What's The Fastest You've Ever Driven?

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• Murph 65 2012/02/15 20:16:31
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  120 mph back when I was young, dumb and racing. The racing was fun but wasn't using much in the way of protective gear at the time. I'm talking dark ages here.

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• Jasmine 2012/02/13 01:18:23
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  120 - in my Miata. She became one with the road at 90. Sweet.

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• Verbal 2012/02/12 16:55:01
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  162

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• Jane 2012/02/12 13:02:17
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  140 in a state that had no speed limit back in the day and I was very young and shall we say --dumb.

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• Jammer 2012/02/11 19:38:53
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  112 miles and hour

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• jgh57 2012/02/11 19:25:40
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  100 in a Cadillac Ambulance.

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• Linnster 2012/02/11 17:27:24
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  92-ish.

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• M.C 2012/02/11 15:40:30
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  160mph, in this.

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• culpepper 2012/02/11 15:27:02
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  120 mph

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• Swany 2012/02/11 15:12:37
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  Warp 7.3

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• Idiot repubs 2012/02/11 15:11:48
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  I had the 67 GTO pegged at 140, the spedometer didn't go any higher.

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• swivelhead 2012/02/11 15:00:00
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  135
  

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• Link 2012/02/11 14:53:48
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  Had a '75 Monte... fully-blown 454, balanced and blueprinted, bored 0.030 over, racing cam, semi-high-rise intake, dual Holley quads, headers, dual exhaust... and more...
  
  I dragged down I-95 in New England in the wee hours... speedo maxes out at 120... the speedo pin was rapping and bouncing against the pin inside the meter... I would be willing to bet I was easily doing better than 150 mph...
  
  Adrenaline was raging in me...

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• AARGH! to Link 2012/02/11 14:54:32
  

  I bet...sounds like a sweet ride...

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• Link to AARGH! 2012/02/11 14:58:29
  

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  She was a sleeper... the was little to show that she could move... someone observant would see the dual exhaust and the low-profile hood scoops... more obvious was the low rumble and to some, the rough idle...
  
  I didn't put fat ties or custom wheels.. I didn't tub the rear wheel wells... I did beef up and stiffen the suspension a bit for handling...

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• MichaelDillon 2012/02/11 14:50:38
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  141 MPH. 1957 Cadillac 4 door hard top. Twin 4 barrel holly carbs. high dome pistons, sodium filled valves and a full tank of gas (@26 cents per gallon!) Sigh.
  

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• Mike 2012/02/11 14:46:57
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  110 infinite

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• Sir Bud 2012/02/11 14:43:17 (edited)
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  About 250 Km per hour(about 155MPH?)in a Porsche along a narrow Country Road and scared the living daylites out of me!.Afterwards I had to struggle to get out and stand up.Never again,no thanks!.
  Oh and all the time Beethovens 5th symphony and other tunes by a Classic Rock group called Ekseption was blasting out through the four loudspeakers of the cars CD Player,which made talking impossible,tho I was glad the driver had no other distractions!.
  

  

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• Golanv (Raven) BN0 2012/02/11 14:41:59
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  120, but that's as high as my speedometer went. Had a crazy woman try to run me into a bridge back in the 70s in S.C. but I got by and outran her. Had someone in a cadi who saw it doing the same right beside me. No cell phones then...

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• AARGH! to Golanv ... 2012/02/11 14:43:06
  

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  Was she road raging?

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• Golanv ... to AARGH! 2012/02/11 14:47:25
  

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  Worst case of it I've ever seen. Scared the hell out of me and everyone around. She was about 2' from my bumper at 90 when I passed the cadi so I floored it and he did too. She looked pretty psycho in my rear view mirror.

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• AARGH! to Golanv ... 2012/02/11 14:53:23
  

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  There are some very crazy people on the road...

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• Golanv ... to AARGH! 2012/02/11 14:58:45
  

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  So true. My dad taught driver's ed when I was a kid and he told me this when he taught me to drive. It was cool because he had the car with brakes, clutch and gas on both sides so I learned to drive, parallel park and do 3 point turns, sitting on a stack of encyclopedias before 1st grade. :) I've never driven through S.C. again.

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• AARGH! to Golanv ... 2012/02/11 15:02:23
  

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  I've driven through S.C. plenty of times and had no problem...try Nebraska with some of the yahoos here and their trucks...they just as soon run you over...had plenty of encounters and nuts I'v edealt with. And when I'm out teaching my kiods to drive that's the first and most important lesson...watch out for the idiots and crazies...

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• Golanv ... to AARGH! 2012/02/11 15:23:28
  

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  Actually I have been through SC now that I think about it but not through Spartanburg, where it happened. My dad told to always figure that every driver on the road except me is crazy and I'll be okay. Good advice.

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• Tea in the Harbor 2012/02/11 14:34:41
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  147, on a 1964 BSA Lightening that I put together in my living room. It was on freshly laid blacktop on a warm dry day and it's still one of the dumbest things I've ever done.

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• AARGH! to Tea in ... 2012/02/11 14:37:12
  

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  Some of the bikes and what they are capable of anymore are crazy and the speeds some of these guys are getting busted for doing is insane...

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• Tea in ... to AARGH! 2012/02/11 14:47:43
  

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  I brought the thing home in milk crates, the guy told me it had high performance this and that, but I didn't believe him until that day. Slowing down from that speed on a bike is way scarier than getting there!

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• Link to AARGH! 2012/02/11 15:02:10
  

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  I agree...
  
  I can't ride anymore, but when I did, I always preferred to sit back and cruise rather than race...

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• Link to Tea in ... 2012/02/11 15:01:14
  

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  But oooooohhhhhhh what a ride... I did about that on my Suzuki 1100 GS (Suzi)...

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• Tea in ... to Link 2012/02/11 15:12:13
  

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  They didn't make them that big back then, except for Harley Davidson. The Lightening was a 650. It was so light in weight that at that speed it didn't feel like I was touching the road!

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• Link to Tea in ... 2012/02/11 15:16:29
  

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  Yeah, mine was an '81... awesome cruiser...

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• Doug King 2012/02/11 14:34:06
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  150 MPH on the German Autobon. It was great!

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• VERYwiseguy 2012/02/11 14:33:53
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  In the 70's 115 on a motorcycle and I bottomed a speedo 120+ 72 Cougar XR-7 351C.same car as a Mach 1 Mustang.

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• VERYwis... to VERYwis... 2012/02/11 14:52:26
  

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  For the youngins' these.

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• Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆ 2012/02/11 14:28:18
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  Seventy-five miles per hour, in Texas, before the Double Nickels went into force.

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• Link to Temlako... 2012/02/11 15:09:04
  

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  Limits in some areas are due soon to increase again...
  
  Roads like this in TX, if it were in MA where I was originally hatched and raised, the speed limit would be 40... My folks and family are shocked at the posted speed limit, and when they ask if that's how fast we drive on it, I tell them no... that we actually drive between 70 and 80 on it...
  
  
  

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