The Go Wing: How a Factory Option Became the Most Recognizable Silhouette in the Mopar World

It's a Saturday morning in 1971 and you've pulled into the Dodge dealership to look at a new Charger. You're not sure you need one. Your current car runs fine. But then the salesman walks you around back and there it is, sitting up on two little pedestals above the trunk lid like something that escaped from Talladega, and now you absolutely need one. That's the Go Wing, and Chrysler knew exactly what it was doing when it put that option on the sheet.

By 1970, Chrysler had already proven at Daytona and Talladega that wings sold cars, even if most buyers never got within a hundred miles of a superspeedway. So the factory started offering a scaled-down version of that aero look on regular production Road Runners, GTXs, Chargers, Super Bees, Barracudas, and Challengers. The early cars got the pedestal-mounted wing that sat up off the deck lid. By 1971, Chrysler also rolled out a lower, flush-mounted version that a lot of folks call the Gull Wing. Same idea, different stance, and depending on who you ask at a cruise night, a different argument about which one looks better.

Whether either wing actually did anything for high-speed stability on a street car is still up for debate (spoiler: probably not much), but that was never really the point. It made the car look like it meant business, and fifty-plus years later, that's exactly why people still want one.

Why So Many of These Wings Never Made It This Far

Here's the problem. The Go Wing and Gull Wing were low-production options even when they were new, which means most of them didn't survive the trip to today. They cracked. They got sun-baked into brittle plastic. They got knocked clean off by a low garage door sometime around 1985 and nobody bothered replacing them. If you're chasing a numbers-matching restoration, or you just want your Road Runner to look the way it did the day it left the factory, finding a usable original is close to a lost cause.

That's where Trim Parts comes in. They build officially licensed Mopar reproductions of these wings, cast and finished to match the factory pieces, and we carry the lineup here at First Place Auto Parts.

What We Carry

The 1971-1974 Mopar B-Body Licensed Rear Go Wing Spoiler, Complete Kit is the one most Charger, Road Runner, and GTX owners end up ordering. It's a complete kit, so you're not stuck hunting down the pedestals and hardware separately after the fact.

Running an E-body instead? The 70-74 Cuda/Barracuda Licensed Organosol Black Go Wing Spoiler Complete Kit comes in the correct wrinkle-textured black finish Chrysler used on certain applications from the factory, instead of a gloss black that would look wrong sitting next to original trim.

If you're doing a '71 Charger and want the whole aero package handled at once, Trim Parts also builds a 1971 Charger Licensed Mopar Front and Rear Go Wing Spoiler Package that pairs the front chin spoiler with the rear wing, so the car reads correct front to back instead of having just one piece finished.

And for the Dodge and Plymouth B-body crowd running the later, flush-mount design, there's the 71-74 Dodge/Plymouth B-Body Licensed Rear Gull Wing Spoiler, Complete Kit, with a matching Organosol black version for cars that left the factory that way.

Don't Skip the Hardware

A wing is only as good as what's holding it down, and fifty-year-old mounting studs have usually seen better days. If yours are stripped, cracked, or just missing, Trim Parts sells the small stuff too, including the Mopar B/E-Body Front Spoiler Mounting Kit and a Hardware Kit for All Spoilers covering the screws, nuts, and pedestal bolts most restorers lose track of over the decades. It's a lot cheaper to replace that hardware now than to explain a cracked deck lid to your buddy at the next show.

There are also reproduction cutout templates for anyone adding a wing to a car that never had one from the factory, which takes a lot of the guesswork out of drilling into a trunk lid you can't undo.

Final Note

If none of the kits above match your exact application, browse the full catalog of Trim Parts spoilers to see everything we stock for early-'70s Mopar muscle cars. And if the wing is just one item on a much longer restoration list, spend some time in our Mopar store, where we've got the rest of what these Dodge, Plymouth, and Chrysler classics need after fifty-plus years on the road.