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Hi!

It´s really nice inside too. Yes i can teke photos soon. Is your car well preserved or has it gone through any welding, painting etc.? Are those seats what material? Mine are "velvet" like material, i dont´t the right word for the material.
Maybe i´ll put some photos Samba´s page too, so look there. Have you found out the production month of your car?

Rade

ps. some bad photos, new and old heatexchangers, now it really blows....

Hi Rade,

my car was built on September/26/1968, I ve got the birth certificate from the VW museum in Wolfsburg (it is close to, where I live).
and my car was shipped to sweden on the Okt/7/1968.

the official introduction of the VW 411 was on Okt/5th in germany!!

I bought it from the 5th owner, who's family owned the car since 1976. The previous owner restored the car a couple years ago. He did a really good welding job. Some small things just to fix by me, like the rocker trim. I found NOS rocker trims for this car, so I will put it on the car, soon.

Right now it is in the shop to get a new brake system.

My seat are vinyl, maybe that is the reason, while my door panels are two tone and yours not.

greetings Lutz

P.S. I like your new heat exchanger

My seat are vinyl, maybe that is the reason, while my door panels are two tone and yours not.

I've understood that cars that had white or red interior had two tone door cards while others had single colour.
Here's the third early 411 in Finland:
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/kotisivut1/vw411.htm

cheers, Pirkka

p.s. Rauno i still have your Eberspächer exhaust pipe...

After 45 years in the swedish Exile my car got the consecrate of the german TUEV. No it runs the first time since 1968 with a permanent german registration. The matching historical license plate it got as a welcome gift from me.

Hi Rade, hi Pirkka,

that means we knew now the whole bunch of early 411 in Finland

Very interesting

Hello!

Don´t worry about the pipe, i was going to contact you about the state of your car project(s) etc., are they gonna run this summer? My yellow Variant is coming on slowly.
Lutz, have you any idea, how many earlies there is in Germany or Typ 4 alltogether?

Rade

Hi Rade,

I only know I guy, who is restoring a Zyklop (what we called the early ones).
http://www.vw-typ4.de/411-Z_Wilhelm_D.html

Also, one car in a museum in Chiemgau http://www.efa-automuseum.de

and I found pics in the web from a couple more with german license plates, but I don't know the owners in person.

http://www.powerful-cars.com/php/vw/1968...stback.php

http://www.powerful-cars.com/php/vw/1968...stback.php

http://www.fahrzeugbilder.de/1024/vw-41 ... -72919.jpg

@ May/1 is a big aircooled carshow in Hannover/Germany. Around 3000 aircooled volkswagens want show up. I will going to the show.I am sure, there will be a couple early wants show up, too.
Feel free to visit the event.

Greetings Lutz