The VW Type 4 in its time
In our photo gallery you can see many beautiful VW 411/412, which are lovingly cared for and maintained by their owners and proudly driven to meetings. At the same time, we remember some events of the respective year.
At this point we would like to show the VW Type 4 in its time and hereby call on all members and non-members to share their memories with all VW411-412 friends.
Was it your family car between 1968 and the mid-1980s? Did grandpa wash it lovingly by hand every weekend? Did you go on vacation to the south? Were you allowed to ride along with your neighbor? What was transported in the VW 411/412 back then?
Now we need your help: dig through your photo boxes and look in old photo albums for photos as contemporary witnesses. We are excited to see what there is to see.
Please send photos to: in4mation411412@hotmail.com
1969
Gustav Heinemann (SPD) is elected as the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany +++ Charles de Gaulle resigns after a defeat in a vote +++ New York: Stonewall uprising on Christopher Street +++ Apollo 11 flies the first humans to the Moon +++ 250,000 people protest against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C. +++ First flight of a prototype of the supersonic passenger aircraft Concorde +++ Thor Heyerdahl has to abandon his project with the papyrus boat Ra +++ Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to set foot on the Moon at 3:56 AM CET +++ The first message between two distant computers is sent in Los Angeles, marking the birth of the Internet +++ The first season of Monty Python's Flying Circus airs on the BBC +++ Introduction of driving and resting times for trucks in the EEC +++ John Lennon and artist Yoko Ono marry in Gibraltar +++ The Manson Family goes down in history with the Tate-LaBianca murders +++ The 20th Formula One World Championship takes place +++ Born: Michael Schumacher, German racing driver, Steffi Graf, German tennis player, Gwen Stefani, American singer +++ Died: Jimi Hendrix, one of the most significant guitarists, Louis Villeneuve, French racing driver, Claude Dornier, German aircraft designer.
Source: Contribution to the International Automobile Exhibition 1969
1972
Watergate scandal +++ Protests against the Vietnam War +++ Bloody Sunday in the Northern Ireland conflict +++ Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT I treaties +++ Hostage crisis in the Olympic Village in Munich +++ Kim Il-sung becomes President of North Korea +++ Space probe Mariner 9 sends images from Mars +++ HP launches the HP-35, the first scientific calculator +++ Eddy Merckx wins the Tour de France for the fourth time +++ Dam of Canyon Lake in Rapid City (South Dakota) breaks +++ Born: Jos Verstappen (Dutch racing driver), Zinédine Zidane (French football player), Gwyneth Paltrow (American actress) +++ Died: Asta Nielsen (Danish actress), Francis Chichester (British circumnavigator and aviator), Andrei Tupolev (Russian aircraft designer)
And this also happened in the year:
1974
1977
1982
1984
1985
