Technical File

When the Charger was introduced to Australia in 1971 it featured an inbuilt “Spoiler” or ‘Boat-tail” for the first time on any Australian designed car. This feature subsequently became an important facet of the public’s appreciation of the cars design. However in adding this feature the cars designers were left with a problem as there was nowhere on the cars rear surface to allow water to drain from the body drain channel between the boot lid, the rear window, the boat-tail and the rear quarter panels.

One of the engineers at the Adelaide design facility had a bright idea which provided a very simple solution – open a hole in the body drain channel, at its lowest point at the rear, and weld a vertical tube between the underside of the drain channel and the boot floor to allow water to drain and escape underneath the vehicle!

This was fitted on each side, at the rear of the boot lid, and it provided an effective solution to the problem. Every Charger was manufactured with this feature.