A brand-new Dodge Viper spent 28 years on top of a pole, advertising for a dealership on US Highway 41. Now, it has been taken down

A Dodge Viper that spent 28 years on top of a Kentucky dealership sign has been brought back down to Earth. Audubon Chrysler has only removed the Viper once before for a refresh and that was 15 years ago.

But Audubon Chrysler in Henderson, Kentucky took it to a whole new level back in May 1996, when the owners installed a first-generation Dodge Viper R/T on a towering platform high above the rural dealership — and left it there ever since.

Since 1996, the Audubon Chrysler dealership in Henderson, Kentucky has had a first-gen Dodge Viper atop its road sign. For years, locals assumed that it was just a body shell or that it lacked a powertrain,