What if: Dodge sold you a Viper in 1967?

[EJ25RUN]

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/02/2009-viper-concept-1967-by-rafael-reston-rear-section-1024x768.jpg
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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/02/2009-viper-concept-1967-by-rafael-reston-engine-1024x768.jpg

[Sammich]

holy ugly...

but that engine bay is some kind of sumptuous

[EJ25RUN]

The front end is a bit ....eh

But i like the back and i guess they wanted the engine to look like a Hemi.

I see a little too much Sting Ray Vette in it as well.

[Sammich]

so this car is a 'what if 1967 viper', or it is a viper from 1967? i dont know dodge's history....




I see a little too much Stingray Vette in it as well.

same thing i thought too...pretty uncanny

[EJ25RUN]

so this car is a 'what if 1967 viper', or it is a viper from 1967? i dont know dodge's history....



same thing i thought too...pretty uncanny
This is "what if there was a Viper in 1967"

[Sammich]

o0o0o0o so who built it? dodge or a car builder?

[EJ25RUN]

o0o0o0o so who built it? dodge or a car builder?
Its just a computer rendering.

[Sammich]

i swear one of those looked epically real... a couple i figured were computerized

[speedminded]

Its just a computer rendering.lol! pwn3d by CGI.

[atlxpat]

so this is how dodge is spending their money?

[EJ25RUN]

so this is how dodge is spending their money?
opps. I forgot to post the background story.

Autoblog

It's always a fun exercise to think about what might have been. Who doesn't daydream about how your favorite brand may have looked if only for one simple change. Designer Rafael Reston has turned his imagination toward Chrysler of the 1960s, pondering what a Viper may have looked like in 1967. Far be it from us to criticize the effort, but we're hard pressed to see Chrysler cues in the handsome renderings. Reston did take pains to research the vehicles and construction methods of the day, and he did do renderings of a stripped down framework of the vehicle, which shows a preponderance of Corvette influence. The chassis also looks like it would have been prohibitively expensive to produce, and let's not talk about the S-curves coming off the exhaust manifolds, which are chrome -- none of which would see the light of day in a production car.

The car certainly looks good, reminding us of an Iso Grifo or a C2 Corvette, but it's not what would likely have rolled out of Elwood Engel's styling department. We see a lot of C2 in Reston's renderings, in the interior, too, but that just means that it looks darn good, if disconnected from reality. We'd be down with a car that looked like this, no matter the era.

[OnURleft]

I'd say....DAHYYUM who stoleded my V10?

[secondgencamaro]

Dashboard is very Corvette.

[OneSlow5pt0]

i like it.

[AirMax95]

Photoshop some diff wheels on there, and we may have a winner!......maybe.

[K20Z1]

then i'll be at least 42 years old now

[jdm eg99]

wow