Confused about tin top and cabby S1/small lights

Ok so I was always under the impression that the cabby lights are different to the tintop s1 lights. I've been searching for a set of s1 tintop lights on eBay the last few days and I'm confused because there is people on there claiming the lights they are selling fit both??

i dont know the answer but also interested in this so thought iwould comment so i get emailed any answers

they are the same chap! the swallowtail/posty ones are different but only in that instead of white reverse light section they have a red section for rear fogs (i assume)

pretty sure there almost the same to wen i brought my cabby 2 years ago i was told it had tintop lights fitted not sure y if you can get a cheap set worth a try id say

cabby lights sit slightly differently to series one leaving more of a gap near the hatch edge. running one of each on mine.

is that deffo an S1 difference and not swallowtail? have you got part numbers for them both, assuming they're both genuine?

I did check before but could only find 1 part number for cab and s1 lights, though maybe the s1 units were deleted so long ago they wont even show in data history…

ill have a look when i go down to the unit tommorrow, i have postie, cabby and normal genuine series 1 lighs so soon can tell you

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right ive got 2 different part numbers, need to check cabby ones too
763138 postie ones
53225 nos hella

are there any other numbers? I need vw part number so 171 xxx xxx, those look liek hella part numbers (or whoever made the lights, saturnus made some VW units as did a few other makers)

Yep they're essentially the same

As above there have been various different manufacturers for vw

So does this mean you can take cuts off the cabriolet rear panel to make up s1 rear panel for a Tin top? I'm interested in making my 83tin top have swallow tail rear lights

I'm sure there identical apart from the posties as statedearlier

not really since the cabrio panel stops where the useful metal would be for the tailgate hole, the tailgate might yeild some useful panels but it wont be exactly right i dont think plus you would end up with gaps i recon but could be filled easily enough. if you also fitted the plate trim from a cab that might look alright I suppose