Hey, I had a 411 once, back when I was a young sprite. I remember hurtling
along a dark country road and suddenly came to a 90 degree turn (somebody
had knocked down the warning sign). It was raining like hell and all of a
sudden the road ended, or seemed to, I yanked the wheel hard over and flew
around that corner like I was on rails. Michelin XZX radials. Almost Cra***d
myself, but after that I was really impressed with the handling of the
thing. And the front "trunk" was huge; you could stuff half a dozen cadavers
in there with ease.

The only thing I didn't like was the stink of burning oil when I needed
heat.

On 12/17/06 1:22 PM, "Mark Drillock" <mdrillock@COX.NET> wrote:

> You got that right, the guffaw and laugh part I mean. I about choked on
> my beer. 411/412 models indeed.
>
> Mark
>
> Old Volks Home wrote:
>
>> Chris -
>>
>> I feel the same way as you. .........
>>
>> When I was into this biz full swing I would constantly have an eye peeled
>> not for the flashy over priced "one-offs", but for the underrated special
>> models to buy fix up (or clean up) and resell them to a good home that
>> would
>> appreciate them.  Take 411/412 models (yeah, I know, take 'em
>> all....please!!!), VW's "Edsel".  ..................well y'know
>> 411/412 stuff isn't (and never will be) the rage of VW-dom ;-)  Same idea
>> and focus, just a different model.
>>
>> Yeah, all the rest of ya out there can guffaw and laugh, but as long as
>> Cliff and I can make someone happy with VW's "Ugly Duckling", we're just
>> fine with that.
>> ................