10 Lovely Facts About Jim's '63 VW Bug "Herbie" - The Love Bug

[@stevehankins513]

I remember as a kid i was in tears when Herbie split in 2 thinking he was no more & took my mum about an hour to calm me back down again 😂

[@CarStarz42]

Lol, yeah this emotion evoking film can be a bit overwhelming for the young to handle indeed, Disney sure has a way of doing that in many of their films 😉

[@CarStarz42]

@rafaelfiallo4123 Quite unsettling for sure.

[@kevinhabener1279]

I was like that, too, when I was 9 years old.

[@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391]

I was sad when Jaws died.

[@CarsandCats]

Recent Disney movies have me in tears as an adult. "Why????"

[@SNOWDUDE13]

The car and movies that started it all for me becoming a petrolhead. So glad you finally covered it.

[@CarStarz42]

Glad to hear that and yes, it was a highly requested on indeed 😉👍

[@donhosmer8159]

Back when Disney actually made good family oriented movies

[@CarStarz42]

Indeed 😉👍

[@CarsandCats]

There's a remake in the works: "Herbie Goes Non-Binary"

[@monaabbyhamedani917]

I was a perfectly normal small child until I saw Herbie Goes Bananas on TV sometime in the early 80s. I cried when they pushed him off the ship 😢 as far as I know that was the start of my life long obsession with cars and vehicles 😂 I'm 46 and still have a VW bug. Thanks for all the videos, but especially this one ❤

[@CarStarz42]

Cool, and it's indeed impressive how they managed to personify this car so much like that! Glad you enjoyed the video 😉👍

[@EarlRoark]

The love bug is one of my favorite movies!!!

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@agcacustoms2852]

One of the earliest movies I remember watching as a little kid was the early Herbie movies and especially Herbie Fully Loaded since my older cousins would put it on for me all the time since I always loved cars. Herbie was such a fun thing to share with my family as well as the Disney stunt show where he splits in half.

[@CarStarz42]

😉

[@chrishathorne8692]

Big fan of the Herbie movies! Own them all.

[@06maximaowner46]

me too! But they are all on VHS and I don't have a VHS player anymore! ☹ I would either have to buy them all again on Blue Ray. Or figure out how to copy them from VHS onto Blue Ray.

[@brianhumphrey6791]

Me too

[@MrRhino10]

Same

[@CarStarz42]

Cool 😉👍

[@CapsizedCloud]

Even Fully Loaded? I still need to apologize to my dad for dragging me to that. 😂 Goes Bananas was pretty bad too tho. The ‘97 remake was tolerable.

[@ericlevitt30]

it's amazing it's been 55 years since the love bug was released

[@CarStarz42]

Indeed, time slips by at a ridiculous rate for sure!

[@ericlevitt30]

@@CarStarz42 yes

[@jaybeematthewbacarro9001]

Glad I stayed awake for this one. I love this old VW💚💚💚

[@CarStarz42]

Lol, glad you enjoyed the video 😉👍

[@mannywilliams6409]

I was 5 years old when the movie came out and remember the local VW dealer having one in the show room. At the time my parents had a red square back.

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@rhettdrake5725]

I know these video's take alot of time to make and I think that you do a awesome job so truly thank you for doing these video's for us.

[@CarStarz42]

Thanks much and yes they do take a lot of time and effort, but I do enjoy it. Thanks again, much appreciated 😉👍

[@sawyerhferrill3077]

I liked how he played the Herbie music in the background. He should do it more often.

[@CarStarz42]

I pretty much always play the movie/show theme music in the background on my videos actually, but yes; it's a nice and chipper tune indeed 😉👍

[@mikeperth8027]

I loved the Herbie movies when I was a kid (Australia), cemented my lifelong love of beetle's. I've owned several beetles over the years and have restored two 1968 bugs (My favourite year) and wish I could own another. Thanks for the video mate.

[@CarStarz42]

Cool and glad you enjoyed the video 😉👍

[@michaelaldredge-greenwell1692]

My great aunt had given me a 1963 VW Bug with an automatic transmission; her mom had bought it new, back in the day. I happily spent time, $$, & energy making him into the Herbie from Lindsay Lohan’s “Herbie Fully Loaded”. I hug him every day, & talk to him when I take him out to do errands around town. I even talk to him when I have my friends in the car. I get lots of smiles and waves from lots of people over here in Irvine California. People have wanted to take pictures so I let them. They’re so happy, which gives me joy and happiness

[@CarStarz42]

😉

[@06maximaowner46]

I remember as a kid years ago going to a restaurant at MGM in Walt Disney World, FL with my family. There was a Herbie hanging from the ceiling. I don't know if it was one of the actual movie cars, but I asked our waiter jokingly if it was for sale. He smiled and said, "Let me go check." He came back and said, "Sorry bud. I asked the chef, and he said it wasn't for sale." 😭😂

[@CarStarz42]

Lol, great stuff! 😉👍

[@bustyrandit]

Well, you don't know if you don't ask.

[@mattsmainline3020]

As someone who grew up loving Herbie and even making my own Herbie in real life this video was an amazing watch!! Great job❤🤍💙

[@CarStarz42]

Glad you enjoyed it 😉👍

[@ericmadsen7470]

I loved the Love Bug and it's squeals. I loved the cute little VW.

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@matthewandress1229]

Love the Herbie movies! We were poor growing up so we recorded them on vhs tapes when they would be on the weekly movie on tv. My little brother would drag my mom by the hand through a parking lot so he could sit next to a bug and pets its fenders and talk to it like it was Herbie!

[@CarStarz42]

😉

[@michaelaldredge-greenwell1692]

That is so precious and sweet!!! I’m in tears reading what you posted.

[@damnsilly666]

I'm glad you are back to posting videos! Missed your content.

[@CarStarz42]

Thanks and I'm glad to be back too 😉👍

[@Tulitustitus]

Simple and beautiful 😌

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@Gunny426HemiPlymouth]

Herbie number 11 car was actually the oldest beetle they used. I believe it was a 57. Either way it was an Oval window, you can tell by the dash with the ash tray, and the vents being different under the window.

[@Intellectuallychallenged]

And the lights and horn grilles

[@CarStarz42]

Yeah, I believe so.

[@doctorwhofan6340]

Thank you for making this this is one of my favorite movies of all time and i love herbie!

[@CarStarz42]

You're very welcome and glad you enjoyed it 😉👍

[@robbnutter4665]

My first car was a 1958 VW Bug. EMPI stands for "Engineered Motor Products Incorporated", was a Riverside, Ca company, and is commonly/pronounced known as "Impy". Dad and I saw Herbie when it first came out! Dad was a car nut, and, thankfully, passed it on.

[@CarStarz42]

Cool and indeed 😉👍

[@LongIslandMopars]

That was great! I already watched it twice. My favorite movie was Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo. My parents took me to see it at a drive-in back in the 70s.

[@CarStarz42]

Cool, glad you enjoyed it, makes it all worth while 😉👍

[@williamescolantejr5871]

To be able to watch the early movies as a kid,in a crowed car at a drive inn,and having a grandpa who drove VWs.Priceless is all i can say

[@CarStarz42]

Special indeed! 😉👍

[@anthonylowman9518]

I’ve always loved the Herbie movies!!

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@MrButtonpresser]

Herbie was a great hit in our family. Mum had a white Beetle of the same vintage and we never missed a movie at the drive-in.

[@CarStarz42]

Cool 😉👍

[@jeffruebens8355]

I lived in upstate NY, and people bought the Beetle because it was cheap, cheap and easy to fix, and the weight of the engine on the back tires allowed you to get by without snow tires in the winter for flatter roads. The problems included low power and cold with foggy windows in the winter, especially after the duct work started to rust. The Corvair was GM's copy of the Beetle with more power, that Ralph Nader had a book for it's bad handling suspension that was fixed later, but too late to save production.

[@CarStarz42]

Indeed 😉

[@certifiedherbielover9208]

I’ma huge Herbie fan and this made me happy! I actually bought the Hotwheels Elite 1:18 Herbie a couple years ago for less than $160!! I consider my self lucky!

[@CarStarz42]

Cool, yeah all the HW Elite models tend to appreciate quite fast after they stop production of them for sure.

[@shanesherwood343]

This movie is loved by 3 generations of my family I have wondered for years how they did those stunts great video

[@CarStarz42]

Thanks much, it is indeed a legacy of a film for many 😉👍

[@superjvt71]

Good presentation. I love Herbie and air cooled bugs.

[@CarStarz42]

Thanks much, glad you enjoyed it 😉👍

[@FruitPunchBicycle]

Finally. I was hoping to see my childhood car.

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@NYCS19339]

Oxford Diecast has some small scale versions that are pretty good

[@CarStarz42]

Nice 😉👍

[@morgangallowglass8668]

Such a joy from my childhood. Thank you!

[@CarStarz42]

You're very welcome and glad you enjoyed it😉👍

[@morgangallowglass8668]

@@CarStarz42 , always and thank for your wonderful channel!

[@ronaldmiller2740]

GREAT VIDEO ,, WOW!! NAME AND NUMBER 53?? GREAT ..

[@CarStarz42]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it 😉👍

[@Marky-j3o]

I love Herbie ,I have one I take to car shows all the time,and people LOVE HIM .I've won lot's of trophies, and everyone wants there picture taken with him. Funny thing I never seen any of the movies until I bought the car . A roadside find. Great video, thank you . Long live herbie.

[@CarStarz42]

Cool 😉👍

[@brianhumphrey6791]

Love the Herbie movies. Own them all

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@claytonthomas1980]

Love the video and epic thanks for the corrections that needed to be heard from the movie "The Love Bug", totally worth it and great job making it happen, good to go and can't wait for the next one.

[@CarStarz42]

Glad you enjoyed it, yeah it always amazes my how much bad and exaggerated info gets around these days on certain iconic movie cars.

[@toonbat]

Yes! I drove VW beetles for almost two decades, and I am forever fond of them. And I loved this movie. So happy you had the theme music in the background. Here's hoping you will do some of these in the future: Condorman's car, from Condorman. The Herkimer Battle Jitney from Mystery Men. Not exactly a car, but the Crimebuster from Heartbeeps. Count Von Count's car from Follow That Bird.

[@CarStarz42]

Cool and glad you enjoyed it; I'll add those to my list to look into eventually as well, thanks 😉👍

[@coolbluelights]

Loved these movies as a kid. I have a '66 VW Beetle now

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@graemew7001]

A really well researched video as always and it puts to bed the rumour that the race Herbie had a Porsche flat 6 in it as I always doubted that to be the case. Always be a place in my heart for Herbie and Beetles in general, a true classic for the masses.

[@lbsvw2526]

A Porsche flat 4, from 356/912, not the flat 6 from 911 (too big for engine bay).

[@graemew7001]

@@lbsvw2526 Thank you, you've just said what I did when it was suggested to me. Herbie's body looked pretty much stock so there's not the room for a flat 6 install but I could never suggest what was in there. I actually just said aw they sped the film up! 😂

[@CarStarz42]

Yeah, I used to think it was the 6 as well, but nope 😉

[@brianhumphrey6791]

I’ve always loved Herbie since I was a kid! I have the entire DVD collection! 👍

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@stevieseymore75]

I love herbie the love bug

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@CarlSwanson-e7f]

The first racing movie my dad took me to. Always had a passion for racing, and now I have a 2019 Jetta 1.4 turbo and my daughter has a 2013 beetle. I remember seeing a Herbie edition in the mid 1980s . Always a vw fan. Thanks for posting this video 🏁

[@CarStarz42]

Cool and you're very welcome, glad you enjoyed it 😉👍

[@quickmaz]

I remember when I was a kid, I wanted a bug so bad, and I convinced my dad to get me one, so I started to look at the recycler, and found a VW for sale near the Paramount Studios, so me and my dad went over to look at it, and it was one of the screen used Herbie ! It was the one from Herbie Goes Bananas, it has a fake rag top, and it still had all the Taxi writing from the movie, it also had the mounting of the hydraulics that were used for the hood to open and close. Herbie didn't have the engine. The guy who was selling it, showed us the title, and it was still under Walt Disney Productions, so my dad thought it was going to be too much money to get it up and running, so he didn't get me Herbie. I was so sad 😢. The guy just wanted 350 bux for it! I wish I can go back in time to get it. That's my Herbie sad story 😢

[@CarStarz42]

Cool that the opportunity was there and you got to see it at least, but yeah that's a bummer for sure.

[@quickmaz]

@@CarStarz42 For sure. I’m a VW enthusiast., I will never forget that.

[@danielmkubacki]

Herbie is so cute. I love The Love Bug!

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@michaelaldredge-greenwell1692]

Ditto

[@jzubrodikal98]

I've been waiting for this one.

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@billbrock8740]

I owned a black ‘63 Bug while attending college in the early ‘80s. I can recall not having money for a new starter, so in order to start the car, I’d always search for a slight decline to park on, then turn the key, let it roll in neutral, pop it into second gear, and the engine would start! Did that for about 6 months! : )

[@CarStarz42]

Lol, classic 😉

[@matchsticks4]

I think the cliff stunt car didn't have a 53 gumball on the door because the dorr needed to be cut to not scrap along the ground amd adding the number would have made that more obvious 🤔 Great video! Glad I stumbled on it (and stuck around for KITT and The A-Team van)!

[@CarStarz42]

Thanks, well the documentary I saw said it was mistakenly left off and if you think about it, even if the door was trimmed they could still stick on a circular decal like that in the center of it, even if they needed to make it a bit smaller, and no one would be the wiser at distance like that, but leaving it off entirely was very noticeable, so that wouldn't really make sense.

[@CarsandCats]

I just realized that I've never seen any of the Herbie movies! I've got some homework now. Thanks for the video.

[@CarStarz42]

Lol, yeah I avoided them for years also, but the early ones are actually quite entertaining. 😉

[@hemichanga8939]

You finally did a Herbie video!!!

[@CarStarz42]

Indeed 😉👍

[@edzr7s]

Love Herbie!!!

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@ericlevitt30]

i had a neighbor when i was a kid that owned a herbie replica here in culver city california socal la area and he let me sit in the driver's seat sadly i wasn't able to drive in it with him but it still is a memory i still hold after all these years

[@CarStarz42]

Nice 😉👍

[@ericlevitt30]

​@CarStarz42 yes

[@tuske427]

Great video, and thank you for the kind words on the 1:18 Hot Wheels Elite Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo. I designed that casting, along with a lower end version of it for our Heritage line with less features/ cost and a 1:43 scale version as well. We started out with making the original Herbie the Love Bug and offered two versions in 1:18 scale, as well as a 1:43 scale version and then made tooling revisions to make the HGTMC version. So there are many versions out there in total and should all be available to find. I do need to give credit to Tory A, who acted as a consultant on this and gave me some pointers for details/ accuracy and at the time he owned at least one, if not two actual Herbie movie cars. He was kind enough to even send me pieces of Herbie's stripes so we could color match the stripes correctly. It was even his idea for the diamond gem in the "frunk" to simulate the movie detail. They were personally fun for me to work on as I was a fan of the movies as a kid. I still remember cutting up my Cheerios box as a kid for the cardboard cutout of Herbie Goes Bananas, ha ha

[@CarStarz42]

Wow, very cool and thanks much. Thanks for the great info and backstory there too, awesome stuff 😉👍

[@RealBLAlley]

The Love Bug was one of the first movies I saw in the theater, and the Herbie films remain favorites from my childhood along with the Dexter Riley movies.

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@milfordh.mercado2787]

'I don't know how a little vw can escape us in warehouse 🤨' ahhh yes funnies moment coming from the second movie were herbie goes into hero mode to save a old firehouse against greedy (but really goofy, silly, incompetent in my book) land development bad guy that lost his mind at the end of movie who can blame him (even having nightmares of herbies chasing him like wolfs can make you mad 😅😅😅) anyway as usual a big thank you 😊😊😊 for this video carstraz and have a nice day bye now.

[@CarStarz42]

Lol, indeed. Glad you enjoyed it friend 😉👍

[@milfordh.mercado2787]

@@CarStarz42 🫡🫡🫡.

[@BrianStorey-j5n]

In the 70s I had a '64 bug and as a Herbie fan, I always wanted to paint her up as Herbie

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@waterbourne9282]

Hooray, he's back.

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@BDUBZ49]

I bought a Hot Wheels Herbie several years ago for about $10. They're selling for $40-$120 now.

[@CarStarz42]

Yeah, as with the prices of most everything in recent years unfortunately.

[@BDUBZ49]

@@CarStarz42 Well, with the collectibles - Hot Wheels "Retro Series", they only make a limited number. I paid $27 for Magnum's Ferrari. They're going for $120 minimum now. Greenlight Hollywood has some of the nicest looking replicas.

[@Ecosse57]

thanks for doing this one. i was raised in a family with several vw bugs and grew up a big fan of the films in the late 60s/early 70s. not everyone that owned vw bugs were hippies. who else could asfford to buy them new?

[@CarStarz42]

You're welcome and true enough, lol 😉👍

[@IeeIee778]

Hi again Ive always liked the vw beetle and wanted one

[@CarStarz42]

Howdy, indeed a very well known and desired movie car for sure 😉👍

[@pugs1377]

Who doesn't love herbie?

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@glennfischer2945]

As always I love your videos and the facts that you dig deep to uncover. I was so glad you talk about the many misconceptions in the reporting in the past of the "Herbie" movie, this movie is one many of us grew up with and it is the classic tale of the little guy beating the bullies! Only thing I would like to ask is please refer to Porsche as the full name, I worked in my college years for a foreign car service center and when I first started the owner, who was a former pit crew member for the Porsche racing team, slapped me when I said "Porsh", he told me "it is a two syllable word and not something you sit on outside your house". Since those days I correct my friends and workers when they use the name "incorrectly". I was also told a BMW is not a "Bimmer", and the one I laugh at is "British Motor Works"(really, the tag in the door says made in Germany?), love explaining that one. So anyway so glad you are still here and super glad you are still making content! Take care

[@CarStarz42]

Thanks much and yes, a great film indeed. Yes, yes I know most us silly Americans mispronounce just about everything when it comes to foreign cars, but then again outsiders of the US, particularly UK folks mispronounce our cars brands and models as well. Particularly annoying to me is how Europeans mispronounce the Chevy Camaro as "Camaaro", lol. Just cultural differences friend, I stopped letting stuff like that bother me long ago and just say it the way I've always heard it in my circles 😉

[@glennfischer2945]

@@CarStarz42 understand it, thanks again

[@Ron_Lockwood]

Thanks for Herbie news.

[@CarStarz42]

You bet 😉👍

[@mattwillman10]

Nice video,Want a video on the Brady Bunch convertibles.

[@CarStarz42]

I do have that show on my list to look into at some point 😉👍

[@aaronmcconnell7358]

My favorite movie car yet, maybe in the next fast an furious movie Dom will get back to racing and find a lonely herbie in a LA junkyard😅

[@CarStarz42]

Lol, might as well as the CGI has gotten so cheap and terrible in those films that they are practically cartoons anyways 😉

[@aaronmcconnell7358]

@@CarStarz42 right after the first 3 they really lost all grip on reality

[@TrailBlazerSS502]

You should also explain about the baddest Herbie in the series, the VW from Herbie: Fully Loaded.

[@CarStarz42]

Nah, I can't stand a minute of that awful film 😬

[@Markybug-Keira-Cody]

with the really baddd name of Horace lol

[@victorvilla5524]

Until his passing, Dean Jones who played Jim Douglas had car #1. I am unaware of what happened to it after.

[@CarStarz42]

Yeah, have heard some stories on that, but never could pin down any info on exactly what happened to that Hero #1 car. Mysterious.

[@gouryg4774]

​@CarStarz42 , according to what I read somewhere quite a while ago, after Disney was done with it Dean Jones had it restored to original condition by the prop department with all the gadgets to operate the doors and trunk.

[@CarStarz42]

@@gouryg4774 Interesting, that makes it extra hard to swallow this has apparently up and disappeared from the public eye. My guess is it was quietly sold to a private owner at some point who tucked it away somewhere, much like happened to the Bullitt car for so many years, but who knows.

[@timsacco6g694]

I was 5 years old in 1969, I loved and still love cars and this very movie had alot to do with it, I had the model also, even though it was based on a later model VW

[@CarStarz42]

Nice 😉👍

[@angelperez7891]

"Herbie" quite likely was aimed for regular limited production to battle the Renault 8 Gordini 1100 sedan, BMC Mini Cooper S, Saab GT850 Monte Carlo and Ford Lotus Cortina. The particular example finished in "cream" white paint, red-white-blue stripes with the number 53 on it, nicknamed Herbie for the Love Bug movie collection, was just one of them and copies and replicas were built for these movies as narrated here. EMPI offered the DOHC conversion of the Porsche 356 flat-4 engine with over 100 bhp from the 356A, to the 1,966cc unit from the 356 Carrera 2, 130 bhp and a special version of the Porsche 356 Carrera 2 engine with horsepower as high as 250. The latter was used in an example similar to the Love Bug in paint and graphics that set the speed world record for a Beetle of more than 132 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Another "Herbie" saw competition at NHRA-sanctioned races in the quarter-mile strip labeled "Inch Pincher" and at under 14 seconds in the 1/4-mile set the record for the fastest VW Beetle of the day. Apparently Volkswagen wanted a shot in the performance market and later formed a partnership with Porsche with the model called "Herbie" and together the two companies built the Porsche 914 (or VW-Porsche 914.). These Beetles probably sold as the "VW-Porsche Beetle Twin-Cam" with the model set as the sedan companion to the Porsche 356 Carrera 2 roadster and coupe. By 1969 when the first Love Bug movie hit theaters the EPA sanctioned new engine exhaust emissions regulations which forced Porsche to phase out the 1,966cc engine, leaving the smaller 1,582cc unit from the Porsche 912 Super (with OHV cylinder heads) to carry on a while longer and when The Clean Air Act of 1970 arrived the DOHC engine was gone (though the Twin-Cam conversion kit was still made by EMPI) and VW's 1,971cc OHV flat-4 from the 412 sedan took over. The performance version of the Beetke was dropped entirely from the VW lineup in 1976 before the movie Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo hit the box office at theaters the next year. Skyrocketing insurance rates, the impact of the Arab Oil Embargo and unfavorable currency exchange rates between the US dollar and Deutschmark were the reasons for VW to abandon the venture which also spelled the end for the Porsche 914. So the VW-Porsche collaboration ended with the demise of the 914 and tuned Beetles. Only Porsche carried on with the fruits of the idea with the introduction of the 924 coupe in 1976 followed by evolutions 944 and 968.

[@angelperez7891]

A custom version of "Herbie" with a 2-seat cockpit (like the Type 1 Karmann-Ghia) was fitted with a fiberglass body by the Myers Beach buggy building company with bodywork styled by Pininfarina along the lines of the Ferrari 206/246 GT called Manx GT and built in Brazil and known there as the Puma GT. This was based on Bruce Myers's original Manx beach and desert racing buggy fiberglass body model first introduced in 1964. The Brazilian cars were actually built on the Porsche 911 chassis while the American versions rode the Type 1 Beetle chassis. After the Porsche 356 Carrera 2 was phased out for 1966 another beach buggy building firm, Bradley Automotive, filled the gap with the GT. Virtually all examples built were kits assembled by the consumer and all were conversations of Beetle sedans. Volkswagen later attempted a front-drive sporting model similar to the Type 3 Karmann-Ghia in concept but based on the Golf platform with retractable hardtop called Eos.

[@CarStarz42]

Wow, thanks for all of that great info and backstory there and it all makes a lot of sense indeed contributing to it's mass popularity. Thanks again 👍

[@angelperez7891]

@@CarStarz42 But Volkswagen took "Herbie" to the extreme after acquiring the Bugatti company in 1998, moving away from the old Beetle platform and into a clean-sheet design that replaced the EB 110, the Veyron, with what was once a World War II aircraft engine, a 16-cylinder unit with "W" piston bank format. This engine was 8.0 liters and unlike the wartime engine it was made from four 2.0-liter Golf in-line 4's with each pair for each cylinder bank. Cranking 1,000 bhp at around 8,000 rpm, it was a totally "un-Beetle" engine because it delivered a miserable 3 mpg! That was certainly inappropriate in USA highways for road trips because with that kind of horrendous fuel economy you ran out of gas in as little as 15 minutes! Volkswagen tried to solve the problem with the restyled Chiron which quadrupled the mileage but that still meant 12 mpg in city and highway driving combined. With the EV market looming further into the mainstream Volkswagen's team at Bugatti reinvented the Veyron and fully rebuilt the car with a new hybrid drive train, an 8.3-liter, normally-aspirated engine in V piston format, again with 16 cylinders, the Tourbillion. The discontinuation of the quad turbochargers as in the previous W16 engine dropped horsepower back to below 1,000 but a trio of electric motors, two driving the front wheels and a third driving the rear axle, added about 800 bhp. Top speed was reduced from 305 mph in Super Sport trim level for the Chiron to 277 mph but the new hybrid system improved fuel economy dramatically despite the bigger engine.

[@CarStarz42]

@@angelperez7891 Indeed and thanks again for all of that. You should have a car channel on here too with all of your vast car info, I'd certainly watch it 👍

[@avshalomlaisina406]

The most famous and popular car in the universe.😊😊

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@ericlevitt30]

love the herbie movies and the tv show one of my favorites seen it many times i need to see it on disney plus since i have it it's been a long time since i've seen the movies and the tv series i know the series is on here on youtube i loved the vw bug and still do

[@CarStarz42]

Indeed and cool 😉👍

[@ericlevitt30]

yes ​@@CarStarz42

[@Intellectuallychallenged]

Empi (empee) is a huge aftermarket supplier for the vw up to this day. Back in 69 the crew would have been Darrell Vittone and Ron Fleming/Greg Aronson who went on to create FAT which made the NASCAR beetles engines for the most recent films. Empi was know for their Inch Pincher beetles which were record holders on the drag strip

[@CarStarz42]

Cool, thanks for the extra info there 😉👍

[@johahnz]

I was hoping that you would mention herbie's color. There is also a decent 1/18 scale that was available from Johnny lightning in 2003. Thanks for the video on this fantastic little car.

[@CarStarz42]

You're very welcome and indeed there has been a bunch of great different scale models such as that one 😉👍

[@theawakening5548]

I read somewhere that Dean Jones did have a Herbie in his collection, I do not know if it was from the movie.

[@CarStarz42]

Yeah, that car did leave a big impression on the actors for sure 😉👍

[@Litauen-yg9ut]

A guy at my high school had a 72 or 3 painted up like Herbie. Only diff to being a perfect copy other that the model year, he had aluminum kidney bean slotted wheels on it..

[@CarStarz42]

Cool 😉👍

[@eth39232]

My favorite childhood movie. Dean Jones had said this was the last movie that Walt Disney touched, although since he died 12/66, that would probably be nothing more than script approval.

[@CarStarz42]

Indeed.

[@CapsizedCloud]

Well well well, if it isn’t the car that got me into cars to begin with.

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@thefalloutshelter7799]

Being a model builder, Tamiya has a far superior Beetle plastic model kit

[@CarStarz42]

True, I saw that model and have always been a big Tamiya fan, especially the RC models, however they are all a bit too pricey these days.

[@thefalloutshelter7799]

@@CarStarz42 Thats for sure.....not cheap

[@RoverIAC]

I've saw a nice Herbie replica here in Canberra Australia a few years ago. The Love Bug was the first movie I remember seeing.

[@CarStarz42]

Nice 😉👍

[@samuelgoodman2825]

The racing Herbie was the real deal.Wonder who the mechanics and engineers were. Probly one of the Porsche teams of the day.

[@CarStarz42]

It was the guys at EMPI Racing that built up the racing version #2 car as mentioned in the video and they still creat killer VWs today 😉👍

[@toddretelsdorf1971]

Years ago I was a professional racing mechanic based out of Las Vegas. Our engine builder once told me his father was a big name VW drag racer in the Los Angeles area. His father had worked on the wheel standing Herbie and one other stunt Herbie. He claimed they had that VW gutted dramatically, the engine was set back as far as the could while still getting the trunk closed, and the rear bump was solid lead. He was an honest guy, so I'm sure the story was true.

[@CarStarz42]

Cool and indeed as I mentioned in the video, the cars that were cabled around like that were indeed very gutted out for sure to be as light as possible 😉👍

[@ldnwholesale8552]

In the late 70s I raced against a white number 53 Beetle. It was quite succesfull with a big capacity engine and a decent driver, This rallycross in South Oz

[@CarStarz42]

Cool 😉👍

[@TheRobin53]

I read that the 53 missing on the door was intentional as in order to keep the car up on that hidden wheel, the passenger door had to be cut at an angle to prevent it from dragging on the road. A 53 on the door would’ve showcased the cut door as it would’ve been off center.

[@CarStarz42]

I thought that too at first, but if you really think about it, they could of just made the circular decal a bit smaller and centered it and no one would be the wiser for a distance shot like that, but many noticed it when it was left off entirely. From the documentary I watched anyway, they stated that they just plain forgot to put it on that particular stunt car for the shot.

[@sf-dn8rh]

Friend had a 70 bug done up as Herbie, and later had another a 68 as a Herbie replica. Locally were I live in Colorado, there a 62, 68 done up as Herbie, and also a 2nd gen bug and last gen bug with the Herbie look

[@CarStarz42]

Cool 😉👍

[@scootergeorge7089]

HOF Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale also used number 53. That's why it was chosen for "Herbie." Ironic because Drysdale lead the league in throwing at and hitting batters.

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@benjamingrace8130]

Great vid, I was wondering if it would be possible if you could do the vista cruiser from that 70s show?

[@CarStarz42]

I do indeed have that on my list to look into as well as that is on of my favorite shows 😉👍

[@sgtyork9330]

There may have been one car with a Porsche engine. That was a very common swap by VW enthusiasts. I have to dig into my Hotrod magazine collection to confirm what I recall that one and only one VW Herbie built for the movie that had a Fuelie 327-365hp Corvette engine setting in the backseat. There were some Corvairs modified with Corvette 327 engines as well. It's possible that the Vette powered Herbie used a Corvair transmission because they wre tougher than a VW transaxle.

[@CarStarz42]

You mean another second Porsche Herbie besides the one I mention in the video?

[@johnbeck3270]

It’s amazing the success Disney had, taking an inanimate object and creating such a wonderful little hero as Herbie. Even with the latest reincarnation with Lindsey Lohan, this little hero can still make us love him with his indomitable spirit and crazy antics, even to taking his newfound girlfriend out on a date at the end of the film. I don’t think I will ever grow too old to love a little VW Beatle named “Herbie.

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@carguy53]

I can dispel some of the rumors. How you may ask? I own one of the cars used in the original Love Bug. I’m the owner of car number 6, which was used in The Love Bug and Herbie Rides Again. Herbie #6 is probably one of the best documented originals out there, but largely overshadowed by some of the others out there. My car was actually a remote controlled stunt car used for some of the stunts that were deemed too dangerous for a stuntman to do. The photo with the dummy on the hood and the interior shot of the passenger side interior with the control box are actually my car. It was rolled during production while filming the mine scene. At the end of the downhill shot when Herbie makes the sharp turn to get back on track, that was Herbie #6. Much of the Cliff area was done as a matte painting to look further out than it was. I’ve confirmed it with a few of the special effects guys that remembered the car rolling over. And to this day still has the damaged roof and plexi glass rear window. In Herbie Rides Again, my car was used for the nightmare scene in a segment that was cut from the film but was documented on the ViewMaster set for the movie. My car still retains the original California title in Disney Productions name from 1968. After filming my car went into storage and eventually went to the MovieWorld Cars of the Stars museum and later the famous Harrah’s Collection. I acquired the car in 1996 .

[@Matt-re3or]

That is AWESOME. I just acquired a 1964 on a trade and I will build a drivable replica of the 'Bug Army' junkyard bug. Any idea where I could find some detailed photos of that car in yellow and black junkyard livery?

[@CarStarz42]

Wow, cool that makes three very unlikely survivor Herbies we know of at least now then. Thanks for that extra info, excellent stuff! Thanks much! 😉👍

[@DonaldWesterdale]

My father Don Westerdale was friends with Jim Brucker of Movieworld Cats of the stars. Dad bought several Herbies as I recall the Surfing and a Shaking Herbie, as dad owned a foreign at wrecking yard in Paramount CA.

[@carguy53]

@@DonaldWesterdaleyou wouldn’t happen to have any pictures?

[@ImnotgoingSideways]

For some reason, I always personally pronounced EMPI "Ehm-pea" and never considered it to be initials. Now I'm curious. What does E.M.P.I stand for?

[@CarStarz42]

Yeah, most do; it's just referring to original company name of "European Motor Products Incorporated", just no one calls it that anymore, not even on their own website, lol.

[@jasondillon6577]

When it comes to being able to identify a car the Volkswagon Beetle is the only car I can look at and be sure what company made it. Cars nowadays are too similar.

[@CarStarz42]

Unfortunately so, even pickup trucks are all starting to look alike these days. It's all about aerodynamics and fuel economy only today sadly.

[@mypl510]

Both Polar Lights and Revell had Herbie model kits. The Polar Lights version is not too hard to find, but the Revell version is a bit elusive. But it is worth it if you collect box art!

[@CarStarz42]

Indeed 😉👍

[@deantait8326]

My Dad wrote: “Herbie Goes Bananas” in the 70’s. I knew Bill Walsh … he was going to produce a two-part Wonderful World of Disney…

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@stratmaster5]

A while back when Dean Jones was still alive. Disney gave him the drunk woobily wheel Herbie as a present. Does that Herbie still exist?

[@CarStarz42]

We've been discussing what Herbie car Dean may have had a a little bit on here and but whichever car, which most seem to believe was actually the Hero #1 car, that he had apparently has gone missing from the public eye anyways. Maybe of someone still has it out there somewhere, might post a comment on here like the owner of the #6 stunt car did just today, so we now know at least three cars from the original movie sill exist at least. 😉👍

[@savedin87ify]

Cool info like Herby.

[@CarStarz42]

😉👍

[@charleskadletc2431]

I think there's a Herby VW at the Volo Auto museum in Volo Illinois.

[@CarStarz42]

Well, yes; but that is one from that last and awful 2005 movie, so not one from the original film.

[@keithpond691]

That poor red E Type.

[@CarStarz42]

Lol, indeed!

[@bandittweintraub2492]

#10 also was the car used in the drunk herbie scenes, (where the trunk pops up and down)

[@CarStarz42]

Cool 😉👍

[@ianbrown9082]

Definately need to do a feature on the Mini Coopers from the 1969 original version of 'The Italian Job'

[@CarStarz42]

I do indeed have those on my to do list as well, thanks 😉👍

[@ianbrown9082]

@@CarStarz42 Yay!

[@CarStarz42]

@@ianbrown9082 😉👍