The Love Bug is a 1968 sportz comedy starring Dean Jones,Michele Lee,David Tomlinson and Buddy Hackett.
The story is about a man named Jim Douglas(Jones) a down-on-his-luck race car driver who lives in an old run-down fire house in San Francisco with his friend Tennessee Steinmetz(Hackett from The Little Mermaid), a mechanic who drinks occasionally.
Things take turn for Jim when he decides to go to a luxury car dealer and sees a mysterious Volkswagen Beetle with just one problem: it tends to drive on its own, as if by magic.
At first Jim believes that the owner of the car dealership, Peter Thorndyke(Tomlinson from Mary Poppins), is playing a trick on him as the car followed Jim home.
Jim decides to try out the car (now dubbed Herbie)and he even tries out the racing tournament again with his girlfriend Carole Bennett(Lee) and Tennessee.
However when Thorndyke wants to get Herbie back, he decides to race against Jim. Will Jim win the race?
Overall I thought it was a good flick(as it ended up getting 3 more movies and a reboot with Lindsay Lohan in 2005 called Herbie Fully Loaded).
The story is about a man named Jim Douglas(Jones) a down-on-his-luck race car driver who lives in an old run-down fire house in San Francisco with his friend Tennessee Steinmetz(Hackett from The Little Mermaid), a mechanic who drinks occasionally.
Things take turn for Jim when he decides to go to a luxury car dealer and sees a mysterious Volkswagen Beetle with just one problem: it tends to drive on its own, as if by magic.
At first Jim believes that the owner of the car dealership, Peter Thorndyke(Tomlinson from Mary Poppins), is playing a trick on him as the car followed Jim home.
Jim decides to try out the car (now dubbed Herbie)and he even tries out the racing tournament again with his girlfriend Carole Bennett(Lee) and Tennessee.
However when Thorndyke wants to get Herbie back, he decides to race against Jim. Will Jim win the race?
Overall I thought it was a good flick(as it ended up getting 3 more movies and a reboot with Lindsay Lohan in 2005 called Herbie Fully Loaded).