I have always been a fan of Karman Ghias and am amazed at how often they have shown up in the movies and on television shows. For example one was used in the opening season and second season of ‘Get Smart’, Uma Thurman drove one in ‘Kill Bill vol. 2’ and Mike Myers drove one in ‘So I Married an Axe Murderer’. The list goes one to include a contemporary Star Trek movie and many other shows. Here is my interpetation of the red convertible driven by Mike Myers in ‘So I Married an Axe Murderer’ The plate number is not correct for the movie but otherwise the car is pretty darned close.
The model is the Gunze Sangyo 1/25 Karman Ghia which can be built either hard top or soft top. I did have some issues with the interior cabin panels fitting correctly and with the windshield. The car has three coats of Testors dark red buffed between coats then two coats of Future cut with Simple Green and buffed between coats. I have about 16 hours in this build.
looks beautiful, I love the paint job. I have to ask though, do you know which star trek movie it was in? I can’t remember seeing it in one [:D]
Swanny, what a Clean Build [tup][tup] It looks like it should be sitting right in the middle of a showroom floor. My wife has wanted a 1/1 Ghia for yrs.We looked all over for a drop top when we lived in Vegas with no luck. I have the Tamiya '66 coupe in my stash that I need to build some day soon. Thanks for Sharing !
The Karmann Ghia appeared in the following programs. In many of these it was simply in the background, driving by or parked in a lot but a few feature the car in more depth. A Karmann Ghia appeared in the background of Star Trek IV.
Kill Bill
The Darkling
The Simpsons
Columbo: A friend in Deed
King of the Hill
Bootmen
Rosemary’s Baby
Backdraft
Octopussy
Love Potion No. 9
Up in Smoke
Get Smart
Honky Tonk Freeway
What Lies Beneath
CHiPs
Deliver us from Eva
The Wonder Years
Dumb and Dumber
Happy Endings
The Gardner
Rush Hour
The Dukes of Hazzard
Return to the Batcave
Car Wash
Something Wild
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Vertigo
Off and Running
Pretty in Pink
The Devil’s Child
The Saint
The Man With Two Brains
The Rock
That Thing You Do
Dear God
If You Could See What I Hear
Sneakers
Star Trek IV
The Harder They Come
The Cable Guy
Very impressive build Swanny. I find it harder to build a ‘clean’ car than a plane or piece of armor that I can ‘hide’ my mistakes with some weathering.
Very nice.
Beautiful little car there, Swanny!
The paint is flawless!
Nice little write-up on the build too! [;)][tup]
Stunning build there Matt, Out of interest didn’t Kelly Mcgillis drive one of these in Top Gun?.
All the best.
Greg
I believe you are correct, I’ll have to add that one to the list.
Nope it was A porsche speedster.
Cheers Rob, just done a google on both cars, very similar concepts, Nice cars though.
All the best.
Greg
My old man had a chocolate brown convertible. I wish he had kept it.
Lovely build Matt, my question is how the hell did you remember all those films? Do you have OCD or were you using Google?
…Guy
Guy,
Don’t know if he used it, but the easiest way to find a car in a movie is the Internet Movie Car Database. www.imcdb.org
Many of the movie titles I was already familiar with but I did a quick google seach to confirm my information first.
thats just beautiful, excellent finish, great subject.
Terry.