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Uploaded on Dec 11, 2006

Wanna have the DVD? Visit http://www.painteddesigns.nl
In July 2007, I received an email from Lew Wood, the actor who appears in this commercial. He tells:

I am the guy tha D-D-B chose to be the spokesman for that famous "Floating VW" TV commercial in June , 1972.
My name is Lew Wood, and I was doing commercials and V/O's in NYC when I was booked for the job. We shot it at a launching ramp in Stamford, CT on LI Sound. The production crew was Horn-Greiner. Director Norm Greiner. D-D-B's creative director was Tom Yobaggy. And even Mr. Bernbach was on the location!
They hired a stuntman to drive the VW into the water. However, Norm Greiner suddenly woke up to the fact that I had to deliver that last line "Now, what other car gives you this kind of quality at this kind of price?" from the car! I said, "Norm, I'm a sailor, I'm at home on the water. I'll drive it in!"
I splashed it three times. (We used three identical Beetles, all burnt orange in color. Splashed two of them alternately, the third never got wet and was used for "beauty shots." Swimmers went in to tow them back to shore after each take.
We all thought our commercial would win the "Clio" that year, but the "Snowplow" commercial took the prize.
However, the residuals were nice!
After many years of searching for a 1972 Super Beetle in burnt orange with NO RUST, I finally found one a few years ago in Vista, CA, and snapped it up. I now proudly drive around town frequently and get admiring looks.
Now, you know "the rest of the story!"

This commercial has a surprise in it. At the and you can watch a beetle being driven into the water. Funny is the text in the commercial says: allthough the beetle does definately float, it will not float indefinately. Fun!

From the DVD 'Legend on wheels'. Wanna have this DVD packed with 2 hours of high quality digitally remastered old vw commercials? The DVD really brings you back to the '60s and '70s. Send an email to: beetlejuice150@hotmail.com

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  • UglyColorParty

    If only you could still buy one for $1999

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  • LDGLakers

    Some say he is still floating to this day...

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  • wwwtotalitaerde

    The Germany problem is misunderstood around the world.The reason for German atrocities and agressiveness is a result of greed and idleness.Racism and the idea of world domination are only an ideological cover for this greed and idleness.This makes it very difficult to deal with the question of Germany, as the German state will always assemble a large part of the Germans with the aim"to make money"using immoral means.My brother had been tortured 5.5 years and was murdered because of our homepage

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  • lantzn

    I grew up in Texas in the late 60s to early 70s and lived near the Dallas Lovefield airport. It flooded every few years and one year our friends up the street (on a hill) came into my room in the night in their boat using flashlights. The water was up to my mattress and they rounded up my family and took us to their house. At the bottom of the hill after the water subsided there was a VW bug in the top of a large tree. Quite an experience for a young boy.

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  • lantzn

    Only the first generations did so because of the unibody construction.

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  • lantzn

    They didn't, because they wanted you to and then tell all your friends about it.

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  • Ross Ewage

    ER-AH!! LMAO!!!!

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  • Joziebee

    Méchant moyen de présenté une wouetture !

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  • tailsawsome17

    i saw him in Florida the other day

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  • OrderoftheHammer

    I wonder how many idiots back then actually tried that and spent the next 20 years trying to pump pond water out of the engine. I found one in the woods back in 1993. I think it was a 73. From the looks of the trees and how bad the tires were, it had to have been there for at least 2 decades.

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    in playlist COLD AND CLOUDY DAYS, 2010 (0CT + FEB)
  • gabriel san antonio

    Guys pause at 0:49 , read the sentence at the end

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