Back to the future 2 in 2015 theres a 70s dub with the dish covers on the wheels.
B grade movie of late 90s with a 64 bug doing tricks on stairs and walkways that only a 4x4 would do, as well as outrunning crown victorias in a chase scene.
if you wanna go techy, the first series transformers 'cup' was a vw.
also, a really old kids movie
sesame street 'follow that bird' cookie monster literally eats a 69 vw, extremely funny seeing 'bites' out of the fenders roof, etc.
DE-38-UG
1964 1200.
Beware the Wolfsburg.
im surprised no one thought of the 72 cabrio that cuba goooding jnr gets off his old man in boyz in the hood. he paints it a nice blue and puts tbars and empis on it
the jamicans in cool runnings some how manage to push john candy around in a psycidelic beetle too
Joel
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1985 movie "Wittness" with Harrison Ford when he rescues an Amish woman and her young son and make their getaway in an old Type 3 Square they found in a barn, top movie.
BTW a mate has just picked up the Splitty that was in Mad Max 2.
Cheers.
Excentric (wife says) VW nut, having owned 250+ VWs in 40 years.
There was a series on tele in the '80s about a Private Detective who had a ex crim as a minder/driver, he drove a red Dino Ferrari (real one) but all the driving sequences were done in a red VW based kitcar that had wide 5 chrome wheels on it without hubcaps, the body looked ok but the wheels were a dead giveaway.
Cheers.
Excentric (wife says) VW nut, having owned 250+ VWs in 40 years.
jaws had a red 13 window deluxe in the back ground,
i know someone has simpsons , i read somewhere that the writer of the simpsons is a vw freak so there is a vw in every episode.
gravity wont get you high
Desert Bug wrote:There was a series on tele in the '80s about a Private Detective who had a ex crim as a minder/driver, he drove a red Dino Ferrari (real one) but all the driving sequences were done in a red VW based kitcar that had wide 5 chrome wheels on it without hubcaps, the body looked ok but the wheels were a dead giveaway.
Cheers.
i hoped you dont mean hardcastle and mccormick?
coz that wasnt a ferrari, it was a coyote.... kit based car off a vw frame.
later was a delorean based frame.
DE-38-UG
1964 1200.
Beware the Wolfsburg.
"Magnificent Seven" when a Kubelwagen gets run over by a tank or truck at the gateway. Actually you could count all the war movies depicting Germany at war, there's usually a Kubel in there somewhere.
Excentric (wife says) VW nut, having owned 250+ VWs in 40 years.
t2 wrote:jaws had a red 13 window deluxe in the back ground,
i know someone has simpsons , i read somewhere that the writer of the simpsons is a vw freak so there is a vw in every episode.
I noticed a very prominent purple beetle in a recent episode ...it was the one where the whole town was trying to find treasure.
Time is a great healer. Unless it's a rash, then you're better off with ointment.
anyone mention ED BUNDY the serial killer drove a brown s bug ?
anyone see in i think it was CSI when they pulled a splitty out of the harbour,
that had been there since the 60s with a dead hippy intact bullet though the door .
man on fire has hundreds of bettles in it cabs etc etc "Mexico" say no more,
the toyota add when the hilux pushes the cars aside theres a green bay that gets pushed abit.
show us your gates
53racer you are absolutely right, what was I thinking. There were actually 12 Coyotes used during the making of Hardcastle & McCormack.
Cheers.
Excentric (wife says) VW nut, having owned 250+ VWs in 40 years.
kroozzn62 wrote:anyone mention ED BUNDY the serial killer drove a brown s bug ?
Ted bundys bug was a 68 it sold a few years back for $26k US in
a run down rusted out state
Joel
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[ Edited on 27-2-2006 by DUB74L ]
Hey man, I like just watched Cheech & Chongs up in smoke like again man, VWs are like everywhere. Chong like drives off in a beetle cabrio in the start of the movie with a stolen (from his father) Rolls Royce grill like strapped to the front of it.
Cool man.
Yogie:party
Death Race 2000
Possibly the worst movie ever made! It featured both Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine.
All the cars in the race are VWs with ridiculous body mods. There's a Karmann mocked up to look like a V2 bomb, driven by a couple of Neo Nazis. It was filmed in the 70's and is very un PC to say the least.
Watch in horror! There's rumours of a remake too!
Pete Jones
The Hills Have Eyes.
Shockingly bad movie
but did have 4 VWs in it, a van (transporter I think) a beetle, a dune buggy and a country buggy.
While walking into the cinema I went a bit nutso, saw the big cardboard cutout of the Splitty in the animated movie Cars...I want one!!!
Time is a great healer. Unless it's a rash, then you're better off with ointment.
Yes, in Cars there is a Kombi called Fillmore. Can't wait for the movie and being Pixar, you know there will be heaps of merchandise to entice us VW and car freaks.....bring it on!
1959 Mercedes Benz 190
1963 Chevrolet Corvair
1969 BMW 2002 Auto
1973 Mercedes Benz 230.6
I hope so, we missed out bigtime with Herbie!!
Time is a great healer. Unless it's a rash, then you're better off with ointment.
Dirty Harry ...the first one...best pics and closeups of bugs and splitties!! Gonna watch it again today.
Fox have been showing The Gumball Rally and 2 bugs get wrecked near the beginning of the movie.:cry
I think Ted Bundy's vw is owned by Billy Corgan. I'm sure I saw it on MTV - Ride with funkmaster Flex.
Spare the Duct tape, spoil the job - Red Green
Saw Dirty Harry again!!!
I counted 16 VW's. These included a long look at a great splitty 15 window and many type 3 squarebacks and the rest were beetles. The scene with the school bus trying to run a beetle off the road was funny....the bug held its ground for as long as it could!!
Lindon
Bullit [ 1967 i think ] In the amazing car chase on the streets of San Francisco, Steve McQueen passes the same white '64 beetle about 10 times in the space of 5 mins.
Think i once remember reading that it was the Directors daughters car and she wanted it in the film....
In the original Scream movie the main character's best friend has a nice red '65 or '66 beetle. In 'Copycat' a killer copycat's Ted Bundy & has a goldy coloured late mode beetle. In 'Hot Chick' there's a yellow new bug cabrio.
I thought I would watch some others of the Dirty Harry movies.Man they are crammed packed with early beetles splitscreen buses and others. Just watched #3 in teh series and a great shot of a couple of splitty microbuses with one getting totalled!!!!!
A definite must to see early vdubs in action. Yes there is gratiutious violence.....mostly towards the vdubs.
i watched a bit of a rerun of speed 2 cruise control a little while back
i'd forgotten how crap that movie is
still got a good laugh tho from those hilarous scenes with sandra bullock learning to drive in the yellow 181 thing at the start and end of the movie
Wasn't there a thing or 181 in the Adam Sadleer movie with Drew Barrymore....Fifty first dates?
The are lots of buses in the carpark scenes in "Enter the Dragon".A Bruce Lee flick.
OK I've dragged an old, old thread back from the dead!
Went to see the Aussie film 'My Year Without Sex' this week and there is a nice Type 3 Squareback used in it as the family car, very cool!!
The film was made in Melbourne, anyone know who's ride they used? I was trying to rack my brain to think who's it was or if I knew it from any of our VW shows?
just watched an episode of wrecks to riches where they're building a 68 chevy nova, and when the go to the wrecking yard to find a car, there was about 13 or so VW's there were a few beetles as they panned over the yard, most were early 70's but there was a few earlies and 1 oval from what i could make out. 3 ghias and a couple type 3's
VW - helping put oil back into the ground for over 60 years
A week or 2 ago, there was a show on ABC about some old duck complaining about too much sex on the BBC. It was set in the 60's. On one of her trips back from a visit with officialdom she stopped next to a kombi with some hippies making out (which was totally shocking). What I found disturbing though was that the front of the kombi looked very much like a post 1973 kombi with high mounted indicators.
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I've got an email with a kombie in it that i'd like to share but i need to send it to someone who knows how to put it on here, any takers?
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!
The last Hulk movie. At teh beginning after Hulking out, He is picked up by a guy driving one of those South American Kombi Derivatives, very strange looking.
Also the Get Smart Movie with teh famous sky blue Karmann Ghia...sooo cool.
Glad someone resurrected my old thread guys.
The first Dirty Harry Movies had Heaps of Vdubs and a great Splitty getting smashed. Sigh
VW must have paid big bucks for the product placement as there is a VW in just about every car scene.
