Hi, Eugene.

I don't know if anything in the following, from Wikipedia's article about 1968's The Love Bug, might be what you're remembering:

Four theatrical sequels followed: Herbie Rides Again, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Herbie Goes Bananas, and Herbie: Fully Loaded....// A five-episode TV series, Herbie, the Love Bug,...aired on CBS in the United States in spring 1982. In 1997, there was a made-for-television sequel which included a Dean Jones cameo, tying it to the previous films.

I just now checked, and Herbie Rides Again is from 1974, while Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo is from 1977. I bet one or the other of those two is the one you're remembering. (All other sequels are from subsequent years.)

Does anyone in the cast lists look like the man you recall? This actor looks like he could possibly fit the bill.

It cannot be the 1997 TV Movie starring beauty Ali Wentworth. This memory is distinctly from the 70s. Maybe a similar movie to Herbie? Thanks but the photo of that man does not ring a bell at all!

Herbie Rides Again is from 1974, while Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo is from 1977.

The above part of my response is specific to the mid 1970s. Perhaps one or the other of those is the movie you recall?

@genplant29 said:

Herbie Rides Again is from 1974, while Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo is from 1977.

The above part of my response is specific to the mid 1970s. Perhaps one or the other of those is the movie you recall?

No. It was either a very similar movie or a TV special about Herbie. Nice writing to you.

Sure you weren't smoking some "Herbie" when you thought you saw this?

@znexyish said:

Sure you weren't smoking some "Herbie" when you thought you saw this?

Even kiddingly I resent that. I do not do drugs. Look the Mandela effect. Everybody grown has it. We all remember things a certain way. Now it is possible there was a special on Herbie. Or a very similar film to it now forgotten. If I recall it right I saw this sometime between the Ken Berry/Stephanie Powers Herbie film and the Jones/ Knotts Herbie sequel.

I'm not sure, but don't think I remember any Herbie "knock-off" type movies by other movie studios - though there may have been. I was a teenager during the '70s, and remember enjoying The Love Bug, and more than likely saw one or two (or all?) of its sequels on The Wonderful World of Disney, but unfortunately can't remember a single thing - except regarding the car - about any Herbie movie at this point in time.

@EugeneBelanger said:

@znexyish said:

Sure you weren't smoking some "Herbie" when you thought you saw this?

Even kiddingly I resent that. I do not do drugs. Look the Mandela effect. Everybody grown has it. We all remember things a certain way. Now it is possible there was a special on Herbie. Or a very similar film to it now forgotten. If I recall it right I saw this sometime between the Ken Berry/Stephanie Powers Herbie film and the Jones/ Knotts Herbie sequel.

The Mandela Effect concept says that reality itself has changed, that there is one reality where one thing happened and another as you remember it today. It's not about remembering wrongly, a thing that everyone does, but something spookier.

Look you are trying to recall a scene in a movie you saw maybe 40 years ago. Unless you rewatch the Herbie movies from that time frame to make sure. Even then you could have mixed things up.

I have seen the movies recently again. None matched how I remembered this one. The bearded man rested in the pulled back front seat of the car while Herbie drove himself. The bearded man sat up and said to Herbie "You be good". And the guy went back to his nap while the car drove on. That is how I recall this movie. That scene was at the beginning.

I know what the Mandela effect is and this qualifies.

Znex, nice writing to you. See my new posting for another chilling and true Mandela effect.

@genplant29 said:

I'm not sure, but don't think I remember any Herbie "knock-off" type movies by other movie studios - though there may have been. I was a teenager during the '70s, and remember enjoying The Love Bug, and more than likely saw one or two (or all?) of its sequels on The Wonderful World of Disney, but unfortunately can't remember a single thing - except regarding the car - about any Herbie movie at this point in time.

The more I think about it it just came to me a minute ago. Honest less than two minutes ago. It was probably a car commercial. About VW's.

VW "Bugs" certainly were popular back then.

@genplant29 said:

VW "Bugs" certainly were popular back then.

Yes. BTW I think it was a movie theater ad I saw for VW's and I confused it for the actual film. They do ads for products on occasion on movie theater screens before the feature film starts.

Herbie History 1969 - 2003

https://youtu.be/4nnuKQXe1RY

That Lovable Bug

(Dean Jones as a bearded hippie at 10:00)

https://youtu.be/6W04isvjS4k

@znexyish said:

Herbie History 1969 - 2003

https://youtu.be/4nnuKQXe1RY

That Lovable Bug

(Dean Jones as a bearded hippie at 10:00)

https://youtu.be/6W04isvjS4k

Very good links. Thanks!