Baywindow Busses in Movies

[notchboy]

There are two maybe 3 jacked up split bay versions used.
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[W1K1]

Green westy in the Bondsman season 1 episode 5
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1973 super 2110cc
1965 squareback 1500E-sold
1971 bay window westy- EJ2.5 subi swap

[vwwestyman]

Don't know if this one gets posted like the Libyan's Bus has been, but I noticed it tonight, while watching Back to the Future with my son.

(We recently got a Great Dane, and named her after Marty McFly. Yesterday, the local car museum unveiled a replica time-machine DeLorean and the whole fam, including our Marty McFly, went to see it.)

So today I decided to watch BTTF with Silas. And noticed this Bus early in the movie.

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Dave Cook

President, Wild Westerner Club

1978 Champagne Edition Westy, repowered to '97 Jetta TDI
1973 Wild Westerner
My Thing

[NASkeet]

On British television during late-April 2025 - Derry Girls, Series 3, Episode 4 of 7 - RHD VW Transporter T2 with Brazilian-style rear-hatch VW roundel badge and 1968~73 style Westfalia elevating roof & roof rack. Emblazoned on the side with Our Lady Immaculate College.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry_Girls

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry_Girls#Series_3_(2022)

https://www.vulture.com/article/derry-girls-season-3-episode-4-recap-the-haunting.html

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DerryGirlsS3E4

Originally broadcast on 3rd May 2022

« The gang are roped into clearing the house of a distant relative of Sister Michael who has just died. James is accidentally knocked out by the school van after its handbrake is left off. A storm sets in, and the girls try to cope with what they believe to be the previous inhabitants of the house haunting them and trying to force them out. »

« In the morning, James, who believes that he had a near-death experience while unconscious, tells Erin that he has liked her for a long time. The two kiss, much to the unhappiness of Michelle, who witnesses their private moment. »

« At home, it is ten years since Mary's mother died, and she attempts to contact her in the afterlife with the help of a local medium. Joe hopes the medium will allow his late wife to tell him where his favourite razor is. The medium appears to be fraudulent, but Joe finds the razor soon after. »
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Regards.

Nigel A. Skeet

Independent tutor (semi-retired) of mathematics, physics, technology & engineering for secondary, tertiary, further & higher education.

Much modified, RHD 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, with the World's only decent, cross-over-arm, SWF pantograph rear-window wiper

Onetime member, plus former Technical Editor & Editor of Transporter Talk magazine
Volkswagen Type 2 Owners' Club (Great Britain)

https://vwt2oc.co.uk

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[NASkeet]

I was recently watching on television, a rescreening of the 1987 British cinematic film (i.e. moving-pictures or movie in USA parlance!?!) "The Fourth Protocol", starring Michael Caine & Pierce Brosnan; based upon the novel of the same title, written by Frederick Forsythe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Protocol_(film)

The movie's theme is that of a rogue Russian KGB general sending agents to Great Britain, to install and detonate a thermo-nuclear bomb in a house adjacent to RAF Baywaters, a fictitious USAF base in Suffolk, England, which would be attributed to an on-base accident with tactical nuclear weapons stored there; discrediting the USAF and probably resulting in the withdrawl of American nuclear weapons from the United Kingdom.

Featured in the movie, was a blue 1973~79 VW Type 2 Kombi minibus, in which the Uranium and/or Plutonium fissile-material hollow-sphere & cylinder were brought overland to Great Britain, concealed inside innocuous looking containers.

https://www.whatsafterthemovie.com/movies/the-fourth-protocol/cars

RAF Baywaters, the fictitious name of the USAF base, sounds very similar to RAF Bentwaters, which was a USAF base in Suffolk, where General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark fighter-bombers were located, for which there were probably tactical nuclear weapons stored there! British "ban the bomb" protestors were shown outside the base's perimeter, reminiscent of protestors outside the base at RAF Greenham Common.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Bentwaters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Greenham_Common

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-111_Aardvark

In the late-1970s, I attended an air show at RAF Bentwaters, where I sat in the pilots' seats of a USAF McDonnel-Douglas F4 Phantom fighter and an F-111 fighter-bomber.

In a strange irony, there was a rescreening a few days later, of the two-part documentary television programme entitled "Broken Arrows - The Lost Bombs of the Cold War" on British Freeview Channel 84 - PBS America (proclaimed to be "America's most trusted broadcaster").

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/featur...d=82812444

This programme recounted several examples of THIRTY TWO major accidents with the thermo-nuclear bombs, carried by the USAF Strategic Air Command's B36, B47 & B52 bombers that overflew the USA, Canada, Greenland and various western European countries, which crashed in the USA (e.g. South Carolina), Greenland (i.e. near the Thule radar base) and Spain, during the 1950s & 1960s.

https://www.atomicarchive.com

https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/broken-arrows/index.html

Fortunately there were no nuclear detonations, but there was devastating radioactive Uranium & Plutonium (also extremely chemically-toxic) contamination of the surrounding terrain, which were inadequately dealt with (the words "botched", "incompetent" & "penny-pinching" come to mind!) and the residual contamination still poses a major hazard to the local populations of humans and wildlife.
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Regards.

Nigel A. Skeet

Independent tutor (semi-retired) of mathematics, physics, technology & engineering for secondary, tertiary, further & higher education.

Much modified, RHD 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, with the World's only decent, cross-over-arm, SWF pantograph rear-window wiper

Onetime member, plus former Technical Editor & Editor of Transporter Talk magazine
Volkswagen Type 2 Owners' Club (Great Britain)

https://vwt2oc.co.uk

[NASkeet]

In a television documentary series, entitled "Incredible Engineering Blunders: Fixed", first screened in August & September 2015, former aerospace engineer Justin Cunningham travelled the Globe looking at spectacular engineering blunders as well as the fixes and solutions that have been put in place. These were recently rescreened during August 2025 on the British television channel Quest - Freeview Channels 12 & 70.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12717446/

Justin Cunningham is seen in an orange & white, LHD, USA specification (fitted with side-marker reflectors / lights), 1971 model-year, VW 1600 Type 2 Kombi [British registration No. TNB 282J | J-suffix corresponds to the 1st August 1970 to 31st July 1971 registration-year], kitted out as a mobile office.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12719492/?ref_=tt_cst_epp_sm_1

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12722966/?ref_=tt_cst_epp_sm_2

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12728468/?ref_=tt_cst_epp_sm_3

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12744078/?ref_=tt_cst_epp_sm_4

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12753382/?ref_=tt_cst_epp_sm_5

Series 1 Episode 6 featured severely pot-holed roads in Louisiana; said to be the poorest engineered roads in the USA!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12755302/?ref_=ttep_ep_6

Episode #1.6 | Episode aired 22nd September 2015

Justin investigates gigantic potholes in Louisiana, Australia train track problems, an Italian highway tunnel fail and American tunnel boring machine fail, and then heads to London to get a look at London's huge Crossrail project.

Further investigation about the vehicle, with British registration number TNB 282J, reveals that it was manufactured in 1971 and in December 2016, was registered as being equipped with an AD-series, VW 1600 Type 1 style, twin-port air-cooled engine, of engine-number AD870640; which is a later engine than was factory-fitted to my 1973 model-year, VW 1600 Type 2 Kombi based Westfalia Continental motor-caravan, having engine-number AD617910.

https://www.carcheck.co.uk/volkswagen/TNB282J

https://www.gov.uk/get-vehicle-information-from-dvla

It appears that this vehicle was first registered (presumably in the USA or Canada) in January 1971, but was later re-registered with the United Kingdom DVLA - Driver & Vehicle Licencing Authority in February 2015.

At that time the colour was recorded as being BLUE, but if it was later repainted ORANGE & WHITE, as it was in the television documentary series first screened during August & September 2015, the change of colour should have been immediately notified to the DVLA; failure to do so being potentially subject to a fine. A replacement V5C registration document was issued in mid-December 2015, possibly owing to a change in the registered keeper's adddress or a change of registered keeper.
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Regards.

Nigel A. Skeet

Independent tutor (semi-retired) of mathematics, physics, technology & engineering for secondary, tertiary, further & higher education.

Much modified, RHD 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, with the World's only decent, cross-over-arm, SWF pantograph rear-window wiper

Onetime member, plus former Technical Editor & Editor of Transporter Talk magazine
Volkswagen Type 2 Owners' Club (Great Britain)

https://vwt2oc.co.uk