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Fri Jan 22, 2010 5:04 pm

Id love to see some orginal and copies of the most famous VW ever Herbie. Ill post my pictures of the pimped car i took at Hollywood studios after i load them up but im sure alot of you actually own real movie used herbies and if you do post them and tell about how you got them and what you had to do to them.

Sat Jan 23, 2010 3:58 pm

It'd be a cool thread if it got started..

Sat Jan 23, 2010 5:15 pm

heres one of my son with a RHD Herbie @ a NorCal show in 2008

Sun Jan 24, 2010 3:57 pm

www.lovebugfans.com

Tue Jan 26, 2010 8:04 pm

Wed Jan 27, 2010 8:33 pm

blakiexcharles wrote: It'd be a cool thread if it got started..

I 2nd that!

Thu Jan 28, 2010 12:32 pm

oo oo.
ive got pix of a bug my dad painted like herbie just to sell it quick. did it some time in the early nineties.. damn i wanna find that pic now...
im gonna go smoke a doobie then find that picture.

Thu Jan 28, 2010 4:59 pm

The end product will be a white Herbie but since the PO painted the door with primer or something and we replaced the passenger door, we painted the 53 like it was on the Taxi version of Herbie in Herbie Goes Bananas. Just as a joke. People love it. It's funny, they had plans for Herbie to be red originally but went with the white. I also found a site with a red Herbie from a Disney on ice show. I just tell people he is sun burnt from his time in Mexico.

Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:34 am

I had a Beetle calandar about 3 or 4 years that had a "Herbie" slammed on certerlines (or Ercos) looked bad ass! Anyone seen this one?

Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:49 am

Herbie's fat little brother.

Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:31 pm

LeviMan2001 wrote: Herbie's fat little brother.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Thu May 06, 2010 8:38 pm

Here's a couple pics of my original Herbie. Mine's a documented car used in the filming of The Love Bug and Herbie Rides Again.

These pictures were taken last year at the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix. This is Herbie's big outing each year to help raise awareness and donations for the Autism Society and the Allegheny Valley School.

And a few pictures from Mid America's FunFest in 05 with my close friend Joaquin Garay III from Herbie Goes Bananas.

Fri May 07, 2010 9:41 am

oldeskool65 wrote: I had a Beetle calandar about 3 or 4 years that had a "Herbie" slammed on certerlines (or Ercos) looked bad ass! Anyone seen this one?

I have indeed! I will see if I can dig it up.

Fri May 07, 2010 5:00 pm

My old Sunbug a friend of mine made into "Herbie" for his grandkids.

Fri May 07, 2010 7:32 pm

I've been thinking about painting my Rabbit like Herbie. Has anyone seen that before ?

Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:17 pm

Bringing this back up.

Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:31 pm

Sorry for a strange question but I figure you guys would know. I've never seen a hurbie movie, was there other beetles that raced against him? Did he have a arch rival? I'm kind of hooked on being the oposite to things. So it would be fun to paint mine up like the rival just to have people scratching their heads :lol:

Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:01 pm

Yup. "Horace the Hate Bug"

Herbie's 'nemesis'.

Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:06 pm

So much for that, it's been done :( . Once someone else throws a cow into the air using a catapult it's just not worth doing anymore.

Thanks though

Wed Jul 07, 2010 12:47 am

iVolkswagen wrote: Yup. "Horace the Hate Bug"

Herbie's 'nemesis'.

I want one. On a super beetle chassis, just to piss off even more people (as that's obviously the point). Would look awesome in satin, maybe with those big iozzio fuchs, like that one vert. Mmmmm. Also, up a few posts, is that the kid from herbie goes bananas nowadays? I mean is that the OG Herbie kid? hahaaaa :lol: