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PostPosted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I was at the Credit Union showing them what their Signature Loan bought Very Happy this teenage girl came in and asked me if it was OK to take a couple pictures to show her dad. I said "Sure"

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

booch wrote:
rrankin wrote:
Last week was a new one for me:

At a stop light a young guy whipped out his cell phone and snapped a picture (or 3) of me and my car at the stop light. No comment, no thumbs up, just cell pictures. I suppose I'm now some social media comment somewhere.

-R

That's funny, I too fell victim to a "photo drive-by" last week. No comments or gestures either, just pictures. I was first in line at a red light, and it was a passenger in a car from the cross traffic.
I get that a lot here in Silicon Valley - no comments or anything, just a camera flash.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Without exception I hear some sort of comment or remark every single time I take the car out. I've been stopped by people who want to take a picture, honked at and had plenty of waves. However, the one comment I hear the most...

"I haven't seen one of those in about 30 years!"

My favorite is when some poseur driving a flashy, mid-life crisis car pulls up next to me at a light and eyeballs my ride. I just look back and think "Yes, my car IS a lot cooler than whatever your driving isn't it?"

The guy who sold me the car said just before I drove off, "I hope you like attention". Yeah, not really the vehicle you want to be driving around in if you're in the Federal Witness Protection Program.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fun 181 wrote:
Without exception I hear some sort of comment or remark every single time I take the car out.

Same here. I now know to expect to get some kind of comment or reaction. It's getting to the point where I am insulted if I don't hear anything.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We were in a local parade with my vw club and I hear "That was the first Vee Dub ever made"

Man I love my Thing...
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have 3 Things in my garage. When the door is up people drive by and slow down or stop to look. Most of them smile then drive on. Cool
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was coming back from the upholstery guy who had just put new clear vinyl in the side curtains. I turn the corner pulled up to a stop-light next to me a guy in a 68 blue and white vette with no top looked over at me and rocked his head and immediately gave a big thumbs up. Light changed I drove up a block turned right and on the other side of the road was a guy and girl in a original paint blue 68 double cab... They both smiled, were laughing and waving and shouting stuff. During the "driver season" when those two vehicle people both classic, both original ( not resto or trailer queen) go nuts just seeing you. You know what you have.... But then, Herr Kubelmann is for sure, one, bad-ass Thing. My buddy and I were gassing up after an off-road trek and two guys came up to say, "Hey, my uncle used to have a car just like this." So I lifted engine lid. And the one guy replied, "well not anything like this I guess..."
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I get a lot of, "I didn't know they started making those again" comments or "Does it float?"
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 7:29 pm    Post subject: Re: funny looks Reply with quote

Here are a few more from recent outings.

"Look at the weird car mommy"

Overheard a couple with the wife saying "I told you that's a Volkswagen."

My favorite, "I've got to get a picture of that!"

A girl at the 7-11 wanted to know what kind of car it was. She asked
"Is that really what it's called, 'the Thing'? If I walked in to a VW dealership and ask for a Thing they'll have one?" I said yes.

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Havent got the is that a hummer? yet, but I'm sure it's coming.

I just got that the other day in the parking lot at Lowes. Not even 5 minutes later I was asked by someone else, "exactly what kind of Jeep is that?" The guy was dumbfounded to find out it's a VW.


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i run into a lot of fist pumping bravado accompanied with a guttural shout "the thing!"...

I've been getting that too. I love it!
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 10:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know a guy in LA who drives his original WWII Kubelwagen all the time. Once while he was stopped for a light, a really old guy on the sidewalk looked at him and said, "I haven't seen one of those since I was shootin' at 'em!"
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 10:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bruce wrote:

"I haven't seen one of those since I was shootin' at 'em!"


i might just have to nick this...itll come in handy somewhere latter!
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 12:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have heard all of them.....I just smile and wave.....I am always amazed at all the women that love my VW Thing..... Smile
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 12:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thingamabob wrote:
I have heard all of them.....

Please share, I always like to hear new ones.

Thingamabob wrote:
.....I am always amazed at all the women that love my VW Thing..... Smile


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Surprised they could see it through all that smoke.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

booch wrote:
Thingamabob wrote:
I have heard all of them.....

Please share, I always like to hear new ones.

Thingamabob wrote:
.....I am always amazed at all the women that love my VW Thing..... Smile


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Surprised they could see it through all that smoke.

Razz


Thanks, It runs good. line lock....We have a great group of VW people down here...always something on.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 2:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fun 181 wrote:
My favorite is when some poseur driving a flashy, mid-life crisis car pulls up next to me at a light and eyeballs my ride. I just look back and think "Yes, my car IS a lot cooler than whatever your driving isn't it?"

Yes! Happens all the time. Sometimes I'll say "It's okay to be jealous." Driving a Thing makes you an enigma. People don't know where to pidgeon-hole you, and it drives them nuts.

Another recent exchange:
One guy said to me: "What do you call that?"
Me: "Volkswagen Thing."
Guy: "Know what I call it?"
Me: "What?"
Guy: "Testosterone in a can!"
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Last weekend my son and I took a road trip on the Gulf Coast Highway. He has always made fun of mom's "old car," but he learned that "hot girls" think the Thing is cool given all the waves and questions and now thinks he may want one. He is working on perfecting the "I look cool in this Thing, yeah?" look (see below).
The best and most touching thing i've heard was from an elderly gentleman who was sitting in a truck while the driver went in to pay for gas. He got out, came over, walked slowly around her and, with tears in his eyes, began to tell me how he drove something just like that in Germany at the end of WWII. I didn't tell him that was a Kübelwagen - I let him have his memory and I wanted to hear all about it. I don't imagine there are too many folks around these days who drove a Kübelwagen in its war years.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

From a couple of teen girls in a vert mustang... "I'd rock that!" accompanied by cell pics snapping away!

Of course the "my XYZ had one in high school".. etc...

Never heard the floating question. i supposed if I was around the lakes more... LOL!

OH yeah, "is that 4x4?" Get that one a LOT...
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 6:38 am    Post subject: Here, in Monterrey México Reply with quote

I have been driving my thing almost every day for about a year, and the most common thing I hear is:

"DO YOU SELL IT?"

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 7:49 am    Post subject: Re: Here, in Monterrey México Reply with quote

Batisafari wrote:
I have been driving my thing almost every day for about a year, and the most common thing I hear is:

"DO YOU SELL IT?"

Laughing


I get the "is it for sale?" question alot, too. One time, a guy offered to trade me his '88 Suzuki Samurai for it on the spot (around 1995) and was downright offended when I turned him down!
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A few days ago a restaurant cashier asked, "do you take it muddin'?"

(I live in Georgia)
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