In a message dated 98-05-16 01:45:01 EDT, Oxroad@AOL.COM writes:

<< If anyone has cheaper options for a factory-style mudflap, I'd love to hear
 it. But my search has turned up nothing. >>

just about anyone out there carries the repro mudflaps for the bug/ buses.
these fit the vanagon, too. (get the ones for the bus, easier to adapt
brackets to the vanagon)  look like the stock vanagon ones, exept the vw
symbol is white.
25 bucks a pair, usually..

chris