Re: My car in the movies

[Toby Erkson <Toby_Erkson@ccm.jf.intel.com>]

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Leah,
This is great!  You're so lucky to have live footage -- all I have are some 
stills and my (weak) memories (my parents were the original owners).  Very 
cool.

List,
Greg put the VW Type III commercial with Dustin Hoffman in the owners 
manual (wasn't it full motion at one time?).  I think we need to pressure 
Leah to have the 16mm copied to tape and converted to full motion video and 
put it up on the new site (space allowing, of course).  Then we get to see 
the Square' back in ol' glory days, a sort of history lesson, and Leah will 
become known around the world where ever someone with a VW has an internet 
connection.  Of course, with all this sudden fame she'll need an agent, 
and, well, since I thought of the idea...  ;)
     Toby Erkson, air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
     '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L
     '75 Porsche 914 1.8L
     Portland, Oregon, http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8501/


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Subject: My car in the movies
Author:  type-3-errors@umich.edu at SMTPGATE_MIME
Date:    12/26/97 11:23 PM

Season's Greetings, fellow Type 3 folks!
     Over the holidays I dragged my dad's 16mm movie projector down from
the attic and entertained the family with his old movies.  Lo and behold,
there was my dad in 1964 standing in front of his new '63 Squareback!! ...
    Guess what the next scene was--my mom was being wheeled out of the
hospital with a brand new baby girl (ME!) and is shown getting into the
squareback.  My first ride in a car ever was in a T3!!  There were some
good shots of the original interior, too.  I guess that's why I am so
attached to the car.
...