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 Re: Just how fast have you gone (mph) in a street legal car on a public road?
[Re: Chris B]
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07/21/21 02:39 PM
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RayBob
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Real cars !!!! 
Advice? Wise men don't need it. Fools won't heed it !
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Re: Just how fast have you gone (mph) in a street legal car on a public road?
[Re: Okie Poke]
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07/21/21 02:53 PM
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Lon Hagler
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139 myself in the '89 5.0
158 riding is a street legal, 9 second Mustang. talk about pucker factor
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Re: Just how fast have you gone (mph) in a street legal car on a public road?
[Re: Okie Poke]
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07/21/21 02:55 PM
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128 MPH in my Roush Mustang on the I-5 in So Cal
It was 2 AM and I felt the car start to lift so I let off...would not have been good had I not let off the fun pedal.
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Re: Just how fast have you gone (mph) in a street legal car on a public road?
[Re: Okie Poke]
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07/21/21 03:05 PM
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Re: Just how fast have you gone (mph) in a street legal car on a public road?
[Re: Bryan O']
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07/21/21 03:05 PM
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I ran my wife's BMW 535 up to 138 on I 35 north of Hillsboro. A ricer went by making too much noise, so I thought I'd show him what German engineering will do. He petered out about 120. Ran out about 1/2 a mile from before I let off. It was still pulling. Funny thing - wife was asleep in the chair beside me.
Bigrebar - that 111 mph pass on the water is more impressive than 150 on land. I've run a boat up to ~ 95, and you've seriously got to be up on the wheel. Things change way faster in a boat. I did 143 in mom's BMW on highway 6 between Navasota and College Station when I drove her car after the transmission went out on the 02 Duramax. 
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Re: Just how fast have you gone (mph) in a street legal car on a public road?
[Re: Okie Poke]
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07/21/21 03:10 PM
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Sometime around the mid 90's (which is only important as I would never do this clown-a** sh** today), I last saw the speedo click by 160 in a ZR1 before I backed off the throttle. On I30, somewhere between Arlington and Dallas, in the middle of the night, with the headlights flipped off. I hit a seam in the concrete that caused the car to jump enough that I heard the tires chirp. At that speed it scared the bajeebas out of me and I lifted all the way out of it.
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Re: Just how fast have you gone (mph) in a street legal car on a public road?
[Re: Okie Poke]
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07/21/21 03:10 PM
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When I first started at PD we had several early to mid nineties caprices with the LS1 motors. These cars consistently ran 143 to 144. This was back when we chased everyone so we did that often. After that I never had another patrol car that would break 130.
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Re: Just how fast have you gone (mph) in a street legal car on a public road?
[Re: Okie Poke]
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07/21/21 03:31 PM
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Re: Just how fast have you gone (mph) in a street legal car on a public road?
[Re: Okie Poke]
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07/21/21 03:31 PM
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Re: Just how fast have you gone (mph) in a street legal car on a public road?
[Re: Okie Poke]
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07/21/21 03:38 PM
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150/160 (?? - speedo was maxed out at 140) in a 1976 4-door Mercury Grand Marquis Brougham (with a 460 c.i. original engine) in summer 1986 on a new stretch of straight and flat asphalt road west of Hooker, OK. That thing was floating and as smooth as could be.
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Re: Just how fast have you gone (mph) in a street legal car on a public road?
[Re: Okie Poke]
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07/21/21 03:40 PM
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I was riding with my buddy in a trans am cruising at 140ish. I made a comment about the speed and he dropped the hammer down. Even starting at 140, it pinned my head back. Went up over 160, but I never did see the exact speed.
I've got a Navigator that cruises very comfortably at 115. It starts feeling loose over 120.
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Re: Just how fast have you gone (mph) in a street legal car on a public road?
[Re: don the angler]
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07/21/21 03:43 PM
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presley
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135 mph in a 1962 Corvette when the car was about one year old. It was on Highway 360 in the Trinity River bottoms Back then 360 was just a rural 2 lane highway with very light traffic. The car had more in it, but the front end felt as though it was about to flip the car. 1962 corvettes were not as aerodynamic as the newer models. Had to sell the car to pay for the birth of my first son. I still do not know that was a good trade off. My 1969 Corvette was the same way. Over 120 and the front end felt like it wasn't touching the ground
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Re: Just how fast have you gone (mph) in a street legal car on a public road?
[Re: Okie Poke]
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07/21/21 03:45 PM
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Nocona Brian
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I think when I was sophomore in HS my mom bought new one of those VW bugs with the 1.8 turbo gas engine, her's had a 5 speed, speedo went to 160. One of my buddies and I jumped in it heading east to St. Jo to see what it'd do. Foot to the floor coming down one of those hills around Bonita I backed out of it somewhere between 145 and 150. We turned around and drove back to Nocona in silence, parked it in the driveway and never spoke a word about it again. We weren't prepared for it.
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Re: Just how fast have you gone (mph) in a street legal car on a public road?
[Re: Okie Poke]
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07/21/21 04:03 PM
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168 in a 2019 Vette Grand Sport and it had plenty more to go but I ran out of room.
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Re: Just how fast have you gone (mph) in a street legal car on a public road?
[Re: Okie Poke]
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07/21/21 04:12 PM
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2001 Z06 ~145mph on Westpark tollway. That was years ago. I can't remember the last time I cracked 85mph (that was on a 75mph speed limit interstate while passing someone). I've never been a speeder. I enjoy acceleration but have never really been one to drive fast. Too dangerous.
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