What’s the fastest you’ve driven?

[TheCougar]

If we are going wheels up, 1.6 Mach. About 1200 ground speed with the jet stream. Which does not feel nearly as fast as 600kias low enough to see tree branches.

 

[Batsonbe]

Preferred to live on the safe side. I don’t think I’ve been 100 before in anything.

 

[cnelk]

I think most think ‘driving’ is on the ground / roadway.

Not sure if I’ve heard anyone say ‘I drove an aircraft’ ?

 

[SMOKYMTN]

Healing back to North Carolina down I-40 the day I got my DD-214

 

[ODB]

Maybe 130 or so? in a friend's corvette.

 

[Loper]

120 in a 2000 Honda accord going over a long bridge. I thought that was pretty fast but some of you have gone WAY faster.

Once I saw a guy get blown to pieces going stupid fast (probably over 120) on a bike down a rural two lane road. He was flying and tried to go around a sedan and hit a pickup head on. A lady pulled up about 5 minutes afterwards and said that the guy flew past her and she told her husband, “He’s going to kill himself”. She was right.

 

[prm]

I think most think ‘driving’ is on the ground / roadway.

Not sure if I’ve heard anyone say ‘I drove an aircraft’ ?

Well, there are some!

 

[cal30_sniper]

I think most think ‘driving’ is on the ground / roadway.

Not sure if I’ve heard anyone say ‘I drove an aircraft’ ?

It’s pretty common to refer to yourself as an “[insert aircraft type here] driver” in a lot of tac-air communities.

 

[112Savage]

1966 Chrysler Newport 383- 130MPH
1987 Mercedes 190E 2.6- 116MPH
1995 BMW 325is -124MPH
Polaris Ranger 700 on snow - 55MPH

In all cases I got more scared than the car/4-wheeler was and I let off.

The Chrysler felt like she was just floating down the canal.

 

[Schmo]

Not the fastest I’ve been, but 94mph on a Suzuki DRZ400S with 50/50 tires. Not super bright, and it got really hairy

 

[MallardSX2]

170 on a bike in the middle of the day and a GD house cat ran out in front of me and I missed it with the front tire by an inch…..

 

[Kevin270]

Kawasaki Z11 180 on a long straight away.I am not sure if it was 180 but that is what the speedo was on.

 

[Billy Goat]

I broke 50 mph in a tractor one time.


giant bias ply tires rolling that hard, gets interesting, unbalanced they hop, a lot...

 

[Ice-kub]

170 on a bike in the middle of the day and a GD house cat ran out in front of me and I missed it with the front tire by an inch…..

Flash back! I was about a mile from home on a country road, dusk, came over a little hill doing about 60mph, three ducks sitting in the middle of my lane, first went left, second right, third missed the front brake lever by a pube, hit my knuckles, bicept/shoulder and the side of my helmet. Feather jammed in the plastic knuckle vents on my alpinestar gloves, shoulder vent on my suit and vent/visor hinge mechanism. If he hit the front brake lever square on, most likely would have been catapulted me into the pavement.

 

[cnelk]

It’s pretty common to refer to yourself as an “[insert aircraft type here] driver” in a lot of tac-air communities.

Maybe you guys can start a ‘How Fast did you Drive an aircraft thread’

 

[Roy68]

I broke 50 mph in a tractor one time.


giant bias ply tires rolling that hard, gets interesting, unbalanced they hop, a lot...

This reminded me of the JD 8820 combines we had. They would go into a neutral of sorts on a down hill once they were up around 20mphOr so. You could pull the hydrostat lever back and big green just kept rolling and accelerating. Maybe came close to 35 a couple times with no ability to really slow down. Those machines don’t have much of a brake. With the steer tires on the back you didn’t want to sneeze at that moment.

 

[Billy Goat]

This reminded me of the JD 8820 combines we had. They would go into a neutral of sorts on a down hill once they were up around 20mphOr so. You could pull the hydrostat lever back and big green just kept rolling and accelerating. Maybe came close to 35 a couple times with no ability to really slow down. Those machines don’t have much of a brake. With the steer tires on the back you didn’t want to sneeze at that moment.

You found out if you were a pound or 2 off on air pressure side to side.

 

[Rotnguns]

Motorcycle: 175 mph indicated on a BMW S1000RR. Rock solid, had some more left but I shut it down.

 

[Shraggs]

A guy in town had an original Shelby cobra and my buddy and I got rides. It was a rattle trap and not stable and I was scared teenager, when he called 140 I tapped him no more…

My boss gave my a ride in his bmw m5, 140 felt fun! I got to drive it but kept it under a hundred.

Just finished new pistons, cam, valves etc rebuilding a 351 Cleveland in my cougar convertible. On my maiden drive I hit 125 in 2 gear of my 3 speed automatic (no way was going into third until I changed rear end), but country road late at night with deer everywhere I backed off. Oh, had a gal in the car and she seemed ready…

70 in a speed boat on choppy inland lake

 

[northernalpine]

Allegedly…

‘94 GMC Boxtruck: 94mph (US87 near Ft Benton)
‘98 Jeep Grand 5.9L: 127mph (I-5 from SF and LA)
‘02 Honda RC51: 173mph (I-90 E near Vantage)
Near vertical track, no wingsuit: 202mph (AZ)

Given the depth of posts in this thread, it appears spitting in the devil’s eye was a favorite pastime for others in their youth as well.

These days I mainly putt around in diesel trucks to keep my right foot in check.