About 30 years ago, on August 21, 1996, a high-powered sports car hit the streets of Scottsdale, Arizona with its proud original owner. Now showing just 61,200 miles on the odometer, that same Mopar muscle car is about to find a lucky new home. Featured on AutoHunter is a 1996 Dodge Viper RT/10 listed for sale by a dealer in Annandale, Minnesota.
There is nothing quite like a Viper for delivering a raw, analog sports car experience. When it was born in 1992, the car rocked the world with its eye-catching design, but there was even more to it: a tubular space frame, center spine structure, and a forward-hinged one-piece clamshell hood came together to make it all work.
The brochure for the 1996 Viper said, “Since its debut as a concept car in early 1989, the Dodge Viper RT/10 has defined the quintessential American sports car — big-blocked, attention-grabbing, fast, loud, untamed, and definitely a modern standard-bearer for pure American heritage and tradition.”
Exterior features include fog lamps, silver accent striping, removable soft top, plastic side windows, dual center-mounted exhaust outlets, and aftermarket 17-inch HRE wheels wrapped in staggered-width Michelin Pilot Sport tires. One of the quirky things about the Viper’s design was that in order to open a door from the outside, you had to reach inside and pull the interior door handle.
The cockpit has black leather bucket seats, center console, Speed Dawg shift knob, air conditioning, power windows, power steering, power door locks, and a Sony audio head unit with JL Audio speakers.
Under the hood is an 8.0-liter V-10 mated to a six-speed manual transmission and a limited-slip differential. A couple of upgrades have been added, including MSD spark plug wires and a custom ECU tune. A Dynojet test (receipts provided) shows figures of 411 horsepower and 522 lb-ft of torque.
The AutoCheck report begins in 1996 and shows one accident in January 2021. Ownership has spanned Arizona, California, Nevada, Texas, South Carolina, and New Mexico.
It’s time for this Viper to begin its next 30 years, so if you’ve ever thought of acquiring an iconic piece of American muscle car history, make a move.
The auction for this 1996 Dodge Viper RT/10 ends Wednesday, July 15, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. (PDT).
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