John333
VCA Member
Little background on how I got here (where's here: I bought a Viper on ebay today--about the last thing I thought that I would ever do!): I did a ton of research on the first 2 generations and decided to narrow my search to just 2 years. For about the last month and a half, I've been looking for a reasonably priced, clean, low mileage 2001-2002 Viper. (Got a lot of replies from overseas scammers.) I focused mainly on RT/10s at first, but began to like the GTS as much or more. Thirty miles away, a Graphite Metal RT/10 with 8K miles was on consignment at an exotic car dealership. Calling on it, I learned it was back at the owner's house. I waited a few weeks for a call to come see it (still waiting), but kept looking just the same. My wife had a preference for the Sapphire Blue with Cognac interior, but the only two RT/10s I'd seen for sale each had a little over 26k miles. I wanted to stay under half that. Then last week a clean, original Sapphire Blue with 10K miles turned up on ebay. Located on opposite coast, I checked shipping costs and submitted a fair bid. To my surprise, I won the bid. A shipping company recommended Lemonsquad. The Viper is in Carmel, CA. The owner bought it 2 years ago and had it shipped to CA. Anyone have a better recommendation than Lemonsquad? BTW, sorry for long post.