Vanagon / 1986 Jetta GLI |
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Das Ding Samba Member
Joined: April 25, 2008 Posts: 73 Location: Shenandoah Valley
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2017 7:53 am Post subject: Re: Things heard while driving your Thing |
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I got the "float" question too.
My reply was "No it doesn't float...I tried it!" |
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Flush_Gordon337 Samba Member
Joined: November 07, 2012 Posts: 85 Location: Cincinnati Ohio
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2017 12:10 pm Post subject: Re: Things heard while driving your Thing |
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Usually for me it's one of my friends coming in and telling me people are staring or taking pictures of my Thing. _________________ I like to sit in my barn and play with my Thing!!!
1974 Type 181
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waxhead Samba Member
Joined: January 19, 2004 Posts: 946 Location: Philly 'burbs
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 9:50 am Post subject: Re: Things heard while driving your Thing |
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"THE THING!" is what I hear most often. _________________ Mike B. |
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Captain Spalding Samba Member
Joined: February 19, 2005 Posts: 2519 Location: . . . in denial.
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2017 2:59 pm Post subject: Re: Things heard while driving your Thing |
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I heard a new one today. A guy pulls up beside me at a stop light and while we're chatting he tells me that he used to work at a Cadillac dealership way back when, and in 1974 they had a special promotion: if you bought a Cadillac you got a Thing thrown in for FREE. I don't know if I find that insulting or not. I mean, it's a car, not a toaster. |
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