How Fast?
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How Fast?
I have a 95' coupe with automatic. I am constantly asked how fast is it.? Does anyone out there have the factory figures or any magazine articles that give top speed, 0-60 and 1/4 mile times ? I did see 130mph this week end on a long straight stretch of Interstate up here in Montana, before my wife came ubglued. It was still pulling hard when I quit. 
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Originally Posted by vetteman1100
I have a 95' coupe with automatic. I am constantly asked how fast is it.? Does anyone out there have the factory figures or any magazine articles that give top speed, 0-60 and 1/4 mile times ? I did see 130mph this week end on a long straight stretch of Interstate up here in Montana, before my wife came ubglued. It was still pulling hard when I quit.
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Grandson looks over at the speedo in my 87 last week and says, "Is 85 all the faster this will go?" Gotta love the lawyer that came up with that advice for the speedo numbers. I used to have an 81 and its speedo only went up to 85 too. WTH! 
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From: First to Sign Grumpy's Hat Only 53 miles from Hell
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Friday my daughter and I drove to the lake in the 40th. She asked me how fast I was going when my jacket almost flew out of the car. So I told her, she said WOW... I said well watch this... Then her eyes got real big when she saw 140.... Then I clicked it back over to MPH. 
She is 5, she really thought we were going that fast. Had alot of explaining to do to the in-laws when she told them
She is 5, she really thought we were going that fast. Had alot of explaining to do to the in-laws when she told them
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From: St. Peters MO Sometimes you have to prove yourself by doing alot of killing or alot of dying...
Originally Posted by WZDADS
Friday my daughter and I drove to the lake in the 40th. She asked me how fast I was going when my jacket almost flew out of the car. So I told her, she said WOW... I said well watch this... Then her eyes got real big when she saw 140.... Then I clicked it back over to MPH. She is 5, she really thought we were going that fast. Had alot of explaining to do to the in-laws when she told them
She is 5, she really thought we were going that fast. Had alot of explaining to do to the in-laws when she told them 
Big momma almost ripped your head off. But you didn't tell the forum how you blasted past the wife and daughter in a no pass zone in excess of 120+ 
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From: First to Sign Grumpy's Hat Only 53 miles from Hell
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What can I say, so I started 10ft to soon.... At least I slowed down for her to catch up..... Granted I had to take off quick again so that she would not lose momentum. She only had a little smoke to drive thru. 
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From: St. Peters MO Sometimes you have to prove yourself by doing alot of killing or alot of dying...
Originally Posted by WZDADS
What can I say, so I started 10ft to soon.... At least I slowed down for her to catch up..... Granted I had to take off quick again so that she would not lose momentum. She only had a little smoke to drive thru.
Now you need to come to St. Louis so we can tour "DONUT LANE"... we'll make a video that will make Mojo jealous 
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From: First to Sign Grumpy's Hat Only 53 miles from Hell
St. Jude Donor '06-'09-'10-'11
Originally Posted by 65Z01
I believe 0-60 for a LT1 is around 5sec while 1/4 mile runs are in the mid-13sec range.
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From: San Diego , CA Double Yellow DirtBags 1985..Z51..6-speed
C&D beat that time with an 85 auto, so take it FWIW, nothing. 
If you live in Montana, you really have NO excuse to not be topping that thing out.
The roads there are great! I think the MTA has way too much money and not enough roads.
You should be able to knock on 170...
If you live in Montana, you really have NO excuse to not be topping that thing out.
The roads there are great! I think the MTA has way too much money and not enough roads.
You should be able to knock on 170...
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From: San Diego , CA Double Yellow DirtBags 1985..Z51..6-speed
Originally Posted by corvetteronw
Grandson looks over at the speedo in my 87 last week and says, "Is 85 all the faster this will go?" Gotta love the lawyer that came up with that advice for the speedo numbers. I used to have an 81 and its speedo only went up to 85 too. WTH!
Who looks at the bars anyways. My 85 Ford has a 140 speedo, all the others have an 85mph one. The 140 cars weren't sold to the public though.
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Originally Posted by WZDADS
I just wanna get Mojos deal for new tires.
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Originally Posted by vetteman1100
I have a 95' coupe with automatic. I am constantly asked how fast is it.? Does anyone out there have the factory figures or any magazine articles that give top speed, 0-60 and 1/4 mile times ? I did see 130mph this week end on a long straight stretch of Interstate up here in Montana, before my wife came ubglued. It was still pulling hard when I quit.
Take it to the track and find out.
Every car is different due to weather conditions, car condition and driver conditions.
Mine hit a 12.97@106 totally stock, yet others claim that it isn't so, but Jim can verify since he was there. I also have a timeslip of me and 65Z01(Jim) running side by side where I ran a 12.99, so it wasn't a fluke.
Some guys can't break out the 14's. That's not to say my car is better, they are geographically challenged, that's all.
Even car magazines have named NJ as having the best air for racing.
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From: SCMR Rat Pack'r Charter Member..Great Bend KS
Originally Posted by vetteman1100
I have a 95' coupe with automatic. I am constantly asked how fast is it.?
Option #2: "I don't know, but if you'd like to go for a ride, we can find out."
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From: peculiar mo
Here in missouri it seems like pretty good atmosphere for racing. i hear about these cars with cams, sr, ported heads, and headers and stuff in places like ca that i think would run alot faster here.
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Originally Posted by WZDADS
Friday my daughter and I drove to the lake in the 40th. She asked me how fast I was going when my jacket almost flew out of the car. So I told her, she said WOW... I said well watch this... Then her eyes got real big when she saw 140.... Then I clicked it back over to MPH. She is 5, she really thought we were going that fast. Had alot of explaining to do to the in-laws when she told them
She is 5, she really thought we were going that fast. Had alot of explaining to do to the in-laws when she told them
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I don't think you'll ever find out your top speed on a track though, well maybe but it would take something like Road America and then I'm still not so sure. Montana sounds like a fun place to find out. But I'd sure hate to hit some critter crawling across the road at 175mph+.