This article reports the results of experiments to determine the energetic threshold for CCl+ production from CCl32+ by collisions with rare gases and by laser photofragmentation. An array of product channels is observed for the reactions of CCl32+ With the rare gases at low (<100 eV) laboratory collision energy. By varying the ion translational energy with Ne as the collision partner, the signal of CCl+ increases dramatically at a center-of-mass collision energy of 7-9 eV. Photolysis of CCl32+ produces CCl22+, CCl2+, and Cl+ at 1064 nm; when the laser wavelength is tuned to shorter wavelengths, the fragment CCl+ occurs in the product mass spectrum as well. By surveying with a tunable laser wavelength, the threshold to create the CCl+ fragment by the photodissociative channel is a much different value, approximate to 2.2 +/- 0.1 eV, suggesting that different excited states are involved in the collisional and photodissociative processes.