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jjvincent Samba Member
Joined: January 11, 2016 Posts: 1253 Location: Bethlehem, PA
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 6:18 am Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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First three are from Switzerland and the last is from Belgium.
77 Bombay Street:
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Stefanie Heinzmann:
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Non T2 but notable:
Stefanie Heinzmann: (This is where she finds a high top T3 in a barn, under a tarp, she uncovers it, finds the keys and it just fires right up. Fast forward to 15 seconds).
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Emma Bale w/ Lost Frequencies (It's a T1 Doka where she hitchhikes, she gets picked up and the ride in the back. Fast forward to about 40 seconds):
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Rome Samba Member
Joined: June 02, 2004 Posts: 9603 Location: Pearl River, NY
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2021 4:02 pm Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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"Charlie's Angels" TV show (1979) season 4, episode 8 named "The Prince and the Angel". Former Angel Jill Munroe (Farrah Fawcett) is being courted by a wealthy prince of a small European country (Leonard Mann) and takes her to a good restaurant. He offers to drive Jill home but does not have a car because during his visit to the USA he's usually driven by his country's bodyguards. The prince sees a high-end used car lot across the street and buys the orange Auburn Speedster (replica) on the spot. There's a yellow late Bay camper in the distance. The other cars in the front row are white Ford Pantera, orange 1966 Bizzarrini 5300 GT America , and silver Jaguar XKE 2+2 Coupe.
"Adam-12" TV show has TWO Bay windows parked across the street from the pizza shop where the Ofcs Malloy and Reed are questioning a witness. "Roll call" S7E4, 1974.
"Brannigan" (1975) movie filmed mostly in London, England. Chicago Police Lieutenant Jim Brannigan (John Wayne) is sent to the U.K. to escort organized crime boss Ben Larkin back to the U.S., but Larkin's hitmen prepare an ambush for Brannigan. His London-based police driver is Jennifer (Judy Geeson, familiar as one of the students in "To Sir with Love"). Many VWs are in the background. Brannigan commandeers a yellow Ford Capri Mk2 to follow a thug in his Jaguar S-Type sedan. They pass a white '71/'72 Bay window Bus as the Jag turns a sharp corner during the chase.
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61Ragster Samba Member
Joined: February 04, 2008 Posts: 263 Location: southern Orange Co., CA
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Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:38 pm Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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61Ragster Samba Member
Joined: February 04, 2008 Posts: 263 Location: southern Orange Co., CA
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Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:42 pm Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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I believe the '71/'72 just above is a '72. Note the slightly flared body at the bottom edge of the wheel arch - first introduced in model year '72. "Slight", as compared to the rear wheel arch, which is just a little bit more pronounced.
Esthetically a nice upgrade IMHO, likely adding a bit more rigidity there, as well as negligible degradation to aerodynamics below MACH I.
I imagine the German engineers already confirmed that way back in 1971. |
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Rome Samba Member
Joined: June 02, 2004 Posts: 9603 Location: Pearl River, NY
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Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:39 pm Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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I believe the '71/'72 just above is a '72. Note the slightly flared body at the bottom edge of the wheel arch - first introduced in model year '72. |
I never noticed that detail before, and checked the Archives as to Press Photos and Brochures (not indicative), and the Gallery. Photos of original '71 and '72 confirmed the difference with the arch on '72's. Thanks for pointing that out. |
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Fish Samba Member
Joined: December 05, 2000 Posts: 5538 Location: OB. It's beside the point.
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:59 am Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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The Goodbye Girl, 1977.
Very interesting paint job on this bus at an Auto Show.
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Rome Samba Member
Joined: June 02, 2004 Posts: 9603 Location: Pearl River, NY
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:53 am Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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From the "Charlie's Angels" TV show:
1, 2. Beige late Bay Window camper, "Catch a falling Angel", season 4 episode 16, 1980. Crewmember's bus at a movie set.
3. Red late Bay Window Deluxe, "Angels on Ice" S2E2, 1977. One of the Angels is on the back of the motorcycle.
4. Red '71 (or '72 if front wheelwell is flared) Bay Window camper. "Angels in Vegas" S3E1, 1978. Angel Kelly Garrett (Jaclyn Smith) is in the yellow Mustang II Coupe.
5. Brown late Bay Window at Los Angeles Int'l Airport. "Angels belong in Heaven" S3E11, 1978. Actor Lloyd Bochner as a hitman character.
6. Blue early Bay Window, per #5.
From "The Bionic Woman" TV show-
Green Bay Window in background of '69 Beetle, "The Bionic Dog" S3E1 1977.
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busdaddy Samba Member
Joined: February 12, 2004 Posts: 51057 Location: Surrey B.C. Canada, but thinking of Ukraine
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 8:43 am Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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Fish wrote: |
The Goodbye Girl, 1977.
Very interesting paint job on this bus at an Auto Show.
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Wow, that thing is tarted up to the nines!, murals, hub caps, looks like some sort of chrome on the windshield trim too. _________________ Rust NEVER sleeps and stock never goes out of style.
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Fish Samba Member
Joined: December 05, 2000 Posts: 5538 Location: OB. It's beside the point.
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 10:08 am Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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From another thread. I had forgoten about this thread. Screen shots from a short film clip of an Air Show with the Australian Air Force demonstrating their Boeing CH-47 Chinook. next to an air port bay window pulling a trailer pretending to be a medical transport.
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Rome Samba Member
Joined: June 02, 2004 Posts: 9603 Location: Pearl River, NY
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 7:01 pm Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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White late Bay deluxe in background of movie "Love and Bullets", 1979. Charles Bronson (playing Arizona Police Lieutenant Charlie Congers) is approached by the FBI to go to Switzerland and protect the girlfriend (played by Bronson's real-life wife Jill Ireland) of a US mob boss. They are in a red Peugeot 504 sedan, in line at the right ahead of the Beetle (arrow) to board the auto transport train in the village of Kandersteg, Switzerland which passes thru the Bernese Alps. |
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Rome Samba Member
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 7:07 pm Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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Blue late Bay in movie "48 Hrs" (1982), filmed in San Francisco, California. An orange 412 Sedan is parked in front of it. Police Inspector Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) is at right in the left foreground. |
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Rome Samba Member
Joined: June 02, 2004 Posts: 9603 Location: Pearl River, NY
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 7:17 pm Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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Dark red (Titian or Poppy) Deluxe, parked. "Stateline Motel", 1973 filmed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Movie "No Way Out" aka "Big Guns", 1973.
1. Yellow Deluxe/camper:
2. Ivory Van:
3. Blue single-cab pickup:
Blue early van "Battle of the Godfathers" 1973. Filmed in Hamburg, Germany. Car barely visible in left foreground was an early 1960's Mercedes-Benz sedan that was just blown up by a time bomb. |
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Rome Samba Member
Joined: June 02, 2004 Posts: 9603 Location: Pearl River, NY
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Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 4:28 am Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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Dark blue late Bay Window camper, British TV "Midsomer Murders" season 16 episode 1, 2013. Main actor Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) John Barnaby (Neil Dudgeon) arrives at a murder scene; the Bay is parked in the driveway, then in the village. IMDB lists the shop location as Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England.
White '73+ Bay Window camper, "F/X" 1986. Movie filmed in New York City. Spoiler alert: the old lady that was "run over" is a special effects dummy. |
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wagohn Samba Member
Joined: June 24, 2014 Posts: 740 Location: United States
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 12:52 pm Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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Wargames - 1983
As the kids leave the bus at the ferry terminal, Champagne edition bus in the background. Matthew is pointing at it here.
_________________ 1976 VW Transporter, 2.0 FI Engine |
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Rome Samba Member
Joined: June 02, 2004 Posts: 9603 Location: Pearl River, NY
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 4:36 pm Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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Movie "The Seven-Ups" (1973) filmed in New York City, with police detective Buddy (Roy Scheider) investigating who killed his partner. Chase sequence is superb, from which I took most of these screen shots. Many VWs being passed, or parked. Buddy chases the antagonists in his grey 1973 Pontiac Ventura (brand version of Chevy Nova) who are driving a "midnight blue"/ black 1973 Pontiac Grand Ville 4-door sedan. Baddies are Bo and Moon (played by actual stunt driver Bill Hickman who also drove the black Dodge Charger in the "Bullitt" car chase; and Richard Lynch). IMO Buddy's engine sound has been partially dubbed in from Bullitt's Mustang from that movie's car chase, complete with engine shifting pauses despite the Ventura being an automatic (!?).
Beige/white early Bay Window Deluxe parked along 10th Avenue, which is a northbound street.
TWO parked red Deluxe Bays as Bo turns northbound onto Riverside Drive which is on the west side of Manhattan. The crudely painted red Opel Kadett parked at left is about to have its driver's door torn off by Bo's Pontiac.
Beige/white Bay Window Deluxe parked on NB side of Riverside Drive. 3 Beetles in same shot. There appears to be a yellow/white Type 2 (prob. another Bay Window) parked that's visible in background of the city bus, but I could not get a screen shot of it.
Yet another beige/white early Bay Window Deluxe, parked on NB side of Riverside Drive.
Elsewhere in the movie, Bo and Moon hassle a character in the city. Yellow/white ~'71 Deluxe Bay Window in background. |
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wagohn Samba Member
Joined: June 24, 2014 Posts: 740 Location: United States
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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:38 pm Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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Watching Minions and......
_________________ 1976 VW Transporter, 2.0 FI Engine |
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Rome Samba Member
Joined: June 02, 2004 Posts: 9603 Location: Pearl River, NY
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Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2021 6:51 am Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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1971 movie "The French Connection" filmed in New York City, Washington, DC; and Marseille, France. Near the middle of the movie, the French drug magnate Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey) briefly travels to Washington, DC from New York City and stops at the National Mall. An L610 Delta Green Deluxe Bay is directly behind him. EverettB has an almost identical shot in his gallery, but I made some color adjustments to mine. The left side of the Washington Monument is in the right background.
In the chase segment in Brooklyn, New York where New York City Detective "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) commandeers a '71 Pontiac Lemans to follow his assassin fleeing in the elevated train ("el") on 86th Street, he passes by a parked-
Blue Bay panel van:
Arizona Yellow or Savannah Beige Bay window Deluxe: |
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wagohn Samba Member
Joined: June 24, 2014 Posts: 740 Location: United States
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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:23 am Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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Trailer for the upcoming Will Smith movie about the Williams sisters (tennis) appears to include the family driving around in a Transporter. What do you think?
See minute 2:01 here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKP_0z52ZAw _________________ 1976 VW Transporter, 2.0 FI Engine |
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panic_fan Samba Member
Joined: April 21, 2008 Posts: 711 Location: Mcdonough GA
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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 8:54 am Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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wagohn wrote: |
Trailer for the upcoming Will Smith movie about the Williams sisters (tennis) appears to include the family driving around in a Transporter. What do you think? |
Yep, you can see it in the background in a few shots. _________________ Rich
Brilliant Blue/Cloud White
1970 Baywindow Bus
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=291988&highlight=
"Still learnin the way around my VW bay"
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Rome Samba Member
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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:33 pm Post subject: Re: Bus movie sighting |
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Charles Bronson movie "The Stone Killer" (1973)- Bay parked at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) with the Theme Building prominent in background.
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