A 286-Mile 1998 Dodge Viper GTS GT2 Champion Edition Still Blends Detroit Muscle with Le Mans Glory

Some cars are built for gentle weekend cruises. The 1998 Dodge Viper GTS GT2 Champion Edition was not one of them. Dodge has a long history of tearing up motorsport rulebooks. The 426 Hemi did it in 1965, and by 1998 Team Viper was doing it again on the international stage. This particular street car was not created to satisfy a boring homologation checklist. The race car came first, proved its dominance, and then Dodge offered this road-going trophy to a tiny group of buyers. It is a weapon wearing license plates.

Only 100 examples of the GT2 Champion Edition were built, and chassis #23 is the kind of find that makes collectors spill their coffee. Its odometer shows just 286 miles, which is almost comical for a car that was engineered to be driven hard. Finished in Stone White with blue Le Mans stripes, it carries the full visual fury of the GTS-R racer. There is a fixed rear wing, a front splitter, dive planes, a vented hood, BBS alloy wheels, and even an American flag decal just in case anyone forgot which country was steamrolling Europe.

People often toss around the name GTS-R, but that badge belonged to the full-blown, Oreca-run track machine. This Viper is the street-legal homage, the one a driver could actually take through a drive-thru without a pit crew. It is no softened poseur, though. The GT2 Champion Edition was a direct response to Dodge’s success in international endurance racing, and it wears that resume on its bodywork.

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