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finster
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| I can't see enough of the car in that scene to determine if its a 411 or 412, though with the lack of the bulges on the front of the hood for the headlights it could be a 412. |
looks like the chunky high level indicator of a 412 to me...
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Rome
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| Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2025 9:47 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc. |
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| You're absolutely right, finster. I should've picked up on that detail. |
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Fish
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| Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 9:53 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc. |
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| Da TOW'D wrote: |
Black right hand drive bug it must have Semaphore
drive in the desert for a picnic and out of gas
shaky dash on Empty
going to set up the picnic
must see interesting Australian movie |
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DaTow'd - must see interesting Australian movie
that's 'walkabout' (1971) starring jenny agutter - spoiler alert - it doesn't end well for the car...
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| Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:50 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc. |
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| Fish wrote: |
| Da TOW'D wrote: |
Black right hand drive bug it must have Semaphore
drive in the desert for a picnic and out of gas
shaky dash on Empty
going to set up the picnic
must see interesting Australian movie |
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DaTow'd - must see interesting Australian movie
that's 'walkabout' (1971) starring jenny agutter - spoiler alert - it doesn't end well for the car...
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I've seen ^^^THAT^^^ movie way back when I was a kid. Didn't quite understand WTF was going on but I can assure you, it didn't end well for anyone in it! 
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Rome
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| Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 3:18 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc. |
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| it didn't end well for anyone in it! |
Except for Jenny Agutter when she came back to movies a few years later in "Logan's Run".  |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:36 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc. |
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During the opening credits of the original "Beetlejuice" movie...
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Rome
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| Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 5:14 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc. |
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Composite photo of a '66 Karmann Ghia Cabrio (flat hubcaps, chrome trim on dash), German 1960's TV show "Strassenfeger: Die 5. Kolonne" ep. 20. Translated "street sweeper- the 5th convoy". The series was based on actual cases of German espionage. "KI" license plate is the city of Kiel in northern Germany.
Silver-blue lowlight Ghia Cabrio at a crowded city crosswalk, YouTube video "Frankfurt am Main 1954, 1959".
"Strassenfeger..." episode 12, with a Ghia Coupe parked in background and a Notchback in foreground.
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Rome
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| Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 5:22 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc. |
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Lowlight Karmann Ghia Coupes, YouTube video Put-in-Bay road races 1957. Put-in-Bay is a small island in Ohio at the southern end of Lake Erie, due east of Toledo. Road races were set up on some of the public roads for a few years in the late 1950's. Low-resolution video was likely based on an 8 mm film camera. This appears to be a parade lap of a specific vehicle class.
The gold Ghia Coupe seen above during the race, at a sharp corner where many of the other racers oversteered and hit the hay bales at right.
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Fish
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 1:30 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc. |
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Secrets of the Dead - Bombing Auschwitz S18 Ep2 On PBS.
Kubelwagen
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Rome
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 9:38 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc. |
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Type 4 sightings:
A road test of the freshly introduced 411 Sedan with full suspension droop after bumps in the test track, German TV show "Autotest VW 411" (1969) on YouTube.
Grey primered/silver faded 411 parked at left, movie "Cheech and Chong's next movie" (1980).
Silver-blue 412 parked, TV show "CHiPs" S1E1 pilot episode (1977). |
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Rome
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| Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 6:27 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc. |
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Just seen this morning on BBC News- "The travel show". Host Rob Bell joins a British Bay Window enthusiast to attempt driving a well-worn '72 Bay to Wolfsburg, Germany.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027hbt |
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Rome
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| Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 7:21 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc. |
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From the 1970's TV crime drama series "Police woman":
Grey early 1960's Ghia Coupe parked across the street, season 4.
Beige Ghia Coupe parked at right. Guest actress Patti Duke running. Episode "Nothing left to lose" season 1, 1975.
Lotus white (?) '67 Ghia Coupe in street, season 2- |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 8:50 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc. |
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^^ A plastic 1:1 scale version of an ACVW motor would be a cool display to have.
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finster
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| Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 9:52 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc. |
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dystopian mode of transport in the upcoming netflix cgi fest 'the electric state' starring crisp rat, millie blobby brown etc
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| Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2025 2:41 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc. |
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dystopian mode of transport in the upcoming netflix cgi fest 'the electric state' starring crisp rat, millie blobby brown etc
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I think i saw the trailer for that, and it doesn't end too well for the bus 
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Rome
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 10:37 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc. |
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TV show "Charlie's Angels" episode "Angel on a Roll", season 5 episode 14. Main guest character drives a red late Karmann Cabrio (Mars Red?). Angel Kris Munroe and John Bosley (Cheryl Ladd, David Doyle) watch him from across the street.
And in "Stuntwoman Angels" S5E12 1981. Likely is the same Cabrio from the above episode. |
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Rome
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 10:57 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc. |
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Movie "The Seven-Ups" (1973) filmed in New York City.
TV show "The bionic woman" episode "The Bionic Dog" S3E1 (1977).
TV show "Starsky and Hutch" from 1976 with Starsky's red Torino driving past on left. White Squareback in left background.
Junkyard scene near the end of the movie "Charley Varrick" (1973)- a '63 thru '66 Beetle Karmann Cabriolet per the rear window size and apron style. If the small horizontal "slot" in the apron is from the ripped off engine lid bolt-on latch, then it's a '65 or '66.
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