QUOTE(Porsche Rescue @ Oct 15 2006, 06:11 PM)
I am also in the process of swapping late steel wheels for aftermarket alloys on my '76. I have no lug covers to show. I am waiting on some from an online VW parts source. Supposedly on back order, I hope.
Here are some shots of a center cap, plain black, smooth surface. These are also used on VW's with "styled steel sport wheels".
Thanks a lot for the pictures. It looks like those are the same as the seller I bought my steelies from is sending along.
Those wheels were used by VW on many occasions, I see them a lot on Beetle Cabrios, and there were quite a few special edition bugs that had them, the last one (at least for the German market) being the 2400-strong "50 year" edition, which also represented the very last batch of bugs to be imported to Germany by Volkswagen. This was in October 1985 if I remember correctly. Those (and many of the other bugs with those wheels) used special center caps that stuck out further and carried the Wolfsburg crest. A good friend of mine has one of these "50 years" bugs, never driven, in his climate-controlled garage.
I don't have them here right now, but in my 914s glove compartment I found a VW parts baggie with a bunch of brand new lug bolt covers, probably ordered by the first owner in the seventies.