Buying a Canadian Viper - Pros/Cons????

[CROM]

Any info you guys can give me on Canadian vipers? I found one being sold in the U.S. (98 GTS)

I would greatly appreciate it!

Thank you

 

[Wild Bill]

If you get one you'll start saying "eh' and drinking beer with a moose on it

 

[DodgeViper01]

I think you should get in contact with ACR STEVE. I believe his ACR is a Canadian Viper. He would be able to tell you a few things.

 

[Bratatatat]

Shouldn't be much of a problem. Main differences will be 1) the speedo is in KMs with the MPHs minimized towards the center and 2) the running lights

I also concur with Wild Bill (with a slight West coast modification), you'll have to say "eh" more often and drink beer with a Mountain on it http://www.kokaneebeer.com/index2.php

p.s. I did the reverse, I bought a US Viper and imported it to Canada.

Cheers!

 

[Viper ACR]

I did the same I bought my ACR from NC and had it shipped here saved a bunch of money. It was cheaper to buy it, have it shipped pay the duty then to buy locally . Right now it is around $85 to buy a new coupe in the states which works out to be $95 canadian . But to buy a new one from a canadian dealer they charge us $130 canadian or $117 american, go figure.

 

[PhoenixGTS]

Down side is that even though it will look, sound, and run like an American Viper it will have a cocky attitude and think it is smarter and/or better than all its American Viper friends.

 

[newelly]

life is like a "eh" box of chocolates...run forest run

 

[CROM]

Well the car is a very good deal. I am just wondering if it matters at all. Perhaps it will hurt resale value because it is in KM? and originally titled in Canada?

For some lame reason I'm thinking to myself "if it was a US model, I'd be on my way to get it"

btw

"This Beer *****" John Candy, Canadian Bacon

 

[Tom F&L GoR]

I bought a '94 out of Canada - was a little more work to replace seatbelts to meet US specs, but since added 60,000+ miles. You can disable the daytime lights and very very easily replace the speedo and metric dash gauges - Viper Paul at the Wisconsin junkyard will have some. You can't change the VIN, which will have a "C" in place of one of the "B" digits. Keep all the import documentation for your own sake, but it will also show anyone else that DOT and NHTSA think it's the same as a US car. You can't get any more identical.

PS went to W.T.Woodson High School.

 

[2000_Black_RT10]

which will have a "C" in place of one of the "B" digits

I wonder if they changed that later on? My 2000 is a Canadian car and it starts 1B3ER65...


Here's my Canuck dash, I laughed the first time how high the numbers go.

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[Tom F&L GoR]

Hmmm.. Maybe I should take that back. In '94 the US cars started 1B3BR65 and my Canadian starts 1B3CR65. The registry at http://ivr.viperclub.org/vin.php shows that the fourth digit means type of passenger safety, not country. The second B is manual seat belts, doesn't have a designation for C. E means active driver safety and airbags. If the "safety" is the same system, that would indicate Canadian and US cars now carry the same VIN.

I guess Vipers are faster now. The '94 Canadian speedo topped out at 320.