Here's a photo of my silver '85 GL with black/grey interior.....and sunroof.
  Rare squared.

http://oregonstate.edu/~harveyjo/silver_int.jpg

Search the archieves concerning the black and grey interior.  I brought it
up many months ago when I bought my van and there were numerous replies.

-john

'85 T3 Silver Sunroof
'91 GTi 2.0 8v
'76 BMW 2002

>From: ccc1 <cc1@EMAIL.CZ>
>Reply-To: ccc1 <cc1@EMAIL.CZ>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Dark Grey interior panels needed  (rare black and grey
>      interior??)
>Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 03:11:16 -0600
>
>Chris:
>FWIW, my '86 GL with silver exterior has the black interior you described,
>with black headrests.
>
>Cary
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <JordanVw@AOL.COM>
>To: <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 4:10 PM
>Subject: Re: Dark Grey interior panels needed (rare black and grey
>interior??)
>
>
> > In a message dated 12/2/03 4:45:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> > jon.hathaway@VERIZON.NET writes:
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >         I've just been made aware that the darker grey interior was
> > > available in the Wolfsburg Limited Edition models in at least '85-'86,
> > > maybe even as late '87...
> > >
> > >
> >
> > actually i must beg to differ..  the 87 up wolfsburgs and carats all
>have
>the
> > same interior, aside from the 89 wolfy (blue or whitestar) which was the
> > one-off diagonal striped upholstery (im parting out a 89 wolfy if anyone
>needs the
> > diagonal striped seats)  the carat/wolfy grey velour seats "may" appear
> > "darker" to some, as the check pattern is much smaller and closer than
>in
>the
> > '87-91 GL grey velour, which has the small thin "plaid" pattern.  Jon,
>your '86 may
> > have the rare "black vinyl" on the back of the seatbacks, with the grey
> > velour on the fronts of the seats.  this interior was used on very few
>85
>and 86
> > GL's, before the all grey was "oficially" introduced in '87. i have only
>seen
> > one of these pre-87 grey interiors ever - and it was in a flash silver
>85
>GL,
> > and had the black vinyl on the seatbacks/grey velour on seating surfaces
>-
>and
> > IIRC black vinyl doorpanels w/ the grey velour insert..  very rare...
>ive
>never
> > seen it in a 86, but im sure it could have been offered in 86 also.
>the
> > black vinyl seatback interiors werent too common.. most of the flash
>silver and
> > wolfram grey 85-86 GL vans got the blue velour.
> > anyway, does your 86 gl have the black vinyl on the seatbacks?
> >
> > chris
> >
> >

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