In a message dated 7/16/01 2:25:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
Gnarlodious@EARTHLINK.NET writes:

my favorite part of my VANAGON is the little horseshoe wire you use to
remove the hubcaps.

never figured out why they still put that "bear claw" puller thingie in the
toolkit on vans with plastic wheelcovers or alloys.. that thing only works
with the chrome "moonie" hubcaps ( bug/bus etc)

guess they were just continuing a tradition..either that or that thing was
cheap enough to make they just had a standardized toolkit and they threw em
in every one..

chris