Very rare...!
Do you know if some of these small-light are still alive?

Recently came out an interesting article on a specilized magazine here in Italy, saying that Giugiaro when first designed the Golf wanted a large rear light, but VW headquarter imposed him a small one due to cost limits.
They said that a bigger light would be mounted if the first years of production would have given a good econominc return, at that was...

In the same article are pubblished also some of the first hand-drafts of the Golf, then they where modified because of the US approval requirements: in detail hood and windshield angle were modified...