Hello all, my name is Erin and this is my car's page. I drive a 1973 VW Thing, yeah it's the Thing!!!! My Thing was featured on MTV's Pimp my Ride, it was the second car aired on the first season of GAS (Galpin Auto Sports) doing the show.

Here's a picture of my Thing back when I first got it.

And my poor old 1600 dual port engine, ugly huh, this got left at PMR and I believe they stuffed it into one of the later VW's, maybe even the green and blue bug.

Here is me with Xzibit and the whole GAS crew.

And here is some pictures of the Thing shortly after I got it back from Pimp my Ride

This picture is from a company called WebEx and they rented my car and invited my and my fiancee to their promotion for a new product launch up in San Francisco.  Their product launch party was called "Pimp my Workspace"  :)

 Whoo hoo Party!!!!!

Not sure if you noticed, but the chrome was beginning to rust so I removed all the bars around the car and powdercoated them black.  When the car was up at the party, they were already black.  We also put a streetglow gold series green underlight kit on the car, and put lots of blue lights in the interior.

Here is a picture of my engine bay right before I just had it repainted and had my engine upgraded, as well as my old exhaust piping and engine.

  Awww isn't it purty! ....... ahh no.

Getting in and scrubbing!

And the finished product.

Ceramic coated exhaust system, polished aluminum stinger!, high temp ceramic coated turbo.

And now isn't it purty!....Yes

High output polished alternator, polished pulley, chrome alternator stand, and black powdercoated engine plates and brackets.  Everything was scrubbed super clean and nice.  Oh yeah, the engine was painted flat black as well.  Pimp my ride to save time just rattle canned black over the factory orange, the orange was coming through, now there is no orange :)  New rubber seals and gaskets too.

Sorry it's taken so long to update :)