Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Chris Quinn wrote: > Ten years of driving a 73 VW Thing seems to have cured the > cabriolet jitters, although I still love the Thing, and it makes me smile > every time I put the top down.... You are lucky that the Thing is still with you. When the Things came out in the early seventies I was a gung ho young firefighter. We would get called almost once a month to extinguish a blazing Thing. A widespread carburetor malfunction, IIRC. What was really spectacular was when the magnesium block got going. Mike Gardner