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Burr’s ‘Thing’ Needs Repairs

Burr drives the Thing all over Washington. (Tom Williams/Roll Call File Photo)
Burr drives the Thing all over Washington. (Tom Williams/Roll Call File Photo)
By Alex Gangitano
Posted February 10, 2016 at 12:55pm

Senator Richard Burr’s, R-N.C., beloved Volkswagen Thing faced some problems on Wednesday, with the North Carolina Republican tweeting a photo of three men pushing his car on the side of a road.

The Thing is Volkswagen's commercial American version of a German World War II military vehicle. VW only sold the car in the U.S. market for two years.

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