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srfndoc
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Recently saw the movie "Drift", its a new movie but still good
anyone have a better idea what year it is? |
Australian bus with the funky vents up high.
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OK, I did a search in this thread "dark shadows" and got nothing. Dark Shadows by Tim Burton, with Johny Depp, Michelle Pfiefer, et.al.
I just watched the movie and in an early scene the Victoria character hitches a ride with a bunch of hippies in a deluxe hardtop that has a small pop-top, (sorry i'm not up on all the westy models and such). So they drive along in it for a couple scenes, inside shots, faces in the passenger slide window and in the front seat. Then later there is a party at the Collins mansion and there is a spitty parked in the circular drive near the front door.
Only problem with these sightings... you gotta watch this bad movie. The busses where the high part of it.
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66 squareback
59 logoed standard bus Orangevale Baptist Church
58 PG/SG sunroof /safari standard
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KOMBI NIKO
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madcitymcflyer
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| Just saw a JFK tribute special "Letters to Jackie" we DVR'ed November 17, 2013 showing newsreel footage of the Kennedy family just prior to the assassination, at about 0:59 into the two hour special. Shows family stepping out of a limo and walking up a sidewalk, toward the camera. Kombi parked in background lot, left rear side visible, shows up clearly. |
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mandraks
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just found this one on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3u_294obMQ
pretty much every VW available in the 50s, tons of other interesting 50s cars. notably a BMW 503, for the ones who have never seen one and probably never get to touch one in real life.
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revho
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| Somehow...I think I learned something from that video... |
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floyd1969
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| Yeah that is a good vid, I like the guy 2.03 in shouting back at the police , and is that a Gullwing Merc that races past the Beetle on the autobahn near the end? Funny! |
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CaLiBus
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| We should go back to using those same finger gestures to the head . |
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mandraks
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| We should go back to using those same finger gestures to the head . |
we still do  just not here in Georgia... gets one shot in a heartbeat
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Roscoe
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Awesome. This one has all the early german auto manufacturers. Even early barndoors driving approx. 8:15 http://youtu.be/mx0Yh1Mjxqg
New movie coming out in Feb. The Monument Men has Bill Murray and George Clooney driving all over in a Kubelwagen. |
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Shoyrtt
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| Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 5:52 pm Post subject: Re: Magic Trip |
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Archival footage remastered into documentary on the film that was made, never released of the "Further" bus cross country trip... Kesey and the Merry Pranksters crossing the US. Neat shot of a split driving behind and alongside somewhere between San Jose and LA. Pretty neat footage.
Oh yeah, the movie is Magic Trip. |
I watched this movie last night. Filmed in 1964 it actually has two split window buses. The aforementioned Dove Blue, bullet nose bus on a California road (about 20:50 min in) and near the end of the movie (about 74:25 min in) there is a 23 window at a mansion in Millbrook, New York. Pretty wild movie if you want to check it out on Netflix or this link: http://viooz.co/movies/1271-magic-trip-2011.html
And the screen shots:
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Hi
I owned and restored probably 15 years ago an old 61 bus that was in a mel gibson movie Man without a face I think it was called was in a last scene, I sold it to a guy with my 55 semi beetle to a guy in st petes florida would love to know if its still there she was sealing wax red but couldn't match then so went mango green bug was black anyone seen them there let me know |
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otis_bartleh
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| Caught a new to me movie on usa last night. Pirate Radio has a quick glimpse of a green split westy about 50mins in. Awesome soundtrack too (for those of us old enough to remember the sixties). |
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twistedbug
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:41 am Post subject: 1961 The big show |
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| split panel in the first minute of the movie, couldn't watch the rest of the movie to boring |
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twistedbug
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| Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:48 pm Post subject: the lady killers |
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| 2004 Movie with tom hanks, mountain girl was driving a fried egg bus with truck mirrors |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 8:54 pm Post subject: Cloud Atlas |
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Cloud Atlas. Strange good movie, though too long. At 2:10 a splitty drives by after a scene with Halle Berry. She drives a bug earlier in the movie.
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60 23 wndo deluxe safari microbus https://youtu.be/anajRR57nPI
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59 bug
63 kombi w/ SO-22 westy
66 squareback
59 logoed standard bus Orangevale Baptist Church
58 PG/SG sunroof /safari standard
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suebug
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Split bus parked in opening scene of NEW movie, "Grand Budapest Hotel". Last Wes Anderson movie, "Moonrise Kingdom", had a '67 Beetle in a movie taking place in '65.
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Jung Restoration
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I was in the local Ship it 4 You place last week sending out a split bus bulkhead section and starting chatting with a guy that was in front of me. He was curious as to what was in the large box, so naturally I told him what it was and my passion for old VW buses. The guy in front of him in line turns around a few times to check us out and to listen in to our conversation. After a few more minutes he turns around again and says "I used to have one of those old buses. Remember the movie Alice's Restaurant? Well, I was working on the set at the time and they had 2 or 3 extra buses around in case something happened during the shooting. After the film wrapped up, I ended up buying one for like $800 and used it quite often. It even had the logo on the front door, etc..I used to have people wave to me all the time" He also stated that he was recently approached by one of the auction houses to see if he still had it and wanted to sell, but he no longer owns it.
Pretty cool start to my day!
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