Visit w/Gene Winfield / www.eKustom.net / 7/24/02 "THE THING" came out of retirement and is currently getting a full work over from top to bottom, motor, frame and everything else you can think of. Gene plans to start running the THING in November and then getting it out to Bonneville next year we were joking that it might have to be renamed "THE THANG" with all the work that is being done to it.