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hitest Samba Member
Joined: September 30, 2008 Posts: 10296 Location: Prime Meridian, ID
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Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 9:24 am Post subject: |
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I'm very ashamed I spotted this, but... In the first few minutes of "Torque" (that horrible MC version of Fast n Furious) the hero chases his ex-girlfriend on bikes through a long shop- heading to her place. In the shop, a splittie is getting worked on.
More reasonably, in the final scene of Clint Eastwood's 1997 "Absolute Power," Clint's character walks through a hospital parking garage to visit his daughter (set in WDC)- and he walks past a 21w- probably a leftover from his Dirty Harry days. _________________
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I wonder what the nut looks like.
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'62 L390 151, '62 L469 117, '63 L380 113, '64 L87 311, '65 L512 265, '65 L31 SO-42, '66 L360 251, '68 L30k 141, '71 L12 113, '74 ORG 181
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vdubyah73 Samba Member
Joined: July 05, 2003 Posts: 2541 Location: somewhere in Texas, my house has wheels
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There was a barndoor in a garage on a episode of ncis: New Orleans this week. |
Someone in that cast or crew has a thing for vintage VW's there is an episode with a Karman Ghia in a sub plot involving Scott Bakula's Karman Ghia being tuned up for ex wife.
Bill _________________ burning down the house
73 bounty hunter, sold.
'77 transporter, junked had crotch rot.
Dubless, but have a CPR built stroker waiting for a new to me Beetle
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Dana Champion Samba Member
Joined: July 06, 2012 Posts: 633 Location: Ventura County, CA
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Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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Watching TCM (Turner Classic Movies) last night. Had " Topkapi "(1963 ?), on the DVR.
Saw a few 23 windows and beetles. Story takes place in Istanbul, Turkey. |
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VOLKSWAGNUT Fastest VW Belt Changer
Joined: October 14, 2007 Posts: 11053 Location: Flippin' a Belt........ .... Off-n-On ... NC USA
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 7:21 am Post subject: |
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hitest wrote: |
I'm very ashamed I spotted this, but... In the first few minutes of "Torque" (that horrible MC version of Fast n Furious) . |
Thats a big 10-4...
Best part of that movie.....was the first 5-10 minutes... after that... it went to straight to hell..
Its even a step under or the side of Biker Boyz....
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0nebadbug Samba Member
Joined: October 01, 2009 Posts: 1087 Location: Rockford, Illinois
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raygreenwood Samba Member
Joined: November 24, 2008 Posts: 21474 Location: Oklahoma City
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 11:08 am Post subject: |
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I have a wide range of Clint Eastwood's movies in my collection (all the Dirty Harry films and more).
Is/was it just a product of being filmed largely in California in the late 60's/70's...or does/did Clint Eastwood have a fetish for ACVW's?
A huge amount of ACVW's in the background...and we all know that these movies were not just filmed on open streets with available traffic. Everything in the backgrounds is largely placed there. Ray |
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KTPhil Samba Member
Joined: April 06, 2006 Posts: 33883 Location: Conejo Valley, CA
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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raygreenwood wrote: |
I have a wide range of Clint Eastwood's movies in my collection (all the Dirty Harry films and more).
Is/was it just a product of being filmed largely in California in the late 60's/70's...or does/did Clint Eastwood have a fetish for ACVW's?
A huge amount of ACVW's in the background...and we all know that these movies were not just filmed on open streets with available traffic. Everything in the backgrounds is largely placed there. Ray |
I think it was the times, and the cars were relatively cheap. Watch old Dragnet episodes, for example, which were often filmed in real places not on a set, and those damn beetles are EVERYwhere! By the '70s they were so popular here that at any given stoplight, there would be several waiting at the light. |
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GeorgeL Samba Member
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If you are dressing the backgrounds and you have a choice between $2500 VWs and $5000 Chevys guess which one ends up overrepresented? You can fit more of them on the trailer too! |
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mrkotfw Samba Member
Joined: June 10, 2013 Posts: 223 Location: Bay Area (California)
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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My brother's 1970 VW Bug was featured in a TV show here in San Francisco. They paid him 600$ to use it.
They show was Alcatraz... It was on Fox. |
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Bret2094 Samba Member
Joined: March 22, 2012 Posts: 665 Location: Linden, Texas or College Station Texas
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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mrkotfw wrote: |
My brother's 1970 VW Bug was featured in a TV show here in San Francisco. They paid him 600$ to use it.
They show was Alcatraz... It was on Fox. |
I miss that show...a shame it got cancelled after 1 season
Bret _________________ 1959 baja beetle ragtop( going back to Full body)
1959 beetle
1960 Beetle frame Custom buggy
1962 Karmann Ghia
1967 beetle( august 66, first car)
1967 beetle (parts car)
1977 Westfalia Camper
1972 Plymouth Duster
Just another 22 year old jackass who caught the bug, and lives by the motto " NO fatchicks allowed" , I've got too many cars as is (buses N/A) |
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Fish Samba Member
Joined: December 05, 2000 Posts: 5538 Location: OB. It's beside the point.
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drscope Samba Member
Joined: February 19, 2007 Posts: 15273 Location: Baltimore, Maryland USA
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 6:47 am Post subject: |
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With 40 some pages I didn't go through to see if this was already posted or not, so if so, oh well.
Watching The Racers The other night with Kirk Douglas and not too far in a split window sun roof beetle drives through in a somewhat bird's eye view camera shot. _________________ Mother Nature is a Mean Evil Bitch! |
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rustfree1967bug Samba Member
Joined: November 16, 2006 Posts: 3436 Location: minnesota
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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Did a search and did not find this posted. But i have been watching episodes of the streets of san francisco on youtube and there are a ton of aircooled vws in the background in most episodes. _________________ '70 ghia
'69 ghia
'65 singlecab
'66 sunroof beetle
'74 bus
'67 so-42
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wythac Samba Member
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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It would make a lousy drinking game to take a shot every time you saw a bug or bus in an episode of the Rockford Files. You'd pass out in the first fifteen minutes. I would venture to guess that it is more likely that there isn't an episode that DOESN'T have a VW in the background in at least one shot.
I saw Dick Van Dyke driving a soft top early 60's Beetle in a movie called "Divorce American Style"....it was the car he got to drive after his divorce while his friends were still driving spiffy 1967 vintage American and European metal.... |
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raygreenwood Samba Member
Joined: November 24, 2008 Posts: 21474 Location: Oklahoma City
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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Did anyone see the lowered 412 wagon on rivieras in the movie rush last year? Ray |
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FullFender Samba Member
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Randall Samba Member
Joined: October 03, 2004 Posts: 1402 Location: Orange County, Alta California, El Norte
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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raygreenwood wrote: |
Did anyone see the lowered 412 wagon on rivieras in the movie rush last year? Ray |
I didn't, but here it is.
The McLaren on the building refers to McLaren Racing.
Website for photo --
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_661051-Volkswagen-412-Variant-Typ-4-1974.html
I would want that 412 only if I delivered mail to mailboxes at the curb in the US. |
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raygreenwood Samba Member
Joined: November 24, 2008 Posts: 21474 Location: Oklahoma City
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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Ah...yes...and its on Porsche 2 liter alloys not rivieras. Thanks! Ray |
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Bret2094 Samba Member
Joined: March 22, 2012 Posts: 665 Location: Linden, Texas or College Station Texas
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Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 12:18 am Post subject: |
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Thursday's episode of Archer had a bunch of beetles drawn into the car chase, oh and z nation on syfy last year had a whole scene involving piling a crap ton of folks in a bug...kinda reminds me of highschool
Bret _________________ 1959 baja beetle ragtop( going back to Full body)
1959 beetle
1960 Beetle frame Custom buggy
1962 Karmann Ghia
1967 beetle( august 66, first car)
1967 beetle (parts car)
1977 Westfalia Camper
1972 Plymouth Duster
Just another 22 year old jackass who caught the bug, and lives by the motto " NO fatchicks allowed" , I've got too many cars as is (buses N/A) |
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graysky Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 8:33 am Post subject: |
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I did a quick search and didn't find any mention of this but all through "The Wonder Years" VW's are prominently featured. Kevin's teacher "Miss White" drives a white or very light blue 65 (I think) beetle. In a later episode another of his teachers drives a Ghia. Karen's boyfriend drives bus in a couple of episodes. There's also an episode where Kevin has several encounters with a rival pizza delivery driver who is in blue VW. All through the series in many of the exterior shots VW's abound. In the last few seasons when Kevin and Winnie go to the make out point, they are almost always parked next to a blue Beetle.
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