VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc.

[KTPhil]

Anyone catch the Beetle episode in "Flipping Bangers" last night?


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Samba screen shot on his phone at 3:03.

[Zundfolge1432]

Here you have “Midnight Cowboy” from 1969. The only X rated movie produced by a major studio to win 3 Academy Awards and is now on the American Film Institute’s list of 100 greatest American films of all time. Dustin Hoffman and John Voight. The soundtrack won a Grammy for best instrumental. Toots Thielemans.

Which just goes to show that anything from the 60s shows a VW. Watch it 😀

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Cowboy

[Fish]

Long Way Up, 2019. Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman ride electric Harley Davidson motorcycles from the tip of South America to Los Angeles.
Ewan's 1954 bug before being converted to an electric powered bug at EV West. Lots of buses, bugs and Porsche's in the back ground while at EV West. All in episode 1 in this series.

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[Rome]

In the long chase segment in "Gone in 60 Seconds" (1974), I first noticed the yellow 914 and the red/orange Squareback (right arrow), then spotted the Type 4 Wagon (left arrow). Filmed around the cities of Torrance, Long Beach, and Carson in the Los Angeles, California area.

[Cusser]

The very fetching LoriDawn Messuri in the Cinemax film Passion Cove: In Too Deep

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1970 VW (owned since 1972) and 1971 VW Convertible (owned since 1976), second owner of each. The '71 now has the 1835 engine, swapped from the '70. Second owner of each. 1988 Mazda B2200 truck, 1998 Frontier, 2014 Yukon, 2004 Frontier King Cab. All manual transmission except for the Yukon. http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=335294 http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=335297

[Who.Me?]

From Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie

Screenshots of a film crew bus in the pits and a spectator bus on the track at the Nürburgring.

This was on Sky Documentaries just before Christmas. Not sure what other channels have it worldwide. Well worth a watch if you can get it though.

It's the story of 'Day of the Champion' that was intended to be a movie about Formula 1 starring Steve McQueen, but delays meant that 'Grand Prix' starring James Garner got released first so they shelved 'Day of the Champions' and archived the footage.

The previously unseen on-track footage from the Nürburgring is pretty amazing. No crash barriers. It's like they're racing on country lanes...

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Looking for info on my truck's history. Are you from Campbell California or nearby. Do you recognise it? ... http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=636786

[Rome]

Excellent spotting in this "lost" movie. That's director John Sturges with his foot on the front tire.

[Cusser]

[Rome]

"The Bionic Woman" (1977) TV show, season 3, episode 1 named "The Bionic Dog". The bionic woman Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner) is introduced to the bionic German Shepard dog Maximillion (spelled this way on his dog tag due to his bionic parts and operations costing a few million dollars ). Max was given bionic legs and jaws (!) after a near-fatal accident, and was a test before bionic limbs were put onto Jaime. She has Max riding along in her blue '75 Datsun 280Z, and stops to greet a friend who just parked her Savannah Beige '69 Beetle. What's with that chrome pipe rear bumper?

The woman's toddler daughter is inside the Beetle, in which you can see the Nut Brown seats. As the girl is waving to Max while standing on the driver's seat, she accidentally kicks the shifter so that the Beetle starts to roll down the hill.

Max barks frantically to try to alert Jaime, but the door window is up. Max uses his new bionic strength to break through the door glass (gold Sunbug (?) standard Beetle in background) and runs after the Beetle, grabbing onto its rear bumper and skidding to a stop. Rear bumper pipe is easier to grip for Max than the taller stock bumper.

The girl is not hurt, nor is the Beetle damaged.

IMDB lists the location as Valencia St. and Shatto St in Los Angeles, which is a few blocks east of MacArthur Park and a block north of Wilshire Blvd.

[finster]

Rear bumper is foam covered in chrome tape. Never knew about the bionic dog!
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[aa390392]

wow that had me on the edge of my seat.
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getting grumpy & less tolerant!


55 ragtop
56 delux sedan
56 Kabriolet

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[crukab]

I just started taping "Hill street Blues", never got to see it when it was on in the early '80s, so the episode where Sgt. Phil Esterhaus has died, and they go to spread his ashes, at night, in the "Hill" area, as the cast pull up in private cars, Sgt. Lucy Bates, gets out of what looks like a '64 ish dark green Camper Bus, you don't see much, you see the out side half of the drivers door, a quick side shot w/ camper ? windows, & bumper shots.
To much tv is a bad thing, but after have a string of health Bullshit, including a heart attack I've had to kick back and not do much, lots of reading, some intersnit/Samba & tv......
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My Pops:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=604100&highlight=
I know you will always be with me, rest in peace with no more pain. 8/13/14.....

In the yard right now:
'51 Dodge 5 window truck
'65 Bug
'66 Singlecab
'82 Rabbit Truck Diesel from CALI
'86 Doublecab W/T
'91 Vanagon carat/wolfsbrg.Tiico
'88 Dodge Ram pickup
'11 Jetta Wagon

[Fish]

Very Scary People: The Co-Ed Killer in Santa Cruz. In the late 60's he picked up college girls hitchhiking and chopped them up.

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[Abscate]

[Evil Clown]

Mr. Church w/ Eddie Murphy

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[finster]

nice short film with polizei cabrios and other nice traffic...
https://www.facebook.com/100007507720697/videos/2756161957977368/
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[finster]

drinking on the job though...
and what happens when he needs to pee?
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[Rome]

1973 Super Beetle Karmann Cabriolet in "Undercover Angel" movie (1999) filmed in and around Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Writer Harrison Tyler (Dean Winters) drives a mild custom maroon Cabrio, with Dan Gurney-style rims, nerf bar front bumper, and body-colored rear bumper and running boards. Front apron vent slots filled in. He comes to babysit cute little Jenny Morrison (Emily Mae Young) and befriends Holly Anderson (pretty Yasmine Bleeth). Emily Mae Young was seen in the Welch's Juice TV commercials ("it makes your lips smack").