I agree with both Les and Colin in their agreeing with me.

There were a lot of bugs with the early cars, including a bunch of piston ring sealing problems that resulted in the problem engines being crated up and sent back to Dodge (You actually had to specify if you wanted your original engine back or not: pretty responsive to future collectibility issues, I think). It was neat to have your own Viper Tech at the dealership. My guy would lend me all their tools and let me use them on my own.
I think we got a car that might have gotten a little extra "attention" along the line since they knew we were going to play with it for the Magazine. It has about 7900 (Sunday only) miles on it now. And I do have to say that long hood makes an excellent workbench, as it has been parked for so long in the center of my garage.
Here's the write up on the car from the members rides:
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/show.../page/1#161420