Well the last crash ate the thread and gave the thread no. to another!!
Had some great comments on:
1. Manx Buggy's on the Original Thomas Crown Affair
2. Heaps of cameo's on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
3. Love Bug and Herbie...of course
4. Jamie Oliver's 23 window Splitty
Just saw Beverly Hills Cop and saw a 65 beetle attacking a truck in the opening sequences.
Anything else worth watching??
Just read in the papers about the new Herbie movie coming up and it stars Matt Dillon and Herbie goes NASCAR racing...
He is no longer a 59/60 bug now but looks like a 70's bug!!
ColumBUS ·
in the recent movie hide and seek theres a lovely beetle driven by a hot chick who gets killed.
there are split window busses and beetles in the anime jin-rho, as well as several appearances in the cowboy bebop series
happy gilmore is run down by a the 'jackass' guy...
"happy are you okay?"
"uhhh... volkswagen!"
preacherman ·
Just saw the second Star Trek movie called ' Star Trek- The Voyage Home'
Still a great movie but was I ever surprised when I saw the scene when they crew have arrived in LA and are walking in the streets totally lost when behind them comes this lovely Karmann Ghia...light blue and really great looking.
Just goes to show that Spock, who directed the film, has really good taste.
Stanley ·
The other night I was watching Law and order and they were standing in a garsge with a type 3 fasty in the background.
MickH ·
preacherman wrote:Just saw the second Star Trek movie called ' Star Trek- The Voyage Home'
Still a great movie but was I ever surprised when I saw the scene when they crew have arrived in LA and are walking in the streets totally lost when behind them comes this lovely Karmann Ghia...light blue and really great looking.
Just goes to show that Spock, who directed the film, has really good taste.
In an episode of Startrek Voyager they return to earth and are "getting the bad guys" in a blue Kombi....it breaks down of course:duh
[Edited on 17/3/2005 by Mick H]
Gibbo ·
Checkout some of the Bond movies, most of them seem to have a large selection of dubs in them. Especially when they are based in Europe of Brazil.
akean1 ·
kill bill 2 has uma driving a convertable karman gia.
a sketchy B grade movie called cerial kiler suggests that cerial killers start with beetles and move on to type 2's:blush
man on fire is set in mexico, so heaps of bug taxies
preacherman ·
Anyone seen the new ad on TV with a split screen microbus in it....looks good.
Saw Rambo- First Blood and a bay window is in it.
Any others
Chewy ·
In Spaceballs there's a brief scene with a 181 Thing dressed up to look like a land speeder off starwars, its hard to spot but the doors give it away.
ian.mezz ·
I think there was a aussie movie a long time ago called the cars that ate Paris mean looking beetle.
New movie called black book.has a beetle.
That right that movie were they rob a bank a in side job with a twist sure a beelte in a car crash,Whats the movie called????:duh:duh
Grock ·
I think there is split kombi in mad max which gets totalled by a cop car.
There is also a split kombi in starsky & hutch which can be seen when starsky & hutch drive into the docks just before they try to land on the boat!
Oh in the craic with Jimoen, he buys a kombi, i think split, but it catches fire.
[Edited on 4/5/2005 by Grock]
VWMA Editor ·
During some past footage on television of the Jo era in Queensland, my four year old had great delight in spotting all the 'Herbies'. At the last count she spotted six.
Don't forget Get Smart and his Karmann-Ghia in the early episodes.
Yogie ·
I just watched the first episode of the NEW Dr. Who series and there is a yellow flat screen beetle with the big round tail lights off the L bug on the back in this episode.
Our ghia is called Max because of Get Smart and I love the part of Rick Moranis in Spaceballs in his thing/landspeeder dressed in his Safari suit and Safari Darth Vader like helmet.
Ahh, the classics
Yogie
GL1972 ·
I remember that movie The cars that ate Paris. I'm sure the beetle with all the spikes on it made the cover of Hot VWs at the time. A very gory movie with Bruce Spence in it. Decapitated bodies and all.
preacherman ·
OK now to the most known bug....Herbie.
Was it a 62 Bug or a later model????
57kombi ·
Rent the film " Almost Famous"
It has quite a few splits in it.
Also the last Charlies Angels film with Demi Moore in it has a nice split ute when she is surfing.
Cheers
Dave
penguin ·
In 'Welcome to the Jungle' (that Rock movie last year or so) there is at least one Ghia that gets shot up at the end scene in the village.
VDU.88A ·
50 first dates has a yellow country buggy 181 something like that in it
hulk has a kombi in it
mcleods daughters has a orange convertibe bug in it
home and away had a vw for a while there
neighbours has a green vw bug in it
Pretty much every movie you watch will have a vw of some description in it if you look closely enoug 🙂
rice_girl ·
I think it's starksy and hutch that has the 10 yellow karmen ghia's
pod ·
on the amazing race last night there was a brazillian kombi blocking the traffic,they had to get out and push start it to get it going again😉
bugeyedbabe ·
jessy mccartneys new song, beautful soul, has an orange beetle....
preacherman ·
OK so how about a definitive answer re the Herbie bug
bajachris88 ·
I just watched a movie on the TV.
It was an aussie one with that fat lady that stared in Babe (You know, the pig movie)
It was called "Dog Women", and her Indian boyfriend was driving a vw Type 3. It even had the usual distinct vee dub sound.
penguin ·
ooops forgot,
the Simpsons always seems to have a VW of some sort somewhere when they show the outside world 🙂
Iin one episode they even had the school bus go past a car yard full of beetles and 'punch buggy' broke out.
kroozzn63 ·
heres a new one on frank millers SIN CITY a new bruce willis movie re make of a cartoon blood guts real good for the cartoon "judgedread style"
they driving a 356 cab or karmen ?cant remember and pass a splitty around a hill in the rain .
kroozzn63 ·
meet the fockers orange 181 dustin flies around in it
preacherman ·
Saw The Saint movie last night with Val Kilmer and Elizabeth Shue.
In the last 10 minutes of the movie she drives a mustard Beetle, looks like early 70's, as she drives to meet her saint...ahhh bliss. Looks better than his Volvo!!
NCH-003 ·
The original gone in 60seconds has quite a few vw's in it.McLeods Daughters has a Type3 Wagon it this week.....
ancientbugger ·
Right,there was a war film called either "The Keep" or "The Castle" where some yanks capture a castle (obviously) and one of the yanks wants to keep a beetle that was there but when the germans counter attack they have to dump the beetle into the moat where it continues to float!Plus does anyone remember when Kim Bassinger first appeared in a cop series called "Dog and Cat" where she had a porsche engined beetle also Boonie bugs (a kit based on a kombi chassis)were used in Total Recall as police vehicles on Mars.
ancientbugger ·
Hopefully attached is a Boonie Bug!
ancientbugger ·
Bugger a gnats cock too big
ancientbugger ·
Another one, in Woody Allens "Sleeper" he finds a 200 year old volkswagen and the key is still there and you know what -it starts first time and they make their escape:party
preacherman ·
I want one of tose Boonie bugs!!
preacherman ·
McClouds daughter' tonight....Type 3 Wagon looks like a 70 71 just like mine Yay!! They appraise their cousin by saying she can't be too bad shes a VDub Chick.
Miracle..newish Disney Movie with Kurt Russell....Great looking bay window Kombi's about 4 and i think a rear shot of a Splitty microbus!!
ancientbugger ·
Cheaper by the Dozen with Steve Martin, the ad on TV has a kombi in the background
fetid_swamp ·
Just watched two old favs on the weekend. Both had beetles in them.
1. clockwork orange… when the main man and his drouges are fanging around at night after bashing the other guys in the old theatre, they run a couple of cars off the country lane. One of which is a beetle. Don’t worry he gets whats coming to him.
2. blues brothers. Just after elwood gets jake out of Joliet and picks him up in the mt prospect special, they get stopped at one of the Chicago elevating bridges. The first car in the line is a beetle.
Classics…haha
Resto64 ·
new hungry Jacks ad has a split in it
saw it tonight
was also watching a midday movie a few weeks ago and
Keifer sutherland was driving a late 60's split in it
coooooool
goto love the splits
Midlife crisis ·
Watching Foxtel on the music channel and a Hanson filmclip (old) has them driving a Thing
typ-fre ·
hahaha my WABIT in the movie "girls just wanna have fun" it was sarah jessica parkers car hhaha
dom
jenz58 ·
OK one to look out for at the end of the year...Broken Flowers starring Bill Murray
I saw it a few weeks ago at a film festival here of Jim Jarmusch movies....it won the Grand Prix (2005) at the Cannes Film Festival
It's such a brilliant little film... Jim Jarmusch makes clear that the journey, not the destination, is what matters to him ... Murray plays ladies man Don Johnston, the classic Don Juan who knows his appeal is slipping with age and may not really care, putting up only token resistance when his current lover, Sherry (Delpy), leaves him. Don seems unfazed, content to run out the clock in seclusion, listening to music, watching TV and living off the wealth he gained as a computer whiz
Jim Jarmusch wow.... he's such an artist with the way he painted this incredible picture of a brief period in one man's life....the music...everything was so right
....go take the journey with Don when it comes out....and you HAVE to see the very end of the movie...I nearly screamed out with delight...it really made me go all funny!!! 😀
Not telling....but considering what this thread is about you'd better go see it
What about on one episode on MONK where a greenie is killed and him and his volkswagen end up on the back of a truck and they get tipped off on the freeway. It was a 1971 beetle. I forgot the colour, but it was apparently going at 200 kmh. I don't think i can see that in a 1200cc beetle. It was a 1200 because of the exhaust system. By the way, when the beetle gets tipped off the truck it does a flip and lands on it's back. What a waste of a beetle!!!!
kombi-troppo ·
There is a release at the video store called "Riding the Bullet". It is based on a Stephen King novel. The movie is less than great but does feature a two toned red and white kombi in a stunt scene. The kombi loses control and spins a very unbelievable amount of times and ends up damaged in a ditch. Kombi abuse - it pains me to see it!
ColumBUS ·
just watched 'city of god' a movie about gangs running the streets of city of god.
beetle police cars, stolen karmann ghias, type three paddy wagons, and kombis akimbo.
there was a very weird bus on there two... late model bay window, but had windows down the side like a splitty. ive only ever seen one picture before, i think twoguns posted it before?
and awesome movie, check it out
shaihulud ·
The Wiggle's big red car is a J&S buggy modified for them by Godfrey Reade of Radical Custom Buggies in Sydney.
shaihulud ·
I have a song in my head. It's called Convoy It's about a convoy of truckers running police blocks which mentions that in the convoy are "13 long haired friends of Jesus in a chartreuse micro bus."
"That's a big 10-4, Rubber Duck."
helterskelter400 ·
another classic??
the omen.
opening scene with gregory peck in the car driving to the hospital theres a white '69+ beetle next to them. then when they leave the hospital after arranging the fatal chile swap, theres a dark green bay camper in the bg. this camper pops up in other scenes too.
When the Jews return to Zion
And a comet fills the sky
The holy roman empire rises
And you and I must die
From the eternal sea he rises
Creating armies on either shore
Turning man against his brother
‘till man exists no more.
:jesus
ColumBUS ·
in back to the future 1, a bunch of terrorists attempt to kill doc and marty from the sunroof of a lowlight bay
71superbug ·
in the new starsky and hutch. at the end
there is a karmann ghia up for 'auction' that has the storage compartment filled with cocaine.
also in the movie 'welcome to the jungle' with the rock and that guy from american pie.
i think theres a karmann ghia in there. or is it a t3 wagon? anyway...gets shot up i think cos the guy from american pie is hiding behind it in a gun fight.
Anthony
jaksc ·
My beetle is in the new Coca Cola Zero ad to be released on Australia Day. You'll have to look hard though as its parked on the side of the road as an extra
buzzbox ·
I was in Enmore the day they made the coca-cola ad where a kombi gets filled with water...
They had two similar vehicles, only one had the insides stripped and fitted instead with a fibreglass pool..complete with plug-hole!(wish i had that one during the heatwave)
Filmed in a yard next to the Enmore Theatre in the rear lane.
saintlywhitetigeress ·
here we go:
"The addams family" - lurch lifts bug looking for wednesday
Against all odds - beetle
American graffiti - beetle
how to make and american quilt - kombi
beverly hills cop - white t1 hit by truck
footloose - kevin bacon drives a beetle
forrest gump - beetle and bus
fried green tomatoes - red beetle
gremlins - 68-71 beetle
happy gilmore - beetle
patch adams - white over blue type 2 kombi/bus
tv shows - friends - 73 beetle (the episode is the one with ross's thing)
buzzbox ·
Various dune-buggys in 'Mad Max 2' and I remember dimly a dune-buggy raid scene in 'Storm Boy'.
and 'Return of Revenge of the Nerds' (not sure of exact title) featuring a country buggy with 'nerd' style Bond film secret-functions.
fekkinell ·
In the X-Files the Lone Gunmen drive a kombi... but they broke its nose after crashing into a pole while trying to smuggle scully's kid away for her. 🙁
Oh... and the original Italian Job... as in the good one with Michael Caine and not the stupid new one that's not even in Italy... has lots of great cars in it... except for the one scene where a beetle has a little accident all is well 🙂
[ Edited on 17-1-2006 by fekkinell ]
ctefeh ·
Eddie Murphy's car in 48 Hours and Another 48 hours. It's black and looks like a KG.
But is it?
green_golf ·
Skeleton Key: Superbug S
Lost: Locke's car is a 1200 or 1300 beetle, have to rewatch eposide!!
squizy ·
Ok here goes...
50 first dates - Drew Barrymore drives a Thing.
Xanadu - ONJ drives a 1303 Beetle Cabriolet.
Rear Window - Natashia Kinski drives a low light KG.
toecutter ·
Last saturday night on the box, HeartBeat had 2 VW Splits in all there glory. Cant remember the main dudes name but he was going to sell it for 400 pounds...........bargain!
Matt Ryan ·
Many, many years ago, some friends and I decided that, "there's one in everything" & that's what we say when we spot one. Now our children do it!
Really, when it comes to tv and movies, (even the news) it would probably be far more realistic to count the ones that don't have some vw or variant in them. (trikes and industrial engines included)
Matt.
Joel ·
in the new series of Lost (i know im sad) John Loch drives a red late model beetle which has no door glass in it
Yogie ·
Chloe in smallville drives a new beetle cabrio
Blazing saddles outside the lot towards the end of the movie we counted about 6 different beetles from memory.
TV series the Saint, beetles everywhere.
Yogie
53racer ·
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.
Joel ·
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
[ Edited on 25-2-2006 by DUB74L ]
Desert Bug ·
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.
Desert Bug ·
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.
t2 ·
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.
53racer ·
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.
Desert Bug ·
"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.
hipichic ·
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.
kroozzn63 ·
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.
Desert Bug ·
53racer you are absolutely right, what was I thinking. There were actually 12 Coyotes used during the making of Hardcastle & McCormack.
Cheers.
Joel ·
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
[ Edited on 27-2-2006 by DUB74L ]
[ Edited on 27-2-2006 by DUB74L ]
Yogie ·
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
Peter_Jones ·
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
hipichic ·
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!!!
boristherat ·
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!
hipichic ·
I hope so, we missed out bigtime with Herbie!!
preacherman ·
Dirty Harry ...the first one...best pics and closeups of bugs and splitties!! Gonna watch it again today.
frank2112 ·
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.
preacherman ·
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
_me_ ·
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....
HerbieBoy82 ·
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.
preacherman ·
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.
Joel ·
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
preacherman ·
Wasn't there a thing or 181 in the Adam Sadleer movie with Drew Barrymore....Fifty first dates?
lohoon ·
The are lots of buses in the carpark scenes in "Enter the Dragon".A Bruce Lee flick.
jenz58 ·
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?
polak ·
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
amazeer ·
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. ❗
donn ·
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?
preacherman ·
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.
Bookwus ·
Hiya All,
_me_ mentioned Bullitt, recently voted the best of all car chase movies. During the actual chase sequence there are many, many VWs to be seen on the streets in San Francisco circa 1967.
As a matter of fact a fun pastime for VW types here in the States is to do a count of the VWs (T1s, T2s, and T3s) in the chase sequence. Next time you watch the film, give it a shot.
As has been mentioned, one particular VW Bug (a green 68) shows up in a number of scenes (showing that the editing lacks some continuity by the way) and each time it shows up it should be counted.
jenz58 ·
I'm racking my brain to think of a movie we saw this year that had heaps of dubs in it, but can remember (a seniors moment!)... was it 'The Knowing' with Nicholas Cage? Filmed in Melboure
Sean Connory drives through a hippie bug with his stolen Hummer in The Rock.
And in Karate Kid there's a scene with at least two dubs in the one shot.
Gary L ·
I watched Batman the original yesterday 2 beetles and a Kombi parked on the wharf scene.
Batman is a worry he could not tell it was catwoman when she was dressed in normal evening dress even though she said perrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfeccccccccccccct. No wonder he only hangs out with Robin????????
Joel ·
witness the destruction of a cabrio in the classic fried green tomotos scene
with japanese dubbing for your amusment
only keen eyed vw nuts would notice that it hasnt got an engine when shes running into it
donn ·
What makes you say it's got no engine, looks like pea shooters hanging down under it to me, but why isn't it pushed into the car in front, stupid me thinks.
Joel ·
u can see from the sides it has no engine hanging down underneath
the peashooters are just bits of pipe stuck there
66deluxe ·
Cheech And Chongs "Up in smoke" it's loaded with em. Watched that for the first time in 17 years the other day, Chong drives one in the opening scenes.
preacherman ·
Saw the World's Fastest Indian today. Great early 60's Ragtop Beetle