<![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> Fear & LowThing in Alameda?

slag

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> no not really. It used to have a bunch of girls in bikini's and stuff but not for a year or two. I can email it to ya if your really that interested.

chrismcdowell25

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> My employer's NetScreen URL Filtering blocks chrismcdowell.net Chris, you got some NSFW stuff on there?

Tanshanomi

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> Yeah Sure whats your email?

Sorry i didnt check it after I posted it and figured jalopnik would keep it within limits.

Should be a bit smaller now.

chrismcdowell25

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> Chris--any chance of getting a large version of that pic?

SuperCatBarf

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I saw this same car down at the San Jose Kelly Park Bug Show this year. It drove into the show and they raked it out it seems.

[chrismcdowell.net]

chrismcdowell25

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> Kewl, I wanna ride in that so bad. The interior looks cosy, leaves and all!

aesthari

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> cooler

FrankGrimes

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> I like the Thing from Pimp My Ride better.

Spekkio

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> @Eric Merrill: And I have a blue project car with no balls.

@Murilee Martin: God, I love Alameda. Even, ah, never having actually been there.

FuzzyPlushroom

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> I just saw this Thing roaring down Alameda's main drag a few minutes ago!

Murilee Martin

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> @FuzzyPlushroom: I'm going to have sexy, sexy fantasies of living in this thing. Unfortunately they sell around here for 7-10k, and as a college student, I'm too poor to even live in a car. I have Project Car Blueballs.

Eric Merrill

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> lowering to improve handling = cool
lowering to the point of destroying all function = utter, offensive stupidity.

Why is it that every mod gets taken to an absurd extreme in pursuit of some sort of twisted sense of "style?"

I bet this guy laughs at others in sky-jacked donks or riding choppers with ten foot forks and the gas tank directly in front of the rider's face. Oh, the irony.

Tanshanomi

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> @Eric Merrill: Oh hell yes. Incredible really - I mean, look at that futon cushion in the back!

FuzzyPlushroom

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> Ha! I caught a glimpse of this, er, thing on 880 a while back. Tried to catch up and failed--it's nice to finally see it up close.

theeastbaykid

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> Considering that the owners are Shamu enough to have needed to replace their seatbelts with seatchains, I figure the suspension's toast.

boosted-lego-wagon

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> With the steering column passing through the center of the firewall and the symmetric structure of the dashboard, it looks like flipping it from left to right hand drive is a trivial thing. The owner probably did it in an hour with a 12mm wrench.

DeadFlorist

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> @Herbie3Rivers:
Hmmm, swing axles. The plot thickens! Do you know if the Things imported to the US had them? I'm thinking not, which would date this 181 from the '60's.

crankcase

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> Oh, look, it's nesting!

NovaloadMissesPolar

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> yes, you can dump an air-cooled VW pretty hard, but you take some risks:
[www.thesamba.com]

this guy hit something and pulled the front end of his Type 3 Ghia down

abgwin

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> The Thing is the only air cooled V-Dub that needs a little clearance. Other than that, I would rock this moderately hard.

Still, I showed this to a coworker who loves Volkswagens, and has a predisposition to using the word "thing" (seriously, I've been refered to as thing several times). She was almost giddy to see this.

Maymar is convinced M.C. Escher engineered his car

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> @NICKNICK: It drives. Frequently. I just shot it in the fall, when the sycamores on that street were dropping leaves like crazy.

Murilee Martin

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> The suspension's slammed, it's not broken. air cood vws rear wheels bend in like that normally. Well not under normal circumstances. Neat car, sucks it's sitting out with all that crap falling in it.

Herbie3Rivers

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> I really shouldn't...but I think that looks epic. The only thing I've ever seen worthy of driving if my life depended on me stepping foot- and driving in- California.

It's got that depression and angst, but tougher-than-thou coolness, like "Indiana Jones and the Oh Shit Anywhere But California."

Eric Merrill

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> Roadlickenwagen!

Stuntdriver

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> just look here

[www.flickr.com]

hoodride has a bunch of slammed classic VWs tastefully styled.

mathlabs

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> Looks ... depressed.

DSLPWR

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> @crankcase: The owner could have just slapped old Bus tails on there, too.

Either way, I think we all need to know what the deal is with this Thing, between the model, why it's on the ground, etc.

Paul Y. can't think of a better, shorter handle

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> Must be some sort of military spec 181. Those tail lights definitely predate the Things short US production run. Needs a good raking out and a 50 cal. in back!

crankcase

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> @Flipper_1938: This is what he meant to do, folks:

Unevolved

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> I love that thing. And by the way it does move around the island. I have seen it near the world famous lee auto supply in the summer. Back then it didn't have doors but merely chains strung across from the hinges to the latches. It was kinda like an industrial "velvet rope" of sorts.

vwminispeedster is actively searching for a $500 Citroen

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> @Flipper_1938: Yea, the ever popular Kubelwagen-abandoned-in-Cologne-after-a-... look.

Tanshanomi

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> It's a pain driving a car that's lowered this much. Scrrrape, shwing, scrrrape scraaaaape, thump.

Hitting a big bump at freeway speeds results in some major pucker marks on the seat. But something tells me this guy doesn't have to worry about that so much.

dculberson

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> I think they were trying for the Kubelwagen look.

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Flipper_1938

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> That's not a Thing, it's a street sweeper...

mytdawg

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> @clinto:

ebay!
[search.ebay.com]

_T_

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> That's very, er... rustic. It's as though Patty and Selma decided to go ghetto, but then lost interest half-way through.

graverobber- My Yugo Nova!

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> I think the suspension just rotted away completely.

dolo54

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> Full of Nazi women in leather and chains, it prowls the streets on moonless nights.

smokeydog001

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> Definitely not US-spec. Doesn't have the big elephant hoof taillights. Or door handles for that matter. Interesting find!

LTDScott changed his name!

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> It literally is "down on the street."

DannyBN

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> Very cool, love the jerry can on the rear.

I would kill for one of those "U.S. Forces in Germany" tags for my Deuce and a half.

clinto

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> That's a little bit o' awesome.

JSmith53

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> @cyclopticgaze: more leaves in the interior than on the street=broken.

NICKNICK

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> I wonder how often he gets pulled over and hassled over that upside-down license plate?

Mike the Dog

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> I can't tell if it's "slammed" or "broken".

cyclopticgaze

]]> <![CDATA[Very, Very Low Volkswagen Thing]]> Thats not low,i think the technical term is "fucked suspension"

layabout

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