Why are my wipers left hand drive?

[stainesy]

Ok since we have been having bad weather it has been bugging me that I have a dirty area in the corner of my windscreen where the wiper do not touch.
On my early mk2 jetta the wipers are the wrong way round for a right hand drive car.
They are on the left hand drive side. 

Just want to no if this is normal for early mk2 golfs and jettas and why they are like it.
As you can see in the pic the passenger gets a nice full clean area and I get the dirty top corner so I'm constantly having to duck to see out.

[Gambit]

Yes its perfectly normal on all mk2 golf n jetta up to 88. The germans where just being lazy

[stainesy]

Ah right cool. Bloody annoying 

[sparkplug]

Yes its perfectly normal on all mk2 golf n jetta up to 88. The germans where just being lazy

just makes you one of the select few , welcome  .. 
adds millions of £££££ in "VW Ebay rare" too

[stainesy]

What? 

[sparkplug]

select few = the chosen ones better than those with  boring normal wipers

millions of £££ "VW e bay rare" = gullible mugs will pay more for it 

 

[stainesy]

Ah sweet how much more? 

I looked up online about early mk2's with left hand drive wipers and it said somerhing about them being called TYP19 or something.

[Dolly]

scene points, i have them 2, only annoying when it rains 

[cняis]

Try having a single front wiper! 

[Wayne]

Try having a single front wiper! 

They were never a good idea