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NOVA Airhead
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 Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 7:48 am Post subject: Cool Thing Spot on Rizzoli and Isles last night |
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My wife was watching Rizzoli and Isles, a show she likes but I don't generally watch. She starts yelling for me to come in. A segment on the show has a VW Thing with the cops talking about it - and how cool they are.
You can view the spot here:
https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/itssocool?source=feed_text&story_id=10153611100382892
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77kafer
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Wow, how cool is that? Could you imagine how popular they would have been if the same "plug" was done on Starsky and Hutch back in the day or some other popular cop show in 73 or 74.
And yes, I know that Starsky and Hutch didn't come on the tube until 75, but I was away in the military, and couldn't think of a cop show from 73 and 74.
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Overheard on 27 June 07, one lady to another when they saw my Harli in a parking lot at West Point, "maybe he found it on the clearance aisle at the Volkswagen dealer" |
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bald_dude43
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah ... I was like "Honey rewind that so I can record it!!!! Thank goodness for DVRs "It's sooo cool!" |
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Nick Schiro
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citroen
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| I watched the show . Has anyone said it was his Thing? |
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77kafer
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According to the clip it belongs to Chip (the forensic artist) and boy is he going to get an earful.
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Overheard on 27 June 07, one lady to another when they saw my Harli in a parking lot at West Point, "maybe he found it on the clearance aisle at the Volkswagen dealer" |
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Gene Kisner
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| Sometime last year someone was openly soliciting to borrow a Thing to be used in a TV series being filmed on the west coast. I forget where I saw the advertisement. After one or two days they posted that they had secured one in the LA area. That was the last I ever heard about it. Now this pops up. Sounds like a fit to me. |
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GI Joe
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CraigInPA
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| Gene Kisner wrote: |
| Sometime last year someone was openly soliciting to borrow a Thing to be used in a TV series being filmed on the west coast. I forget where I saw the advertisement. After one or two days they posted that they had secured one in the LA area. That was the last I ever heard about it. Now this pops up. Sounds like a fit to me. |
That was from Attaboy productions, for use on Wheeler Dealers. |
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germanbilly
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 10:47 am Post subject: |
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| Gene Kisner wrote: |
| Sometime last year someone was openly soliciting to borrow a Thing to be used in a TV series being filmed on the west coast. I forget where I saw the advertisement. After one or two days they posted that they had secured one in the LA area. That was the last I ever heard about it. Now this pops up. Sounds like a fit to me. |
That was our car that they used, will be out around June on Wheeler Dealer. I just talked with the Production Manager last week.
Here is the post about 1/3 down the page.
GB
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=290168&start=1440 |
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