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Subject:Re: '79 westy For Sale
From:Sam Scholten
Date:Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:39:37 +0000

JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
>
> In a message dated 98-11-20 10:26:58 EST, bknapp@RCCMPLS.COM writes:
>
> << A friend of mine is selling her westy
>  Here's the real 411:
>  1979 VW Camper Van >>
>
> but does it have a 411 engine?
> (ok, bad joke...but it's possible...doubt many of you even know what a 411
> is....;<)

It brings up a good question: did the 411/12 version of the Type IV
pancake, back in the early '70s, have more power than the 1700 in the
'72-'73 bus? If memory seves, those fuel-injected 1800s had some spunk.
(There was one-ONE- in town.)

Sam