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Brenda Berys, the San Francisco-based director of events at Gigya, a tech company, on her 1973 Volkswagen Thing, as told to A.J. Baime.

You never know when a chance encounter is going to change your life. In 2006, I was walking through a parking lot in Miami when I saw this bright yellow car. I was immediately struck by it. By the end of that day, I had found the owner, who was this beautiful, eccentric blond woman. I said, “I…