I got lucky on the P/C's... whereas the rods I bought from the same guy at a swap meet last year are complete worthless junk, the cylinders are all in good shape! They all measured in exactly the same. What a relief. Looks like a new set of rings and a hone job are what I'll be pursuing to freshen them up.
Thats the chance you take when you buy used motor parts at a swap meet, remember, they are selling that crap for a reason.
Believe me, I now know this to be too dang true. For anyone that's interested, I bought the parts from Walter Shit, I mean Schmidt, who used to run the Wally Gator Bug at Pacific Northwest VW events in Oregon and Washington. I thought he actually he seemed like a nice guy, but obviously my former instincts about him were true.
Bottom line is I'm glad the P/C's turned out to be okay. I usually just buy new, but it seems to me that pistons and cylinders, depending on their application, are sometimes thrown away way too soon. Had they come out of a turbo engine I probably wouldn't have bought them. Lol.