Yeah I take the kids and switch it over to Kilometers! Uncle Vic got up to 220!!!!

 

Why isn't this thread locked yet

 

I was cruising across "Alligator Alley" which is a great stretch of open road that crosses the Everglades between Ft. Lauderdale and Naples, Florida.
I had one of those "hatch vents" which holds open the rear hatch about 2 inches. I was "cruising about 115mph and my "usually conservative" wife starts saying, "go faster!" The thought did cross my mind as I still had lots of pedal left... but, the thought of the downforce on my rear hatch made me think twice as the glass was already "vibrating". While most people get their car up into the (triple digits = 100+pmh) for short amount of time because of other traffic or road conditions, I was able to cruise at 115+ for about 20 minutes. After awhile you start getting used to going that fast - and it started feeling like "regular" highway driving - the car handled just fine! I'm thinking one day I'll have to just open it up all the way.... but first I'll have to trade in my Cobra radar detector for a Valentine!

 

I dont even want to say how fast i have been, but it was crazy and i will never have the ***** to do it again. I was and idiot and did it with a friend in the car to, he asked how fast it went and i just looked at him and said lets find out. No we didnt find out the top speed but from what i have read we were pretty close. :shocked: Never again have i went over 100 with someone in the car. To this day he still brags about it and thought it was the coolest thing ever, but i cant imagine if something would have happened, their would have been no way we would have lived and it would have been because of my immaturity and idiocy at the time.


[Modified by n1kki6, 3:07 PM 6/14/2004]

 

No, everyone that posted about their top speed on the streets is just as much of a thick-skulled nincompoop as those who race other cars up to similar (or often less) speeds on the street

I'm saying, we're not allowed to brag about street racing against someone, but yet we are allowed to brag about racing solo on the street up to top speed. The mods just aren't logical with this one...

Personally, I think we should be able to write about anything we want without any consorship

 

about 133mph with the top on during a road trip across the Arizona desert I-10 did seem a bit narrower than usual as well

 

As a general rule, I don't speed, or engage in spirited driving when there is a passenger. But, when I purchased the Vette @ 28yo, I went as fast as I could as often as I could and didn't care who was with me(that was part of the fun). I think we can all agree that with age comes wisdom and there is no need to chastise those who still engage in what we consider "risky" behavior. Besides, when I was young and crazy if some old fart tried to tell me to slow down or preach to me about my driving habits I would have told him (or her) to kiss off. Let's just hope noone gets hurt or has a car wreck.

BTW 153mph

 

I saw 92 mph in the GS last summer.

 

I ran at 125mph for several minutes last year on a wide, flat, deserted section of I-15 in Utah.
It felt very much like about 65....smooth, effortless, quiet, stable.

Went 110mph on Saturday on a forum run on a short stretch of deserted, but narrow and bumpy moutain road and frightened the whee out of myself.

That's fast enough for this old crock.
(ha, beat the lock)

Larry
code5coupe

 

Thanks for all the input. I'm a safe and courteous driver and don't plan on doing it again anytime soon. It was fun while it lasted.....

 

Do you think she had a little left in her?

 

The fastest I've been in the Vette was 143mph. (This was before my LT1 transplant) At 143...my cell phone rang...I slowed down to answer it...my Dad was calling to see how I was doing. Just as I tell him that I was seeing what the Vette could do...a State Trooper passed me going the other way. I said Dad, you don't know how much I appreciate this phone call!

 

ABSOLUTELY

 

 

Read your first post in this thread...look in the mirror...look at your daughter and tell yourself again how safe you are. Gotta call on this one.

Maybe you won't do it again. But the rest of us have to share the street with your daughter.

 

Not sure. I think the problem is between the steering wheel and the seat.


[Modified by Hurricane_777, 11:03 PM 6/15/2004]

 

As I said before, I'm a safe and courteous driver. Live and Let Live.... As Don Henley would say, "Get over it". Check out the C.D. sometime

 

Years ago, while I was in the Navy (around 1986), I had a 65 327/350 vert that I got up to 135. I was on the Strand going to Imperial Beach. That's about all she had in her. I was dumb and foolish to try this in an older car but I did anyway.
How about this, I went to NHRA Nationals here in Kirkersville this past weekend and these guys were doing 330 in the quarter mile. Talk about a ride. I keep wondering how they keep their cars planted in the center without losing it.

 

Nothing to get over.

Even people drive Corvettes. Read the posts of this ridiculous thread for proof. I'm just trying to be the voice of reason in an otherwise irresponsible thread.

You posted your experience to the world and invited comment.

I'm not sorry I couldn't give ya the pat on the back you were looking for.

IMHO you screwed up...LARGE! The damage is done. I just hope for your daughters sake that you don't get a visit from the local constabulary in the wee hours of a Saturday morning after you gave her the keys to the car on a Friday night. Don Henley and all of the 70's & 80's poets you admire so much won't be of any help then.

For an inexperienced driver (first timer triple digits) to do so with a passenger...on the street ... instead of the track...and then brag about it...

Courteous? Maybe...maybe you were smiling and waving.

Safe? No. No one is safe at triple digits and 30+ mph over the posted limit especially if they only have one hand on the wheel (assuming you were actually courteous and waving).

Live and let live? Not on public streets and highways. That's why they are regulated with LAWS. But otherwise good advice...you might try it for yourself. Take a little personal responsibility. Demonstrate for your daughter self-restraint by example. "Do as I say, not as I do" didn't work for your parents. What makes you think it will work for you?

Selfish indignation doesn't look good you either. But then you are in the midst of a midlife crisis... Put the keys to the Vette down, slowly back away and nobody gets hurt. Then for the love of humanity seek professional help! Your answers aren't in a "Go Faster" car.

 

135 at night on a long stretch. Things come at you real fast at that speed, extremely dangerous. However, 'vette felt like I was doing 100 - very stable and had a lot more to offer but why tempt fate.

I've had my '72 Datsun to 135 mph and it was damn scary!!!!

Fastest ever was 145 mph in my Ford Taurus. It was stable, but not like the 'vette.

Bry