Here, again, is a moment in time wherein we should all be buying up these Viper-powered trucks before they become absolutely unobtainable. And that works on two fronts: one, there weren’t that many made, and sellers seemingly rarely part with them, and two, the prices have been far too low for what amounts to a truck with a very exotic drivetrain stuffed under the hood. The Dodge Ram SRT-10 shown here on eBay is one of just 200 made and it sports a proper 6-speed manual. The seller has listed it for $80,000.
That’s not nothing, but how does the price ever go down on these? This is a limited production vehicle built by Chrysler’s skunkworks performance team known as the Performance Vehicles Operation division. Interestingly, as Chrysler has increasingly become known for building high-performance vehicles out of rather plebeian platforms (i.e., the Dodge Charger), some of the notoriety has worn off. Every day, you see yet another Dodge vehicle being driven erratically by someone who has no right to pilot a vehicle with over 400 horsepower. Yet when the Ram SRT-1o came out, it was still a bit of a novelty.
These days, prices are over the map. The extended cab trucks are obviously not in demand, or at least not as much as the single cab, short bed variants like this one. Those are available with some miles on the clock for safely under $50,000. You can also find trucks equipped exactly as this one is with over 30,000 miles on the clock for less than $60,000. This one is clearly going for a top dollar price because of its low mileage and near-mint condition – it has just 3,508 miles on the clock. I always laugh when I see that hilariously long shifter, reminding you that they truly did attempt to make a sports car out of a pickup truck.
500 b.h.p. and 525 lb.-ft. of torque came standard, along with a top speed of over 150 miles per hour. That’s just bananas, if you ask me, but that’s also what makes it so awesome. At the time, no one else was building a pickup truck like this, which is what made it so special. The odd thing is, the marketplace hasn’t warmed up to these like it has the first-generation Ford Lightnings and Chevy SS pickups, proving nostalgia is a powerful ingredient when it comes to selling speciality vehicles like this. Do you think the seller will get his asking price?
Very nice and pricey.