As many of you might recall, back in 2020 with global pandemics and travel lock downs we had some extra time on our hands which meant digging into one of our most favorite and forgotten 1990’s cop dramas: VIPER! – Just this month we got a “letter to the editor” correcting some of our research. A gentleman who happens to be friends with the designer and one of the folks that worked on the Viper Defender reached out to us with the following information which we found too good not to reshare!
Richard writes: “I read an article you guys published, and there is something incorrect. It states “The exterior design of the Defender was created by Mike Sciortino (and the team at Unique Movie Cars, Hollywood, CA), though fans at the time believed that the Chrysler company built the Defender concept”
This is false. Chrysler did in fact design the Defender from the ground up. Steve Ferrerio was the exterior designer and one of people at Chrysler who built the rear working beauty cars for the show is Greg White. There is numerous reports about the car being designed by Chrysler.“
“Unique Movie cars received the cars from Chrysler and reworked them for use on the TV series. The V10’s in the beauty cars were removed and 360 V8’s were installed.
Thank you Richard for being a fan of the show, the Defender, and supporter of GTM!
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