I had a couple minutes to look through an apartment building parking garage... and was surprised to find a Viper, a Chevelle Malibu, and this sad Camaro. Poor thing needs some love
it's so odd to see a Viper in a parking garage... it shouldn't be, they are only worth about 40 k... 10 to 20k less than most new vehicles. Maybe there just weren't that many ever made, maybe that's why I rarely see them
No shit! I hope you got to drive it, or at least got a damn fun ride in it! I was on staff at one of San Diego's Mopar dealerships from 2014-2020, as the photographer, and got to drive everything on the lot. But never out of the parking lot. They don't go very fast in the parking lots. I never have driven a fast car like that on the highway. But over the past 2 decades of being a car guy, I've read a lot about Vipers, and have only heard the same thing you did, they are pure hot rods/sports cars... among the best under a half million dollars
I think I mentioned here before about a friend of mine winning one in a hole in one contest . He had it for years and let his son drive it once! Not a quarter of a mile from where he left, he totaled it!
I wonder, does that indicate what morons we are when young, or, what a lousy jobs our dads do to raise us to take it easy on the car, and let loose at the track and not the neighborhood street among trees, fire hydrants, curbs, and other cars? Not too many people total their car at a track, or in an empty field. It's the damn trees and such, that become bump stops that destroy the cars in a pin ball sort of way
A friend of mine had a Viper and told me it was a pure Hot Rod that didn't leak oil. I believe he was correct!
ReplyDeleteNo shit! I hope you got to drive it, or at least got a damn fun ride in it! I was on staff at one of San Diego's Mopar dealerships from 2014-2020, as the photographer, and got to drive everything on the lot. But never out of the parking lot. They don't go very fast in the parking lots. I never have driven a fast car like that on the highway. But over the past 2 decades of being a car guy, I've read a lot about Vipers, and have only heard the same thing you did, they are pure hot rods/sports cars... among the best under a half million dollars
DeleteI think I mentioned here before about a friend of mine winning one in a hole in one contest . He had it for years and let his son drive it once! Not a quarter of a mile from where he left, he totaled it!
ReplyDeleteI wonder, does that indicate what morons we are when young, or, what a lousy jobs our dads do to raise us to take it easy on the car, and let loose at the track and not the neighborhood street among trees, fire hydrants, curbs, and other cars? Not too many people total their car at a track, or in an empty field. It's the damn trees and such, that become bump stops that destroy the cars in a pin ball sort of way
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