68 Hemi Dart quarter panels...

The third pattern was cut at an angle like this....
The second pattern was in the middle of these two. View attachment 1715558857

Unless info for these two pics found on the webb are wrong.
Not sure of your description of wheel well here. Can be the angle fooling the eye. Lower body side curving under car.
This pic here is same car (Bagshaw´s) different angle. To me front lower part of wheel well looks to be intakt... unless of cause two very different cuts were made on same car. But I dont thing we shall exaggregate the fact some differances occured.
The Barracudas did not have any modes done to them from Chrysler or Hurst.
One has to very carefule when judging pics. A picture from 1968-69 usually shows a car not having any modes done to it. NHRA did not allow any. 1970 though, same car may run Pro Stock, and same wheel well may look different.
Now the race is on and you can see all kind of modes start to show up on cars.
A good sighn is if car is running SS B Class. That means either 1968 or 1969 and as said no mods where allowed.
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