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Driver: Joe Astor Vehicle: Viper Defender Teams: Volunteer Highway Patrol Base: 2025 Hot Wheels ‘96 Dodge Viper GTS
When the Metro City Police Department shuttered the woefully over-budget Viper Project, team engineer Julian Wilkes and driver Joe Astor were left without a job. Rather than seeing their pride and joy rust in storage, the duo stole the Viper Defender and fled, eventually settling down somewhere in the greater St. Louis area.
From there they decided to consider their crusade against crime. Or more specifically, vehicular crime. Identifying the ridiculously dangerous death races of the Slaglands series as the biggest offenders, Astor and Wilkes helped found the Volunteer Highway Patrol in an attempt to curb the event’s effect on civilians and infrastructure.