For our Mopar Muscle Thursday feature we have a short clip of a 1999 Dodge Viper GTS fitted up with an unspecified twin turbocharger package that makes it sound so freakin awesome, I couldn’t pass it up. While most of our Mopar Muscle clips show cars, trucks and SUVs doing burnouts, racing or performing some other high performance act – the Viper in today’s piece is good enough to enjoy just sitting still, revving the engine and doing some fairly light pulls in the dark.
Fortunately, while this video of the twin turbo Dodge Viper doesn’t show all that much action, the YouTube user has a bunch of videos of this car doing different things in different stages of modifications – from street racing to burnouts to other idle/rev videos. The stock Viper V10 sounds great, but this twin turbo setup with an obviously modified exhaust setup is automotive music to my ears. Since the sound is so important, make sure that you are somewhere that you can crank up your speakers before enjoying this short clip of the original Viper GTS coupe in action. Enjoy!
"Before I was old enough to walk, my dad was taking me to various types of racing events, from local drag racing to the Daytona 500," says Patrick Rall, a lifetime automotive expert, diehard Dodge fan, and respected auto journalist for over 10 years. "He owned a repair shop and had a variety of performance cars when I was young, but by the time I was 16, he was ready to build me my first drag car – a 1983 Dodge Mirada that ran low 12s. I spent 10 years traveling around the country, racing with my dad by my side. While we live in different areas of the country, my dad still drag races at 80 years old in the car that he built when I was 16 while I race other vehicles, including my 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and my 1972 Dodge Demon 340.
"Although I went to college for accounting, my time in my dad’s shop growing up allowed me the knowledge to spend time working as a mechanic before getting my accounting degree, at which point I worked in the office of a dealership group. While I was working in the accounting world, I continued racing and taking pictures of cars at the track. Over time, I began showing off those pictures online and that led to my writing.
"Ten years ago, I left the accounting world to become a full-time automotive writer and I am living proof that if you love what you do, you will never “work” a day in your life," adds Rall, who has clocked in time as an auto mechanic, longtime drag racer and now automotive journalist who contributes to nearly a dozen popular auto websites dedicated to fellow enthusiasts.
"I love covering the automotive industry and everything involved with the job. I was fortunate to turn my love of the automotive world into a hobby that led to an exciting career, with my past of working as a mechanic and as an accountant in the automotive world provides me with a unique perspective of the industry.
"My experience drag racing for more than 20 years coupled with a newfound interest in road racing over the past decade allows me to push performance cars to their limit, while my role as a horse stable manager gives me vast experience towing and hauling with all of the newest trucks on the market today.
