411/412 pics from Essen

Lars S · Post by **Lars S** » Thu May 22, 2008 11:59 am

Nice pic from the exhibition "Techno Classica" in essen earlier this year:

Much more at
http://www.vw411-412besitzer.de/Techno2008.htm

Many thanks to the German club "Vereinigung der VW 411 / 412 Besitzer !"

/Lars S

raygreenwood · Post by **raygreenwood** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:54 pm

Sweet! That blue notch must be a prototype. What about the convertible. factory prototype or conversion? Ray

Lars S · Post by **Lars S** » Thu May 22, 2008 9:54 pm

Yes, I think the blue notch is the prototype that normally sits at the official VW museum in Wolfsburg, dont know about the cab...lets hop for some help from our german friends...

/Lars

vonkr · Post by **vonkr** » Thu May 22, 2008 11:24 pm

The red convertible is also from the VW museum and is the one and only build prototype. Our dutch chairman from the VW412club Holland had the honour to bring it from the museum to the techno classica in coorperation with the german club.

The blue one is a prototype type4 "notch", but because of the fact that there was also a type3 notch this car didn't make it to production stadium.
Nice fact: it had only 196 km driven.

Here you can find some other pics.

http://www.412club.nl/frame_evenementen.html

Gr. Ronald

type4ever · Post by **type4ever** » Fri May 23, 2008 10:24 am

The red cabrio is NOT from the VW Museum, but from the Karmann Museum in Osnabruck.

Ton

walkerdude2001 · Post by **walkerdude2001** » Thu May 29, 2008 2:20 pm

Now why was that cabriolet not put into production? damn that is one nice looking car!!! i would love to own one like that...

i get laughed at for owning an ugly car... but i do not care... \I love the whole look of the 411...

vonkr · Post by **vonkr** » Thu May 29, 2008 11:26 pm

i get laughed at for owning an ugly car... but i do not care... \I love the whole look of the 411...

We all share the same madness dude...

According to the text on the website and what I can remember was the stiffness of the cabrio a problem. Solving that problem would lead to a (to) high price for the car.
So i think the VW factory wouldn't dare to take that risk. And besides that they had already 2 cabriolets (Beetle and karmann).

In my memorys there was also a karmann type 34 cabrio prototype that was never been launched, but I'm not shure about that.

Lars S · Post by **Lars S** » Thu May 29, 2008 11:51 pm

Yes, it is told that about 30 type34 cab's were built but never launched due to stiffnes problems, however that car was really nice looking

/Lars S

vonkr · Post by **vonkr** » Fri May 30, 2008 2:05 am

Hee, who made that picture in my garage