Type 3's in movies and on T.V.

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From Sept. this year-

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Late Fastback, movie "Flash and the Firecat" (1975).

'70+ Fastback in the parking lot, movie "Black Samson" (1974)-

TV show "Starsky and Hutch" season 1 (1975). Looks like it has the VW of America accessory 5-spoke "mag" wheel covers-

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Early Squareback base model, German movie "Wilhelmsburger Freitag 1963" (Wilhelmsburg Friday). Its license plate letters HH stand for Hamburg, specifically Hanseatic city of Hamburg. The other 2 large cities of the medieval Hanseatic trade league are Bremen (HB) and Luebeck (HL).

YouTube German driving video "Koeln 1978 Autofahrt Zoobruecke" (Cologne 1978 car drive on the zoo bridge).

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Squareback parked in background, movie "Bimbos must die" (1972).

Beige Squareback in background behind main characters Dick Van Dyke and Mickey Rooney, movie "The comic" (1969).

Light blue early Squareback, 1970's German TV crime drama show "Der Alte" (the old fox), episode "Die Dienstreise" (the business trip). It's passing a BMW 5 Series police car, with the S'back passenger attempting to shoot at the police. Its "M" license plate letter is for Munich.

[EverettB]

Shoot at the police... with a camera.

Cool 65 Variant in Baltic Blue, not very common for '65.
I've seen a few 66s in that color though
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Blue '66 Fastback in background, TV show "Hunter" S3E21 "Hot Pursuit, pt 2" (1987). Police detective Rick Hunter (Fred Dryer) running up to a suspect trying to get away.

Ivory '66 Fastback parked, TV show "CHiPs" S3E2 "Roller Disco, pt 2" (1979).

Dark pre'70 Fastback parked at a New York City street, movie "They might be Giants" (1971) with actor Eugene Rawlins in foreground.

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Movie "The Goodbye Girl" (1977).

Blue early Fastback driving past in background, movie "For Pete's sake" (1974). Main character Michael Sarrazin is working on his taxi's engine.

Dark green Fastback parked at left, TV crime drama show "Hunter" season 1 episode 7 "Pen Pals", 1984.

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Dark green (Deep sea green?) Fastback parked, movie "Sometimes a great notion" (1971).

Ivory early Squareback driving past in backround, TV show "The streets of San Francisco", season 1 (1972).

Ivory late Squareback parked at gas station, movie "Special Delivery" (1976).

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Orange late Squareback with fender flares, movie "Corvette Summer" (1978). Main character played by Mark Hamill on the bicycle.

Movie "The murder mansion" (1972).

Orange late Squareback in parking lot, TV show "Starsky and Hutch" season 1 (1975).

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Light blue '66/'67 Squareback in parking lot, 1970's TV show "The streets of San Francisco" season 4. Main character Police inspector Steve Keller (Michael Douglas) in foreground has just parked his yellow Ford sedan next to it.

Ivory pre-'67 Squareback parked at left, TV show "Dragnet" season 2, 1968.

Ivory early Fastback parked, TV show "Police Story" season 5 (1978).

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there is a pretty good clip of a squareback in the new documentary on "we are the world", someone talking about giving Quincy Jones a ride home.
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1973 super
1965 squareback 1500E
1971 bay window westy- subi swap

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Orange late Squareback driving past in background behind main character Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) while he's in a cafe. Movie "Taxi Driver" (1976), filmed in New York City. The beige front license plate would be from New Jersey.

Blue Squareback on freeway, movie "Black Oak Conspiracy" (1977).

Movie "The Organization" (1971).

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Beige late Squareback parked in background, "McMillan and Wife" S4E6 1975 "Love, Honor and Swindle". Actor David Birney driving, with Normal Fell holding him at gunpoint.

Texas yellow late Fastback, NBC TV mystery movie "McMillan and Wife" filmed in San Francisco, California. "The Man without a Face" S3E4, 1974.

Early Squareback, Beetle and Splittie bus police cars. German documentary "Als die Polizei noch im Kaefer kam- Blaulichtgeschichten aus NRW". Translation- When the police still came in Beetles- blue light stories from Northrhein-Westphalia.

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Chrissy. Or Chrissie.
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The Greatest Night in Pop, 2024. A documentary by Lionel Richie about the making of the song "We Are The World."
We are lead to believe that this is the car Quincy Jones was driven back to Bel Air in after the recording.

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South African movie "Liefste Veertjie" (1975)-

South African movie "Van Kniediep" (1975)-

US movie "Stingray" (1978)-

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Blue early Fastback parked in background, movie "Spiderman strikes back" (1978).

YouTube "1960s Europe Motorway driving"

Yellow early Fastback, South African movie "Terwille van Christine" (1975).

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Green late Notchback, German movie "Invitation to Dance" (1979).

German TV public service program "Der 7. Sinn: Die Unentbehrlichen" (1969; translated The 7th sense: The essentials). "M" license plate is for Munich.

From the same program- grey Notch on the road. The green car at left is the Wankel-engined NSU Ro80 . "S" license plate is for Stuttgart.

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Movie "The Swiss Conspiracy", 1976. Filmed in Geneva, Switzerland. '70+ Squareback parked in row. Main star David Janssen walking to his Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona Targa Speciale parked next to it. A first-generation Ford Cortina at right.

Red '70+ Squareback parked, movie "Eyewitness" (1981) filmed in New York City. James Woods is holding a TV set riding on the back of his buddy's (William Hurt) BMW motorcycle.

Orange '70+ Squareback parked, 1982 movie "One Shoe makes it Murder".