those things were common on "cool" cars in the early fifties.  My
brother had a mercury two door "hard top" with them.  Same crowd that
liked to have a steering knob had them, generally.  Also, and this would
have been a real bummer for aerodynamics, an external sunshade above the
wind screen was popular, especially on Mercury and Ford cars.

Dave Mc

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:09 PM, pdooley wrote:

> I like the headlight eyebrow things.
> Looks like somebody folded a pizza pan and slapped it on.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
> Behalf Of
> Alistair Bell
> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 1:24 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: friday - vanagon content, some people's taste...
>
> unfathomably stange taste in westy mods
>
> :)
>
>
> http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=383215V
>
> alistair
>
>
>
>
> '86 syncro 7  passenger
> '82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94
> http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/