has anyone been to CAAP lately?

[big-n-italian]

i heard that purple is going to made for only a week or possibly two. if you can find a purple car, get one. they are going to be RARE.

 

[CitySnake]

That car has "Plumcrazy" written all over it!

 

[musicncars]

That car has "Plumcrazy" written all over it!

NICE!!! REALLY NICE!!!

 

[musicncars]

i heard that purple is going to made for only a week or possibly two. if you can find a purple car, get one. they are going to be RARE.

as usual, it seems that purple has to be the least used color ever on an automobile.. apparently people do not like it that much, but from my experience, as with my 1970 plum crazy challenger, at car shows everyone loves it. i guess its "as long as its not my car, the color is awesome" mentality. but thats fine with me. today everyone hates it, 20 years from now it will be one of the coolest colors ever on a viper. my prediction, anyway

 

[snakeplissken]

There were several built ACR's in the plant. Here's the only one with the wing and splitters attached:

That's a black ACR without a wing just over the hood in the shot above.

The whole build going on today was ACR's on the line.

Thanks for the info, There building the ACR's faster than I expected.

 

[Lawrenzo]

NICE!!! REALLY NICE!!!

It doesn't look at all like the modern Plum Crazy- which is a good thing. It looks far classier in my estimation!

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[musicncars]

It doesn't look at all like the modern Plum Crazy- which is a good thing. It looks far classier in my estimation!

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thank goodness! its looks like a serious purple. (if there is such a thing)lol.

 

[musicncars]

bump..to find out if anyone else has been to CAAP and have any updates.......i like updates.

 

[JonB]

CAAP is actually building a few more SSGs at the moment, and the 'usual mix' of SRT and ACR and a few SRT-Cs

 

[GRNBGON]

Any SSG ACR in that mix Jon?

 

[musicncars]

yes..are there???

 

[plumcrazy]

lol @ city.......

 

[ViperArry]

The number 91 GTS/R's are the ones I know... but whats up with the silver striped GTS/R?

I would love to see more pictures of this line-up and CAAP since a trip from Holland is a bit too far.

 

[SylvanSRT]

The silver car was the homolagtion special/prototype built to certify the car with the FIA, it is a GTS/R with a full interior, and a GTS/R body. The car was supposedly built at a cost of $1,000,000 !

 

[ViperArry]

Wow, does anyone have more pictures of it.... Maybe I'll rebuild a AutoArt GTS/R into that prototype.

Why o why did Dodge quit on racing with it?

 

[SylvanSRT]

car became outdated, but was still raced even in some very competitive series up until a few years ago, I would imagine it is very tough to be at or near the top in an almost 10yr old race car. And why would Dodge support a car that the body style is no longer in production. I will try to get some addtional pics of the silver car up later in the day.

 

[SylvanSRT]

Higher res pics in my gallery. Note no door handles, hood pins, side exhaust, front and side splitters, additional hood vents, fuell filler door, lack of hood speaker vents, and lots of other idfferent details

 

[SylvanSRT]

 

[ViperArry]

car became outdated, but was still raced even in some very competitive series up until a few years ago, I would imagine it is very tough to be at or near the top in an almost 10yr old race car. And why would Dodge support a car that the body style is no longer in production. I will try to get some addtional pics of the silver car up later in the day.

Dodge had a winning car at Le Mans, Daytona, FIA GT and lots of different series....
Then, why didn't they continue the program until the first SRT-C was ready and update it then.

Everything was there to build a Competion Coupe for GT2, but they went for GT3 instead.

Even though the Viper will be sold even without racing succes, there would be more Chryslers/Dodge sold with a succesfull racingteam.

Hope they will think about their succeses in the past and take that Ilmor engine.... an ACR a lot of composite material Mopar Underground and build a succesfull GT2 racer from it.

I'll certainly look in your image gallery and save them to my computer. First view looks like it won't be a big problem to rebuild a "normal" GTS/R race model into that special model.

Did it have a sign with an explaning text?

Thanks for the info!

 

[InjectTheVenom]

If we may believe wikipedia:

Chrysler Viper GTS-R - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In 2000 Chrysler and Oreca had begun work on developing a Le Mans prototype, forcing Oreca to abandon their GTS-R's, then just one year ago the homologation ran out.