Genuine spoiler or not?

And another steel spoiler that was damaged in shipping. We repaired it.

Because the steel spoiler is thinner than the fiberglass version it takes two shim plates between the structure and the spoiler to close the gap in the black channel. Harder to install.
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Factory steel spoiler is made of two side panels, the center piece and the belly all spot welded together.

 

Sorry, my fault !
I didn't know that, I only knew the fiberglass spoilers (big) on more than 50 cars I've seen and inspected yet. I knew, that there are some shallow front valance made of steel, but not big spoilers.
Is it possible, that only US spec have had a steel spoiler ?
I've never seen a EU spec with metal spoiler.

you learn sth. new every day !

 

Wouldn't surprise me if it was for North America.

 

you trying to deliberatly confuse now?? The shallow spoiler was made of glass or steel. The big one ( the deep one as we call it normally) is ALWAYS made out of glass.

and btw my euro '83 QV has the steel one from new

 

No, I don't want to.
That's exactly, what I wrote and knew. I've never seen a big "deep" spoiler made of steel.

 

possible

my US `81, shallow steel spoiler (+selfmade brackets for installing euro bumper)

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well I stand corrected. I've never seen or heard of a front spoiler being made of steel. Why would they do that????

 

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Steel shallow spoiler...they went from glass to steel, for the shallows, sometime in late 77. This is the steel shallow spoiler going on my 77 dry sump.
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Thanks for all the replies, so to conclude, I'm pretty sure that the factory fitter shallow spoiler on my 1979 GTB dry sump would have been made out of steel. I think Hannibals photo concludes it all nicely.
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I disagree they switched to steel in 77. Ive only seen one 308 in person with a steel spoiler and Ive worked on a lot of them and it was an 84 US spec car. My 2 79's had fiberglass spoilers, both original to the car. It could even be a crap shoot what your car ended up with.

 

IF you can see the seams, it's three pieces.

I owned one, as it seems many here have.

The first object you hit, it changes to fibreglass!!!

 

Factory used orange primer on the GLASS ones....I have a 'glass one that is not primed orange, so I suspect, repro.
It's thinner than original too, IMO.

When Ferrari used 'glass for street cars, they layered it so thick it probably wieghed MORE than an equivalent, well made, steel or aluminum panel.

 

Food for thought, all North American 1976-77 cars:

20405 - 'glass shallow
22127 - 'glass shallow, with a Nerf Bar!!!
22641 - steel shallow.

20405 was color changed early, so I suspect wrecked hard enough to "keep on sandoing to the back bumper"

 

Totally defer to you on this as I only went off of three 77 cars where the two earliest had glass and a later November car had steel, all three "said" to be original. I support the crap shoot theory!

 

Where these mine?