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If the final product lives up to the sketches that Pruett was shown, it'll look quite a bit different than the other DP bodies available right now, especially the nose/front fenders and side pod profile.
The only limitation is that the body has to be capable of fitting other chassis than the Coyote chassis with little to no modification, that's unless that rule got dropped with the IMSA/GA merger, and Nelson has expressed a desire to sell the new body to customers, even to those who run Riley or Dallara chassis.
But even at that, because of chassis regs and BOP, I'd bet that the body won't be very extreme aside from styling cues, which is what the DP's IMO need right now. The Corvette bodywork is out of date (the C6 is no longer in production), and the Ford bodywork looks virtually identical to the generic Riley DP bodywork--a different shape for the radiator grille isn't exactly a big change. Only other difference between Ford and generic for Riley is that the Ford side pods are angled downwards (sort of like what the AXR/ADR bodywork might have) to provide a place to mount intakes for the turbochargers/intercoolers.
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