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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)…
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.
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.
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.