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American Homage: The Dodge Viper's Snake Pit

In 1988, inside Chrysler's Advanced Design Studios, company president Bob Lutz put an idea to design chief Tom Gale that sounds, in hindsight, almost too on-the-nose to be true: what if Chrysler built a modern version of the Shelby Cobra? Not a retro pastiche, but the same basic formula updated for the end of the…