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!!

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!"

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.

The other night I was watching Law and order and they were standing in a garsge with a type 3 fasty in the background.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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]

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.

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

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.

OK now to the most known bug....Herbie.

Was it a 62 Bug or a later model????

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

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.

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

I think it's starksy and hutch that has the 10 yellow karmen ghia's

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

jessy mccartneys new song, beautful soul, has an orange beetle....

OK so how about a definitive answer re the Herbie bug

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.

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.

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 .

meet the fockers orange 181 dustin flies around in it

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!!

The original gone in 60seconds has quite a few vw's in it.McLeods Daughters has a Type3 Wagon it this week.....

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.

Hopefully attached is a Boonie Bug!