ORIGINAL: KMPX2
ORIGINAL: BLK 6050
And by the way "all" the special body parts are metal not fiberglass as reported in more than one auto mag, but for the fender scoops (for tire clearance)
This is only true for the NASCAR birds. On the street cars the fender tops are not cut out.
Actually the street Daytona has a hold cut out under the fender scoops that is covered with a screen. The street Superbird has no cut outs at all. The Daytona hole has no real use on the street, but it did start a lot of stories in some mags at the time about how it was there to extract air from the fender area....not true as again they were added to make room for tire clearance on the NASCAR Daytonas and Superbirds.
In Chrysler wind tunnel reports on the Daytona they ran a lot of studies on the ideal "rake" (nosedown angle) the wingcars should have on the track, and this is what led to the fender scoops.