Bonnet vent blanks?

I was talking to a guy who's breaking a GTI-R, he says he has a rare set of bonnet vent blanks for sale.
Can anybody tell me more about these? It's an option I've never heard of or seen before?

Worth about £15 for the pair

I never got that surely a car matt and a stanley knife is alot more cost effective  

Hmmm interesting, cheers for the pic Stu, I never knew those exsisted.

I think I would prefer to keep the vents open anyway, get more airflow under the bonnet that way  

You are always learning with a Gtir lol

I think I've got a lot to learn yet. I will be getting my R soon so the learning curve will begin.

I know a little bit about them because my mum actually had two in the 90's and my dad had a red sunny GTi-R.

Can't wait to actually get my car  

I found these on my car when I first got it, just seems to be a pointless option.

Rare:o ? I've got a pair in the garage if anyone wants them...send me a pm

It may be worth keeping the drivers side one in place as it keeps the rain off the plugs. If you've got a full length plug cover on then I'd leave them off for the extra cooling.

there better off the bonnet as in winter the hot air from engine defrosts the windscreen! and helps engine cooling in summer  

They are very useful.i tend to put mine back In during the winter keeps snow rain and salt spray getting into the engine

standard fit on all pulsars from factory !

Yes at some stage all pulsars had them,I've three sets maybe four in the garage

Greedy bugger  

Sounds like they're not such a rare item after all then

I was just curious what they were, thinking back I'm sure one of my mums old cars had them on but was a long time ago now lol

im still guessing they are rare,a lot of the gtirs i looked at when wanting one had them fitted but that was in 1999 including some that looked as they had never been removed
about 6 years ago when one of my cars got written off went looking for another gtir and found i think 1 in the the 10 or so cars i looked at had them and most owners never knew they existed