ur-q lights & spoilers

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <961017204626_101461.1275_IHP145-2@CompuServe.COM> John Haygarth writes:

> >>Also - all of the cars I've seen in the UK have body-coloured rear spoilers.
> 
> Don't all early ur-qs have black bootlid spoilers like the coupes of the same
> era?

Others have said this - perhaps I've never noticed.  The time to check is at 
the AGM in spring 1997.

> > > (The car described as having "Euro" lights seems to have a set of Euro
> > > Audi 80 lights, with just 2 x H4 bulbs.)
> 
> Early ur-qs used two different headlights arrangements prior to 1985.
> The first LHD cars had two totally separate rectangular lights sunk behind a
> grille extension, the rally cars removed the  inner ones and fitted an air
> intake (for brake cooling?)
> 
> These were then replaced by a larger vertical faced setup until 85 when the
> sloping headlights & grille came in.

Yup.  The ones in the photo were different to both - they were the Audi 80 
analogues of the vertical ur-quattro Euro lights.

> I think both of these early arrangements were also used on the 80 & coupe of the
> same age.

No, I think the Audi 80 had a single-reflector vertical setup in the early 
1980s.  I had about 50 licensed to me at one point, but I'm damned if I can 
remember properly.

--
 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club