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Herbie Star Cars!

At the Herbie 53rd Anniversary Celebration, we spoke with Paul, who owns not one but two original screen-used Herbie the Love Bugs on the East Coast. We caught up with the lucky fellow again recently for more details!

So you own two original Herbies - please tell us about them!

I have a 1962 that was used in “Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo” as well as “Herbie Goes Bananas”, and also in the opening flashback scenes of “Herbie Fully Loaded”. It was in the Cars of the Stars Motor Museum in Keswick, Cumbria, England from 1989 until 2011, when the museum

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