Herbie Goes Bananas
Release Date: June 25, 1980

Davie Johns (DJ to his friends) and co-driver Pete Stanchek take Herbie down to Rio de Janeiro to compete in the Grand Premio rally. But that wacky Bug is just a little trouble magnet. The gang gets mixed up in a plot to smuggle gold from the ruins of an Incan city, and Herbie makes friends with a young pickpocket named Paco, who nicknames the car “Ocho“ (the final scene explains why). Eccentrics Aunt Louise and Captain Blythe join in the misadventures, the most memorable of which is a madcap bullfight with Herbie as matador.

• Much of the movie was shot on location in the Mexican cities of Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara, and Tijuana as well as in the Panama Canal zone.
• The enormous amount of special effects in the film required meticulous storyboards, the mechanical techniques department, 26 VW bugs, and three Cessna Centurian airplanes!