"But for the life of me I cannot figure out why VW changed to the trashy
looking plastic things when they had these good looking type caps on early
models"
Because it was the 80's - everything was a little tacky then. We should be
happy that they weren't in day-glo colors :)

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Thanks,

Jeff
'85 GL (Gertie)
'78 Bus (Melissa) Patty's Bus