There's an eight page thread on thesamba.com's Vanagon subforum:
TheSamba.com :: View topic - Bulley bars and Brush guards PICS post em up!
First pic from 2008
last pic from 2014
Odd that they call them a 'bulley bar' when the Type II was called a 'bulli'.
For purposes of this thread 'bully bar' would be appropriate. 
AKA 'roo bar'.
What I'd gone looking for was the Hurst brush guard from the 50s:
http://images.thesamba.com/vw/classi...ix/3942297.jpg