1 2 Mill Life

[Policy Limits]

Anyone on here?

[13COBRA]

Cool car.

[Policy Limits]

It looks like a Gen 2 on steroids. Ha.

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Wonder what the deal looked like. Not an auction so you cant see what the closing number is. With those miles its probably close.

[Nth Moto]

I know the new owner, it's coming here for a build. Should be super exciting!

[Lawineer]

I know the new owner, it's coming here for a build. Should be super exciting!

What kind of build? Straight line or road racing? Please don't say it's going to be another mega hp build

[Arizona Vipers]

What kind of build? Straight line or road racing? Please don't say it's going to be another mega hp build

Nobody does road race builds, so straight line for sure...

[13COBRA]

Nobody does road race builds, so straight line for sure...

Aaron does.

[Nth Moto]

What kind of build? Straight line or road racing? Please don't say it's going to be another mega hp build

These comments always strike me as interesting. I get what you're saying, but at the same time, we have cars that make 5X the power of what a stock one does and they drive better than what most head/cam cars do. That probably sounds hard to believe (and I know your background in the field, so to speak) but until you get in one and experience it, it's just hard to convey over the internet.

[Lawineer]

These comments always strike me as interesting. I get what you're saying, but at the same time, we have cars that make 5X the power of what a stock one does and they drive better than what most head/cam cars do. That probably sounds hard to believe (and I know your background in the field, so to speak) but until you get in one and experience it, it's just hard to convey over the internet.

Oh, I don't doubt your ability to make a ton of power that is very streetable. I get it. I get why HP is fun, but it completely ruins the "balance" of the car and of course its track capabilities. I bet there aren't many 2000hp vipers that can run a fully session (if any at all). It goes from being a "sports car" to a drag car, imo. It just becomes one dimensional. It's why my "race car" is 200hp, my weekend car is ~675hp and my daily driver is +800hp. You'd think that's all backwards.

If you removed the cost from the equation and I could pick how much power I wanted my viper to have, I'd probably say another 100-150hp. I probably could easily have that for what I spent in suspension anyway. I'd be cool with 1500 in the SUV though, lol (except I have no desire to find out how unreliable a 1500hp mercedes is).


I'm sure that one day I'll be calling you for a forced induction build though. If my engine does go under (and I'm still under the third party warranty) and I have my next car (AMG GTR, Z07 or GT3RS are the front runners right now), I can't image I wouldn't take that money and do a nice supercharged build.

[13COBRA]

Oh, I don't doubt your ability to make a ton of power that is very streetable. I get it. I get why HP is fun, but it completely ruins the "balance" of the car and of course its track capabilities. I bet there aren't many 2000hp vipers that can run a fully session (if any at all). It goes from being a "sports car" to a drag car, imo. It just becomes one dimensional. It's why my "race car" is 200hp, my weekend car is ~675hp and my daily driver is +800hp. You'd think that's all backwards.

If you removed the cost from the equation and I could pick how much power I wanted my viper to have, I'd probably say another 100-150hp. I probably could easily have that for what I spent in suspension anyway. I'd be cool with 1500 in the SUV though, lol (except I have no desire to find out how unreliable a 1500hp mercedes is).


I'm sure that one day I'll be calling you for a forced induction build though. If my engine does go under (and I'm still under the third party warranty) and I have my next car (AMG GTR, Z07 or GT3RS are the front runners right now), I can't image I wouldn't take that money and do a nice supercharged build.

Correct, but those cars aren't running full sessions. They're doing a warm up, a full send, maybe a second flyer, and a cool down then coming off.

Super similar to how Feras (Corvette) and Cole (GTR) do Time Attack in their 1500+ hp builds.

[Nth Moto]

Oh, I don't doubt your ability to make a ton of power that is very streetable. I get it. I get why HP is fun, but it completely ruins the "balance" of the car and of course its track capabilities. I bet there aren't many 2000hp vipers that can run a fully session (if any at all). It goes from being a "sports car" to a drag car, imo. It just becomes one dimensional. It's why my "race car" is 200hp, my weekend car is ~675hp and my daily driver is +800hp. You'd think that's all backwards.

If you removed the cost from the equation and I could pick how much power I wanted my viper to have, I'd probably say another 100-150hp. I probably could easily have that for what I spent in suspension anyway. I'd be cool with 1500 in the SUV though, lol (except I have no desire to find out how unreliable a 1500hp mercedes is).


I'm sure that one day I'll be calling you for a forced induction build though. If my engine does go under (and I'm still under the third party warranty) and I have my next car (AMG GTR, Z07 or GT3RS are the front runners right now), I can't image I wouldn't take that money and do a nice supercharged build.

I hear you on all that. In my opinion, I feel there are probably 50% less people who use their ACR in a "straightline oriented" format with a large side helping of drive-it-around use as there are that use them as a mainly track oriented car. Both of which are looked upon as "ruining" the car from the collector viewpoint, ha! I guess what I'm saying is that for the small percentage of the total sum of the cars that have turned them into big power monsters, there are still plenty out there that aren't to tote the flag on the circuit. It all comes down to what you want to do with your car. I'm not a capable enough road race driver to appreciate how good the ACR is probably, but I did just do another 6 second pass in an ACR this past weekend at TX2K and it was really good at doing that.

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[Arizona Vipers]

I know the new owner, it's coming here for a build. Should be super exciting!

Wow, insane! Open checkbook build I'm assuming

[Mr. Acoustics]

It that the same car that lived in the lobby of Prefix? If I am not mistaken that car got sold off after the passing of the founder Kim Zeile.

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[13COBRA]

It that the same car that lived in the lobby of Prefix? If I am not mistaken that car got sold off after the passing of the founder Kim Zeile.

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Yes, same car.

[ViperGeorge]

Yes, same car.

I'm confused. The car the OP posted is an ACR-E, the one with the Prefix window decal looks to be a 2013 First Edition. It is not an ACR. Oh wait, you are referring to the matte B/W in the back. My bad.

[RT SERPENT]

Gorgeous car!

[VENOM-TA]

What kind of build? Straight line or road racing? Please don't say it's going to be another mega hp build

Crazy to spend that much on a pristine single digit mile car to turn around and TT it.. not that TT is bad cause it’s what I’d love to do to mine.. But that car is a serious collector car..

[Aevus]

cars are meant to be driven

[ViperJon]

cars are meant to be driven

Thats why you buy one with miles on it already since you're tearing it down anyway? This guy paid wayyyyyy over average market value to get one with no mileage. To each his own.

[ACRSNK]

That car is beautiful!

[ViperGeorge]

When I was thinking about an ACR with a 9 liter I found one with a 9 liter that was virtually identical to the one in this thread, except not matte. I've always loved this color combo. The car had very low mileage and was kept in a bubble in a heated garage. This was in December of 2020. I didn't want to modify my ACR/TA so I figured I would just buy a second ACR that was already upgraded.

It was listed for $185K but Bill Pemberton knew the owner and he put me in touch with him. The owner was willing to sell it to me for $165K. However the car was on consignment until the end of January, 2021. He looked to see if he could cancel the consignment but no dice. So we decided to wait figuring the car would not sell at $185K. Wrong! A week before the end of January it sold.

I was bummed so I said "Fu@k it, I'm going to upgrade my ACR/TA" which I did. There is always the one that got away. In any event the new owner probably just fell in love with the car and said "I want it!" Good for him, he would probably be kicking himself if he didn't buy it and someone else did.

[Hawk]

$500 K to me is a whole lot of money but to some its not. The guy near me at the marina world trade in his 65’ Viking every 3 years and get a new on at about a $500K upgrade. Never mine the $9K it cost to fill the fuel tank ! The new owner of this viper can clearly afford it and fell in love with the color. Good for him and I hope he enjoys driving it, for anyone that doesn’t drive there’s you don’t know what your missing. If he bought it for an investment than I would tell him bad move ,plenty of things to invest money in that would bring a bigger return
BTW love the color ,there was a matt red one for sale about 2 years ago for just $150K I think the matte finish looks fantastic
Just my $.02

[Mikey]

Casually buying a 500k collector's item and then immediately throwing twin turbos on it. That's the dream

[Lawineer]

Casually buying a 500k collector's item and then immediately throwing twin turbos on it. That's the dream

We all have Gen 5 vipers here. We're all pretty damn fortunate. 10 years ago, I would have thought anyone with a dedicated race car, a $135k (ish) Viper, daily driver and then just stroking a check for 800hp secondary daily driver to be living a dream. And it is, even if a very small percentage of people have nicer dreams.

Not to get too warm and fuzzy, but almost everyone in the world considers even us "regular G5 folk" to be living dreams.

[Mikey]

Fair enough, social media has made me forget that not everyone is a multimillionaire at 23 making 200k a month while looking at a graph sipping fancy drinks in the Bahamas