I'm looking for information on the battery trays for original untouched Hemi E-Bodies. Our 70 Hemi Challenger had the corner lopped off the corner closest to the engine. Any other untouched original examples of Hemi E-Bodies with the battery tray modified in this way?

I guess if there are examples, scheduled production dates would be useful as well.

Thanks for the input!

Here is a untouched car and the tray is uncut. I have heard of this before but it was always done after the fact.

Sounds like it had aftermarket covers on it at one time and the owner decided to do a little trimming. I have done the same thing to my tray in my gtx.

I'm in the middle of that right now. I am welding up a shorter tray to clear my Stage v Barton covers. I would like to see what others have done to modify their battery trays to clear the cast covers.

I looked at a 32,000 mile Hemi challenger this week, tray is uncut still original FC7 paint(sorry I forgot the camera.)

Thanks for the replies. I was thinking it was probably a clearance move in the car's early life due to headers or valve covers, but wanted to double-check.