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Old 07-15-2005, 02:35 AM
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my fastest speed in a door car (67 mustang supergas car was 8.80 @155.00 mph, then may fastest mph in a dragster was one that i tested for a local chassis builder 7.48 @ 180.00 my dragster runs in the 172.00 mph range.
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Old 07-15-2005, 04:10 AM
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let's see i was a passenger in a modified 69 camaro at the silver state challenge open road race in nevada 5 years ago top speed was about 172mph.i've been clocked @ close to 118mph in a dirt track dwarf car running on a 1/2 mile clay oval.those cars are 1000lbs with a yamaha R1 for power
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Old 07-15-2005, 05:51 AM
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Clocked a motorcycle doing 160 MPH once while doing stationary radar, 3:am in the morning. Just reset the radar and went back to my donut and coffee.
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Old 07-15-2005, 08:01 AM
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Just recently there was a guy on a bike clocked by helecopter at over 205MPH in Michigan Could you imagine getting smacked with a giant june bug or some other flying critter at that speed?
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Old 07-15-2005, 03:30 PM
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Oh Yeah!!!!! I almost forgot....... I followed Charley on the power tour.......we went XXX M.P.H.


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Old 07-15-2005, 04:34 PM
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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!
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