VEE DUBS IN MOVIES AND TV- What Movies/ Programs and what models

preacherman Officially Full-On Dubber

257 posts · joined Feb 2004 · 24 Feb 2005, 5:56 am

#305003

Well this thread was going great until the recent crash and quite a few movies were identified with Vee Dubs having a central role or maybe just a cameo part.

MOVIES and PROGRAMS SO FAR from memory:

1. The Herbie movies...1959 Beetles I think

2. The Thomas Crown Affair- Steve Mcqueen original : Great Manx sequence on the beach

3. Jaimie Oliver's 23 Window on his cooking program in UK

4. WIlly Wonka and the Chocalate factory- Veedubs galore

I think the French Connection has a great microbus in it somewhere, will have to get it out again as the memoryis a bit hazy.

Info on the Herbie beetles would be appreciated...are there any in Australia??

preacherman Officially Full-On Dubber

257 posts · joined Feb 2004 · 24 Feb 2005, 6:23 am

#305007

Here is a link to an interesting twist on the Herbie discussion.....looks like the original Herbies are alive and well...this one had a Porsche Super 90 motor and did 185kph in the movies!!!

http://www.clubvw.org.au/herbie_no%202.htm

Great reading

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1,945 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 24 Feb 2005, 8:21 am

#305044

Almost famous has a microbus, a few utes, lots of splitties in general and a few bugs.

Jon

Herbie 53 Bugs are not nearly enough

764 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 24 Feb 2005, 10:16 am

#305097

Dont forget DuDu and Gone in 60 seconds original
and Bullet, Lots Dubs

Its written in that article that its easy to make a Herbie replica,
A coment written by someone who has never done it.

There are harder tasks in life but I wouldn't class it as easy, Its easy to make a dodgey herbie.

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62 Ragtop Herbie with a little extra oomph.

preacherman Officially Full-On Dubber

257 posts · joined Feb 2004 · 24 Feb 2005, 11:59 am

#305147

Like your Avitar...is that 'your' Herbie or from the pic. a number '53' on the boot or bonnet does not a Herbie make eh!!

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 24 Feb 2005, 12:10 pm

#305155

Movie"Consequence" on Movie channel last night and again today... starts again in an hour or so...

1964 Beetle with narrow front blinkers LHD goes up stairs etc in a Police chase scene..... Very Good....
Late model police cars chasing it on the freeways....
80 comes up on the speedo.....
needle in the vertical position??? [80kph??]

Johannesburg is mentioned in the credits so I'm assuming it was a South Africian beetle.....

Movie was unusual... made by the germans.. in South Africa?

Lee

- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 24 Feb 2005, 12:16 pm

#305158

At the start of "McCLOUD" on TV1
- He jumps off a building into the back seat of a 1303 Beetle Cabriolet....

What about the 'stupid' girl in McLeods Daughters...
who bogs her home made convertible beetle.....

don't they know that a beetle will go most places that a front engined car can't... as the weight over the driven rear wheels just keeps them going....

This doesn't seem to happen with a front wheel drive car??
especially with the front wheels turned 🙂🙂

I drove Beetles and type 3s over very muddy terrain including clay regulary,[years ago] in which other vehicles couldn't be driven....

and late model Herbies - doesn't work....!!

Lee

- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

sneak_e Officially Full-On Dubber

252 posts · joined Nov 2004 · 24 Feb 2005, 1:41 pm

#305201

Cheech & Chong's Up In Smoke has a few splitties and bays running around in the background 🙂

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Herbie 53 Bugs are not nearly enough

764 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 24 Feb 2005, 2:40 pm

#305232

The Blue Herbie is one I found in Iowa all the other pics there are of my Herbie.

62 Ragtop Herbie with a little extra oomph.