I've got a Sapphire GTS with stripes. There was 3 Sapphire cars out of 13 Vipers at our Revelstoke Rally this month. Colors were about the same on all 3. One had quite a few rock chips on the front. I use a front bra to keep the rock chips from ruining my paint too fast. This picture was taken on a cloudy day.
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As far as driving my Viper, I've had it insured for 5 weeks and added 10,000mi. to the odometer. I had my 98 GTS insured for 4 weeks and put 9,000mi. on it, July. I love driving the car so much that if I have half and excuse I'll put 450mi. on it before I go to sleep! I never drive it "around town", only on the highway. Highway miles don't wear the car as much as city miles. 90% of the engines wear is done while warming up so once I've warmed it up off I go. I put over 200,000mi. on my Ford pick up because they'r higway miles. It still starts up right away. I'm up to 30,000mi. on my Sapphire car now. Hopefully I'll be enjoying another 3,000 or so before I park it for the winter. My all-weather Stealth R/T TT has 30,000mi. added to it during the last year and a half and that's the car I drive during the winter and summer. I also drive the wife's Escape and a few other of my cars, but they're not my favorites.
Ted