Author Topic: Fastest car you've driven? (Read 1728 times)

Staga · « **Reply #30 on:** July 26, 2002, 04:29:06 PM »

Fastest car: M-B 500SE
Funniest: VW Buggy 2,4 liter stroker ~180-200hp
Weirdest: Moskvich Elite 1300M
Most power+torque+weight: Volvo Globetrotter F-12
Longest HiSpeed drive: 30 miles ~120mph; Had to slow down 'cause lack of fuel
Most comfortable backseat: New Yorker '65
Off-Road: Volvo C303
Ugliest: Volvo TP-21 "Sugga"

Wlfgng · « **Reply #31 on:** July 26, 2002, 05:30:09 PM »

150mph in a 911/S on the Nevada highway.. before the limit was posted.

chance-airwolf · « **Reply #32 on:** July 26, 2002, 06:58:03 PM »

Well, while it was no exotic racer, at the worldly age of 17, I reached the speed of approximately 130 mph in a '72 Nova going downhill on a two-lane Arkansas highway on the way to Greers Ferry Lake. Kept waiting for the hood to fly off, but it never did. Them 78-series tires kept me on the road safely until I had to chop throttle (no lives put at risk except mine and the girlfriend).
The woody part came later (thanks ex-girlfriend!) after climbing Sugar Loaf mountain

lord dolf vader · « **Reply #33 on:** July 26, 2002, 07:09:38 PM »

mid 150s ( spedo was just short of 160) in a 86 928s on NY rout 9 in 1986 and that was with the sun roof open and a japanese guy with varnets on sticking out of it. long long story.

Sancho · « **Reply #34 on:** July 26, 2002, 07:20:07 PM »

i took a go-cart for a spin at malibu gran prix once. does that count??

Kratzer · « **Reply #35 on:** July 26, 2002, 07:40:56 PM »

I took a 78' GMC Suburban up to around 100 - 105 once. It didn't like it.

I had a REAL fast ride in a WRX a few months ago - probably topped out around 90, but you should've seen the road we were on! The car feels like it's going 40 at that speed.

Soda · « **Reply #36 on:** July 26, 2002, 08:01:40 PM »

On the track or not on the track? On the track is was easily a friends old Camero. Ex Players Light racing car, 100% race with only enough other stuff to keep it "production" so it could race as such. Production included a radio mounted in the spot where the dash should have been (it was removed but the radio had to be there). Full roll cage, racing seat, Z-compound tires.... I'll remember his instructions forever when I sat down to drive. "Watch for the rpm shift light to remind you when to knock it up a gear, it's so loud when it's running you won't be able to even think."... the speed gate had me at 145mph on a rather short front stretch. My knees and heart confirmed the speed when I pulled it over a couple of laps later.....

-Soda
The Assassins.

NUKE · « **Reply #37 on:** July 26, 2002, 08:21:08 PM »

Those late 80's 5.0 Mustangs are tremendously quick/fast.

My 72 Camaro, 400 small block, 202 heads was a very quick car, but I wouldnt take it over 120 or so. I dont like driving fast top speed. I like acceleration better.

Nothing like a good muscle car for raw power and accleration IMO.

HBlair, I have heard about those Ruf Porches....man, you lucky to get to test one

LtHans · « **Reply #38 on:** July 26, 2002, 08:36:25 PM »

I bought a simple 87 camero witha 305 in it. Granted, nothing impressive about this car as their a dime a dozen.

We got it up to 130 going home from work thru the back roads. It was fun, but we had to fill it with gas when we got home.

Creamo · « **Reply #39 on:** July 26, 2002, 09:16:28 PM »

Gainesville to Tampa at an average speed of 180 mph in his Camaro in the '80s

OK Wobbled….

My brother manages a dealership in Atlanta and although I didn’t drive it, it was a BMW I was riding in, a 5 or I’m guessing more like a 7 series. Big, (shit, HUGE) comfy as hell, loaded, etc… You know, not the insurance salesman wives car DRip drives.

They have a sign at the bottom of the hill they use as a mark outside the dealership they have a contest getting to speed on with trade-ins. It was fast. Scary Fast, but it never felt squirrelly. Quite impressive.

Fastest actually driving was on a 86 Honda Interceptor 1000 at 120. It would go there with ease and didn't seem so bad.

In a car, in the GTP on the way to Blackrock desert outside of Gerlack lately. It’s the flattest space I had ever seen, like the Judas Priest “Point of No Return” LP cover. 115, but it didn’t feel all that smooth at all, and it was for a brief run. As a matter a fact, it was open range, and that means the first cattle hazard in the road I ran across made it down right no fun in the least. Lotsa rpm left, no handling or sense in it making burgers with yer car for sure.

Where people find desert space like that to speed risking only themselves and roaming cattle is beyond me.

majic · « **Reply #40 on:** July 26, 2002, 09:23:42 PM »

1989 oxidized powder blue Ford Tempo GL. I've had her up to 55, but there was a wicked shimmy and I only go 45 now.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #41 on:** July 26, 2002, 10:06:26 PM »

I did 83 mph in a 62 VW bug... well it seemed fast where I was sitting.

Creamo · « **Reply #42 on:** July 26, 2002, 11:09:30 PM »

Wait. Your missing a national notable claim.

My college roommate got us from Gainesville to Tampa at an average speed of 180 mph in his Camaro in the '80s. First and last time I've gone over 100mph for an extended period of time.

This is outstanding. Buddy Baker ran a banked oval at Daytona in a NASCAR race at 177mph average.

Add yellow flags, but minus stop lights and normal traffic... still.

Christ, this is a world record! Dude, send me a bio and pix.

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Swager · « **Reply #43 on:** July 27, 2002, 07:53:11 AM »

Raced a Mustang in my 1987 T-Bird Turbo Coupe on Interstate 84 in New York. About 110 MPH. Kinda scary, but that car could move!! I still wish I had it. Best drivin car I ever sat in. Well exception of my dad's Chrysler M300.

Got my brother's 1978 Trans Am (400 4bbl, 4 speed) up to about 105 and the gas was about 3/4 of the way depressed. I have no idea what the top end of that car is! He still has it but has totally rebuilt it. It now puts out about 560 HP.

lazs2 · « **Reply #44 on:** July 27, 2002, 10:01:39 AM »

Hmm.. a tough one.. My healey is pretty quick but I've never had it over about 125 or so.. My 69 El Camino is a big block with a 6 speed and stays glued to the road pretty well with all the suspension and steeering mods (they call em "G machines" now in the hot roddy crowd)... Some guys are pushing these old Chevells through the air pretty fast but I still don't feel all that comfortable in it at really high speed... besides... the speedo don't like being pegged for long.

When the jag coupe came out with a 12 cyl a buddy bought one and we topped it out. That was pretty fast. I drove a 41 Williys with a hillborn injected 427 in it and it ran 130++ in the quarter but was pretty squirrly. My 68 RT Charger with 2.75 rear end was pretty fast and would bury the 140 mph speedo but who knows how fast it was going.. lousy power steering tho... wasn't pleasant. Easy to fix these days. Heck... even my CHP 90 5 speed Mustang would do 140 or so and it had a state calibrated speedo.. I don't like going 140 in that car even with the better "cop" suspension..
lazs