Gray and pointy. What year be your Westy? I bet we'll find that the early
ones with the tan and brown interior have white half-sphere bumpers, the
later ones with the gray and blue interiors have gray Hershey's
Kisses-shaped bumpers.

Or maybe yours started life as half-spheres and heat has drawn them into
the pointy shape. Mine are the ne plus ultra of melty bumpers and they are
certainly pointed. Others of the same vintage which have not been heated
appear to be spherical.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Bend, OR
KG6RCR

On 9/23/2009 10:30 AM Richard A Jones wrote:

> OK, I'll show you mine....
>
> http://jones.colorado.edu/VW/glob.jpg
>
> I've owned my Westy for 8 years and never thought much
> about the gooey blob that gets soft and sticky after
> cooking.  I guess I know now where it came from.  I
> have only two bumpers above the drain tray.  I'm sure
> there is a story behind how it came to be where it is,
> but I'll never know it.
>
> BTW--mine are gray (or grey) as is everything in my '87.
>
> Richard
>