SPSCC ordered to crush rare Dodge Viper

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Automotive professors and students at South Puget Sound Community College were in shock Tuesday after being notified their $250,000 pre-production Dodge Viper SRT must be destroyed within two weeks.

“It’s like the day Kennedy was shot,” Norm Chapman, automotive technology professor at SPSCC, said. “No one will forget where they were when they heard the news.”

Steven Glasco, vehicle donations coordinator at Chrysler, confirmed that the complete collection of the educational donation Vipers nationwide must be crushed. He would not comment further on the numbers of vehicles or why the decision was made.

“All I can tell you is we sent a letter to the school,” Glasco said by telephoneTuesday afternoon.

Chapman said he was told by a company official that the destruction of 93 vehicles is the result of two educational Vipers that “got loose” and were involved in accidents, costing parent company Fiat millions of dollars.

Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/2014/03/04/3016193/rare-sports-car-at-spscc-must.html

[In_The_Wind]

1. How does a Viper get loose ?

Methinks they had help.

[1000words]

2. Yah ... it's just like when Kennedy was shot.

[yawnmaster]

4. I saw that, too...

1. They probably weren't old enough to have a clue.
2. Really??!!??

[Sheldon Cooper]

11. Yep, just like the assassination of the President of the United States of America.

indeed.

[yawnmaster]

3. Oh we'll, that was the deal. They should take their pic with it quick.eom

[JJChambers]

5. This makes perfect sense

If you're a shameless ambulance chasing lawyer.

[flvegan]

6. "educational Vipers that got loose" ??

400 hp V10 in a car that was notoriously difficult to drive without either crashing or just catching fire, given to schools to use for learning. What could possibly go wrong?

[NightWatcher]

8. we had a Plymouth K-car in drivers ed

A reliant automobile it was not

[flvegan]

9. Well, I'm hoping Vipers weren't for drivers ed.

More for mechanical training.

Our drivers ed car was a Chevrolet Terrible a/k/a Corsica. *shudder*

[NuclearDem]

7. That's kind of drastic.

Maybe have the keys better secured?

[Niceguy1]

10. there is no way to protect

The manufacturer from product liability. .....so it is very reasonable to have them destroyed. The original article details the reasons why.