Turn the Dodge Viper logo upside down and guess who appears...
Stonehenge, Rosebud, The Wizard of Oz and Pink Floyd – all have confounded us with their hidden meanings. And to that list we now add the logo for the Dodge Viper. Somehow it has eluded us for years that, when turned upside down, the Viper logo turns into what appears to be... Daffy Duck. Or, as some other folks have mentioned, perhaps it's Duck Dodgers, or Darkwing Duck. Someone else thought it was "a gator with a volcano in the background," but we have no idea how that happened...
Regardless of which name that foul goes by, it's quite a revelation to make this late into the Viper game. If there were any meaning intended from the inversion, we'd expect it to be a swan, not a duck. But what does it all mean? History might know. For now, it's just another one of those quirks that is the Dodge Viper, and yet another reason we'll miss it when it departs in 2011. Thanks to everyone for the tips!
[Source: Bits & Pieces via Boing Boing | Image: Micihi1308 via Wikimedia Commons]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Aero 6:44PM (11/09/2009)
Looks like R2-D2 in an epic stance to me.
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d-man 6:57PM (11/09/2009)
I was going to say "jawa"
Randy 11:33PM (11/09/2009)
You guys are quacking me up!
Paul 12:02AM (11/10/2009)
Gooooo Ducks!
As an U of Oregon alum who read about this last week, I've already fixed one to the hood of my Spec Miata. It's worth the weight in giggles.
Malaycobra 9:40AM (11/10/2009)
Joseph Stalin's mouth , nose and 'tache
fixitfixitstop 9:28PM (11/11/2009)
I see a white ghost reading a black book while seated in the Lotus position.
paul34 6:46PM (11/09/2009)
Maybe it wanted to be a Catera?
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v6sonoma 11:30AM (11/10/2009)
Nah that was just a lame duck.
Did you also know if you took the old Chrysler pentastar logo and flip it on its side it looks like an old Chrysler pentastar logo.
DiRF 6:46PM (11/09/2009)
Warner Brothers presents, Daffy Duck in... Viper Amuck!
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MoeJoe 6:47PM (11/09/2009)
Slow news day?
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Fernando 9:23AM (11/10/2009)
Must be. I remember seeing this back in 2001. I believe a bored former Air Force collegue pointed it out to me on some car forum he was browsing.
AZZO45b 2:34PM (11/10/2009)
Yes... guess AB was flipping through old issues of AutoWeek???
The mag's "Wait, There's More" section had this about 7-8 years ago. This makes your F1 coverage downright lightning quick!!!
joshua.eli.schneider 6:49PM (11/09/2009)
So this IS from funnyjunk.com...
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Westside T.O. 6:53PM (11/09/2009)
+1....like the galleries, to say the least!
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JD 6:55PM (11/09/2009)
Old news.
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neptronix 6:55PM (11/09/2009)
There goes 15 seconds of my life that i'm never gonna get back..
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PumaGTO 2:40PM (11/10/2009)
And still you wasted more time to comment on a lame news...
And still I wasted more time to comment on your comment on the lame news...
(infinite loop...)
gbgcarguy 6:59PM (11/09/2009)
this was old news back when they changed the "VIPER" in 2005
this must be a VERY SLOW news day!!!
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Farmboy 7:01PM (11/09/2009)
HA!!!
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Samurai Jack 7:04PM (11/09/2009)
I call foul on Autoblog's failure to properly identify homonyms. A duck might be many things, but it's always fowl. Even when it's a dirty bird.
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