WHAT'S YOUR TOP SPEED?

[kwhizz]

I was driving my C5 convert up to the Dells....as I was driving along , in my rear view mirror I saw a little Red car of some sort coming up from behind.....it was 5:30 in the morning with very light traffic.....as the little red car caught up to me he slowed down and just drove next to me........I couldn't recognize what he was driving but it was Red, Low,Top Down, driver in his mid 20's, hair blowing in the breeze......life is Good..........
As I sped up he stayed right on my fender, as I slowed down, same thing.......After all, I had my new C5 convert, this kid ain't gonna mess with me ....."Right"....so, I did the right thing and nailed it.....as I got up to 125 he was still on my fender and still never even looked over......130 same, 140 same thing, at 145, the Vette just about had it's tongue out.......he looks over at me and waves goodbye, at 145 he pulled away from me like I was standing still......so much for my testosterone high.........Oh .....bye the way......all I saw on that little thing was F355 on the tail panel.....Ferrari.......I think I made his day.......
Other than that my 66 Nova at the Drag Strip......350 Small block, 700R4,3.42, on 26" tall Drag Radials.....10.92 @ 126.....

Ken

[djunod]

For a long time, the fastest that I've ever been was 110. That was when I was 16 and my Dad let me drive his '68 Camaro from Greenville IL up to Ontario Canada for a youth church camp. It was on some interstate highway up at the top of Indiana, I was cruising along side of a Corvette. We did it for quite a few miles.

Then a couple of years back I took our '01 Corvette up to 145. Since I was on a interstate highway, I was scared to go any faster then that... you just never know when somebody will pull out in front of you. I only got up to that speed and then slowed back down to 80 pretty quickly.

[Mr70]

1980,US 30 Dragstrip in Indiana.
I went 100MPH in my 72 Chevelle,then later on 120MPH in my friends white 68 Camaro,that was "the Car' back then.We really had a lot of time in that Camaro.
Of course this all happened on a SUNDAY,SUNDAY,SUNDAY!

[MikeA]

In the Grand National I am guessing (speedo goes to 85 mph)around 100-110 mph +/-. In a 1986 Caprice (old Audubon Twp police car) 120 mph +/-.

[SamLBInj]

We need a class trip to the Audobon

[Canucklehead]

150 on my yamaha v-max with a passenger (we were late for a wedding and we took the bike and we were in wedding gear), interesting i had a limo company many years ago and i got my 50" streatch up to 130, took awhile though becouse the guys in the back were a bunch of gamblers and wanted to bet on how fast it would go fully loaded.

[71-LS6]

99' SS Camaro 155mph+ and all alone on the Kansas Turnpike one time when new. Car & Driver had just tested one, and claimed 162mph?? The car handled worse (kind of floaty), than my Hemi Challenger at speed, so I backed off early. Numerous rice bikes much faster but always with eyes glued to the road.
This is the kicker, the wife who actually drove the SS Camaro everyday, maxed it out racing a car on a deserted stretch of I-55 between Memphis and Cape Girardeau. About a month later, she points out a car on the street, and says "that's the car that I couldn't outrun". The car was a 98'-99' Viper GTS.

[SmallHurst]

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99' SS Camaro 155mph+ and all alone on the Kansas Turnpike one time when new. Car & Driver had just tested one, and claimed 162mph?? The car handled worse (kind of floaty), than my Hemi Challenger at speed, so I backed off early. Numerous rice bikes much faster but always with eyes glued to the road.
This is the kicker, the wife who actually drove the SS Camaro everyday, maxed it out racing a car on a deserted stretch of I-55 between Memphis and Cape Girardeau. About a month later, she points out a car on the street, and says "that's the car that I couldn't outrun". The car was a 98'-99' Viper GTS.

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Hey Steve,

You always said that your wife was a fast one, but I thought you meant something else!

My personal experience: Shortly after I purchased the Hurst, a buddy (also known as my landlord) and I spent an afternoon tuning on it. After doing a wicked 200 ft burnout that was digging up asphalt , he said,"Lets see what this car will really do!" As stated, speedos get real inaccurate at higher speeds, but the speedo was showing over 120 when I looked down after seeing a puff of dust come up off the road (thought it might have been oil smoke so I let out quick!) I have to admit, it can get kind of scary when 4000 lbs is floating around the road!

[SamLBInj]

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i had a limo company many years ago and i got my 50" streatch up to 130, took awhile though becouse the guys in the back were a bunch of gamblers and wanted to bet on how fast it would go fully loaded.

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The car or the driver?

[SS427]

Oh yeah, I forgot when I ran Annie's (aka Tabatha) '02 ZL-1 against her in Cumby's LS-6. I am sure we were well over the 130 mark on I-72 though the Chevelle was running out of poop by that point................