Well, I FINALLY made a decision!
I just agreed to a price and terms on an 01 sapphire blue GTS with a few upgrades (headers, exhaust, etc.). Overall, the color, options, and price are perfect for me. I couldn't be happier with how things have turned out.
He is sending me a few specific pics I asked for tomorrow, and as long as things look good I'll be making the transaction on Monday.
Now I just have to decide if I want to fly out and drive it home 1,000 miles or have it shipped
Thanks for everyones input, it helped me out alot!
-Derek
Excellent choice! Can't beat a Sapphire GTS (except maybe with an ACR). I love my Sapphire GTS best with it's Roe supercharger etc. I bought this 2000 Red/silver GTS ACR (all ACRs were GTS). The GTS is allowed to go 11.5 ET without a roll bar - The
RT10 and SRT10 only 13sec. Most road races don't allow a vert to compete without a rollbar although the GTS hardtop is, of course, designed for racing. The fastback and ducktail spoiler are good for an extra 4mph top speed over the RT and SRT bodies. Amercian Club Racers came with $10,000 worth of adjustable racing shocks and stock smooth tubes (10hp more). Selling for only a couple thousand more than a normally equipped GTS I found that it cost me hundreds of dollars to buy racing seat belt harnesses for my Sapphire GTS. ACR came with camlock 5 point seat belts as well as stocker 3 points.
If being a little slower is OK, then an RT is also OK.
All my verts leaked and got their roofs slashed. They were all noisey. I will never buy another convertible as long as I live.
Thursday [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZcEfAhgCA[/media]
I flew to Phoenix and paid for my newest ACR. Then I bought insurance for a couple hundred (for just over a month) and a 90 day registration/plate permit ($10). I had new tires installed and headed out of Phoenix. Started with 21,800 miles and now I have 24,800 miles on the car. Oil change when I bought it and absolutely no issues along the way. I drove through several snow storms (no problem) and drove through days of heavy rain. Wife and I visited family at Plam Desert, gambled at Laughlin, visited a Car "Gallery" and bought seat belts in Las Vegas. We visite with friends in Seattle, Olympia, Issaquah and shopped in Bellingham. We went to Lemay Car Museum in Tacoma and enjoyed the drive and spectacle of Snoqualmie Falls outside of Issaquah. We drove across the border and picked up my Stealth TT at the Hotel where we left it parked at Van Airport. The met one daughter in chilliwack and another in Kamloops. Managed to sneak away with the daughter and took the video down a backroad. Finally we made it home!
Another Holiday accomplished! Another great time and another great drive.
Every Hotel gave us special parking permissions and compliments on the car. One girl said that quite a few people came into the office to say how much they liked my ACR. With a Viper you can make friends every time you stop. When I whined about the price of the Hotel the girl knocked another $10 per night off for me! Try that with a vette!
We had a holday and I always love driving a supercharged Viper so the 2 weeks were a blast.
If you like driving you'll want to take the opportunity to drive your new purchase home. You said it's only 1,000 miles? When I go to town it's 200 iles there and 200miles back to the nearest city. Usually all my trips are 600-1000 miles per day. 600 with the wife and 1,000 without.
When I purchased my Roe Sapphire/silver GTS, I flew to Ohio, bought the car and drove back to the border to attend a car show in Vernon, BC 2 days later (no wife). I bought my Red/silver 98 GTS in Ill. after driving from chicago to Ringgold, Georgia and back to Pekin Illinois. Then drove that car back to BC with a stop at Mt. Rushmore. I flew to San Fransisco and bought a Stealth R/T TT there and drove that back to BC. All great trips and fantastic holidays. We drove 6,000 miles to Viper Owner's Invitational in Detroit and will be driving to SLC for the next VOI.
Ted
She looks stunning 
