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Sun May 04, 2014 4:26 am

Episode #9/ season 1- in the middle of "Rockford files" is a crashed split hippy painted bus being towed out of a store front with the offending "stoner hippies" sitting on the curb with the "mean nasty sheriff" talking to Rockford.

Sun May 04, 2014 9:17 pm

He should have had his seat belt on before the chase started! :wink:

ach60 wrote: Famous Green VW Beetle at 1:15

Mon May 05, 2014 1:14 pm

I wonder if that was the same green beetle they used in the original. Seems like they should have replaced it with a new beetle for this!

Mon May 05, 2014 4:21 pm

Is that beetle just coasting down the hill in neutral?

Wed May 14, 2014 10:05 am

If you were a teenager in the 80s you might remember the great flick "Rivers Edge" with Dennis Hopper, Keanu Reeves and Christian Slater. I was curious about the baja they used in that film and apparently they used more than one for whatever reason. One has small windows and aftermarket tail lights and the other large windows and tail lights and different wheels and other stuff.
http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/movie-car-mistakes-rivers-edge-edition-458398329

Tue Jun 03, 2014 7:59 pm

73BuzzBomb wrote: "Tin Men" with Richard Dryfus and Danny Devito. A very funny movie set in the early sixties, about aluminum siding salesmen. They all drive big Cadillacs but there are references to VW Beetles. Richard Dryfus' character is thinking about selling Beetles as a new career.

Watching it now, Dreyfuss & John Mahoney coming out of commission hearing walk past a black oval. Funny movie and great movie for car lovers. Dreyfuss' loaner Corvair looks fantastic next to all the Caddys.

Same oval cruises in front of Dreyfuss & DeVito near the end of the movie.

Mon Jun 09, 2014 11:25 am

World Cup Beetle- cool story

http://media.theage.com.au/sport/world-cup-2014/tw...63301.html

Tue Jun 10, 2014 10:20 am

Family Guy, Death crashes his into a cop car

Fri Jun 13, 2014 11:10 am

They use a VW Beetle in the kids movie Police Patrol, Alittle Police Beetle with special powers

Sat Jun 14, 2014 1:38 pm

Check out "the Source" documentary on Netflix, this cult bought some new Bays for transport, excellent footage. Love the Desert Sand Deluxe..so that is what my 69 looked like new (how far its fallen)

Mon Jun 16, 2014 5:41 pm

Law & Order Season 12 episode 3 Original Air Date 10.10.2001 "For Love or Money" opening scene to teens walk through a parking lot looking for their Dads car. Walk past an early white Baywindow.

Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:46 pm

We need some screen shots of these!! It's just not as much fun with just a description.... :bug_blue: :bug_green: :bug_orange: :bus_blue: :ghia_orange: :van_yellow:

Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:52 pm

There is a Grey Syncro in a current Tim Horton's ad on Canadian TV
Chill'n and Winnin'
catchy

Tue Jul 22, 2014 11:46 pm

The golf movie Tin Cup with Kevin Costner and Rene Russo. Late model beetle fitted with a ball retriever on the front and used as a range cart.

Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:56 am

Fish wrote: He should have had his seat belt on before the chase started! :wink:

ach60 wrote: Famous Green VW Beetle at 1:15

Pretty good homage to the original, but Steve McQueen she ain't!

The green beetle was too shiny, but it was just one of the few details they stuck into the piece. The taxis were in the same place and most of the maneuvres were the same. The shot of the Mustang reversing with the tire smoking didn't have the wheel hop of the original. They did wipe out a camera, though!

Oh, and the landing zones didn't have the oil splotches of the original where they tore out the oil pans on previous takes.

Wed Jul 23, 2014 8:15 am

Manfred58sc wrote: Check out "the Source" documentary on Netflix, this cult bought some new Bays for transport, excellent footage. Love the Desert Sand Deluxe..so that is what my 69 looked like new (how far its fallen)

The Source Family, actually.

On Coronation Street, Steve just bought a sweet splitty Westfalia RHD with safari windows for his cab business.

Wed Jul 23, 2014 10:17 am

I watched part of the documentary "Sound City" about the renowned Van Nuys sound studio of the '70s. In several exterior shots there was a Squareback parked in the slots by the door.

Of course, ANY TV or movie in the '70s had VWs galore. What would be odd is to find a movie or show that DIDN"T have a VW in a scene shot!

Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:08 pm

KTPhil wrote: Of course, ANY TV or movie in the '70s had VWs galore. What would be odd is to find a movie or shoe that DIDN"T have a VW in a scene shot!

What sometimes surprises me is that in movies shot well into the 90s, you'll still see 1960s VWs show up. I was watching the Clint Eastwood Gene Hackman movie "Absolute Power" (pretty crappy) and there's a scene towards the end in what looks to be the lower level of a parking garage - what's tucked in the corner - split bus, at least 30 years old. Even a 70s VW would have been cranking on 20-25 years old. So as an East Coaster, it is kind of amazing that a large number were still in regular use.

Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:49 pm

They're not documentaries. That old VW didn't just happen to be parked there when somebody wandered by with a movie camera. It was hired for the day and parked right there on purpose.

Which also happens to be one of my pet peeves concerning "period" films. No, we didn't all drive 23-window buses in perfect shape then.

Once, many years ago, two buses got hired for a TV pilot shot in San Francisco: mine and a beautifully restored Splitty. Mine, with its old paint and dents was used as a background. The other bus just had to drive by, because it was deemed "too nice" for the shoot. They liked mine, because they were mocking up a "hobo" camp and needed a crappy bus.

Mon Jul 28, 2014 11:12 pm

static wrote: ...Which also happens to be one of my pet peeves concerning "period" films. No, we didn't all drive 23-window buses in perfect shape then....

This isn't limited to VWs. Take any decade before the '70s and you'll be hard-pressed to find "ordinary" cars to dress a scene. Most every car is fully restored and has to remain that way.