Joy ride turns nearly fatal (Stolen Viper goes airborne after only 4 blocks)

Effingham (IL) Daily News ^ | 10.8.03 | KIM WIEDMAN

[mhking]

Just damn.

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[ApesForEvolution]

4 blocks? I could get a Viper off the ground in less than one...

[martin_fierro]

F^#(in' cagers.

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[MineralMan]

"On a few occasions, the McClane's had taken her out to show her off in parades and she did go on a few short trips here and there, but she was mainly used as an attention-grabber to attract people to the dealership. "

I fail to see the utility of a vehicle that is not driven. There are lots of Vipers on the road in CA...indeed, probably most of them have been sold here.

I like oddball cars, but would never own one I didn't drive regularly. I have better places to put my money.

[avg_freeper]

Reminds me of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".

[Bikers4Bush]

"Joshua S. Clasby, 25, of Greenup remains
in critical condition at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana."

Now that's a shame, too bad the car didn't take him with it to the grave.

[My2Cents]

Last time I saw a Viper on the road, it was a stretch of I-80 in California. The car passed me on the inside lane of a the 4-lane highway, and then the driver gunned the engine to take off. Instead, he lost control, and veered right, off onto the shoulder, and ripped up a fence of barbed wire about 25 feet off the road. The driver wasn't hurt, and the car wasn't destroyed, but it's paint a body were pretty well bunged up.

[fourdeuce82d]

the driver of the car, Joshua S. Clasby, 25, of Greenup remains in critical condition at Carle Foundation Hospital

Awwwwww....

[LTCJ]

114 MPh in a quarter mile? Pppft.

Roughly $350 per mile. Nows there's a metric for you.

[ArrogantBustard]

but she was mainly used as an attention-grabber to attract people to the dealership.

You (and I) may not think of that form of advertising as a good place to put money; the owners thought otherwise. I wonder how many people entered that dealership because they saw the Viper out front, and bought some other vehicle as a result?

[truthandjustice1]

I drive a 2001 Corvette and have been known to put "rice rockets" in their place, but I probably wouldn't take on a Viper. The C6 'vette is alleged to be the Viper killer.

[July 4th]

Ah yes, the 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California...

[sc2_ct]

I drive a 2001 Corvette and have been known to put "rice rockets" in their place, but I probably wouldn't take on a Viper. The C6 'vette is alleged to be the Viper killer. LOL, I drive a Saturn and managed to take a C4 by .3s in the 1/4. Then again, the nitrous oxide might have contributed a bit and they got a bad launch :)

[CherylBower]

Our company just built a C6 from the frame up. We are racing it against Vipers at Road Atlanta and Puerto Rico this month. But it is a race car not a street car.

[1Old Pro]

then the driver gunned the engine to take off. Instead, he lost control, and veered right, off onto the shoulder, and ripped up a fence of barbed wire about 25 feet off the road.

That's what happens when you put an inexperienced driver in an overpowered car made by a company (Dodge) that knows practically nothing about sports cars.

[HEY4QDEMS]

[truthandjustice1]

How much does the street C6 differ from the C5? BTW I'm jealous as heck.

[Diamond]

A teenager with another teenage passenger drove a Viper down our street about two yearss ago at about 100 miles an hour. At a little hump in the street the Viper went airborne. Unfortunately, the street curved at just the point at which the Viper went airborne. The teenagers realized too late that after a vehicle becomes airborne the steering wheel no longer has any effect on the direction of the vehicle, and they crashed into a telephone pole and were killed.

Cordially,