VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc.

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Cloud Atlas, 2012. Halle Berry Drive green beetle. She is forced off the bride. The beetle does not float.

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Type 4 sightings:

Turquoise 411 Wagon in parking lot, 1970's TV show "Police Woman" season 3.

From "Police Woman" season 2.

Ivory early 411 2-door sedan in left background, South African movie "Die Rebel" (1976).

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Ivory '66 Ghia Cabrio, German TV show "Nonstop Nonsens- Didi als Polizist" (1980). Funnyman Didi is a policeman and tends to the Ghia in a traffic jam,

loses his balance from the front of a high truck that is stopped in a traffic jam directly behind the Ghia, falls through the convertible top , onto the pretty gal, and while rolling out the driver's door, grabs her red blouse for support and pulls it completely off!

Composite of green late Ghia Cabrio, TV show "Walker, Texas Ranger" parked in background. Even though the guest actor woman has several bodyguards protecting her shop, Walker (Chuck Norris in red shirt) knocks them down. Season 4 episode 1 "Blown apart" (1995).

Ivory Ghia Cabrio ('69? you can barely see rear fender reflector) driving by in background, glimpsed through the open door. TV show "Police Woman" with main character Sergeant Pepper Anderson, played by Angie Dickinson. Season 1, episode 5 "Anatomy of 2 rapes" (1974).

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Kuebelwagen in movie "Triple Cross", 1966; starring Christopher Plummer.

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Kuebelwagen in the German movie "Nacht fiel in Gotenhafen" (1959), translated Night fell in Gotenhafen.

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[scottyrocks]

That looks hilarious.

Nods to Star Trek and Indiana Jones in the trailer.

Nice Ghia.

How did Kellogg's and Post even allow this? haha
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Looks like several VW models in new film "Unfrosted"

Trailer:

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Yellow '68/'69 Ghia Coupe, TV movie "Columbo- Suitable for framing" S1E4 (1971). Main character police homicide detective Lieutenant Columbo (Peter Falk) is speaking with the actress Kim Hunter, well known as Zira in the "Planet of the Apes" movies.

Composite of pale yellow Ghia Coupe driving past Starsky's iconic red Ford Torino, TV show "Starsky & Hutch" season 2 episode 3 "Murder at sea" (1976).

Yellow '70/'71 Ghia Coupe, TV show "Highway to heaven" episode "The squeaky wheel" S5E7 (1989). Main characters Mark Gordon is speaking to Jonathan Smith (Victor French, Michael Landon). I blended together the front half and the rear half of the Ghia from 2 different screen shots as it was passing by in the background.

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Movie "Annie Hall" (1977), with Diane Keaton and Woody Allen playing the characters Annie Hall and Alvy Singer. Hall drives her '74+ Beetle Karmann Cabrio "spiritedly" on South Street in Manhattan,

then parks in front of her apartment at 36 East 68th St.

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from 'the secret army' a bbc documentary about an american film maker allowed access inside the ira. some beetles to be seen on the streets and an unfortunate 412 variant which was used as a car bomb...

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Green two-toned Karmann Beetle cabrio, YouTube video of the European car rally "Coupe des Alpes 1956".

Red '74+ Karmann Beetle cabrio parked behind a beige early Bay window bus, TV show "The streets of San Francisco" season 5.

Yellow late Karmann Beetle cabrio in right background, movie "Rosebud" (1975). Well known British actor Peter O'Toole driving.

Orange late Karmann Beetle cabrio, movie "Pretty in pink" (1986). Its driving directly in front of main character Molly Ringwald's parked pink lowlight Ghia Coupe.

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Type 4 sightings:

Red 411 Wagon, TV Mystery Movie "McMillan and Wife" episode "Requiem for a bride" season 5, ep. 2, 1975. Show takes place in San Francisco, California.

Silver-blue 412 Wagon in background, "McMillan and wife", "Downshift to Danger" S4E1 1974. Police Commissioner McMillan (Rock Hudson) is driving his wife Sally's (Susan St. James) MG.

Beige/pale yellow 411 Wagon in Cologne, Germany- YouTube travel video "Koeln 1978 Autofahrt Zoobruecke" (Cologne 1978 car drive zoo bridge).

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Silver Bradley GT parked on a Los Angeles street, 1970's TV show "Police woman" season 2.

Brown late Beetle Karmann cabrio with gold ATS rims, German crime drama TV show (PBS, with English subtitles) "Luna and Sophie" S2E5 "The suicide tree" (2021). The two Brandenburg, Germany police detectives are at the Beetle owned by a person of interest in a crime.

Composite photo of early '60's yellow Ghia Coupe parked along the ocean side of Pacific Coast Highway (US Rt 1) near Malibu, California. Episode "The stalking of Joey Marr" season 1 (1974). Actor Monte Markham sitting next to main character Sgt Pepper Anderson (Angie Dickinson).

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Another VW Buggy used in a Sid and Marty Krofft fantasy show For kids. Wonderbug.

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Popular 1970's TV show "CHiPs" Season 4 Episode 8 "Wheels of Justice" (1980).

Silver-blue '67 Coupe parked, "T.J. Hooker" S2E21 "Payday Pirates" (1983).

Lowlight Ghia Coupe driving, YT German driving video "Munich 1957 Bad driving habits".

From the same YT video. The small car in front of the Ghia is a Glas Goggomobil (sunroof!).

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Kuebelwagen in 1968 movie "Snow treasure".

Rare view of the Kuebel's inner roof and structure, though the rear window is much larger than usually seen in period photos.

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Brazilian Bay camper in TV ad for Spectrum mobile.
Splittie windows and clamshell doors, but Bay front, so I am guessing Brazilian.
First pic shows it as 1989, but since it has a "555" phone number it's bogus.