Chrysler orders rare $250K 1992 Dodge Viper, once reportedly almost bought by ... - New York Daily News
Chrysler orders rare $250K 1992 Dodge Viper, once reportedly almost bought by Jay Leno, to be crushed Don't expect Chrysler to back down on its order for the South Puget Sound Community College to crush a rare pre-production 1992 Dodge Viper... Chrysler has asked that the South Puget Sound Community College in Olympia, Wa. crush a 1992 Dodge Viper, reports the Seattle Times. The pre-production muscle car, the fourth such model to be produced, is worth up to $250,000. “It’s like the day Kennedy was shot,” Norm Chapman, automotive-technology professor at SPSCC, told the Times. According to the automaker, the schools that received the cars signed an agreement to destroy the cars once they are no longer needed. “This car belongs in a museum, not in a crusher,” automotive professor Bob Riggin at the college told the Times, even going so far as to say former ‘Tonight Show’ show host and classic car enthusiast Jay Leno once tried to add the school’s Viper... “As part of the donation process, it is standard procedure -- and stipulated in our agreements -- that whenever vehicles are donated to institutions for education purposes that they are to be destroyed when they are no longer needed for their... Source: www.nydailynews.com
