Volkswagen Thing Type 181 Revival - Found & Rescued! 

Get to the Blower! Nice find! Well Happy Birthday to you then!

i served in Germany in the early 70s, and this was their answer to the jeep.

Happy birthday there 🎉🎉🎉

I have a soft spot for Things. We road tripped one with the doors off and windshield down in the early 90's. Spending 10 or so hours on the road is pretty fun for the first 20 minutes. The rest is just because we were young and dumb. I can't believe our asses survived long enough to get old.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jason. A green and white Thing, awesome

Now you have a thing LOL. I love these vehicles you don't see them very often at all anymore.

Baseball? That explains the mullet. Ha! No slow motion leaf blower shots? Kudos Jay! Thanks for the coffee entertainment.

Happy Birthday Jason!!! Ive never seen a "VW Thing" in real life.

Things are RAD!!! Great find! Happy Birthday! Eat lots of cake!

Arrrggghhh!!! These NEW cars... (1973 LOL!)

Nice to let your Thing Hang Out in New England !!!; )

The Hard top is neat! 👀 From 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

You had me at Foghat!

Leave the leafs on it, especially the one on the roof. 🤣😂🤣🍀

Great job rescuing those VWs, dude, finding homes for them and/or repairing them. Keep it up! And, of course, happy birthday!

Every time one of your videos comes up, I wonder what the heck you have found and dragged home now. I am never disappointed. 😊

Fuel brakes and go🎉magnificent 👌 👏 🙌 video thanks for your time and super great time 😀 👍

Happy Birthday from Lincoln Nebraska. Have a great weekend.

A SLOW RIDE indeed!!!

I pulled home one in similar condition recently here in NC during hurricane Ophelia. Fun. Was using a tow bar and lost a wheel 100 miles from home. More fun. Never been more wet. Lol. Good news is I had a couple inches of water in it which means the pans are there. 😂

,,,,,DoooooooooD....any car that used to play foghat,,,is fire,,.cool vid..tnx,pat &family..land o' lakes,wi.......send it.😮

Congratulations on your birthday. It is mine too. So it's something we share. And we love VW's, off course!

Happy solar revolution! Nice find, looks to be a decent old Thing!

A Thing, International Scout, Jeep .... That's a great yard.

Jason is on a rescue. 3 stripe track pants - check. Winch battery unbelievably charged for once - check. Mousage - check. And as my kids said when they were young "Happy to you cake".

Happy Birthday Jason!

I love your show. very Nice VW thing. the Pantina in the window are great the wight fog around the window edge takes a while to show up. I love it.

Happy Birthday Jay! Nice present you got yourself there!

Happy Birthday - I'm sure that mouse will be much happier living in your house...

Happy Birthday, You got a nice looking Type 181 there.

Fog hat! Sloooow ride!🤘

Happy birthday, bro! 🇬🇧🇺🇸

I love it … let us see you get it started please… Happy Birthday Brother !!!!!

I had a Thing in the early 90's. Cruising around town with the doors off and top down was way too much fun. Got stopped one time, but the cop mostly wanted to check out the car. We had seat belts and eye protection, so it was OK. The windshield wipers even work with the windshield folded. The state law at the time required working wipers, but only eye protection if no windshield.

Cool! I’ve always loved those things!😬

Your videos are so real I love it. I hope you had a great birthday.

Happy birthday beautiful

Happy birthday Raddest duder!! Things are the most fun you can have in a VW!! I have an orange 73 I'll never sell it!!

Happy Thingday !👽

I was digging that Jeep and International!

Happy birthday sir. that thing is a beauty.

Hello from Detroit, I'm selling my hotrod and buying a old vw, love the Chanel

Happy birthday Jason!!

Happy Birthday, enjoy watching all the difficulties we go through bringing back these ol machines! Something fun to watch while putting together a parts list to try and fix a few dubs!

What a score. A thing, a Foghat tape and what looks like a quasi Hurst shift handle. The perfect platform for the Carl Spackler school of auto detailing. HB.

The vision is always different with her top off!!

Great video mate

looks like a good engine

Love the vid! Nothing new there, haha. Excited to see a Thing on the channel! Happy Birthday, Jason!

Happy birthday 🍰. Another great save... Have a good weekend.

I drove a 1973 thing , my daily driver for 15 years. I bought it in 1972 used. After 8 years I replaced both side panels due to rust , had about 120000 miles at this time. About 7 years later rust got it again (Vermont winters) by now it had almost 200000 miles and the engine had never been out of the car, still had original clutch and all cables. I also had the hard top for winter. Only car I ever had with a wind chill factor . Above 50mph the side curtains would flap open and I would have to pull over and let the gas heater catch up the Thing had a special heavier front I beam a factory skid plate on the engine and I believe thing specific sodium filled exaust valves.👍😁🎩

happy birthday loving all the new cars you must have a good wife. the thing looks cool

Awesome! Happy birthday! What a present!🙌

Wild Thing I think I love you, but I wanna know for sure! 🤪

A type 181 is always worth the efforts. My fVORITE VW. ONWARD!

Like i said before" i dont know how you find all these VWs. Hats off to you my friend. Another great rescue. Take care, Stay safe my friend.

Happy Birthday!

Following...I hope this comes out nice... aways had a soft spot for these... owned one in the early 70' s miss that THING

Jason, pour some Marvel down the plug holes!

"Get your Thing going down the road!" Great tattoo idea.

Happy Birthday man 👍🏻🤙🏻

Happy Birthday Buddy

Afternoon mate

Happy Birthday to my favorite car rescue guy!!!

Dear 5150mxVW. Happy birthday! 🎂 👍👌👏 Congratulations 🎉 for purchasing this vehicle. I totally like the VW 181 (nicknamed "Kübel" in Germany). Like you I'm glad that you own one without these big ugly air scoops and fortunately you have the auxiliary heater. I really hope and almost pray that you remove those big ugly elephant foot rear lights. Hope you go with the original European design and use rear lights from the VW bus. It needs quite a bit work to modify the rear body panel. But it looks so much better/cleaner. Of course I'm eagerly looking forward to watch the next video. Thanks a lot for making explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health in particular.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

That’s too nice… don’t sell it to dubs, sell it to Taylor 😂

Happy Birthday 🎉

I'm a Fool for City isn't it Pity Eviction's for Itty Bitty's in Pine Cone City Yeah!!!🎶🎵🎶

Great rescue. Happy birthday late

Good Video! 'this video is about things that I suck at" LOL!!!

Happy Birthday Bugman 😊👍

Nice score,and happy birthday,hope you have a great day..

Happy birthday

Back in the woods! Yay! 🎉 But, Jason! I’ve been holding my breath while waiting to hear whether the ’58 has semaphores or not, and, darn it, just like my mother warned me, my face is turning blue! Haaaaaalp meeeee! 😂😂😂😂😂

Happy Birthday 🎉🎉🎉

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDY

Happy birthday bud...

looks pretty decent. and has the roof too. nice.

Happy Birthday fella

Happy birthday. That’ll be a fun thing to drive about in. Much better with the top off

Happy birthday dude!

Nice find with this one, and happy birthday to you!

Happy Birthday old man!

Happy birthday 🎂

Happy birthday, late 🎉 wish I got a Thing for mine 😁 like that color, but know it's a changing.

Poking in the rear? Liquor in the front? Sounds like a good place. ha ha

Happy birthday Jason have a good one 🎉

all the best from yorkshire uk

🎉HAPPY BIRTHDAY🎉

Nice find! Happy Birthday Jason!

I'd get it running & driving then worry about the floorpan, it's not a classic vw if it doesn't need a floor pan, haha. Those are so hard to find, good luck.

Happy Birthday, J! Funny story: my brothers father in law had his Thing stolen, then found, undamaged . Thief left a note: " Dont leave your keys in the car!" Lol!

Feliz cumple. Keep up the good work.

Foghat ...check Birdsnest...check rusted floor pan.....check just the way you like them.

Wishing you a very Happy Birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JASON! I remember those things. Mainly because I slammed into one with the wife's nova years ago. Replacing the exhaust was very simple. Thankfully, that was the only damage. Nice find once again. Keep the rescues coming man.

Another great find you really are living the dream. Happy birthday

Nice find!

That Thing is pretty cool, and I'm sure you'll get it running before the snow flies. While you're at it, why not rescue the Scout? Just for a change of pace, lol! Happy birthday, hope you get all you wish for!👍