# What's the fastest you've ever been in a car **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 16, 2000, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428 "2000-11-16T08:11:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/61 "2000-11-17T04:12:37Z")
The fastest I remember going in a car was 110 in a '64 MG-B. I’d just gotten out of the service and was driving up I-5 to visit a friend in Eureka, CA. I got into a race with a Lincoln up around the redwood forest at about 1am. He would pass me in the straights, and I would slide past him in the curves, until I came around a curve and ran into a mud slide. With a tree in it. (It was a small tree,) I took a Kawasaki Mach III to 145 once. At least that’s what the speedometer said the last time I had the guts to take my eyes off the road and look. I was a passenger in a (modified) MGA that went through a telephone pole at around 90. (We were doing 105 coming down the hill.) That kinda quenched my thirst for speed after that. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/62 "2000-11-17T04:18:52Z")
120 in my '79 Toyota Celica. It’s really boring driving across Texas, what can I say? I’ve only gotten up to 90 or so in any automatic car though. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/63 "2000-11-17T04:26:50Z")
Fastest,148mph Dodge Viper GTS first track time alone alone after two week course. Funnest, next day in a Shelby Cobra 289FIA only hit 133mph but with the top down it felt like the time I sat next to a open window in a small turboprop in Africa and the pilot said: “sure stick your hand out” as he let the plane pick up speed into a light dive– smartass, I had a bruise on my arm for a week. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/64 "2000-11-17T04:40:16Z")
Somewhere around 122 mph in a '95 Maxima. I wanted to see if it was governed. The effect was better than half a dozen bran muffins. Now I stick with the muffins. ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/65 "2000-11-17T04:46:10Z")
Interesting… The fastest I’ve gone is 130mph in my 91 Acura Legend type-L. It was around midnight last Thanksgiving, I was coming home from a concert where I met Steve Vai. I was going about 70-75 mph, south on I-95 just outside of Washington D.C–in very thick fog. Then 2 cars approached and passed me going 130mph+. I paced about a 1/10th of a mile behind them, flying smoothly through the dense fog at 130mph, for 10 minutes. It was surreal. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/66 "2000-11-17T05:31:49Z")
As of TONIGHT: 120 and accellerating in a 99 Dodge Ram 5.9 liter. (the dog went missing, and I was on a mission to get home and find her.) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/67 "2000-11-17T05:34:48Z")
Post script: The needle pegs at 120, and the tach was climbing. ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/68 "2000-11-17T05:46:15Z")
I did 125 in my '71 Pontiac LeMans (350ci V8) on US 29. ---
**Author:** ![OrcaChow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47c2d/32.png) [@OrcaChow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrcaChow)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/69 "2000-11-17T07:25:28Z")
As driver, 120mph in my old Gran Torino with 351 Cleveland engine. As passenger, **something over 150mph** … _I think_. The speedometer went up to 150mph, IIRC, but I definitely recall the meter was pegged. My friend’s heavily-souped Camaro on a country road in northern CA… a very dumb place to show off his car, because a tractor or car backing out of a drive would’ve meant instant annihilation. Even a dog crossing the road probably would’ve spelled disaster. I braced my feet against the dash, watched the speedometer and cried and begged my friend, laughing maniacally the whole time, to pull up. I almost dumped in my pants. Never rode with him again. ---
**Author:** ![honkytonkwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/70 "2000-11-17T09:15:26Z")
128 mph in my old Datsun 260-Z. That’s when it started to get too light and squirley. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/71 "2000-11-17T11:21:13Z")
I got Dad’s Dodge Grand Caravan (1996) up to 100 on I-75 (speed limit’s 70) a few months back. See, the thing tended to shudder at around 75 mph, so I wanted to see how bad it got. Let me tell you… once it hit 100, it was smooth as glass. Fastest I’ve gone in my '92 Celica GT is 90, same road. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/72 "2000-11-17T11:44:59Z")
Anth: The ol’ Escrotch did 15 mph per 500 rpm in 5th gear. That’s how I calculated my speed. Took me nearly 20 miles to get there, though. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/73 "2000-11-17T12:42:46Z")
201.560 Tryed to back it up and smoked the motor Some day I would like to go back and join the “2” club. Save the salt ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/74 "2000-11-17T15:07:55Z")
137 In my brothers new Mitusbishi. (I don’t recall the model but the really fast sporty on in 94) This was on a highway with a medium ammount of traffic. The four wheel steering really helped. Now I live in NYC and I don’t have a car and if I rent one for the weekend I get excited to hit 15 MPH on the West Side HYW. (sigh) ---
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/75 "2000-11-17T16:26:00Z")
Driver: 1977 Chev Monza 305 V8 small block, the Speedo went to 80MPH, and by continuing the scale I think it was around 100…on an undulating country road, alone, in the evening, I slowed down when the wipers came on due to the wind (they only went once). Passenger: 1984 Yamaha FZR 750, the wind was really strong so I peered over his shoulder to see the speed at 120MPH…I suggested that he decrease our velocity with a gently pound to the chest…I gues he couldn’t hear me screaming…he almost lost me off the back of the bike at 50 the day before (damn country roads)… ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/76 "2000-11-17T22:02:05Z")
Well, I once gave my boyfriend a blowjob while we were cruising around the Oakland Hills. Oh, not that kind of ‘fast’ ? Um, I guess I’ll just sit quietly in the corner and not say anything more. ---
**Author:** ![DJScherr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@DJScherr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DJScherr)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/77 "2000-11-17T22:23:13Z")
I did 118 in my old brother’s 97 VW Jetta at night, uphill in the fog… was a bit pissed at him that night (thought he took my Metallica tickets (I am not a metal head just listen to everything)) and I had to drive my little brother and cousin home, it was a blast, could have gone faster, but out exit kinda popped up on us… Haven’t done it since, but it was fun. In my own car, I would estimate 90 something, had to get home to go to work, and it was 2 in the morning, my spedometer only read up to 85 and I knew it was quite a bit over top… This in a 88 Pontiac Grand Am with 140,000 miles on it in the summer of this year. David Haven’t taken my ‘new’ 93 VW fox yet out for a run, only have hit 80 on it, and that was scary cause it was almost flying. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/78 "2000-11-17T23:07:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DJScherr \* > \*\* > > Haven’t taken my ‘new’ 93 VW fox yet out for a run, only have hit 80 on it, and that was scary cause it was almost flying. \*\* I have an '88 Fox with a, shall we say, unstable, front end and I’ve hit 80mph. Felt relatively stable, but cornering is a bit scary. Feels like the car is going to come off the frame. ---
**Author:** ![Rectangle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c4cdca/32.png) [@Rectangle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rectangle)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/79 "2000-11-18T06:21:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Robot Arm \* > \*\*102 mph in a '69 MGB-GT in Olympia, Washington. > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Rectangle \* > > 135mph on the Autobahn in my 86 Dodge Omni GLH Turbo!! > > And you know what the “GLH” stands for, don’t you? > \*\* GOES LIKE HELL!!! And it would. She was stock then. Before I sold it, I put the Mopar computer, high flow fuel injectors, K&N air filter, hiflow exhaust and a heavy duty clutch. I also put front Shelby Charger springs to lower it one inch. I sold it cause I moved to Reno, and didn’t want the car to sit up at my dads. I’d love to find another one. ---
**Author:** ![Rectangle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c4cdca/32.png) [@Rectangle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rectangle)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428/80 "2000-11-18T06:22:55Z")
Or better yet, a Omni GLHS!!! Goes Like Hell Somemore!! Only 500 made. Any color you wanted as long as it was black! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-been-in-a-car/41428.md?page=5)