155 in ´95 saab turbo,173 in ´91 audi v8 4.2,that was scary!abiut 140 in my old ´66 chrysler,also scary...
My wife and I in the middle of Utah after a night of street racing went 165 in my 68 Charger, still pulling hard, I lifted when it started to get "light" and I started to feel like I was floating......
I know I dug up an old thread, but... I have gone 140 in my grandpas '94 caprice LT1, but that was scarry and I quickly let off. Went 127 in my Sundance racing my friends Trecel. Jordan
I read this whole thing just to see how many 200 milers piped up. Looks like 3 (or is it 2?). That must be a helluva rush. I'd love to do that one day. My top speeds aren't so impressive. I did 127 mph two different times in a 1991 Mazda Protege LX. That's what the speedo said and it was as fast as the car would go. Once on I-77 near Charlotte and once near Garner NC on I-40. The best/scariest drive however was about 115-120 in my 76 Fiat 128 sedan in Garner on I-40. For those of you who don't know what this car looks like, it basically has the aerodynamics of a brick because it's a box with wheels. The car had a 1500 X 1/9 engine with a PBS cam and valve springs. I ended up doing this because some guy in a 930 slantnose passed me and I sped up to take a look at his car. He speed up so I sped up some more. This kept up until I buried the 100 mph speedo and it kept going around to where "110" would have been printed and hit the pin in the speedo. I accelerated quite a bit more after that and was dead even with this guy and it wouldn't go any faster. The whole time I was doing it I was thinking stuff like "this thing has the aerodynamics of a brick, what if I catch air under it?" or "If I screw up, I die". Oddly it felt really stable at that speed. We ran about 5 miles down the highway and I backed off because it was getting hot. The Porsche guy backed off too and yells over at me "What you got in that thing?" and I answered "it's a 1500cc Fiat!". I don't think the guy realized that if he just tapped the gas a little more he would have left me in the dust. My exit came up and I got off. When I stopped I had fried the valve guide seals and had to rebuild the head. I still enjoy thinking about this 12 years later (but I'd never do that now!). I have driven lots of cars at about 100 - 110 and do 100 fairly often in my Fiat spider. I really don't know if I'll have the balls to do over 100 in the hot rod I'm building. I guess I'll have to see how it feels when I get done with it.
Speedo was outa sight but I calculated speed later at 140 in my 62 Impala 409 back in 74. '09 had more guts than I did. It wasnt done yet. Of course 62 Imp's weren't the best handlers above the century mark either.
Fastest I have ever gone was in my Caddy CoupeDeville with the 472. In high school I pegged the needle way past the 120 limit. I'm lucky I'm here to type this, because the front end lifted off the road, and started slamming down shortly after. If I would have hit the brakes, I would have had to have been buried with the remaining pieces of the car... Live and learn... -Tony B.
Most of my top speeds were "in excess of mechanical limits", i.e. the speedo didn't go that far. Laid the needle on the stop pin in my big block '72 Newport back in high school......in excess of 120, and the speedo was already reading 10mph slow at 60 (60 on the speedo meant you were doing 70 or so). 90+ in my '94 GP running late for work..............about a car and a half between me and the guy ahead of me, and some fucker in a Cavalier pulled in between us! 108 on I-94 somewhere around Chicago, broad daylight, Power Tour '97, in a buddy's '76 Camaro. Just keeping up with traffic that morning! We had just put the car back together that morning, had to stop on the way to Chi-town and have the rear tires balanced - 10 ounces each! Anybody up for some math? Just the high side of 4200rpm with 2.43 rear gears and 275/60/15 tires in a buddy's '85 Monte Carlo- really late night on a deserted stretch of road. He backed off when the car started getting "a little loose". Surprisingly smooth and quiet though. We figured it to be somewhere between 135 and 140. Tim D.
105 on my 02 Wide glide (no fun at all) 110 in a Sanger flat bottom with a 427 BBC 140 in my roadster (it has more left in it) 145 on a XS eleven Yamaha 150 in my 70 Charger with a 383 180 in a Trans-Am car at Texas World Speedway 700+ in my Boss's modified Falcon Jet (I was just a passenger) The most insane was following my Dad across North Texas on my Honda 750, he was on his Gold wing, we went 120 miles in 57 minutes. Once I finally got him to stop I told him I didnt ever want to that again as long as I lived.
Pegged the speedo in my 1971 440 Charger (150mph) WAY to scary for me. I had to lift when it started wandering around, I didn't care for the slow drift from the yellow to the white line.
How fast have I gone? Not fast enough. In fact not fast at all. Unfortunately, if my story isn't the fastest... but maybe the dumbest. Feb 1989, northbound I-5 about 8:30 AM between U-district and Northgate in Seattle, in a '66 Belvedere with a hopped up 318. I was cut off by some mullet in a Firechicken while I was going up the left lane (he pulled over from middle lane). I was going too fast to stop, and decided to pass him on the left shoulder. There's a jersey barrier there, so all the road debris collects on the shoulder. I hit the marbles, and got real sideways. I looked at that guy driving the Pontiac thru the right side of my windshield (and flipped him off). When I looked down (still on the shoulder), the speedo came down past 90. And, Porknbeaner, I think the question was how fast you've gone, not how fast you've... never mind. You need to post that shit on some other kind of board! -bill
Personal best so far is 136 in the 7-11 '34 5-window (that was taking the scenic route - guardrail to guardrail). And several 127 runs in my own car. I hope to better that at B-ville this summer (see "Help support the Bonneville dream" thread)...
Almost 140 on a 95 ZX-6R on I-70 in Ohio in 1996. Almost 190, in Montana, when it was "safe and prudent" on a built ZX-11. Clocked 125 and climbing on a Suzuki GS-650 in 1990. Fastest on four wheels, was about 170, in my uncles twin turbo, intercooled and nitrous Porsche 911 race car ( has about 1000 HP on the dyno)
145 in an 88 Turbo Coupe all the way to Gainesville. 172 in an Alky injected 540 inch 92 Vette, 1/4 mile 144 in an 80 Z28 street car, 1/4 mile 165+ on a KZ1000 174 in a RED with the same motor from the Z28 146 in an S10 w/ a 608 inch Alky injected motor, 1/4 mile I'm shooting to go over 200 in the RED once the new motor is worked out and the NOS works right. Gosh I'd have to say I've been really fast in about everything I've ever driven.
125 on the highway in a buddies 40 coupe Cad powered when I was a teenager...scared the shit out of me. 138 riding with another buddy in his 59 Vette while racing top end on a country road. He was later killed going too fast in a Vette.. 120 riding a Norton murdercycle when young and stupid.
Well in 1975 on the interstate in my new monte carlo 111 mph.Trooper told the judge i came into rader at 118 and started slowing down he locked it in at 111.Lost driveing license for 30 days paid county 100.00 and lawer 500.00 Speedometer only went to 80mph I was pointing to dr. or park way past the 80 mark.It was a long 30 days.
175 Mph On A 1991 Kawasaki Zx11. Hyw 101 , At Candelstick Park Going South Towards So San Francisco, Sunday Morning 7.00 Am.... Rafa.
Car - 135 mph in my old '32rpu on the M4 , at least that was what the driver of the Subaru WRX I was racing reckoned . Bike - Indicated 194 mph , mildly tuned Suzuki Hayabusa , felt sick afterwards . The one I'm proudest of though was lapping Cadwell Park race track in Lincolnshire in 1min41sec , quick enough to get on the back of the grid for a British Superbike race , riding a stock XR650 fitted with 17" wheels and road tyres . Yes , it is a twisty track
146 indicated on the chichester bypass against a jag. Scary, corners seem a lot sharper at speed. 165mph on the 0.9mile straight at Paul Ricard race track in France. Both in my o/t GT40 replica (RIP)
130mph in a 351c 27t roadster, in a tee shirt and jeans with sunglasses for head protection, road was straight and narrower than a dragstrip, aerodynamics of a light car ment sailing it like a yacht pitching the car in in directions left and right of center to keep it on the road. Still had an inch of gas pedal to go to! Biggest adreilan rush ever. Did about 90 passes on the strip in the same car mostly round the 110mph mark.
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