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680FAFFA-4153-4789-97A5-156A7B29DA06.jpeg No seriously, what the hell are these? Took the wife out for lunch today and saw these two VW looking but obviously not VW things.
 
Something that will probably continue to run another 60 years...... no idea on make

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Yep, old Citroens. I remember seeing one on the West coast decades ago. It had a frame seat with basically a chair cushion for your butt & a canvas sling back, like a director's chair.

Viva la Fronce!
 
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View attachment 214383 No seriously, what the hell are these? Took the wife out for lunch today and saw these two VW looking but obviously not VW things.
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I've always wanted a VW Thing. Deathtraps that the are, I still want one. Daddio wouldn't let me buy one back in the teenage years and have never gotten around to it. Saw one the other day and was totally jealous. Looked new, must have been restored. Dude driving it looked happy as a pig in shite.

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Windini said:
Yep, old Citroens. I remember seeing one on the West coast decades ago. It had a frame seat with basically a chair cushion for your butt & a canvas sling back, like a director's chair.

Viva la Fronce!
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The only car we refused to work on when I was managing a shop in NJ. Citroen. Model didn't matter We knew a guy and would refer them to him. Had to do it three times. Since I got paid on gross receipts, it pained me to do so. EXPENSIVE parts, lots of labor, but the average grease monkey really has no clue. When I asked the owner why, he said the cars and the owners end up being a major league PITA.

Edit: I feel the need to say that the term "grease monkey" was not used in a pejorative way. Sorry to any auto techs that may read this. My father was a machinist/millwright for a major manufacturer and when I was very young worked a second job in the garage at a gas station back when they worked on cars, not selling candy bars and selling lottery tickets. I wish I had his skills. He didn't order parts when a machine broke down. He made them.
 
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TripleO7 said:
I've always wanted a VW Thing. Deathtraps that the are, I still want one. Daddio wouldn't let me buy one back in the teenage years and have never gotten around to it. Saw one the other day and was totally jealous. Looked new, must have been restored. Dude driving it looked happy as a pig in shite.

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The worst sunburn I ever had was from riding in one in 1975 in Honolulu . That was very painfull damn legs had blisters on blisters
 
TripleO7 said:
I've always wanted a VW Thing. Deathtraps that the are, I still want one. Daddio wouldn't let me buy one back in the teenage years and have never gotten around to it. Saw one the other day and was totally jealous. Looked new, must have been restored. Dude driving it looked happy as a pig in shite.

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I've always called it the Kübelwagen. Nazi German version of the American Jeep.


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Yep. Kubelwagen was the WW2 German military name for it. “Thing” was the postwar civilian name. Maybe just in the US - no idea what it was sold as elsewhere.
 
They have a neet , read; excessive, complicate, prone to failure air ride leveling system.
 
I had an itch to get a Thing and convert it to electric. Luckily, I never got around to scratching that itch.
 
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