Wow! So cool! Love that roofline. There's one of these rotting in someone's front yard on the Mountain Loop Hwy up here in WA. That's the only one I've seen. I also like those modern rear lights.
4-series was horrendously expensive, thus sold very poorly and was swiftly buried.
As a car it's quite good, even the heating.
Here in Europe you can see these in VW-meetings, but practically never on the road .. most common old VW you can see is the Beetle from 70s and then bay window bus from same era.
Most VW bus drivers/passengers wave frantically when they spot me in my '61 bus on the road, it's always funny.
Ooh, a 412. Grew up with a 411 and it was rare then. (They weren't just horrendously expensive, more like horrendous in general, and only came with an automatic and vaporlock-prone mechanical fuel injection in the US.) The heater was gasoline-fired, so when it wasn't billowing smoke through the cabin it was quite good for an aircooled VW... plus you could turn it on before you left home and pre-warm the cabin without starting the engine.
This color was called Chrome Yellow. Great find (as always)!
Spiff, you are wrong on nearly every count-the 411 and 412 coupes had excellent 4 speed manual transaxles in the U.S. (specific to these cars). Also, all U.S. spec. Type 4's had electronic Bosch D or L Jetronic fuel injection, also used on many fine European cars of the era. They did not, as you implied, have K Jetronic mechanically based injection (another fine system used on many vehicles including VW's). The smoke in the cabin from the heater was probably due to other fluid leaks in the engine compartment/under the car due to neglect or incompetent repair/service.
Best of OPC. 
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Cars where the rear side windows are larger than the front side windows always look out of balance to me!
Wow! So cool! Love that roofline. There's one of these rotting in someone's front yard on the Mountain Loop Hwy up here in WA. That's the only one I've seen. I also like those modern rear lights.
Ahh, the Type-4, Volkswagen's bastard stepchild.
I almost bought one in Portland once; otherwise, not sure I've ever seen one outside a show.
oooh, fastback vw. great looking car. and that paint, it just screams 70's. that orange is a beautiful color.
Great shade of yellow, love the side profile shot.
Lovely!
4-series was horrendously expensive, thus sold very poorly and was swiftly buried.
As a car it's quite good, even the heating.
Here in Europe you can see these in VW-meetings, but practically never on the road .. most common old VW you can see is the Beetle from 70s and then bay window bus from same era.
Most VW bus drivers/passengers wave frantically when they spot me in my '61 bus on the road, it's always funny.
Ooh, a 412. Grew up with a 411 and it was rare then. (They weren't just horrendously expensive, more like horrendous in general, and only came with an automatic and vaporlock-prone mechanical fuel injection in the US.) The heater was gasoline-fired, so when it wasn't billowing smoke through the cabin it was quite good for an aircooled VW... plus you could turn it on before you left home and pre-warm the cabin without starting the engine.
This color was called Chrome Yellow. Great find (as always)!
Just noticed that what look like fog lights on the front bumper are really the parking/turn signal lights from a '74-77 Honda Civic.
Spiff, you are wrong on nearly every count-the 411 and 412 coupes had excellent 4 speed manual transaxles in the U.S. (specific to these cars). Also, all U.S. spec. Type 4's had electronic Bosch D or L Jetronic fuel injection, also used on many fine European cars of the era. They did not, as you implied, have K Jetronic mechanically based injection (another fine system used on many vehicles including VW's). The smoke in the cabin from the heater was probably due to other fluid leaks in the engine compartment/under the car due to neglect or incompetent repair/service.
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