The Dodge Charger Daytona is one of the more extreme objects ever to wear a manufacturer’s badge and a license plate simultaneously. The 18-inch aluminum nose cone that replaced the standard Charger’s front end was designed in a wind tunnel at the Lockheed facility in Burbank. The 23-inch rear wing — positioned high enough that the trunk lid could still open — was there not for aesthetics but because the aerodynamics of the standard Charger body at 200 miles per hour produced lift that made the car dangerously unstable. Chrysler’s engineers needed the downforce. They also needed to sell 500 examples to homologate the car for NASCAR. They built 503.