Thats pretty neat. I had a similar thing happen in Helen Ga in '73. We were driving my brand new orange "Thing". We hadn't stepped out of the Thing for a min. when a older couple came over and wanted to know all about the car. They were German and I could just understand what they saying. It turned out that the old "feller" was a WW-2 German vet and was the driver for a officer in France in the early 40"s . He drove a Kubelwagen most of the time and sometimes a Beetle staff car . He looked to be in his late 70"s and still knew everything about those cars and compared his Kubel to my new "Thing" also a few war stories. Needless to say he got my attention. We must have talk for a hour just standing on the curb.
His wife and my wife dissappeared for awhile. When they showed back up , his wife presented me with a pair of peel and stick West German shields and told me to put them on the "Thing" to make it proper. I did right then and there. After that encounter Helen Ga seemed far away.
