Introduced in The Love Bug (1968), Herbie is a white 1963 Volkswagen Beetle who follows race car driver Jim Douglas (Dean Jones) home from the showroom. That film was such a success that Disney ...

‘The Love Bug’ Features Herbie In Grand Style OK, for the gearheads out there, here are some details about it courtesy of Slash Gear.Herbie No. 10, the OG car, originally was a 1957 Horizon ...

Well before Cars ever hit the screens, The Love Bug series of Disney films – starring Herbie the VW Beetle with ... anyone interested in buying a movie car is going to want proof of its ...

A Herbie superfan while recovering from a heart attack treated himself to the original Volkswagen Love Bug that went on to ...

“They didn’t want the car to be modified, molested or misused,” Luke explains. “It was very important that Herbie went to the right keeper.” After the Love Bug made the long journey ...

The iconic 1967 “UP Beetle” enjoys the status of having been the official vehicle to Prof. Rautenbach, who was UP’s ...

The design would find international fame in the 1960s and '70s in films featuring Herbie the Love Bug, a racing car with a mind of its own. It was also popular with the 1960s counter-culture types ...

Simply put, The Love Bug is Walt Disney’s first “Herbie” movie. Released in 1968, Robert Stevenson directed the comedy film with Dean Jones and Michele Lee as the main stars. Jones portrays Jim ...

the film's tagline, reflecting the late 60s and Herbie's anthropomorphic abilities: "It's a Love-in for Herbie... the incredible little car who shifts for himself!" the early scene of a used VW's ...

Great movies about auto racing are a rush, no matter what kind of racing it is. It might be street racing, or on a track, but ...

This soon leads to chase out of Panama and into a bullring where a bull knocks their car onto its side and they lose Paco and Herbie. (In this sequence its shown he has a fear for bulls when an angry ...

For instance, Asian American characters speak in broken English, keep dried squid in the… Thorndyke gets Herbie ... to know that The Love Bug is a 1968 comedy about a Volkswagen Bug that seems to come ...