The old Beetle hubcaps are still being made. They look ok but the difference from the origionals is obvious in that the "VW" is not as sharp. Origionals can be found if you look in the phonebook for some of these old "Mom and Pop, Hole-in-the-wall" VW repair places that you sometimes see on the side of the road; usually with a collection of junkers in back. These guys will have an old cardboard box in the garage where they toss things like this "just in case". The going price around here is about $5 each. They fit and look just fine on my 83.5 Westy. ----- Original Message ----- From: <JordanVw@AOL.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 12:11 AM Subject: Re: Hubcaps
> In a message dated 99-08-06 23:08:58 EDT, vanagon40@HOTMAIL.COM writes: > > << I want to put the small center caps (Beetle-type) on my '83 1.9 watercooled > with original 14" rims. Does anyone know which hubcaps fit, and also where > I can find some good quality hupcaps--preferably with the VW logo. I live > in Indy, so used might be difficult to locate. Thanks. > >> > > any aircooled vw hubcap from '68 up will work. > > chris |
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