VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc.

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Ivory Karmann Ghia Cabrio with black top, in parking lot. YouTube travel video "San Francisco 1963 archive footage".

Looks like a '70/'71 Ghia Cabrio due to seeing the bumper's right "short" towel bar. TV NBC Mystery Movie series "McMillan & Wife- The Easy Sunday Murder Case" season 1 episode 2, 1971. Poor resolution which I tried to clean up with photo editing. San Francisco, California police commissioner Stewart McMillan is pursuing the white Jaguar sedan and comes up to this Ghia in traffic.

Dark colored Ghia Cabriolet in city traffic, behind a BMW Isetta. German 1964 documentary "Der Autokult" produced by the German TV station SWR (Suedwest Rundfunk, Southwest Broadcasting) and fully named "Der Autokult- Zeichen der Zeit 1964". It's a skeptical, critical and somewhat pessimistic view of how automobiles have proliferated in Germany and influenced general culture.

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On the Beverly Hillbillies tonight

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^ Good one, Bryan. Must've been one that Jethro drove over. Elly May looks comfortable since she got along with so many critters such as frogs and toads.

IMCDB lists the Tow'd from season 9 episode 17 "The teahouse of Jed Clampett" (1971). I skimmed thru that episode on YouTube and did not see it. Went to one episode before and after; and there it is in ep. 16: "Women's lib". Miss Hathaway actually drives it! In the photo, she's strapping a suitcase to its rear platform.

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The 1976 movie "Car wash" has been listed several times already, but this sequence of the orange Beetle Cabrio has not yet been shown. The movie was filmed at the "Dee-Lux" (Robert Taylor's) Car Wash - 610 South Rampart Boulevard at West 6th Street - Los Angeles, California. In the first shot, the man hand-washing the front of the Beetle is main character Lonnie, played by Ivan Dixon who was probably best known as playing the radio engineer "Kinchloe" in the TV show "Hogan's Heroes".

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Split window Beetle in a German village at the Alps, Pan-Am Airlines documentary "Wings to Germany" early 1950's.

From the same YouTube video, with a Messerschmitt KR-175 in foreground-

Also same video, location Berlin. Small car to the right with louvered engine lid is Renault 4CV.

YouTube documentary "Life in Germany for US Soldiers in the 1950's". Buildings remind me of the style in downtown Wolfsburg when I lived there in the early 1980's.

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Ivory, or possibly Bamboo (L241) Beetle Karmann Cabrio, German movie "Immer die Maedchen" (1959, translated Always the girls). Likely Bamboo with the olive green door panels.

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Kuebelwagen, movie "The beast in heat" (1977).

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Surprised no one's mentioned the History Channel documentary 'Hitler's Engineers'.

Episode 5 is about Ferdinand Porsche and development of the Volkswagen.

(Unsurprisingly) KDF wagens feature heavily, including Richard Hausmann's. There's a scattering of later VWs and a brief piece with Mr Hausmann talking about the KDF wagen.
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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

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Giving the Type 4 some screen time: Movie "The Driver" (1978), with yellow 411 Sedan in the distance.

Movie "Special Delivery" (1976). Composite of gold 412 Wagon with woodgrain sides. Actor Bo Svenson running in the bottom shot.

Silver 411 (can't tell the body style) parked, TV show "The streets of San Francisco", S1E9 "The takers" (1972). Police detective Mike Stone (Karl Malden) followed by Steve Keller (Michael Douglas) in foreground.

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1985, "Shoah: First Era", a 9 hour documentary on the holocaust. In this scene the producers where upstairs interviewing an ex-Nazi and unbeknownst to him he was being secretly recording and the signal was being transmitted out front to the bay window pack with receiving and recording equipment. If you look closely you can see a tiny antanti mid roof on the bus.

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a couple of kubels spotted in the trailer for 'the ministry of ungentlemanly warfare' due out later this year - looks like a hoot in the vein of sas heroes.

for those interested - the armoured car is an sdkfz 247 replica

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From a lame movie What’s up Doc
3 cars crashed into the 23 window bus

A stolen bug crashed into the San Francisco Bay being chased by 3 cars
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'57 type 1 Blackberry
'58 SC Ruf
'62 type 3 Notch
'92 Eurovan Willy DD
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Rick & Morty season 7 episode. They push an old Bug into a fresh grave of "reviving" soil. They never actually showed the Bug coming to life though.

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'74 Super 9/16 - present, in refurb process.
'73 Super - 6/18 - Present - Daily Driver!
'75 Super Le Grande...waiting it's turn in line behind '74.
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from the 'zookeeper's wife' some interesting vehicles including an adler 2.5
alas the scene below is when warsaw surrendered to the germans in late sept 39 so the kubel wouldn't have been in service...

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I'll continue the momentum of WW2 VWs:

Documentary "World War II in Color"- episode 9 "Overlord": Foliage-camouflaged Schwimmwagen and Kuebelwagen.

Schwimmer and Kuebel, German movie "Die Stunde der Offiziere" (2004), translated The hour of the officers.

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Seen tonight on ABC Nightly News.
Resident preps for big storm in California.

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^ Don't think a tarp is going to cut it ... might want to strap some pontoons on that Ghia.
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"Following distance is proportional to IQ."

'63 Beetle Sedan
'69 Beetle Sunroof
'70 Beetle Sedan
'73 Type 3 Fastback

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5-25-77 (Movie), 2008.

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