Lee Ayakuka's Dodge Viper was sold for almost a million shekels
Bonhman's Sales House sold Dodge Wiper No. 001 with just over 10,000 miles on the watch owned by Lee Ayakuka at auction for $ 285,500
Dodge Viper, The Viper continued Carroll Shelby's Cobra tradition
Lee Ayakuka's Auctioneer (Photo: Manufacturer, Manufacturer Website)
About six months after he passed away, the American Bohemian sales house put one of the cars in Lee Ayakuka's collection - the Dodge Viper chassis number 1B3BR65E5NV100001 The first Viper built and bought by Ayakuka, then Chrysler's president and the man with another American legend, Carroll. The Mad Viper snake.
The "romance" between Shelby and Ikeka began decades before this extreme sports car was introduced in the second half of the 1960s, when Ikeka, then senior manager of the Ford marketing department conceived of the Mustang concept, places Shelby in charge of Ford's ambitious venture of racing 24 Le Mans hours. After his relationship with Henry Ford II took over in the late 1970s, he moves to Chrysler. In a few years, he manages to bring the company that was on the verge of bankruptcy to tremendous gains when on the way it introduces the father of the Dodge Caravan / Chrysler Voyager minivan.
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Lee Ayakuka's Auctioneer (Photo: Manufacturer, Manufacturer Website)
But the germ of sports cars never left him. While Chrysler's offerings range mainly from compact front-wheel drive cars and minivans, in 1991 it presents its latest car as its Chrysler-Viper CEO. This extreme sports car, with a 8.0-liter V10 engine originally sourced from the company's major And converted to his new role with Lamborghini, which was then owned by Chrysler.This car, with its powerful design, had one purpose, to create a monster to take the legacy of Shelby's snake names (the father of the "Cobra") to the next level. , But it had 400 hp 4.2 seconds acceleration, maximum speed of 266 mph and notorious behavior on the restrictions.
Lee Ayakuka's Auctioneer (Photo: Manufacturer, Manufacturer Website)
When introducing the Viper, Ayakuka said that when Shelby introduced that cobra, he offered him the second car he built, but Ayakuka refused to accept it because he feared a manual car in the crowded traffic, "I don't make the same mistake twice," he said, becoming the owner of The first Viper to be created.
The car offered for sale by the auction house comes from the Ayakuka private collection, and according to the auction house's data, it has a little less than 6,500 miles on the odometer (about 10,000 miles). At the auction, the car sold for $ 285,500 (about 986,200 NIS).
