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Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:58 pm

This is a kinda rip-off of the posting “VW’s in Films”, on the general chat.
It could be interesting to post the sightings of Ghias that you guys have seen in ads or shows on TV or movies. I have a few:

Get smart: Maxwell Smart drives up at the beginning of the show in what looks to be a ’69 or under Ghia ‘vert.

The old sixties drama, "The Fugitive”.

The posthumous video of the Doors song “LA Woman” – a yellow fat ‘vert on the very last frames of the video.

Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:12 pm

two movies come to mind-

the rundown, starring the rock, ghia in the town square area
starsky and hutch, yellow ghia with a load of coke in it.

Thu Oct 21, 2004 5:12 pm

One of the better displays of a Ghia I have seen is in the made-for-TV movie "A Gathering of Old Men" (1987), also known as "Murder on the Bayou", based on Ernest J. Gaines' novel. available on VHS and DVD. Will Patton's character drives a yellow mid-to-late '60's coupe, which he parks near the scene of a standoff between a group of elderly armed Blacks and a White sheriff, played by Richard Widmark. The Ghia appears in the background in numerous shots. At one point Widmark suggests to Patton that Patton throw his uncooperative girlfriend, played by Holly Hunter, "into the back seat of your car." Patton's understated reply "Have you seen my car?" rings true to anyone who has sampled the trials of Ghia back seat transport. Even the diminuative Hunter (not much over 5 ft. tall) could not find much comfort there!

futhark

Thu Oct 21, 2004 5:16 pm

Kill Bill Vol 2 - Uma Thurman
Sneakers - Robert Redford
If You Could See What I Hear - Marc Singer (plays a blind man in the movie. He's driving a Ghia vert packed with people because, "He was the only one of us who is sober")
Better off Dead - John Cusack. Ghia has a flat and that's all we see in the movie.

Thu Oct 21, 2004 5:20 pm

Mike Meyers drove one in "So I Married An Axe Murderer"

Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:08 pm

I really like the ghia scene in Kill Bill 2, its just awesome, they really get a few good shots of the car and actualy do it justice. Best part in the whole damn movie!

Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:09 pm

There is a commercial running now where the wife drives up in her little blue Ghia and changes the flat tire on her husband's car.

Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:30 am

vic70vw wrote: There is a commercial running now where the wife drives up in her little blue Ghia and changes the flat tire on her husband's car.

Try reading this post in the following thread:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88948

Sat Oct 23, 2004 9:18 pm

Kramer on Seinfiled drove a vert durning a skit!

Wed Nov 03, 2004 4:10 pm

Was watching the original episode of the Dukes of Hazard and there was a blue early ghia in a junkyard scene. In the 3rd or 4th episode, Rosco sets up a road block and an early ghia vert and beetle go by. I should have remembered those from when I was about 10 years old watching it for the first time :)

Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:25 am

guenther, you may not remember the Ghia from age 10, but daisy duke was firmly implanted in your mind for sure.

Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:53 pm

True!!! =P~

Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:57 am

The girlfriend and I rented this movie at Hollywood video called, "City of God", it is a Brazilian movie with english subtitles about the slums of Rio. It was actually a decent movie but you have to actually sit and watch it (read too).

Anyway, the movie had a TON of VW's from police car bugs, buses and one of the getaway cars was a KG that they ran into a building. I was actually dreading it at first but I woke up when I started seeing all the VWs, then I got into the movie, it is fast paced and there are a lot of people you need to get to know but in all it was not bad.

Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:09 am

There is a white ghia on the street behind Jamie Lee Curtis :D in the opening scene of the ORIGINAL Halloween.

Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:01 pm

1964VW wrote: Kramer on Seinfiled drove a vert durning a skit!
I saw that episode last night! He drives it right through security gates.

Thu Nov 11, 2004 9:29 am

that snotty chick from "the haunting" had a red ghia i think.

Sun Nov 14, 2004 4:40 pm

Pretty In Pink, Molly Ringworm drives an early Ghia
Monkey Bone, Brandon Fraser crashes a Ghia into a lamp post
Love Potion No. 9, Ghia vert

Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:31 am

In the 1970 Mexican movie La Hermanita Dinamita ("The Dynamite Sister", or, in this case "The Dynamite Nurse"), Hilda Aguirre drives a red Ghia cabriolet. It must be a '67 or earlier because it has a curved shift lever. She thinks she runs over a boy in the street with it and goes to all kinds of comical lengths to help him in the hospital, posing as a novice nurse. Quite a few good views of the Ghia in the opening sequence. I bought the movie for my wife as part of a bargain grab bag of Spanish language DVDs on eBay and wouldn't know where to get it otherwise. Amazon does not list it.

futhark

Mon Nov 22, 2004 1:02 pm

Hi all. You could see a black ghia (70-71 I believe) rolling down the street in the very beginning of the movie "Swingers." A classic car for a classic movie.

Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:17 pm

"Anchorman". Has it's moments, but there's a scene where Will Ferrel is driving along with his dog in the car. The camera pulls back to show he's crossign a long bridge. There's a quick glimpse of a yellow Ghia (fatchick) in the background. Looks sweet.