Swallowtail website
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Local Hero
Swallowtail website
Has anyone seen this site before http://www.swallowtail.info/ ? Very good enthusiasts site (no glued on bits of plastic :wink: ) for early mk1s. Check out the scanned literature from the 70's, original colour card from 1975!
Cheers
Cheers
1981 1600 GTI (coming to a road near you soon…)
1983 1100 C
1983 1100 C
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Old Timer
Very interesting - I had seen Golfs in breakers :cry: that had these different features, but I didn't realise that they were '74 models…
They really were very Beetle-like in the early days!
They really were very Beetle-like in the early days!
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Settled In
Very interesting. Didn't know that.
Just goes to show what powerful tool the internet is. Wonder what else lurks out there that we don't know about/of ?
Just goes to show what powerful tool the internet is. Wonder what else lurks out there that we don't know about/of ?
MK1 Golf GTi Campaign:Alpine White, Vauxhall Omega MV6, Alpina B10 3.3 Touring, Dolomite Sprint, MG ZT V6, Volvo T5 R estate
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Life Member
Part of our job to assimulate all these sites!
Very interesting though. I didn't realise there was a difference between the small light and the swallowtails, I thought they were one and the same.
Cheers,
Drew.
Very interesting though. I didn't realise there was a difference between the small light and the swallowtails, I thought they were one and the same.
Cheers,
Drew.
Once a Mk1 fan, always a Mk1 Fan...
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Old Timer
Very interesting ! No mention of the 'postie' lights in the info section though. Maybe they never made it onto US cars
I have one of those grilles without the headlamp surrounds in the garage (!) I'd always thought that someone must have cut off the surrounds for some reason and made a very neat job of it - never occured to me that it was a specific, early part. I did notice that the headlights on the car it came from appeared to be different though, but I thought someone had made lights from another car fit (and therefore altered the grille)
Hmmm, very interesting !!!
Mark
I have one of those grilles without the headlamp surrounds in the garage (!) I'd always thought that someone must have cut off the surrounds for some reason and made a very neat job of it - never occured to me that it was a specific, early part. I did notice that the headlights on the car it came from appeared to be different though, but I thought someone had made lights from another car fit (and therefore altered the grille)
Hmmm, very interesting !!!
Mark
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Life Member
Been a member for over a years now since I have 2 swallowtails
The grilles without headlamp surrounds were only fitted to very early '75s.
Postie lights only came about because reversing lights were an option from '75 to '76 on some models. As US regulations require reversing lights (unlike UK), all US vehicles have reversing lights. In fact, pre-production cars were fitted with a competely different rear lamp unit to the normal small light, one of these vehicles is shown in the '74 brochure.
There is no such thing as a '74 Model Year Golf, they started production with '75 Model Year in May 74 and VINs reflect this.
Altogether there are loads of differences even between a swallowtail and a late small lamp from different bonnets to different rain trays, each day I find more!
Cheers
Rajan
The grilles without headlamp surrounds were only fitted to very early '75s.
Postie lights only came about because reversing lights were an option from '75 to '76 on some models. As US regulations require reversing lights (unlike UK), all US vehicles have reversing lights. In fact, pre-production cars were fitted with a competely different rear lamp unit to the normal small light, one of these vehicles is shown in the '74 brochure.
There is no such thing as a '74 Model Year Golf, they started production with '75 Model Year in May 74 and VINs reflect this.
Altogether there are loads of differences even between a swallowtail and a late small lamp from different bonnets to different rain trays, each day I find more!
Cheers
Rajan
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Settling In
'tis a really interesting site! I sent Dan (the boke that runs it) some scans of the first UK Golf road test - from an Autocar (1975? can't remember) - that he should hopefully get round to putting up soon!
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Settling In
Do you reckon they are looking at this site, thinking and possibly saying the same as us!
So is a 1980 GTI a big bumper SwallowTail????? Big bumpers
So the US could be a source of spares! I thought they only made Cheverolet Camaro's over there! Man.
Gareth
So is a 1980 GTI a big bumper SwallowTail????? Big bumpers
So the US could be a source of spares! I thought they only made Cheverolet Camaro's over there! Man.
Gareth
1983 Y GTI Black
1983 A 1.1c faded pink (Sometimes described as mars red!)
1983 A 1.1c faded pink (Sometimes described as mars red!)
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