Okay, which Charger is the Coke Bottle style one

[68X426]

I think the Coke Car is way better.

[flyinlow]

I've read the third gen was called in the styling studio the "Fuselage Design".






On fighter aircraft they sometimes use a wasp waist or coke bottle shape fuselage. the waist is where the wing protrudes. This helps streamline the over all cross section of the aircraft. As the wings start to add to the cross section , the smaller fuselage waist  helps keep it total cross section from having a big bulge. Lowers drag.

The coke waist on a 2nd or 3rd gen. Charger is where the cabin starts to protrude into the airstream.

Windtunnel or styling? ...... Don't know, however ir's a win/win for us.

[Mr.Woolery]

Both the 2nd and 3rd gen Chargers are "Coke bottle" designs, with the 3rd gen bodies also being called "Fuselage" designs.  They took the Coke bottle design from the 2nd gen and made it more pronounced in the 3rd gen.

[Brock Samson]

 lettuce beat on this old paint some more shall we?..

 


Kim you'r a Troll,.. you know that right?..  

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,15865.0.html

 

 

my point is showing these GTO profiles is that the Charger and Dodge in general was chasing Pontiac in the market
disagree if you like with my feeling that Dodge's designs for both manufacturing and style reasons aped the GM design 
started by Bill Michell of the wasp waists begun on the Mako Shark show cars in the early to mid '60s..
The third Gens had in common with the '68 G.M. intermediates the lack of a defined rear fender line seperating the roof from the rear fender also, the rear window designs were basicly carbon copies the same can be seen in the Torino designs especially the fastbacks of both the '68/69 and the 70/71 then again on the 72 up which even more closely followed industry practice,.. I suspect ease of manufacture as well as design trends, wasn't the third gen significantly  wider?.. interior space across the rear could be maximized by widening the roof to the outside edges of the rear fender.
Just my thoughts and 2 cents. pardon my pontifications but I do love these Designs...

[last426]

I got my information from this article.  http://musclecars.howstuffworks.com/classic-muscle-cars/1971-dodge-charger-hemi.htm  But Brock is correct on one thing for sure.  When I bought my car from the original owner I asked why he had chrome side mirrors and he said to distinguish the car from the GTO.  Kim







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[Brock Samson]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_bottle_styling

i found a charger III pic I've never seen before over on allpar.