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Evil Clown Live
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Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2020 11:47 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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From Cali fires thread _________________ CARRY ON
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kiss my airy VW ass |
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German word for constapation:
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Chinese word for constipation:
Hung Chow Chow.. & it was GR8! |
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Rome Samba Member
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Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2020 4:03 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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I remember watching "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" on TV in the late 1960's with my parents. Regular cast member "sad faced" Pat Paulsen had a new Beetle on the studio floor, which he started bashing the front fender with a sledge hammer. I can't remember what the "skit" was about. My dad shouted at the TV in anger, since he worked for VW of America and saw this as a senseless attack. Surprising that the one brother/show host Dick Smothers would condone this, since he was an amateur race driver and probably had considerable "respect" for automobiles. |
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René R. Samba Member
Joined: July 06, 2015 Posts: 1711 Location: No. Calif.
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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:25 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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I hadn't heard of that (though I was a fan of the Smothers Brothers back in the day) so I looked it up. It turns out this was on the "Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour" show, which was a spin-off of the Smothers Brothers. The original SB Comedy Hour ended in June 1969. The Pat Paulsen VW episode aired on Feb. 26, 1970. (It's available on IMDb.) It is definitely not funny, even overlooking the callous damage to a new 1970 VW. The premise was testing three different sledge hammers to determine which was best -- sort of a Consumer Reports takeoff.
Pat Paulsen's star faded after the original Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour went off the air. I can see why. This wasn't the only unfunny skit on the show.
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Rome Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 5:15 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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Good researching, Rene. Yeah, it hurts to see this done on an obviously very new Beetle. A neglected one would've been sufficient "if" he wanted to bash the brand. Maybe he could relate to the "droopy" front appearance of the Beetle that reminded of his own face.
License plate appears to have "DLR" stacked letters on the left, or "1 _(letter)". Would indicate a temporary dealer plate. The large blank space between the left stacked characters and the 4 numbers could be another set of small stacked letters or numbers that have been covered with black electrical tape...
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Rome Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:11 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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Early 1960's Ghia Coupe in the NASA Cape Kennedy, Florida parking lot in the mid 1960's TV show "I Dream of Jeannie". This scene is often shown to set the location. Tony Nelson's (actor Larry Hagman) blue GTO convertible is driving in from the left. The airplane on the pedestal appears to be the rocket-powered Bell X-1E (confirmed in Wikipedia). |
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finster Samba Member
Joined: May 26, 2012 Posts: 7946 Location: north o' the border
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2020 1:08 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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pick-up in the film avanti!
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Rome Samba Member
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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2020 11:19 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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VW engine in the French entry in movie "Those Magnificent men in their Flying Machines" (1965). In this adventure-comedy movie about an international race to be the first to fly over the English Channel, I remember clearly seeing the stamped metal valve covers and the single-port intake manifold in the plane's "in-flight" scenes. Now I found some still publicity shots. This cab-underslung plane design was a replica of the French plane "Demoiselle" originally built and flown by Alberto Santos-Dumont. in the movie the pilot is named Pierre Dubois, played by Parisian actor Jean-Pierre Caselle.
The engine appears to be a 1300 cc or larger single-port as seen by the inward/downward curve of the intake manifold above the head. Possibly a Type 3 1500 cc single carb engine, due to the carburetor lying flat instead of a Type 1 1200 engine with its upright carb? The 1300 Type 1 engine was not introduced until August 1965.
IMDB "Trivia" writes that the plane could not leave the ground with the original pilot, so the pilot Joan Hughes was hired to fly.
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2020 8:32 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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finster wrote: |
pick-up in the film avanti!
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finster Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2020 7:54 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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acción! romance! acrobacias espectaculares! el hombre de la ametralladora!!1961
yes that is a helicopter just above the bus! ay, caramba!
see more in the trailer here
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2020 12:31 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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FBI agent Bert Lancaster and his love interest Gal getting plugged in and by Scorpio
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2020 2:06 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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"Charlie's Angels", 1981 episode "Hula Angels". Takes place in Honolulu, Hawaii. The antagonist Stacy Parrish (Joanna Cassidy) is monitoring the ransom money drop-off in her '79 Super Beetle Cabriolet. Color appears to be K6V River Blue metallic, though at the end of the car chase the color looks much more like 97B Ancona metallic which was not offered for '79, but for '78. In the background on the other side of the street is a white 1960's Ghia Coupe, and a blue 411 Sedan .
Angel Kelly Garrett (Jaclyn Smith) was riding a pedal ricksha and nearly catches up as Stacy and her accomplice Amy (Patch Mackenzie) quickly leave. The other 2 angels (Kris Munroe, Julie Rogers) along with Bosley commandeer the white truck and give chase. The VW is not damaged during the chase.
During this sharp left turn into the warehouse where the hostages are being held, you can briefly see the left rear tire standing still, indicating a handbrake-assisted turn. The left front wheel appears dirtier than during the other shots, supporting the idea of a different car.
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Zundfolge1432 Samba Member
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Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 8:33 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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Here’s Elvis’s 14 year old girlfriend Later his wife leaving Germany. Somehow this was ok for a 20 something year old man but when Jerry Lee Lewis did it that ruined his career. People really liked Elvis. Oh and don’t miss the trucks at the airport.
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Fish Samba Member
Joined: December 05, 2000 Posts: 5563 Location: OB. It's beside the point.
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Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 11:17 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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Zundfolge1432 wrote: |
Here’s Elvis’s 14 year old girlfriend Later his wife leaving Germany. Somehow this was ok for a 20 something year old man but when Jerry Lee Lewis did it that ruined his career. People really liked Elvis. |
With Jerry Lee it was his 13 year old cousin. Come on, you have to draw the line somewhere. _________________ Prosit!
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Fish Samba Member
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Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 11:31 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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A Hidden Life, 2019. The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.
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EverettB Administrator
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Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 12:05 pm Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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Fish wrote: |
Zundfolge1432 wrote: |
Here’s Elvis’s 14 year old girlfriend Later his wife leaving Germany. Somehow this was ok for a 20 something year old man but when Jerry Lee Lewis did it that ruined his career. People really liked Elvis. |
With Jerry Lee it was his 13 year old cousin. Come on, you have to draw the line somewhere. |
They are both gross but I believe it's frowned upon more now.
Times change.
I think people realize now than the older person is more than likely a predator or at least taking advantage of the younger person.
Anyway, those look like military Single Cabs.
I don't see front emblems and the canvas is different and color-matched.
Are the front license plates the "US Forces in Germany" plates?
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:51 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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1962 science fiction classic “Hand of Death” there’s one old bus and one oval to see. Very scary old movie will give nightmares 😀
Good shots of PCH as it looked in early 60s. All star cast of people you’ve never heard of. |
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Rome Samba Member
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 9:51 am Post subject: Re: VWs in Films / TV / etc. |
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EMPI Sportster buggy in "The Six Million Dollar Man" TV show, 1974. Season 2, episode 11 named "The peeping blonde". Col. Steve Austin (actor Lee Majors) is driving reporter Victoria Webster (Farrah Fawcett, Majors' actual wife at the time) in the desert in a nicely built red/orange Sportster. You can see the orange plastic wind wings on the sides of the windshield, also a holder for arrows. Large capacity "quiet" muffler, and large pulley guard with NASA decal.
The 2 bad guys ambush them and steal the buggy. Austin runs X-country and passes them, causing them to stop by rolling a boulder into their path at a narrow point on the road. He pulls off the Sportster's roll bar (!), hammer-drills it into the rock face with his bionic arm, traps the 2 guys and bends the bar around them to restrain them. |
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Fish Samba Member
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