how long does a vw beetle float? Just watch!

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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!

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[beetlejuice150]

@EddieXen1821 he is Lew Wood and he is a really nice guy who was hired to appear in this commercial.

[PlottingMax]

Here in Mexico those cars are immortal...

[TheAlexmiller12]

i will tell you how hella strong this litte car is in the late 70's my mom was learning how to drive manual but she made a mistake and hit a tall tree and the tree fell be the car did not get damaged!

[ColossuSDesignS]

EPIC TV SPOT IS EPIC

[SUPERDAVIDLEVINE]

Is that true the beatles made for ono export were a little tighter, for it was not uncomin in Amsterdam for anumber of them each year to go into one ofamany canals///??????

[k0edby22]

@SUPERDAVIDLEVINE What the fuck. Your illiteracy is killing me... What the hell did you just say..? I only got bits of it... =/

[ninjabob52]

@PlottingMax not really, they were killed in 2003

[keyofdavid888]

@wolfgangiceclaw you got heat in secs like that? I can see that happening. Wow is there nothing new I won't learn about these little cars everyday?

[SUPERDAVIDLEVINE]

like many of my generation had arealy beetle in 66. well one gripe ws the gear shifting for I h ave short arms and becasue it was rear engine he lever was further back then I like I wonder waht it was on a renult alll so read engine An other thing I just wonder is how did the sll in the west when many state had no speed limet on mine abut 70 was tops I never about this I will never call the new beetle a beetle, on the old oenes with rear air cooled engie then they had to meet EPA AND DOT man

[RJSRdg]

Of course British TV presenter/actor/Chief Scout drove one almost all the way across the Irish Sea!

[wolfgangiceclaw]

@JBofBrisbane I Drive a 73 Bug as my daily driver and I would rather be in my Bug then a a new car the same size. As for the safety features I was involved in an accident in a beetle, an accord hit me and not only did her take more damage I was completely unhurt and she had whiplash. Also a car that small you didn't need disk brakes but there are many kits to add them, and ALL VW's came with a heater that worked from the cooling fan and heat exchangers on the exhaust so you got heat in secs

[gta4freak7651]

The volkswagen bug, The first car that floated!