Yahoo Autos 1965 Apollo GT from 'The Love Bug' going to auction
This will be quite a year for movie cars at Pebble Beach. On top of the James Bond Aston Martin V8 we covered earlier, the anti-hero of an even more car-oriented film will also cross the block. We learned of it via Silodrome, and it's being auctioned by Bonhams: it's a 1965 Apollo GT that appeared in "The Love Bug" as the "Thorndyke Special."
The black-and-yellow sports car actually appears in the film even before we see Herbie the VW Beetle. Human protagonist Jim Douglas drops into a hoity-toity European import car dealer and starts lusting after the Apollo until the dealer owner and antagonist Peter Thorndyke appears to try selling Douglas on the car. Douglas says he's looking for something closer to $75, some "cheap, honest transportation," which Thorndyke is repulsed by, but an interruption from Herbie sets the rest of the movie in motion.
