Operation: SAVE THE VIPER

[NetkoGTS]

We Have To Save The First Dodge Vipers Ever Made From Being Destroyed (http://jalopnik.com/we-have-to-save-the-first-dodge-vipers-ever-made-from-b-1537666534?utm_campaign=socialflow_jalopnik_facebo ok&utm_source=jalopnik_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow)


Limber up your petition-signin' fingers and prepare to channel some outrage, as we've got some heartbreaking news we unfortunately have to share: Fiat-Chrysler has ordered the destruction of 93 of the first Dodge Vipers ever produced, and VIN #4 is driving the slow path to the death chamber.

You see, back in the 1990s, Chrysler donated several Dodge Vipers to educational programs nationwide for use in training programs. Think design classes, mechanics' workshops, body shops, things of that nature. These vehicles were pre-production and not street legal; they were built without speed limiters or emission-control dynamics.

Sometime within the last 20 years, two of the educational-use vehicles were actually used on the road and were involved in accidents. The lawsuits brought forth from these accidents is now costing Fiat millions, so rather than take the risk of more Viper-accident payouts, FCA has issued the death knell for the 91 remaining Vipers.

The fourth Viper found its way to South Puget Sound Community College in Washington, where it has been for the last seven years. The college not only uses it in classes, but for promotional purposes; "Everybody wants their picture taken with the Viper," professor Bob Riggin told the Tacoma News Tribune.

Jay Leno even offered to buy Viper #4 from Chrysler before it landed at the college, but was turned down for reasons unspecified. But now SPSCC has two weeks to have the Viper crushed.

There is a petition circulating to save Viper #4, but Chrysler appears to be standing firm. If Viper #4 is crushed, it wouldn't be the first; late last year, two other educational, pre-production Vipers had to be destroyed.



The petition link:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/393/174/916/operation-save-the-vipers/


Don't let this happen again!

Dodge Viper destroyed # 1 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdp8auBPGp0)

Dodge viper destroyed # 2 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWVPon6YxH0)

Crushing a 1999 Dodge Viper with a John Deere excavator - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqh2KkoLbfI#t=11)

[TitleMine]

Sometime within the last 20 years, two of the educational-use vehicles were actually used on the road and were involved in accidents. The lawsuits brought forth from these accidents is now costing Fiat millions, so rather than take the risk of more Viper-accident payouts, FCA has issued the death knell for the 91 remaining Vipers.


I'd say that's a very compelling reason to destroy the cars. This country man, someone gives you a free supercar and you sue them when you take it out against their will and the law and wreck it. God do we need tort reform.

[NetkoGTS]

Fiat Bastards. How may of those RARE Ferrari's are set to be destroyed?

[SandViper]

Who's going to steal the car with me. We can hide it the same place those Gold coins where found on that couples lot from that bank robbery from the early 1900's

[BlknBlu]

Put it in the Corvette Museum.

Bruce

[SandViper]

Put it in the Corvette Museum.

Bruce

In thier "Secret Exposed Viper Torcher Lair"! Yeah, that's Chevy we know about it.

SIGNED!

[Ohiotj]

Sell it at Barrett Jackson. They sell all their cars as being not street legal.

[KRATEDISEASE]

Crush that bitch !!

[daytonprowler]

As far as I know, this one still sits at the Moore Technology Center at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. What a shame to destroy these vehicles.

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/89/8b/8e/898b8e3e14f951aedc17cba33a943f56.jpg

[KRATEDISEASE]

crush, crush, crush !!

[Viper Girl]

There really has to be an alternative option here. I heard that even Jay Leno was turned down to buy one.

Maybe that fear is about having Jr mechanics that have worked on them... Hard to resell something that you don't really know the condition of...
If the cars could get checked out, and a bill of sale rather than a title... maybe Dodge would go for it?

[01sapphirebob]

Save the snakes!!!!!

This is heartbreaking in a way. Someone should step up and buy them.

[100]

Thanks for the heads-up on the petition Netko. It only take as few seconds to fill out.

The legal way to stop this is to have the Chrysler Museum, VOA, and VCA file for an Injunction.

[100]

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/rare-dodge-viper-be-destroyed-n46446

Chrysler orders the destruction of an extremely rare pre-production Dodge Viper. KING's Elisa Hahn reports on why the days are almost up for Viper VIN #4. (1992 Hardtop.)

[VIPER BAZ UK]

signed