Cars In The Love Bug

Most everyone remembers the 1968 feature the love bug and its four sequels.

Cars in the love bug. As the love bug proved to be successful grossing over 312 million domestically as of 2017 and herbie s story and its ability to humiliate on the race track cars that were clearly more. There are plenty of scenes in the love bug such as the mexican where you can see a bunch of junk cars and a few of disneys other movie cars so i wouldn t doubt that the e type was already a wreck. When production started disney set up a casting call for about a dozen cars and kept them outside the studios for the crew to examine during their breaks. It follows the adventures of herbie his driver jim douglas dean jones and jim s love interest carole bennet michele lee.

We saw a lamborghini but fortunaly the car that was beat up was either an e type or a form of e type replica i m leaning more toward an e type though. The lineup included toyotas volvos and of course the pearl white volkswagen beetle. With dean jones michele lee david tomlinson buddy hackett. In fact this loose remake which includes a cameo by dean jones star of all the previous herbie movies is funny and entertaining.

The character of herbie was played by many volkswagen beetles not just one. But did you realize there was a 1997 disney made for tv movie that re introduced herbie to the world. It also features buddy hackett as jim s enlightened kind. The love bug 1968 trivia.

A race car driver becomes a champion with a volkswagen beetle with a mind of its own. Showing all 24 items. This archive is a comprehensive list of all known existing vehicles used in the herbie the love bug series of films from the original 1969 the love bug straight through to 2005 s herbie fully loaded also included are promotional vehicles and other cars of interest. It was based on the 1961 book car boy girl by gordon buford.

The love bug sometimes referred to as herbie the love bug is a 1968 american comedy film directed by robert stevenson and the first in a series of films made by walt disney productions and distributed by buena vista distribution that starred an anthropomorphic pearl white fabric sunroofed 1963 volkswagen racing beetle named herbie it was based on the 1961 book car boy girl by gordon buford. The love bug covers plenty of ground in its 108 minute running time including a strangely dark sequence of herbie trying to suicide off the golden gate bridge a random kids movie inclusion eerily reminiscent of the headless chicken scene in willy wonka and the chocolate factory a few years later.