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Originally Posted by RedEsprit
On original cars, there were basically three rear flare configurations, wide hip, narrow hip, and comp.
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Actually..there
were three configurations of the rear shape:
The Comp cars and most of the street cars were what is known now as 'wide-hip'... broad rear wings with no flare.
The S/Cs had a 1-inch flare pounded into them before paint for street use, but they were Comp cars with wide hip to begin with
And finally, the 'narrow-hip' was a design change that lasted only for a few dozen street cars in the first production run. After they changed over to street production, they tried to minimize the size of the rear fenders, since the street-sized tires left a lot of "air" in the wheel arch opening. A few dozen were built that way...but it didn't look as good as the old way, so they switched back. The 'narrow-hip' had no flare either.