Most Peugeots in the early 80's came form the factories with white cello (Benotto?) type bar tape that actually looked pretty nice, but not very comfortable on the hands. That's why many (including me) replaced them with cloth or foam type girps like "Grab-Ons".
When the mid 80's came around, the padded vinyl tapes took over on 99% of bikes and the cello tapes were pretty much pushed awy into history. It's still nice to see some NOS bikes from the 80's being sold lately at eBay still have the old cello plastic tapes on them though. Specially the white ones on Peugeots.

Chombi