Type 3's in movies and on T.V.

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Pale yellow Type 3 (can't determine the body style), TV show "Police Story" season 1 episode 3 "The ten year honeymoon" (1973).

Yellow late Squareback at airport parking lot, South African movie "Die Rebel" (1976).

Red late '60's Squareback in right background, movie "Rote Sonne" (1970). Filmed in Berlin (West) Germany.

Also from Rote Sonne- Rear of a blue-green early Squareback. Is that a Type 34 Ghia just to the left of the man in background?!

[EverettB]

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Rear of a late '60's Notchback in the right lane of a bridge, German documentary "German terrorism The red army faction" (1977).

Ivory early Type 3 (can't see the rest of the body to determine the model) parked behind an Alfa Romeo GTV Coupe; movie "The Baader Meinhof Complex" (2008).

Back of a blue '67 Squareback in driveway, movie "Melvin and Howard" (1980).

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Ivory early Squareback parked in background, TV show "Dragnet" S2E6 "The big Frustration" (1967).

Light blue '66 Squareback driving away from a police roadblock, movie "They call me MISTER Tibbs!" (1970).

Beige ~'67 Type 3 (can't determine body style) parked in background, movie "Dolemite" (1974).

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YouTube "Stockholm" (1967)-

Composite of ivory '66 Squareback, movie "Diamonds" (1975).

Ivory or light blue early Squareback, South African movie "Mooimimeisisfontein" (1978).

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Dark late Squareback parked at right, movie "Scream Blacula, Scream" (1973). The black splotch in the center is the vampire bat in flight.

Yellow late Fastback, movie "Between the lines" (1977). Michael J. Pollard in foreground. Filmed in Boston, Massachusetts.

Red early Notchback parked in background, movie "The master touch" (1974). Filmed in Hamburg, Germany. There's an old Auto Union on the roof of the light blue Opel Commodore sedan which fell onto it from a side impact to an adjacent car transporter just before this scene.

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Composite photo of 2 late '60's Squarebacks at the same intersection, movie "Zabriskie Point" (1970). The upper photo has a fiberglass "Muffler man" statue at the business.

Composite photo of a beige/tan Squareback parked in right background, movie "Good guys wear black" (1978). Looks like it has fiberglass engine air vent scoops.

Ivory early Squareback in parking lot, South African movie "Kniediep" (1975).

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Black Type 34 Ghia parked, British TV series "The Saint" season 5 episode 12 "Locate and Destroy" (1966). Set in Lima, Peru.

Orange late Squareback in background of Insp. Steve Keller (Michael Douglas), TV show "The streets of San Francisco" season 3 episode 12 "License to Kill", 1974.

From the same episode-

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Beige early Squareback parked, TV show "T.J. Hooker", season 3 episode 10 "Blue Murder" (1983).

Beige late Squareback, mid '70's TV show "Police Story". Episode not recorded.

Blue late Squareback in San Francisco urban traffic, TV Mystery Movie "McMillan and Wife" episode "Love is a 7-point Favorite" season 1 episode 4 (1971). Main character Police Commissioner Stewart McMillan (Rock Hudson) walking past.

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Squareback parked, in background of 2 Beetles. Movie "The first time" (1969). Filmed in Buffalo, New York near the Niagara Falls.

Ivory pre-'70 Fastback driving past in background, movie "Blind Rage" (1976). Blue sports car in foreground is Ferrari Dino.

White early Squareback parked in background, movie "Big Time" (1977).

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Squareback in background on freeway behind main character Joe Don Baker, movie "Mitchell" (1975).

White Squareback on highway in center of the shot, movie "The Organization" (1971).

A similar scene, movie "Zero to Sixty" (1980).

Back to "The Organization"- Light blue Squareback parked. Driver is actor Raul Julia.

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Two-toned Squareback, likely an S; German movie "Der Unfall" (1969, translated The accident). Car in foreground is a 1960's BMW 1500-1800-2000 4-door sedan.

Early Squareback parked in background, movie "Luv" (1967). The red '66 Beetle is being driven by main character actor Peter Falk; it is his wife's car.

Composite photo of red early Squareback parked in background, 1974 movie "Beyond the Door".

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Dark '68/'69 Squareback, movie "The American Dreamer" (1971). Man in foreground keeps walking, stripping off all his clothes on the street.

Orange late Fastback behind the large UPS truck, National Safety Council 1970s driver's training film "The Iron Graveyard".

German 1970's crime drama TV show "Der Alte", episode "Der schoene Alex".

Orange late Squareback parked, TV show pilot episode "Tenspeed and Brown Shoe" (1980).

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Red Squareback and ivory Fastback in parking lot, movie "The Organization" (1971).

Ivory early Squareback parked at left, TV show "Highway to heaven" season 4 episode 12 "With love, the Claus" (1987).

Light blue late '60's Squareback passing by in background, movie "The death squad" (1974). Actor Claude Akins driving.

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TV show "Hawaii Five-O" season 3 episode 21, "Dear Enemy" 1971.

Beige late Squareback in traffic, TV show "Tenspeed and Brown Shoe" episode 8 "Jailbird" (1980).

Ivory early Squareback in background, German movie "Ein ganz gewoehnlicher Mord" (1973), translated A very common murder.

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TV show "The Persuaders!" episode 2 "The gold Napolean" (1973). Main characters Roger Moore and Tony Curtis attempting to hitch a ride at a national border crossing.

Notchback or Squareback, from same episode:

At a gas station, "The Persuaders!" ep. 5 "Powerswitch" (1973). Mr. Moore wearing the blue blazer.

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German TV crime drama show "Der Alte" episode "Die Rache" (1978; translated "the revenge")- blue late '60's Squareback driving off.

Then it gets run off the road-

Composite photo of pale yellow late Fastback in parking lot, 1980's TV show "TJ Hooker". Episode not recorded.

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Our Samba Fastback friend KTPhil will likely comment on this shot, as he lives nearby and knows the area very well. A Fastback is parked in background, movie "Up in smoke" (1978). Main characters Cheech & Chong are parked on the curb in front of the Malibu Colony shopping plaza in California, facing east along Pacific Coast Highway (US 1). GoogleMaps shows a Ralph's supermarket at the far end now. The uphill in background goes up to Malibu Canyon Rd and Pepperdine Univ. I've passed by this location dozens of times in the '90's thru '10's on business to the Oxnard area.

White early Squareback in foreground, screen shot from one of the songs "Up where the air is thin" in movie "The cool ones" (1967). Bonus Porsche 356 Coupe behind it.

Red late Squareback merging in from the left during the opening credits, movie "A warm December" (1973). Washington D.C's US capital building dome in background.

[EverettB]

I'm impressed you saw that Fastback since there's a pole there blocking it
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[KTPhil]

Oh yeah, lots of nostalgia in these, thanks!

PCH in Malibu sure has grown! Oh, for the days of a lonely car with surfboards on the roof tooling along... now that area is a friggin' zoo!

And as for the second photo... that's the old Valley Music Theater! This super modern architecture gem was built in '63 on Chalk Hill in Woodland Hills.

It was a "theatre in the round" revolving stage and had some impressive acts in it's day. It later became a meeting hall for Jehovia's Witnesses, and more recently was demolished and condos are in its place... so Los Angeles of them!

https://losangelestheatres.blogspot.com/2024/07/valley-music-theatre.html

I saw Peter Pan with Mary Martin, which included a high-wire fly-in right over the crowd!

My older brother saw a show featuring the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and The Doors, and Iron Butterfly! In the Valley in the early '60s, back when it was mostly farms, orchards, and ranches! BB King, in the middle of white bread 'burb valley, OMG!

Then known as Cassius Clay, Mohammed Ali fought there several times.

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Current Fleet:
- '71 Fastback
- '69 Westfalia
Retired:
- '67 Beetle
- '65 Beetle (x2)
- '65 Bus
- '71 Squareback