Thread: Top speed you've gone before backing off.

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would that be pre-gun fire or post gun fire?
actual speed or just what the po-po had on the official radar gun?

156 then the fuel cut hit.

115 mph in BMW M-3 on I-5 between San Diego and LA in the mid 80's. That was fast enough and not get caught.

I've been around "a buck and a half" twice.

First time was a early 60s Pontiac 2 door. A kid from Ohio came to Florida with this car. Had a full NASCAR Pontiac engine built by Ray Nickels Speed in Ohio in it. He is a legendary builder of Pontiac engines for many NASCAR teams then. He had me drive it because he had one too many after picking up a $50 drag with a big engine Vett. It was pulling a 2:70s something rear put in just for the Fl trip. I nailed it at a rolling 15MPH and it torque-steered me off the road, the hood went perhaps 10degrees of lift from body and frame twist. The car just wasn't set up to pull that 2:70 even from a rollout! I got her back on black stuff and during this mis-adventure, gave up around 3 lengths to the vett. I pulled 2nd at 6 grand around 85, caught the vett at the top of 2nd, finished him in 3rd and asked permission to pull 4th. He said go for it and the power poles were going by like a picket fence!

Second fastest was my own Vett on the Cocoa Beach Causeway in the 60s when it was just built, just a ribbon of blacktop through the water. I buried a Pontiac Bonneville in 3rd. I had a 327/340 with a 2:70 or 3:08 rear. I remenber it pulled 5800RPM at the top.

I'm 70 now and a lot more mature now. But last night I left the Cruise, took the back way home and ran off a couple of 1/8s just for the fun of it, in my 57 Chevy. Just a little smoke at the launch, and a satisfying churp going into 2nd. Not bad 327/300 with a 4:11 posi. Love to hear those secondarys sing!