The club even has its own Facebook group and forum. Collectors point out that Herbie cars are increasing in value over time. As fewer of these vehicles survive and become harder to find, their auction prices will continue to go up.
Sign in. Log into your account. Forgot your password? Password recovery. Recover your password. It was featured as the junk pile car and appears in a scene at the climax of the film where Herbie calls upon an army of civilian Volkswagens to help rescue Mrs.
Steinmetz and the old firehouse in San Francisco from demolition by an overzealous developer. While the car was relatively unchanged from its previous incarnation as Herbie, it was treated to a yellow and green paint job. Owner Tory has carefully cleaned off all the paint to reveal the original pearly white beneath.
He also replaced the stripes, numbers but left the body be. Print it and keep it! Just so you know, the Herbie gurus have not been able to locate the official font that Disney used. One theory is that Disney created this font just for Herbie.
OK, now that you have the correct font it's time for some basic homework. You'll need to fire up your DVD players for this next part. Watch ALL of the films and pay attention to the decals on the cars. Look closely. You may want to do some freeze frame action.
Or, if you'd rather not step away from your computer just go back to my main page and click on the movie still links. Once you've studied all of the Herbie films you will notice a pattern. The pattern is that the stripes and decals never seem to be the same on any two cars.
Actually, there are always slight fluctuations in placement. When I put the decals on my car I used movie stills from Herbie rides again to come up with proper placement. I hope these detailed photos of the decals, dimensions, and their placement on my car will enable you to build a correct looking Herbie of your very own!
The number one question I am asked is where to get Herbie decals. I usually refer everyone to Greg for a complete kit for a bargain price. However, if you'd rather make them yourself here's what you need to know:. The front hood 53 decal is the most complex. The decal must be cut into sections to be applied. I don't have a picture of the front decal but the circle is actually elongated with extra spacing between the 5 and 3.
This is to accommodate the ridge in the front hood. My car uses separate stripes for each color. Just remember, the width of the white and red stripes together equals the width of the blue.
Greg sells a set that is pretty dead on to the originals. A little history on Herbie graphics. He had restored a few and in his restoration had printed extra Herbie 53 decals. When Daryl found out I was building a Herbie he told me about this young guy who was also building a Herbie. Daryl put me in touch with Bob Hoag. Bob eventually sent me some pictures of his car in the mail B ecause Bob is a true enthusiast.
I've seen a lot of stuff attributed to Barris The Porter in My Mother The Car was Norm Grabowski, and Barris is often just the generic answer when uninformed people need to just label some car with a maker. From the story I heard, Grabowski bought an unfinished T hotrod, added a few bits and bobs to give an older appearance The Herbie cars were built for the most part in house at Disney Studios. I read an interview once where Barris said it was easier for him to tell people that he built this car or that car rather than to let them down by saying he didn't build it.
I guess that helped him sleep at night.
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