2000 Dodge Viper Gts on 2040-cars
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
More details at: deloisedppetanick@wackyracers.net . This car is as perfect as they come. It's never been in any accidents or had any need for any mechanical work other
then normal maintenance.
I have owned this car since 2011 when I bought it from an owner of a car dealership here in Kansas City. I myself
am a manager at a major Dodge dealer here in KC as well. This car has been handled with kids gloves since day one,
it's had a few owners, but that's how these investment cars work. Let me first give you a history of why I bought
this specific car. As part of the Viper Club of America I had heard too many stories of guys who buy these cars
with a thousand miles on them and they take them out and they start leaking from everywhere! I specifically chose
this car because it had 27,000 miles on it when I got it, and what this means is that the owners drove this car
about 2500 miles a year. This is important because these cars need to be driven, not just sit, that is extremely
hard on these cars! If you look at the vehicle history report above, you will see the miles are exactly as you want
to see them over the years. It only scores low on their scale because of the number of times it's been registered,
but again, this is an investment car. So, I've put about 2000 miles a year on it since I got it. As Jay Leno says,
"We are caretakers of these cars for the next owner", and that's what I always do, they are better when they leave
me, then when I got them. This Viper doesn't leak a drop of anything, and never has!
The oil has been changed every 3000 miles on the dot with full synthetic. The air has always blown cold. There has
never been one mechanical issue with this car, nor a single check engine light. The car is completely unmolested,
other then two items I'm aware of, the stereo was replaced with a touch screen DVD fold out (A good thing) and the
inlets for the cold air intake were switched over to smooth tubes, which is a no-brainer on these cars, and could
be put back in five minutes if desired. Nothing but 91 octane has ever been used for fuel. The only thing I've ever
replaced with an OE part was a window switch, it was a little sticky, and as I mentioned I am a manager at a Dodge
dealer and we have a certified Viper tech who put it in. At the same time I had him go ahead and change all fluids
including a complete coolant flush.
Now the paint... This car is one of only 280 black GTS's ever built! This is the other reason I bought this car,
it's my color. Now here are the rules that go with the car, just as they were handed down to me. The car is only
washed as a last ditch effort, with no other choice. (It has been washed by me three times in four years.) Now,
what you do is blow off any dust with a leaf blower first, very important at any time before touching the paint
with anything! Then you pre-soak the car before allowing soap to drop down on the car from above. Now you never,
ever use a rag, a sponge or anything other then your bare hands on the paint while washing. Lots of soap dropped
from above and then run your bare hands over the whole car, and feeling for any dirt spots as well. Now, the car is
rinsed with distilled water only! This is to make sure no hard water remains on it. After this you dry it with a
blow dryer! I take it to a local very nice car wash that has the hand held dryers, in no way do you run rags down
this paint. After all is said and done the only thing that ever touches the car is your bare hands. Now when
removing the car from the garage for a drive, just as before use a leaf blower to blow off the dust first, very
important, then use nothing but very thick microfiber towels to just brush off the dust, you never push down!
So you might wonder why I take the time to write out how to wash a car, but this is the reason this fifteen year
old black paint looks brand new! It's literally a one foot car, which means you have to be about one foot to see
anything other then a glass surface! There are no chips in the nose, there are no bug marks, there is no paint fade
on the exhaust covers, or anywhere else. Now I'm not going to get into waxes because everyone always has their own
opinion, but I will tell you this car has had absolutely no paste waxes or oxidation removers, only high dollar
liquids specific for black cars such as Maguires and only special cleaners such as Winners Touch I've only ever
seen available through our dealership. Also the headlights are perfectly clear with no cloudiness at all, you still
see the rainbow in the lenses!
It has BF-Goodwrench G-Force Super Sport fronts, and Nitto NT555R Drag Radials out back with less then a thousand
miles on all four. The originals were just getting weather checked so I replaced them.
I don't need to sell the car, I'm only putting it out there in case I want to look for something else. I own other
investment cars as well, and many more different collector cars over the years. So I own them, enjoy them and care
for them, then move on to something else.
If the car doesn't sell here, I'm considering putting it on our showroom floor and marking it up and putting it in
our inventory which would open it up to a much larger audience, I just don't like little fingerprints! lol...
So if you want a showroom quality investment grade black Viper GTS then this is the one to have. The last true
supercar without all that driver assist crap!
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