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Fish Samba Member
Joined: December 05, 2000 Posts: 5538 Location: OB. It's beside the point.
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empi3 Samba Member
Joined: October 03, 2015 Posts: 346 Location: SW Wyoming
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:42 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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From the British series Prime Suspect
Steven _________________ The fact someone posts a thousand messages a month does not mean the messages contain anything worth reading.
Bob Hoover
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esde Samba Member
Joined: October 20, 2007 Posts: 5927 Location: central rust belt
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 5:48 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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Was just watching the trailer for the movie "Don't worry, he won't get far on foot" and saw the upside down beetle. The movie opens tomorrow at the 2018 Sundance film festival. Looks great, excellent John Lennon song in the opening soundtrack
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Bent cranks are silent but gather no moss. I mean, ah, something like that. |
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empi3 Samba Member
Joined: October 03, 2015 Posts: 346 Location: SW Wyoming
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:36 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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From the movie Mustang Island
Steven _________________ The fact someone posts a thousand messages a month does not mean the messages contain anything worth reading.
Bob Hoover
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EverettB Administrator
Joined: April 11, 2000 Posts: 69734 Location: Phoenix Metro
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sb001 Samba Member
Joined: May 19, 2011 Posts: 10399 Location: NW Arkansas
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 11:20 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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The Hitcher, 1986:
"What do you want??"
(Laughing) "That's what the other guy said."
"What other guy?"
"The guy driving that car back there. The guy who picked me up before you did."
"Was that him in the car?"
"Sure it was. He couldn't have walked very far."
"Why's that?"
"Because I cut off his legs... and his arms... and his head. And, I'm gonna do the same to you."
_________________ I'm the humblest guy on this board.
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empi3 Samba Member
Joined: October 03, 2015 Posts: 346 Location: SW Wyoming
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 7:19 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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From the '78 movie Coming Home with Voight and Fonda. It also had a bunch of beetles and porsches.
Steven _________________ The fact someone posts a thousand messages a month does not mean the messages contain anything worth reading.
Bob Hoover
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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: Fri Feb 09, 2018 7:37 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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My man..... Oscar The Grouch.
Chrysler Pacifica Commercial.
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_________________ aka Ken {o\!/o}
Its your vehicle- stop askin' for approval-do what YOU like for cryin' out loud
Better to roll em' how you want and wear em' out-than lettin' em' rot out
Its about the going not the showing
Rebuilt to drive not decorate
WANTED: Local Eatin' Joints, Triple D for TheSamba contributions here http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=570510
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KTPhil Samba Member
Joined: April 06, 2006 Posts: 33883 Location: Conejo Valley, CA
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 10:08 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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In addition to the Abbey Road cover, there is another Beetle/Beatle connection, in the opening credits of A Hard Day's Night, parked at the right.
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Rome Samba Member
Joined: June 02, 2004 Posts: 9603 Location: Pearl River, NY
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 10:30 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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Hard to believe this movie was not mentioned yet- The yellow '72 Super Beetle Karmann Cabriolet in "The Groove Tube", c 1974; starting at approx. 5 1/2 minutes. Although the highway looks to be the Palisades Parkway on the west side of the Hudson River in northern NJ just before the NY border, it could also be the Taconic Parkway in NY.
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EverettB Administrator
Joined: April 11, 2000 Posts: 69734 Location: Phoenix Metro
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Fish Samba Member
Joined: December 05, 2000 Posts: 5538 Location: OB. It's beside the point.
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Cusser Samba Member
Joined: October 02, 2006 Posts: 31271 Location: Hot Arizona
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 10:53 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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Likely this has been mentioned before, but I just saw this film tonight: 10 to Midnight (1983) starring Charles Bronson.
The serial killer drove a 1973 Super Beetle sedan, blue, in nice shape. This was in quite a few scenes. _________________ 1970 VW (owned since 1972) and 1971 VW Convertible (owned since 1976), second owner of each. The '71 now has the 1835 engine, swapped from the '70. Second owner of each. 1988 Mazda B2200 truck, 1998 Frontier, 2014 Yukon, 2004 Frontier King Cab. All manual transmission except for the Yukon. http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=335294 http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=335297 |
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KTPhil Samba Member
Joined: April 06, 2006 Posts: 33883 Location: Conejo Valley, CA
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2018 12:26 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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Jeopardy "answer" a couple of days ago:
The contestant gave the possibly incorrect response: "What is Volkswagen?"
As many of you know, "volkswagen" (uncapitalized) was a common description of several cars intended to be cheap. It was not unique to the VW we know and love.
At that time, the car itself was known as the KdF-Wagen. The name Volkswagen came later, in the early 1940s.
I was hoping the contestant was a VW nut and would have answered "KdF-Wagen" and correct Mr. "always right" Trebeck!
The factory cornerstone was laid in May of 1938, so the "company" may have predated it, back into 1937..
Wiki states:
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"On May 28, 1937, Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH ("Company for the Preparation of the German Volkswagen Ltd."), or Gezuvor for short, was established by the Deutsche Arbeitsfront in Berlin. More than a year later, on September 16, 1938, it was renamed to Volkswagenwerk GmbH," |
so maybe the term "Volkswagen" was truly used.
However, the same article states:
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"By 1946, the factory produced 1,000 cars a month—a remarkable feat considering it was still in disrepair. Owing to roof and window damage, production had to stop when it rained, and the company had to barter new vehicles for steel for production.[citation needed]
The car and its town changed their Second World War-era names to "Volkswagen" and "Wolfsburg" respectively, and production increased." |
Jalopnik is not always 100% correct, but they state:
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The Company
So how about the Volkswagen company itself, the company you can buy cars from to this day — wasn’t that created by the Nazis, at least? The answer? No, not really.
See, when Hitler decided he wanted a people’s car (not his idea), and got Porsche to design it (basing it heavily on the ideas of others), he needed a factory to build it and an organization to run it. The organization was called Kraft durch Freude which sounds scary in German but is even creepier in English: Strength-through-Joy.
Kraft durch Freude (KdF) was the German leisure organization, organizing tourist trips and resorts and probably prostitutes, if you knew who to ask. The people’s car was seen as a way to improve the quality of life of German citizens, and so the car was renamed the KdF-Wagen and a savings-stamp scheme was started to let people save up for a car.
A whole town was built, called Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben, which means, “City of the KdF Car at Fallersleben.” |
and they have this photo:
translation: "The first KdF cars manufactured in the Volkswagenwerk" |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12816 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2018 7:16 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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Bus likeness on animated film “Planet 51”.
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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scottyrocks Samba Member
Joined: August 19, 2016 Posts: 2645 Location: Long Island, NY
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:56 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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I wonder if Disney had to secure rights to plaster that big VW symbol on-screen.
That 'vehicle' was a creation, not a regular car. _________________ “If you care for a thing long enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn't it? Mending old things, preserving them, looking after them – on some level there's no rational grounds for it.”
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12816 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2018 11:08 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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scottyrocks wrote: |
I wonder if Disney had to secure rights to plaster that big VW symbol on-screen.
That 'vehicle' was a creation, not a regular car. |
ABSOLUTELY! The emblem is clearly displayed. And VW was in the list of manufacturers in the credits. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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empi3 Samba Member
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 9:16 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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Torchwood S:1 E:3
Steven _________________ The fact someone posts a thousand messages a month does not mean the messages contain anything worth reading.
Bob Hoover
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jwold Samba Member
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 3:56 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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Not sure if it's been posted (I did do a search on this topic) but at the beginning of the Star Trek episode "Patterns of Force" where the planet has adopted the Nazi political system, there's a VW Kubelwagon that drives away from the headquarters. Perhaps it's just a spanking new VW Thing, this episode was from 68, first year of production. Product placement perhaps? |
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static Samba Member
Joined: March 22, 2002 Posts: 1830 Location: The High Desert
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:07 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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A hit Spanish comedy featuring a nice bus. In Spanish. No subtitles available yet. Out on DVD.
Señor, Dame Paciencia - Tráiler
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