At 06:59 AM 10/30/2004, you wrote:
>On the "Vanagon Ham" thread,  John Bange posted some shots of Geldsauger
>(near as I can tell, this means "money pit").

Close-- "Money Sucker". The pics were actually of Tom Ring's westy, I just
reposted his links with the missing slash added back in.

>This one
>
>http://taring.org/westy/DCP_0571-1.jpg
>
>shows a picture of the trim around the rear window.
>
>Mellow Yellow has the same trim, that faded orange-ish strip on the
>black rubber. I have two questions:
>
>1. What is that faded strip called?
>2. What color was it originally?

I looked through my random Vanagon picture archive, and it looks like they
only show up on the Westy. They're all that faded orange too. I found a
couple shots of non-Westies with chrome trim in the rubber the same way,
but it was still chromed and went all the way around, rather than just top
n' sides like the orange one seems to be.

John Bange
'90 Vanagon "Geldsauger"