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Old Feb 2, 2015 | 12:05 PM
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Old Feb 2, 2015 | 12:21 PM
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seen that video before, the comments under the article are pretty funny
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Old Feb 2, 2015 | 01:17 PM
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Comments are funny, but the driver of the car is a freaking idiot.
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Old Feb 2, 2015 | 01:29 PM
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Lucky he didn't kill somebody.
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Old Feb 2, 2015 | 01:43 PM
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I didn't see anything indicating speed . . . was there an overlap or HUD shot I missed?

Thought the cars were electronically limited - -hard to imagine how he got that fast in such a short distance . . .



Regardless - - -a moron.
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Old Feb 2, 2015 | 02:59 PM
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Yeah it seems a little too quick to hit 195.
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Old Feb 2, 2015 | 03:10 PM
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it's highly possible, when he's getting onto the highway he's in 4th and the top of that gear is about 150mph and he's in 5th for about 10 seconds... and it is definitely not stock
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Old Feb 2, 2015 | 03:15 PM
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Yeah I've had mine up to 167. But I didn't count the seconds. And yeah 4th gear can go to 154 easily.
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He wouldn't have made it that far around here.

Around here that first merging car would have hopped over immediately to the passing lane without signalling and woulda been a big wreck!
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Old Feb 2, 2015 | 04:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Oh 2 Fun
He wouldn't have made it that far around here.

Around here that first merging car would have hopped over immediately to the passing lane without signalling and woulda been a big wreck!
I'll vouch for that!

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As the saying goes:

YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID
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Old Feb 2, 2015 | 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by RonSSNova
I'll vouch for that!

Ron
Right on Ron!!

And you were right about running Chevron gas!
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Old Feb 2, 2015 | 06:30 PM
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That first turn on the video to the right, then up onto the turnpike, that's about 1 mile west of my home... sheesh... goofiness
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195mph with one hand on the wheel what a jackass
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Originally Posted by zdeckich
195mph with one hand on the wheel what a jackass
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Old Feb 2, 2015 | 11:51 PM
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Originally Posted by zdeckich
195mph with one hand on the wheel what a jackass
Best you not see where is other hand probably was!

I thought about making a similar video, but nobody wants to see a Corvette hit 35mph before slamming into a pothole!
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lmao at the old man claiming the car is stock and the other guy saying maybe he was doing 105
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Old Feb 3, 2015 | 06:02 AM
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If they had let the video run, you would have seen a random guy from L.A. pull up and tailgate , wondering why the guy is in his way, while talking on the phone.
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Old Feb 3, 2015 | 08:23 AM
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Just my $0.02 worth.....



Is the guy in the video going fast? Yes, he is, as he clearly zips past the other cars, who are probably going 65 MPH. But look at how fast the trees, etc, on the shoulder are going through the camera's view. I would think that at 190 MPH, it would be nothing but a blur, but it isn't.

This video reminds me of the one from about 15-20 years ago, that they dredge up on old episodes of 'Cops', every once in a while, where they're chasing the dark colored C-4, way out in the desert, until the driver loses it, and clips the rear end of a tractor-trailer, and crashes off the side of the road....then runs away from the car!!

The narrator of the video says the Corvette is going 165 MPH.....and if it indeed was, it should be FLYING past those trucks, but it really isn't.....so unless the trucks are going 120 MPH, which I doubt, the 'Vette wasn't going 165.

I think the same thing about the posted video.
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Old Feb 3, 2015 | 08:36 AM
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Originally Posted by CactusCat
That first turn on the video to the right, then up onto the turnpike, that's about 1 mile west of my home... sheesh... goofiness
Terrific... had to be an Okie This guy must be watching too much of the Street Outlaws. Probably doesn't want to go race them though, the Old Farm truck would kick his butt.
Always see a nice red C5 in Chiefs shop.. but he doesn't race it... daily driver maybe?
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