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J.Glo
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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While at the Wawa (local convenience store) today there were a few cops there and one was betting the others that they couldn't identify my car. Sure enough, none of the other cops knew what it was. They asked me to confirm that it really is called a "Thing".


Mmmmm Wawa is bomb, Sheets has pepperoni rolls though.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 3:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A few more from recent outings:

You look like your having too much fun driving that Thing!

You should be in California with that car.

Your car is ugly but I like it.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 5:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Today, after parking....

Older gentleman "How much would it take for me to buy that car from you. I would really like to restore it to the original German Army."

Me, after a short, confused pause, "I don't think that they would take it back."
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 6:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just a little observation ^^^^

...another Vanagon/Thing owner. Laughing Cool
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 7:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It does seem to be a popular combination. I wonder why...

I guess for me - they are the two poles of the VW globe. They are both VW and super cool, but the two models basically are different in every other way.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 11:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The "Does it float?" questions may have come from here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qB0lb401ZU

There was also a magazine ad, the one that National Lampoon parodied about Teddy K.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 5:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"did you just crank start that thing?"
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 5:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

icekoffee wrote:
"did you just crank start that thing?"


Nice.... and true!! Very cool man!
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 6:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If I had only had that on my little 66' ghia convertible....

Then I wouldn't of had to act like a sole member of a downhill loge team as I self push started and jumped in to pop the clutch out.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 9:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stopped in at the nearby parts house for an 1157 for my front turn signal. The guy saw I was driving the Thing and as I paid for the bulb asked "what's this for? some kinda tractor?" Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 5:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Stopped in at the nearby parts house for an 1157 for my front turn signal. The guy saw I was driving the Thing and as I paid for the bulb asked "what's this for? some kinda tractor?" Rolling Eyes



Ahah!
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

fathergoose wrote:
Stopped in at the nearby parts house for an 1157 for my front turn signal. The guy saw I was driving the Thing and as I paid for the bulb asked "what's this for? some kinda tractor?" Rolling Eyes


Well, as the Ruski's say, "Uh, Traktor. Cast iron good, plastic bad!"

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This week a co-worker asked me
"How long did it take you to build your car?"

I said it's a VW - it was built in their factory in Mexico.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 4:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

rrankin wrote:
This week a co-worker asked me
"How long did it take you to build your car?"

I heard one guy telling his buddies that my Thing was a kit car.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 10:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Drove my thing to a BBQ party with some non-VW friends a couple of weekends back...one of the ladies in her late 40's came in and said "I love your it" I promptly spit my rum & coke all over the place...she thought they were called an "It" instead of "Thing" ...guess I need to get the lower logo decal on it that says "The Thing".
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 10:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

rjonas wrote:
Drove my thing to a BBQ party with some non-VW friends a couple of weekends back...one of the ladies in her late 40's came in and said "I love your it" I promptly spit my rum & coke all over the place...she thought they were called an "It" instead of "Thing" ...guess I need to get the lower logo decal on it that says "The Thing".


Just today I was stopped in my work parking lot by a guy who said, "I'm admiring it.

I replied, "oh yeah? my VW Thing."

He said, " I bet you get that a lot..."
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

As an older gent told me last month; "Youre really lucky to have that car, cause when the BIG ONE hits ,Radition will prevent all the modern cars from running , with their computers and modern electronics. But yours, It aint got any of that crap so you should be just fine.'' Oh Yeah Stubthumb
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had a guy pull over into my lane and block the road with his car to ask me if I would sell my Thing. It was in a 35 MPH zone and I thought he was drunk or something and just passed out and going to hit me. Turned out to be a nice guy.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe he had heard that song about God driving a vw thing and was in bad need of some quick redemption. Stubthumb
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

stubthumb wrote:
As an older gent told me last month; "Youre really lucky to have that car, cause when the BIG ONE hits ,Radition will prevent all the modern cars from running , with their computers and modern electronics. But yours, It aint got any of that crap so you should be just fine.'' Oh Yeah Stubthumb

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