Bus movie sighting

[Rome]

"A Woman Under the Influence" (1974), starring Gena Rowlands (seen here walking on the street) and Peter Falk; filmed in Hollywood/Los Angeles, California.

[Rome]

Mid '70's Bay Window deluxe sunroof bus in "California Dreamin' " remake of The Mamas & The Papas song. YouTube video from the German-based group The New Love Generation, filmed approx. 2017. US-version bus with Berlin historic registration; colors appear to be Brilliant Orange (or Chrome Yellow?) with Pastel White.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ealu62wFVk

[Rome]

^ ^ By a large coincidence, here's another Bay window- camper, this time- used in another remake of "California Dreamin' " also from a Berlin, Germany based group Freischwimmer, a few years ago. Video has a yellowish tint which I could not fully compensate in Photoshop.

[Rome]

Orange Bay window camper, "Silver Streak" (1976). Scene takes place near the end of the movie as the runaway train approaches the Chicago, Illinois main train station; but the hills in background are inconsistent with that city. IMDB filming location indicates 2 locations in Canada.

[Rome]

Some sightings in the 2019 movie "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood". Back of a Bay window seen through windows of main character Cliff Booth's (Brad Pitt) yellow '66 Cadillac Coupe DeVille. Booth pulls over to talk to Pussycat (Margaret Qualley) whom he offers a ride.

As they are driving, there are 2 red early Bays in background- likely the very same bus, parked at different locations during the different shot sequences.

Another Bay in the parking lot, with a taped-over sunroof seam. Movie takes place in 1969 but the Super Beetle is a '73. First spotted by notchboy in 2019. The red Ferrari GT Spider is likely a replica similar to that from the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".

[creative native]

A Bus passing by in the Hulu series about the Sex Pistols. It appears to possibly be a '71 camper (a Dormobile, I believe), but repainted an unoriginal blue color.

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"The holy land is everywhere." ~ Black Elk
1979 Westfalia P27, California FI emissions spec. 100% VW fleet: '79 Westfalia, 2013 Touareg Lux (Toffee Brown/Cornsilk Beige), 2005 Passat GLX.

[creative native]

Another Bus sighting in the Hulu Sex Pistols series. It appears to be another Dormobile.
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"The holy land is everywhere." ~ Black Elk
1979 Westfalia P27, California FI emissions spec. 100% VW fleet: '79 Westfalia, 2013 Touareg Lux (Toffee Brown/Cornsilk Beige), 2005 Passat GLX.

[Rome]

Green Bay camper, "The Blues Brothers" (1980) during the long police car chase in Chicago.

Savannah Beige early Deluxe Bay parked, movie "Lone Wolf McQuade" (1983) with Chuck Norris playing the main character Texas Ranger hanging onto the pickup truck.

2 Bay campers parked at right background, movie "Over the Top" (1987) starring Sylvester Stallone. He is driving the red Semi truck crashing into the gold El Lobo dune buggy. In another shot of this scene, the Buses are parked at Hannig's Foreign Car Repair shop. IMDB does not specify the city.

[sodbuster]

[Fish]

[creative native]

As seen in the movie "Blow." It appears to be a '78 or '79.

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"The holy land is everywhere." ~ Black Elk
1979 Westfalia P27, California FI emissions spec. 100% VW fleet: '79 Westfalia, 2013 Touareg Lux (Toffee Brown/Cornsilk Beige), 2005 Passat GLX.

[creative native]

Seen in the series "Further Tales of the City." This scene takes place in Alaska. From the front (but blurry) view, it appears to be a '68-'69 Bay Window hard top camper painted black.

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"The holy land is everywhere." ~ Black Elk
1979 Westfalia P27, California FI emissions spec. 100% VW fleet: '79 Westfalia, 2013 Touareg Lux (Toffee Brown/Cornsilk Beige), 2005 Passat GLX.

[TDCTDI]

I saw mention of it but didn’t find a pic, here’s a bus sighting from a Turo ad.

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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.

[creative native]

As seen in the miniseries "The Offer." The series takes place in mostly Hollywood/southern CA in the early 70's. There were many VWs to be seen.

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"The holy land is everywhere." ~ Black Elk
1979 Westfalia P27, California FI emissions spec. 100% VW fleet: '79 Westfalia, 2013 Touareg Lux (Toffee Brown/Cornsilk Beige), 2005 Passat GLX.

[panic_fan]

[creative native]

I notice this so often in movies that are supposed to be era-specific and they feature a VW that is years beyond. I believe non-VW people just see an "old" VW and automatically have a time frame in mind. When I had my '86 Vanagon Westfalia, oftentimes people would say "I love your hippie van!" and I'd respond, "In 1986, it was less flower and more power." Other times, people would just assume it was a '70's model.
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"The holy land is everywhere." ~ Black Elk
1979 Westfalia P27, California FI emissions spec. 100% VW fleet: '79 Westfalia, 2013 Touareg Lux (Toffee Brown/Cornsilk Beige), 2005 Passat GLX.

[Rome]

[blue72beetle]

Beginning of The Goonies, 71 or 72 Elm Green.

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-Andy-
-1970 Ghia-
-1971 Bus 1776 Microsquirt EFI-

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German movie "Die lustigen 4 von der Tankstelle" (the four funny ones from the gas station), 1972, filmed in Austria. Blue ~'71 Bay van in background. Pretty gal in orange dress is main character, played by Uschi Glas.

Ivory double cab in background. The popular gasoline brand ARAL stands for aromatic and aliphatic.

Ivory van driving past on highway in background.

Ivory single cab work truck parked on left, with a DC at far right.

[danfromsyr]

does a spotting in the news count?

see the 10sec moment.. and the poor VW is never given a look by snatch & grab thieves.


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