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Mon Apr 04, 2011 1:44 pm

Dave24 wrote: WTH do any of those fart cars have to do with 53/Herbie?. After reading this thread, I feel like buying a '74 LTD Landau and painting it up as "fat slob" Herbie. :roll:
That would be cool, do it!!!
Or use a Gran Torino :shock:
I am sure there were some VW's leaving the showroom with vinyl tops in the 70's :shock:
My parents bough a '77 honda civic with a vinyl top :x

Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:15 am

The "smart" car Herbie reminded me of the counterfeit Mini ad campaign

Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:23 pm

candymustang65 wrote: Just so you knuckle head's know I coin'ed the phrase > Herbie Haters ! :twisted
Yupp it's a real life Psychiatric condition often accompanied by stale beer breath and a Porsche motor in a Volkswagen story .
Symptom's of this psychiatric condition are often accompanied by the Porsche motor in a Volkswagen story, and are commonly revealed by certain traumatic event's within the psychosis of the story event's .
The commonality of these event's in all Psychotic event's of the porsche motor in a Volkswagen story almost alway's involve decapatation of a beautifull blonde woman .
She is usually on her honey moon where she married a rich wimpyy guy .
Often the Bugg wont runn right with the Porsche motor in it at first but only cause in addition to cranial decapitation it is later found out she was missing her ring finger .
Often the ring finger had a huge rock on it , and is almost alway's found in the intake of the Porsche motor .
In addition to this when diagnoseing the Psychiatric condition known as Herbie Hater Syndrome .
In there dimensia / hallucinatory state individual's will alway's insist that the way there freind got the Porsche motor is out of a wrecked Porsche where both occupants were decapitated and nothing of the vehicle survived .
Except the motor ?
Untouched and only saved my the hand of God .
Except for a scratch or two ?
Another yett notable behaviour is that the patient who suffers from H,H,S, is that they are never personally responsible for there own monsters .
It seem's it is alway's some one they use to know .
Another peculiarity of this Psychotic demensia is they alway's insist that the V.W. once transformed by the Porsche motor into a Frankenstein race beast.
Could in fact out runn all other manufactured car's except for Cheverolett's .
LMAO :twisted: Sean

what in the HELL did you just say??? :?

Tue Apr 05, 2011 7:24 pm

This?

candymustang65 wrote: Just so you knuckle head's know I coin'ed the phrase > Herbie Haters ! :twisted
Yupp it's a real life Psychiatric condition often accompanied by stale beer breath and a Porsche motor in a Volkswagen story .
Symptom's of this psychiatric condition are often accompanied by the Porsche motor in a Volkswagen story, and are commonly revealed by certain traumatic event's within the psychosis of the story event's .
The commonality of these event's in all Psychotic event's of the porsche motor in a Volkswagen story almost alway's involve decapatation of a beautifull blonde woman .
She is usually on her honey moon where she married a rich wimpyy guy .
Often the Bugg wont runn right with the Porsche motor in it at first but only cause in addition to cranial decapitation it is later found out she was missing her ring finger .
Often the ring finger had a huge rock on it , and is almost alway's found in the intake of the Porsche motor .
In addition to this when diagnoseing the Psychiatric condition known as Herbie Hater Syndrome .
In there dimensia / hallucinatory state individual's will alway's insist that the way there freind got the Porsche motor is out of a wrecked Porsche where both occupants were decapitated and nothing of the vehicle survived .
Except the motor ?
Untouched and only saved my the hand of God .
Except for a scratch or two ?
Another yett notable behaviour is that the patient who suffers from H,H,S, is that they are never personally responsible for there own monsters .
It seem's it is alway's some one they use to know .
Another peculiarity of this Psychotic demensia is they alway's insist that the V.W. once transformed by the Porsche motor into a Frankenstein race beast.
Could in fact out runn all other manufactured car's except for Cheverolett's .
LMAO :twisted: Sean

Tue Apr 05, 2011 7:27 pm

vwluver74 wrote: candymustang65 wrote: Just so you knuckle head's know I coin'ed the phrase > Herbie Haters ! :twisted
Yupp it's a real life Psychiatric condition often accompanied by stale beer breath and a Porsche motor in a Volkswagen story .
Symptom's of this psychiatric condition are often accompanied by the Porsche motor in a Volkswagen story, and are commonly revealed by certain traumatic event's within the psychosis of the story event's .
The commonality of these event's in all Psychotic event's of the porsche motor in a Volkswagen story almost alway's involve decapatation of a beautifull blonde woman .
She is usually on her honey moon where she married a rich wimpyy guy .
Often the Bugg wont runn right with the Porsche motor in it at first but only cause in addition to cranial decapitation it is later found out she was missing her ring finger .
Often the ring finger had a huge rock on it , and is almost alway's found in the intake of the Porsche motor .
In addition to this when diagnoseing the Psychiatric condition known as Herbie Hater Syndrome .
In there dimensia / hallucinatory state individual's will alway's insist that the way there freind got the Porsche motor is out of a wrecked Porsche where both occupants were decapitated and nothing of the vehicle survived .
Except the motor ?
Untouched and only saved my the hand of God .
Except for a scratch or two ?
Another yett notable behaviour is that the patient who suffers from H,H,S, is that they are never personally responsible for there own monsters .
It seem's it is alway's some one they use to know .
Another peculiarity of this Psychotic demensia is they alway's insist that the V.W. once transformed by the Porsche motor into a Frankenstein race beast.
Could in fact out runn all other manufactured car's except for Cheverolett's .
LMAO :twisted: Sean

what in the HELL did you just say??? :?
This your first time seeing one of his posts?

Anyway... Herbie is a great musician.

Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:08 pm

Here ya go.

At a local show.
V8 powered

Window says "Herbie on steroids"

Wed Apr 06, 2011 6:36 am

Glenn wrote: EverettB wrote: Especially when it's a clapped out '70 hardtop that they painted a 53 on with puffy paint and then get all high and mighty and say "Check out my restored Herbie, it's just like in the movies!".
Exhibit A

I rest my case.

She is holding that empty paper towel 'thing' like a true male herbie lover....in a porno kinda way :lol:

Mark

Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:27 am

SkrapMetal wrote: Kilroy wrote: The old WALT Disney movies were OK.(The power of 40 horses!) :D The modern one(s) ? leave something to be desired.

I read Herbie had a 1776 built just for the movie.... rumor or true?

1835CC i heard.

Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:33 am

when i read the title of this thread ,the 1st thing i thought was "wonder how many have Floriduh plates?" :lol:
i went to the theater in 69 in my 62 beetle to see this movie.

Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:12 am

All this Herbie talk... much of which is particularly accurate, especially with the Smart car conversion... reminds me of how funny it is to me when bus guys get all pissy when people call their Type 2's vans... :lol:

Mon Apr 11, 2011 12:44 pm

bugnut68 wrote: All this Herbie talk... much of which is particularly accurate, especially with the Smart car conversion... reminds me of how funny it is to me when bus guys get all pissy when people call their Type 2's vans... :lol:

I'm guilty of doing that when I first entered the hobby :oops: . Only I made it worse by calling it a mini-van.

Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:54 pm

doc1369 wrote: bugnut68 wrote: All this Herbie talk... much of which is particularly accurate, especially with the Smart car conversion... reminds me of how funny it is to me when bus guys get all pissy when people call their Type 2's vans... :lol:

I'm guilty of doing that when I first entered the hobby :oops: . Only I made it worse by calling it a mini-van.

Mini van I could see being a derogatory-esqe reference... but 'van' is about as accurate as it comes to the layperson not embedded in the VW scene.

Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:43 pm

bugnut68 wrote: doc1369 wrote: bugnut68 wrote: All this Herbie talk... much of which is particularly accurate, especially with the Smart car conversion... reminds me of how funny it is to me when bus guys get all pissy when people call their Type 2's vans... :lol:

I'm guilty of doing that when I first entered the hobby :oops: . Only I made it worse by calling it a mini-van.

Mini van I could see being a derogatory-esqe reference... but 'van' is about as accurate as it comes to the layperson not embedded in the VW scene.

And then you have the know it all guy that always has to talk to you about your "bug" or "buggy" when you own a bus, ghia, thing, type 3, or pretty much any other ACVW EXCEPT a bug. :roll:

Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:13 pm

I wasn't trying to offend them, closest thing to a label I knew. Funny thing is I can tell in seconds who anyone is looking at my car. If they are in the hobby they ask if it's a 70, if they are outside the hobby they ask if it's from the early sixties, and if they owned or own one they get it right. Only person that ever pissed me off was the guy who wanted to make me feel guilty for driving a "gross" polluter.

Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:05 pm

doc1369 wrote: I wasn't trying to offend them, closest thing to a label I knew. Funny thing is I can tell in seconds who anyone is looking at my car. If they are in the hobby they ask if it's a 70, if they are outside the hobby they ask if it's from the early sixties, and if they owned or own one they get it right. Only person that ever pissed me off was the guy who wanted to make me feel guilty for driving a "gross" polluter.

I wasn't implying you were trying to offend anyone, I actually was making fun of people who take the hobby too seriously. ;-) Namely the bus guys who get all pissy when people refer to their bus as a 'van.'

It seems like more of the attitude stuff comes across on the Internet than at the actual shows... perhaps people get cabin fever being holed up all winter. :lol: