I must admit that I am a HUGE fan of GTS Blue and Chevrolet's Admiral Blue. In 1999, I purchased a relatively rare '96 Grand Sport Corvette with red interior. The car was referred to by a few, as "So Ugly, that it actually looks good!... Blue, White, Red...."
Well, I have owned a few Vipers and have built several vehicles which mimicked the Grand Sport. Here are a few photo's of the original Grand Sport, and the following vehicles that I built around it's theme:
My original fascination with the Blue/White (Granted, at the time, a VIPER was WAY OUT OF MY REACH!)
The next vehicle that I built was a LT4 powered Jeep for daily driving and rock crawling:
I then got more serious about Rock Crawling and built a Competition buggy powered by a Ram-Jet 502:
When I saw Jeff Lemke's Blue and White Street Serpent (#6), I was immediately drawn to it like I have only been drawn to 1 other car (Steve Wayne's GTS ACR+). I bought the car and have been joyously adding miles to the odometer; while adding more ponies to the equation.
The interior; although adequate, has never exited me (all black); nor matched the exterior flare. My last Viper had the Cognac Connelly leather, which really accented well with the red exterior.
This car, needed something that made the interior "pop" just as much as the exterior did. So, I ditched the all black interior, in favor of, black/red Mamba interior panels. Some may not like it, and that is fine. To me, IT IS DEAD SEXY!! I have bought additional dash and console bezels and am having them painted Charcoal Grey Metallic, to match the splitter and rear diffuser. I will post additional photo's when I install them. I won't dis-honor the Dodge by placing the "Grand Sport" typical Hash Marks on the fender.
To date, this has been the most "EMOTIONAL" car that I've own. Since 1999, I've typically been through 4-8 vehicles per year. I believe that this one is a KEEPER!!!
Here are the before and after photo's of the interior: BEFORE:
AFTER MAMBA INTERIOR:
What a great car the Viper is! There are few other vehicles out there that provide the same gratification!
I'm glad you bought it as Jeff's work is beautiful. I'm not a fan of the scheme, but hey, that's what makes us all different! Are you going to do the entire interior or are you done? I figured it out. Do the in lay on the seats red as well to give the Serpent more of a Mamba look. Regardless of what you do, the new stitchwork from the photos looks really good!
On the 08/09s isn't there an option for body color pieces inside? Could swear I saw a new Blue coupe with blue pieces in place of your red, and think the seats had blue trim as well?
On the 08/09s isn't there an option for body color pieces inside? Could swear I saw a new Blue coupe with blue pieces in place of your red, and think the seats had blue trim as well?
I like the Mamba interior. I would not have guessed it to look great with the blue, but it really does. The roll bars would look good painted blue too.
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