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 Dodge Stratus NATCC Cage

Here we see the rear shock towers on a Dodge Stratus Super Touring car. It was being built for the ill-fated North American Touring Car Championship (NATCC). Note that the car is not even present. The cage is built onto the floor pan and then the rest of the unibody is welded around it. Just like NASCAR, except that the unibody does have some small contribution to chassis stiffness. This practice of building the unibody around the cage was eventually outlawed in European Super Touring.

Check out the tube connecting the shock towers and also note how it is triangulated. One can see the firewall in the distance. The center exhaust tunnel is moved over to the passenger side in order to allow the driver to sit closer to the center of the car.


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