At 08:08 AM 12/8/2005 -0800, Michael Diehr wrote:
>I had the opportunity to test drive an 84 westy.
>
>As compared to my 85 westy, the 84 westy
>- had a rear windshield wiper

My '85 (wetie GL) doesn't have a rear wiper.

>- had a mysterious black plastic bulge on the right interior wall
>about 2 feet forward of the hatch.
>   what is this?  The owner said he opened it once and it looked like
>a filler cap.

Rear washer reservoir, would be my guess.

>The 70s fashion psychosis still mystifies me.   To this day, I can't
>fathom whether these sorts of color schemes actually looked "good",
>or whether people chose them because they looked butt-ugly and that
>was cool, in and of itself.    Anyone who can remember the early 70s
>care to comment?  What the f*** were you people thinking? :-)

If I remember clearly (I was also young in the days when all appliances
were available in Avocado and Harvest Gold), folks actually thought it
looked good... of course, people were also still hung over from the
sixties, and thought feeding their 8-track tapes through a quadraphonic
sound system was cool. It's a good thing none of *our* choices/habits/toys
are going to look silly to the next generation!!! :-)