Looks like Club VW member Alex is selling his genuine Disney Herbie, the only one in Australia.

This Herbie featured in Herbie Goes Bananas, as the stunt car in the bullfight scene where the back wheels turn in and the car spins in its own length.

It was restored in the US to resemble a car from Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo. It still has the body cutouts from Herbie Goes Bananas. The headlights move and flash by themselves, the horn and blinkers operate remotely, the bonnet opens and closes and it even squirts water from a hidden rear pipe. It has been on display at the VW Nationals numerous times, as well as lots of other classic car shows.

You could add it to your own VW collection - for $150,000.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-news/reel-history-on-offer-to-bu...

Yes saw it but a bit more than I would want to pay... lol

a lot more...

and saw it at the nationals one year

LEE

oh this one had plenty of discussion on another thread..
erm good luck

Isnt this the one that has been for sale for a few years now?

Good luck with the sale at that price

phil
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=95884 

Yes I know Alex has had the car for sale for a while. But when I spoke to him at the recent VW film day at The Edge, Katoomba (where Herbie was on display) he said he was reconsidering.

If someone is prepared to pay $450,000 for a Back To The Future DeLorean, $150 K for a genuine Disney-built Herbie is probably fair enough. A genuine Chitty Chitty Bang Bang sold for $805,000 in 2010, rather less than its $1.5 million reserve. A genuine James Bond Aston Martin DB5 was sold at auction for $4.6 million in 2010. I wonder how much the original steel Barris Batmobile would sell for if it ever came up for sale?

I wanted to post this today, since the article appeared in today's Daily Telegraph (link above).

Hmmmm......but the Herbie is not a one-off. How many did they make again?

looks like he will be owning it for a while longer

Disney prepared around 20 or 30 for each movie, most of them stunt vehicles that didn't survive. Many of them were wrecked, but some of them survive. The Herbies from the '97 TV film and the later Lindsay Lohan film have different graphics. Surviving Disney Herbies and their location details are here:

http://lovebugfans.net/disneycars.htm 

Alex's Herbie is listed as #14, and is the only one in Australia. The most valuable by far would be the so-called Herbie #2, from the first movie. It was the one built by EMPI, with the Porsche 356 engine and brakes and the roll cage. It was restored in the 1990s by Greg Carr and is now owned by Terry's Beetle Services in the UK.