05-15-2001, 12:20 AM
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Off playing with fire.
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Is there really a VW thing?
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05-15-2001, 01:46 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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If there is, it's a cool name for a car.
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05-15-2001, 02:50 AM
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Old Mod
Join Date: Nov 2000
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Yeah...they look like a convertible, sport utility sort of...thing.
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05-27-2001, 07:00 PM
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Off playing with fire.
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: 40°58'45"N x 111°55'47"W
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HA, I know what a VW thing is now, if anyone cares to see, let me know.
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07-25-2001, 09:40 PM
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Oldie
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Ottawa
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I care to know.
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07-25-2001, 10:09 PM
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Horizontally Opposed
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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I looks like a crate made into a car. Sort of militaristic/utiliy. But convertible/Jeepish, too.
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07-29-2001, 09:25 AM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Ramstein AB
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With all the bustle and activity in the VAG, I wouldn't be surprised to see a new Thing. Or someThing like the old Thing. Those Things looked like fun, but I Thingk the Baja Bugs received more attention. Ha ha, OK, no more.
Below: "Where The Wild Things Are" ....assembled, that is.
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07-29-2001, 04:32 PM
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Oldie
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Ottawa
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I know what it is!! I know what it is!!!
Its a... I forget. But I recognize it. It looks like its either WWII or after, both of which I know but cant remember anything about.
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09-28-2001, 11:51 AM
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The German Army needed an Jeep. So the Volkswagen folks went to work and created Die Kuebelwagen. Volkswagen sold some in America, and since most Americans cannot pronounce Kuebelwagen, they named them the "Thing". I went to High School with a Thing owner and he said it was the greatest off road car he had ever seen.
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09-28-2001, 12:37 PM
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Oldie
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Ottawa
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Teh beetle was good off-road. You just picked up the parts as they fell off 
Didnt it have something like 36 horsepower?? Either way, it was equal to the jeep in pretty much every way.
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09-29-2001, 06:10 PM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Ramstein AB
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I just saw two this week. Before that, I hadn't seen one for about 7 years.
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11-12-2001, 05:45 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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I'd like to make a correction. DER kuebelwagen is the correct article.
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02-27-2002, 07:47 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Courtenay
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Yeah, Kuebelwagens kick ass. Superior in every respect to jeeps. They had suspension for instance. 
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02-28-2002, 06:47 AM
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AF Enthusiast
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Ramstein AB
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Quote:
Originally posted by enginerd
I'd like to make a correction. DER kuebelwagen is the correct article.
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Haha, correcting from fem. to masc. eh?
So what's the Beetle called over there? Der Kafer?
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05-06-2002, 02:18 PM
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AF Fanatic
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Courtenay
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We know what the Jeep is referred to over there, die scheiss
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