On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Dieter Dworkin Muller wrote:

> > On the passenger side of my '59 kombi is a tin-grey disk about four
> inches in diameter, held on by a couple of very small (and rusty)
> screws.  Specifically, it's about half-way down on the outside of the
(snip)
> What is this disk, what did it used to say, and what is its
> significance?

Is it on the outside?  Sounds like a VW dealership tag.  I pulled one off 
of a '55 Sunroof Beetle that was anodized aluminum (blue), triangular in 
shape, had a VW logo and the text:  F. KOHLER   Landsberg/Lech

They make nice trinkets. :-)

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