Plastic hood spring covers? Were these issued on new cars? Options

[Cuda911]

A friend was looking at a 914 last week. The car looks extremely clean. Immaculate. Almost suspiciously so to me. (not saying it isn't a beautiful car, just that I think it maybe was restored/painted).

Questions:

1) I have never seen plastic sleeves like on the hood springs in this pic. Were they on the cars when new?

2) Was the hook hardware for the spring painted the body color? I thought it was unpainted metal.

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[Cuda911]

Thanks for the reply, Tom! Yeah, that would be fun to split out the 914s in W&S.

I run int Margie and Paul a lot, so I'll carry some spare hats to the next PCA-SDR event (I ordered and extra 5 or 10 hats when I had them made).