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**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask Crazy, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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Hell of a spoiler on that! That's going to create some downforce when you get her moving

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Damned right. Most of the time it was just people there looking at the car. I did lift the hood for 'em, which isn't included in any inspection really.

It's one sexy car.

By the way... You can open the hood on any Viper you want. Go up to the driver's side, reach under the overhang from the hood, and there's a latch right there. It doesn't lock. Just feel around and you'll find it. When you do, push the latch up with your fingers and then the hood opens from the opposite direction most open from.

Shh!!! It's a Viper secret! (The alarm will go off, if it has an alarm. I think all modern Vipers have an alarm, except maybe the special versions. Mine didn't make any noises when I unlocked it and locked it. I haven't let the valet drive it yet. It's my new toy!

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I'm not going to open the hood on a strangers Viper. That would piss someone off big time.

Do you mean the hood opens from the windscreen like my Jaguar hood? That is the proper way that a hood should open. I wouldn't want to be flying down the highway when the latch failed. The hood flies up over the windscreen blocking your view! Happened once after a concert in my buddies '70 Pontiac LeMans. He let me drive after that he was freaked out, and I floored it and made it 120 miles in less than an hour!

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Oh, all hoods should open like that - and go to a full-vertical position. But, alas, most hoods (at least in the US) do not open like that. Even fewer go to a full vertical!

If I hadn't told you how it opens, I'd bet you like $5 that you couldn't get the hood open in 5 minutes. I used to stump people with that when I owned my first Viper. And, sure, you might piss off a Viper owner but you could at least disconnect something important so that they can't chase you down before you get away!

Though I drove as my MOS in the Marines, it was really the Viper that made me interested in performance driving. My first Viper was my mid-life-crisis car. I bought it after I was divorced. My kids decided to come live with me and so I sold my Viper 'cause you can't really carry a pair of kids in it. The dude I sold it to was buying it for his teenage son, so I assume that model ended up wrapped around a tree.

The first ones, with no real traction control - and no ABS - were absolutely brutal. This is just as brutal, but it feels easier to tame. It also dwarfs the power in the first ones. It's fucking insane.