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Rome
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A wrecked 1959 Karmann Ghia Cabriolet in "Stop me before I kill!". This 1960 British movie* opens with the Ghia already smashed against an Austin truck- we don't see the accident happen.
The driver (played by Welsh actor Ronald Lewis, though we don't see his face in this scene) suffers head injuries from contacting the steering wheel and the windshield. Looks like the steering wheel right rim cracked and the upper portion bent forwards from the head impace. Radio speaker in the glovebox door  .
The newly married wife (played by Australian Diane Cilento) is found on the street. As she slowly gets up and goes back to the Ghia, and as help starts to arrive, we see how strongly the frontal impact was.
Note that the windshield seal is missing and the glass is loosely in the opening. Also that the cabrio top's metal frame is painted a light color, possibly the same as the body color.
IMCDB lists the Ghia as a '59.
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udo dreisoerner
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| Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2023 4:53 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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udo dreisoerner
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| Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2023 4:57 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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PS-Feuerreiter 2
German story about a car dealer, the workers and a group of motorcicle drivers.
see a kg cabrio between 10:15 and 12:50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9hKp_ZrT4I
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Rome
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| Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2023 3:54 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Shall I post a screen shot of your sighting, despite the low quality video?
The same black/black '66 and its owner is in 'Feuerreiter 4, at about 2:00. Then, a Type 3 Ghia much later on!  |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2023 8:26 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Saw a low light convertible white Ghia on Kojak the other night. Rapist, murderer drove it. maybe a 1958?
Kojak was a great tv show |
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udo dreisoerner
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2023 11:41 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| Rome wrote: |
Shall I post a screen shot of your sighting, despite the low quality video?
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yes please
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2023 5:50 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Here you go, Udo. Program was from 1979; full name was PS Geschichten- Die Feuerreiter (translates "Horsepower stories- the fire riders"). The man at right is positioning a long wire thru the passenger window top gap to hook onto the driver's door inner handle, pulls it, and opens the car. Would the color be Black, or the very dark Roulette Green? DA license plate is for the city district of Darmstadt, slightly south of Frankfurt. Long thin decal on the left side of the engine lid is a souvenir decal from the popular North Sea vacation island Sylt located near the Germany-Denmark border.
The same Ghia and its driver appear in the subsequent program episode #4.
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From 2006:
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| There were some Ghias in the background driving shots in The Love Bug, along with a nice tanish/yellow one sitting at the finish line of Herbie's first race. You gotta be quick to notice that one, I believe you can also spot it on the viewmaster slides too. |
Here's that Ghia behind the flag man at the Jackrabbit Springs race (was the Willow Springs race track north of Lancaster, California):
The VW logo sign on the far left is probably the only time the logo was ever seen in the movie, as Herbie the Love Bug had its emblem either removed or covered over. Ghia appears to be L87 Pearl White, and would be from a '60 thru early '64 before the transition to the plastic cone-style blinker lens midway thru the '64 model year which was amber colored. Silver-blue blur is a Corvette Stingray roadster, and the red blur at far right is a Devin. |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:32 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Movie "Come back, Charleston Blue" (1972). This is on Riverside Drive on the west side of Manhattan NY looking south.
Red ~ '69 Ghia Coupe, movie "Lady Cocoa" (1975).
"The incomparable Connie Walker" (1969). |
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The Whole Ten Yards.
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| Sequel to Whole 9 yards with Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry. There is a green vert parked along the street during a conversation. It is shown about 3 times. |
don't forget about lovely Amanda Peet.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 12:27 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Two-toned red with black roof lowlight Ghia Coupe, German movie "Immer die Maedchen" (1959, translated Always the girls). White MGA roadster, silver Mercedes-Benz 190 SL Roadster, and a light blue Austin "Bugeye/Frogeye" Sprite are the other cars.
"W" on the Ghia's front license plate is the Austrian city district of Vienna (Wien).
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| Posted: Sat May 13, 2023 5:10 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Lowlight Ghia Coupe, movie "The party crashers" (1958)-
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2023 12:57 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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German YouTube video "Hupe und Vollgas- wie die Deutschen autofahren lernten" (Horn and full throttle- how the Germans learned to drive cars). Red text: "On the trail of traffic sinners". Note the fender-mounted Talbot (made in Berlin) mirror.
Black & white movie "Summer in the City" (1970). Car in center is a Renault 16. |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 4:48 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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There's a series running now on NETFLIX starring Arnold Schwarzenegger (with his back to camera in this scene) called FUBAR. My wife spotted this Ghia convertible in episode 4.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 11:14 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Red Ghia Coupe in race track infield parking, movie "Thunder Alley" (1967). Track is either Daytona Motor Speedway in Florida, or Darlington Raceway in South Carolina.
Ghia Coupe at right on freeway, movie "Changes" (1969).
Yellow '70/'71 Ghia Cabrio in background, multi-episode docu-series "The Offer" (2022) which is a period-correct background story of the epic movie "The Godfather".
"Beyond the Door" (1974)- Red with white roof '60 - '66 Karmann Ghia coupe ('60 thru '62 model year if lack of visible VOLKSWAGEN emblem to left of lic plate is correctly seen). Is that a rear-facing hood scoop for a Judson supercharger? White car next to the Ghia is a Peugeot. BMW 2002 at far left, with a white SAAB 96 next to it. |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2023 5:36 pm Post subject: Re: Two Ghia's |
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| Wife saw two 60's Ghia's in the 1963 movie "Move over darling" |
Saw part of this film the other night, and there were actually four Ghias in this one sequence. Three can be seen in the photo...all lowlights, so relatively new at the time. There was one more, a blue lowlight 'vert, that runs up on the sidewalk in front of a VW/Porsche dealership just before the scene pictured.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2023 12:04 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| Fish wrote: |
| 1960, Ocean's 11, with the Rat Pack. |
There's also a Ghia seen in the 2001 re-make of Ocean's Eleven, with George Clooney, Brad Pitt & Julia Roberts. A red coupe is parked at the curb as Pitt & Clooney cruise by in a '63 Ford Falcon convertible belonging to Pitt's character, Rusty Ryan.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 7:01 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Some new show on NBC called "The Irrational", guy from Law and Order is the main dude and drives a Ghia.
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