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PeteSC
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| John Moxon wrote: |
You're a STAR Pete. 
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Haha....yeah, I’ll be available for autographs and selfies at the next local Cars & Coffee.  |
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VeloMikey
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 5:54 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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I was watching Pretty In Pink last night. Molly Ringwald getting into her Pink Lowlight. Looks like a 56 or 57 because of the nondished steering wheel.
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Fish
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 9:10 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Some of those dents look like the prop department had to make the Ghia look more beat up than it was. 
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KGCoupe
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| Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 11:34 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| Fish wrote: |
| Some of those dents look like the prop department had to make the Ghia look more beat up than it was. |
If so, then they did a pretty crappy job.
When was the last time that you saw a car with ents like that yet no accompanying scratches or rust in the paint?
... and who would bother putting a new layer of paint over the exterior without first at least attempting to remove all those dents?
It doesn't make any sense either way you look at it.
It's funny, though, that I have absolutely no recollection of her character's Ghia either being a lowlight, or being so dented up.
... but then at this point in my life, I guess I'm lucky I can remember that I even saw that movie some 30+ years ago. |
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paul_round
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 11:06 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Spotted at the end of Star Trek: The Voyage Home.
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calexican
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| Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 8:58 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| On my way back from Australia/New Zealand I watched “All the Presidents Men” there is a 70’s Ghia parked in the street in an early scene of Robert Redford walking down the street. There are also a couple of overhead shots of a parking lot with lots of beetles and I think a square back, Redford is getting his car, a Volvo. |
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rcooled
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 12:57 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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A two-tone RHD Ghia coupe turned up in a recent PBS documentary about Uganda's notorious dictator, Idi Amin. This scene was shot in the capitol city of Kampala, sometime around the early-mid 1960s. Nice Beetle ragtop in the foreground.
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squonk
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| Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2019 3:41 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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From the trailer for "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
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dclaxon
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| Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2019 10:10 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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OK, it's not from the silver screen but the small screen. This is Bozer staking out his boss, Oversight, in the March 15 episode of MacGyver. And when he is caught Oversight warns him never to use his own car on stakeouts.
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KGCoupe
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| Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:38 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Rule #1 of Stakeouts - Blend in with the surroundngs as much as possble.
Even in Miami, that Ghia would stand out like a Turquoise thumb with a poorly fitting trunk lid - FAIL!
BTW, T-bars, really?
I never thought I'd be saying that a stock fat chick bumper was a better alternative, but having now seen that I do believe that would be true. |
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rcooled
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| Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2019 12:06 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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A '68 Karmann Ghia coupe makes an appearance in the 1983 film, 'The Man With Two Brains', starring Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner. In this scene, Martin's character drives by the Ghia while seeking out a body for his wife's brain which he's keeping in a jar.
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PolarBearVW
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| Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2019 12:54 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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My little girl was super excited to inform me that the Disney Z-o-m-b-i-e-s apparently get around in a ghia. I wasn’t able to find pics however.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f1m23D9Qsio&t=1m18s
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| Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:16 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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On the April 4, 2019 episode of the Jeopardy game show there was a category on "Transportation". The clue was a picture of a Karmann Ghia (not a low light but a later model) with the following narrative:
"This sporty Volkswagen coupe debuted in 1955"
None of the contestants even ventured an answer. I think Alex Trebeck was a bit taken aback by the lack of a response.
Of course with the last Ghia being at least 45 years old I guess its not surprising.
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KGCoupe
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| Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2019 9:17 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| I saw that one too. Kids these days don't know crap. |
Hey, is it the young people's fault that no Social Media Influencer has yet schooled them about the virtues of the Karmann Ghia?
#KarmannGhia, #Volkswagen'sBestKeptSecret |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 5:50 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Spotted at the end of Star Trek: The Voyage Home.
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Almost the same shot, but with the actors in it. Mid film.
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NOVA Airhead
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| Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 12:15 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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In Episode 2 of the current season of Chasing Classic cars there are multiple shots of a couple of different Ghias as Wayne Carini is in a used car lot looking for a car to take to the Concours d'Lemons. The shots of the Ghias are near the beginning of the show.
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| In Episode 2 of the current season of Chasing Classic cars there are multiple shots of a couple of different Ghias as Wayne Carini is in a used car lot looking for a car to take to the Concours d' Lemons. |
Here's the scene that Nova's talking about ↓
Two Ghia coupes, a white one close in and a red one further back can be seen at Dodi's Auto Sales in Monterey, CA.
Dodi's is the same lot where Wayne got this beauty for the Concours a couple of years ago ↓
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| Newer flick "Confidence", movie about a couple of con artists with that Ben Affleck look-a-like dude and Rachel something-or-other from The Mummy............if I remember correctly, the cop chic drives a blue convertable. |
Saw this movie the other night. The Ghia is a '70. Photo here:
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_796-Volkswagen-Karmann-Ghia-Convertible-Typ-14-1973.html
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