MK1 rear hatch spoiler factory/dealer option debate

[roccit_53 at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (C Boyko)]

I'd guess the non-S cars had a duckbill like the one on my car, instead of
the deep air dam on the S. And oddly, I have an ad for the Champagne
Edition II (from Scientific American, May 1978) and the car shown has a big
deep S-like front spoiler, no signs of one in the rear tho. It is featured
with the Dasher, bus, and Beetle in the same edition. And there's other
cool stuff in the magazine, like an ad for a Radio Shack computer with an
astounding 32K of ram, for the price of only $3874. I bet the scirocco
wasn't a lot more than that! (I know my 77 Firebird was only $5600 tax in).
You could sure get a hell of a computer for that money now!

Cathy

 On 11:21 am 03/02/07 Cory Langford <Cory_Langford@bcit.ca> wrote:
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> Well, I never intended to start a controversy over the rear hatch
> spoiler installed.  I suspect that the pictures I have seen from the
> early 80s with the Scirocco S model and the rear hatch spoiler, were
> a dealer installed option (either a zender or kamie)
>
> I had a quick look over the sales receipts posted on driversfound and
> there is no hatch (rear) spoiler listed on the S model receipts
> posted there.
>
> But (just to keep things interesting), I did look over some of the
> other invoices, and I noticed that the 1979 Non S model has listed
> Spoiler, front & rear as standard.  So anyone want to explain this
> one, What rear and front spoiler came from the factory on the early
> non S models?
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> The difference seems to be the S model has a "Large front spoiler" as
> standard equipment, where as the non S 1979 simply has "Spoiler,
> front and rear" as standard equipment. Now the 78 champagne edition
> lists Front Spoiler with stripe, and no rear spoiler.
>
> Gotta love that marketing.  Is the integrated small lip in the hatch
> considered a rear spoiler by VW?  After all, we mk1 drivers do have
> that special "race-type" windshield wiper system :)
>
> Cory