SRT is definitely keeping busy with new product. The track-chomping 2014 Viper TA rolls into the New York Auto Show next week, but that's not all Ralph Gilles' band of mad scientists has in the pipeline. As you all know, there's always been an open-topped Viper, and our spy photographers snapped the latest edition cooling its heels in the Michigan snow. Sadly, the other cars in the lot obstructed the profile view, but there's no mistaking that traditional soft top.

Gilles is already on record as saying the new Viper's chassis is convertible-ready in terms of rigidity. Like the Corvette, it's mortal enemy, the snake should lose little to nothing in that department when it ultimately molts its double-bubble hardtop. Hit the gallery for a better look at the topless Viper