Literature

Literature about type 4

Sources: Texts: unless otherwise stated - Petra Moswinkel

Pictures: Unless otherwise stated, members of the VW411-412 Friends and the Association of VW 411/412 Owners


Not as much specialist literature has been published about the VW Type 4 as about the VW Beetle, but there are a few books about "big brother" and related topics

A few titles are presented here.


Joachim Kuch, Eberhard Kittler

The Big Volkswagens

ISBN: 9783613044401, published March 30, 2022 by Motorbuch Verlag, German, 216 pages

Dieter Corp

Now I help myself VW 411, 411E/412 E, 412/412 S Band 41

ISBN: 978-3-87943-338-4, reprint of the 1st edition 1974, Motorbuch Verlag, German, 254 pages


Actually type 1,2,4 and 48

1973 Volkswagen AG Wolfsburg, German, 72 pages

Tom Wilson

Rebuild Aircooled Vw Engines

ISBN: 9780895862259, 1987, publisher HPBooks,US , English, 176 pages

Marc Cranswick

Volkswagen Type 4

ISBN: 9781787115224, published on July 13, 2021 by ‎Veloce Publishing Ltd, English, 192 pages


Eric Jorgensen

Volkswagen 411 & 412 1968-1974 shop manual

ISBN: 9780892870417, 6th edition 1982, Clymer Publications, English, 237 pages


John Muir

Long live my Volkswagen - a repair guide for the car idiot

ISBN: ‎ 9783980018906, new edition May 2013 by Frank Knauss&Peter Hadamczik-Trapp, peters-pixworx-Verlag, German, 314 pages

Chilton's Repair and Tune-up Guide: Volkswagen 2 Second Edition

ISBN: 9780801963148, 1975, published by Chilton Book Co, English, 277 pages


H.-G. Mayer-Stein

The big VW: Nordhoff's legacy, VW 1500/1600, 411/412

ISBN: 9783980366502, published in 1994 by Verlag Karl Goerner, German, 112 pages

Kenneth Ball

Volkswagen 411 1968-72 Autobook

ISBN: 9780851473536, reprint 1973, Autopress Ltd, English, 161 pages


Ken Cervenka

Screwdriver manual VW Boxer

ISBN: 9783958439009, 2018, HEEL Verlag, German, 142 pages

Hobby archive VW since the 70s

ISBN: 9783958435896, published August 31, 2017, HEEL-Verlag, German, 304 pages

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