Just A Car Guy: VW Thing

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Saturday, October 04, 2025

interesting Thing

Sunday, February 05, 2023

real interesting VW Thing on the 57 south leaving the GNRS

Monday, August 08, 2022

Thanks to Joe, Who told me about Elmer's private museum, which is getting auctioned off, we can now be gobsmacked at a collection that Elmer would NOT allow photographs of - and wonder if we can afford the incredible cars!

'62 406 4 spd Galaxie 500

'65 289 4 spd

'69 Road Runner upgraded from a 383, to a 440 6 pack w/ 4 spd

'66 GTO, 389 tri power 4 spd

'69 RS/SS pace car edition drop top

'74 Thing 4 spd

'72 Honda 600

'69 500.

'68 GTX with horrible changes, a 318 and orange shag carpet, I shit you not

'59 bug, 4 spd

'71 R/T with a 383, but only 56k miles, in the rare Citron Yella

'73 Comet Gt

4 spd

413 long ram dual quads, 300F

2004 Nascar

'64 dual quad hemi 4 spd Belvedere

He even had a Polaris Star Car!

and 67 (sixty god damn seven! ) PAGES of miscellaneous stuff I'll need at least an hour to look through

and 5 pages of mini bikes, scooters, Whizzers, sidecars, and motorcycles... plus signs and outboards

19 pages of pedal cars, including this D4

THAT is a Dan Patch pedal car

those are some COOL intakes!

or YOU can, at https://www.mecum.com/auctions/fountain-city-2022/lots/collector-cars/09/17/

the auction is at Fountain City Wisconsin, a month from now, Sept 14-17

Elmer and his wife ran a salvage yard, an auto sales and services operation, a shop called Bernie’s Bargains, a gas station, a wrecker service and, for a couple of years, they even owned and operated the local race track.

https://monthly.mecum.com/2022/05/12/elmers-auto-and-toy-museum-collection/

https://www.facebook.com/ElmersAutoandToyMuseum

Sunday, February 13, 2022

Taco Bell has some interesting car-centric commercials

I wonder how long it's been since a VW Thing was in a commercial

I don't know what this Mopar is... Cordoba? Coronet?

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

good things from VW

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollerarkivet/30158233497/

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

For sale on Bring a Trailer, an Acapulco Thing, currently at 12k, auction ends Friday morning

In the 1970s, the popularity among guests staying at the Princess Hotel in Acapulco Mexico, and riding in hotel airport shuttle Volkswagen Thing courtesy vehicles led Volkswagen to build a limited run of Acapulco Things.