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Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:00 am

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Westy Spotted in a very bad movie on the Scence Fiction Channel.
I can't remember the name of the movie, it wasn't worth watching anyway.

Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:07 am

Funny you should bring this up. I was watching the original Breakfast at Tiffany's last night and noticed an old barn door bus in the NYC traffic as George Peppard & Audrey Hepburn are in the cab towards the end.

Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:17 am

I'm pretty sure I saw one watching History of Violence the other night...

Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:24 am

cheech and chong up in smokes-when there leaving the airport red vanagon

Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:49 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tEGfgh2YMA

Sliders clip. :)

Mac N Me (Nice Flash Silver Bus!!)

(Suck ass movie!! :cry: )

Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:40 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_mRLKXsKA&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7WBqtESSek&mode=related&search=

Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:58 am

In Jim Jarmusch's (Bill Murray) "Broken Flowers" you see a flash of one as he is driving down a country road from the driver's point of view looking out the window.

Tah-dah![/quote]

Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:05 pm

In Charlie's Angels (the first movie) the Angels are all dancing in lieterhosen (while Bill Murray plays a tuba) in front of a nice blue/grey Carat.

I don't know why I know this.

Joe T.

Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:55 pm

Gad, she's got that big old incandescent going in broad daylight. I bet she gets munched by the Beastie when she tries to start the Westy and escape. I like Dogpilot's Westy Observatory concept better.

Hmm... Vanagon Horror Movies. We've got so MUCH material...

"Phosphates? PHOSPHATES IN THE ANTI-FREEZE? YOU'VE KILLED US ALL!"

<villain fuels his Westy, smoking away... Gout of gas surges up... There is an explosion of flame>

"It seems to be drawn to the peculiar vibrations of our engine... I WARNED you not to use Autolite Plugs!"

Best!

Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:05 pm

Flipping channels and just spotted a nice two tone yellow and white Vanagon Westy with some nice interior mods, including overhead paper towel rack.
The movie...The Babysitters Club with Peter Horton!

Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:00 pm

Probably the biggest TV appearance the Vanagon ever made was when one was used in the Magnum PI series. An 83.5 Wasserboxer with "Island Hoppers" painted on the side appeared in most of the episodes. It was T.C.'s van and used for his helicopter charter service.

David

Sat Jul 21, 2007 3:46 am

The ABC show LOST has had a number of baywindow buses in multiple episodes, and in one of the last episodes of last season, there was a flashback scene where Charlie's band was fixing a flat tire on their late 80's Vanagon. The implication was that this ws their transportation as they toured all over the counrty playing concerrts.

Seems the producers have thing for VW van-types vehicles.

Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:37 am

"There is Something About Marry", at the beginning of the movie there was round headlight Vanagon, perhaps even Westy

Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:07 pm

The master list

http://www.vanagon.com/fun/sightings/index.html

Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:50 am

Scrubs - Season 4, Episode 1 - J.D. is cruising down the street on a scooter, and passes a late model Carat painted solid red, lots of toys on a rack system up top, w/a S. African headlight grill.

And saw part of some really lame movie on TV the other day w/The Rock & Stifler (from American Pie). Big explosive fight scene at the end, in some tiny Brazilian village, and as props there was a Karman Ghia (same color as mine when I was a kid), a bug, and a bay window bus.

Cheers!
-Jared

Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:13 am

Witless Joe wrote: The master list

http://www.vanagon.com/fun/sightings/index.html

Good list, but doesn't look like it's been updated in quite a few years.

Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:02 am

Internet Movie Car Database

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?make=Volkswagen&model=westfalia

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?make=Volkswagen&model=vanagon

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?make=volkswagen&model=caravelle

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?make=volkswagen&model=van

notice you can just change the last value in the uri and see many different results. This should keep you busy for weeks.

Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:36 am

watching a little boob tube http://www.nbc.com/Most_Outrageous_Moments and there was a guy that was skydiving and ran in to the side of the westy with the skydiving company name on it along with his face print.

Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:22 am

Not really a good sighting but a sighting nonetheless.

01:50 minutes into it.

Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:46 am

hiram6 wrote: The ABC show LOST has had a number of baywindow buses in multiple episodes, and in one of the last episodes of last season, there was a flashback scene where Charlie's band was fixing a flat tire on their late 80's Vanagon. The implication was that this ws their transportation as they toured all over the counrty playing concerrts.

Seems the producers have thing for VW van-types vehicles.

Love that show... I think the producers do have a thing for VWs. In a flashback when Ben's mom died, the people that pulled up to help them were driving a Karmann Ghia.