What’s the fastest you’ve driven?

[Moose83]

Around 1,000 mph, wheels up.

You win...

 

[as.ks.ak]

I think I hit 40mph in Grandpas International down the big pasture hill when I was 12. I missed a gear and we went for a ride in neutral. Way more exciting than any of the 120+ mph stories down gravel roads I have.

How I stayed in that seat is beyond me.


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[CaribooBC]

165 on a 1000cc Yamaha and 140ish in a Mustang GT

 

[Quietking]

Car -05 Mercedes E500. (160mph) I miss that car lol. Young and dumb crashed trying to go over 100 on a on-ramp at night while it was raining


Truck - 02 Toyota tundra (105mph)

 

[5MilesBack]

Back in the 80's my buddy and I drove a guy's Shelby Cobra. I can't even remember what that thing topped out at, but I'm pretty sure we hit it.

In the early 90's I was driving from Monterey to San Diego. I came upon an accident on the 101. There was an engine block laying in the middle of the road, and 6 body bags on the side of the road. There were also 12 CHP cars at the scene. When I got past it all I thought "shoot, there's not another highway patrolman for miles". I pushed it too far, even into another county. I was doing 105 in my '89 Toyota 4x4 when I got pulled over. I saw him coming from a long ways back, so pulled over under an overpass. He actually blew past me and had to back up.......a Super Trooper moment.

In 2016 while driving in AZ on one of the 2-lane roads in my 2001 F-350 7.3L, I was behind a combination of 9 semi's and RV's along with 4 or 5 cars between them and me. We were all going under the speed limit for awhile. No one in the cars was passing even when they had a chance. So when I saw my chance I floored it. I'm not sure where the governor kicked in, but it was somewhere between 100-110. I got around every one of them in short order. Then never saw another vehicle in front of me for miles. That truck gets up to 100 really quickly from 65-75mph, and is really smooth at 95+.

2000 Maxima - 135mph with plenty of pedal left. The speedo goes to 160. That was just a couple years ago.

In the 80's I drove a buddy's Audi with the cruise set at 110 most of the way from CO to South Padre Island, TX for Spring Break. That one was REALLY stupid.

 

[Bluefish]

Only about 160 on a gsxr1100. 150 on the slow bike at Daytona in the rain. Around 150 in a mustang. Honestly after racing, speed isn’t that scary.

Now the quickest car was a 700 ish hp firebird. Actually pretty respectable for a car and it was the slow one in the shop. Turned out the it had a bad coil and only ran on 7 cylinders. Neighbor kid who works there has an 850 hp ls swapped 350z, fastest car in the shop was a 1050 at the ground vette. Went 220 in a standing mile.

 

[rodney482]

dodge charger poiice pckg

156

 

[longrangelead]

my high school Nova would do 0-140 in a quarter mile.

it would do 140-0 in ½ mile.

kids now will never know the thrill of V-8 power and drum brakes!

Do you guys think if it goes wrong at such high speed that the human mind can proceed the thought of “ this is bad, I’m gonna die !?”

Or do you think the mind glitches and it’s over ?

I had a few instant(ces) where I was having a debate in my head weather I was going to die or just wind up in the hospital...
coincidentally, I didn't die, lessons were learned and things were sold...