Custom rear spoiler for the Missile

mopardrt said

the trunk lid thing is actully a myth
"Two stories explain the rear spoiler. The common idea is that it's three feet tall so the trunk can open. However, it could have simply been mounted on the trunk in the production cars. An interview with the engineers at Chrysler, long ago, included a comment to the effect that as the numbers kept getting better as they raised the spoiler, until it was three feet off the car, that's where they left it."

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I'll buy it that they used the trunk lid story as an excuse. But I'm not so sure that they could have mounted it to the trunk lid. The uprights had braces that went through the trunk & down to the floor of the car. They weren't just bolted to the top of the fenders. At least not on the race cars, not 100% positive about the street cars but I think they had the braces too. If the race cars didn't have the braces they probably would have had some strange wrinkles in the quarter panels at 200 mph. :-D If the wings were bolted the the trunk lids they probably would've ripped the whole lid off of the car. They had to do it pretty much the same for both production & race versions because the whole reason for the production car was to homologate the car for racing. :toothy10: