Bonkers! 😬

 

 

Edited April 23Apr 23 by martin-w

High speeds causing arguments in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (the Amish).

 

Wow!  I wonder how fast he's going?

The fastest I ever got was 130mph(209kph) in a 1970 Pontiac LeMans.  Yeah, I was young and a bit foolhardy.

Dave

2 hours ago, martin-w said:

Bonkers! 😬

That looked like fun! 😄

Notice the line he takes in the corners.

Some time ago one of our members posted a video from himself on a track. He didn't follow a similar line, but stayed mostly in the center of the track. I didn't comment at the time, but wondered if he'd ever been to a racing school.

Hook

11 hours ago, dave2013 said:

Wow!  I wonder how fast he's going?

The fastest I ever got was 130mph(209kph) in a 1970 Pontiac LeMans.  Yeah, I was young and a bit foolhardy.

Dave

 

You beat me. 110 for me. But I get scared at 60. 😄

It gives more of an impression of speed because it's an Ariel Atom, I would think, a baby sized car. 

 

Edited April 24Apr 24 by martin-w

How do you fancy three wheels? Okay by me as long as the single wheel is at the back.

 

 

 

There's only one thing that I find more frightening than a lap on the Nordschleife: the Tourist Trophy on the Isle of Man:

As for my own record speed: about 220 km/h in a Mercedes rental car by myself, and about 270 km/h as co-pilot in a friend's Audi TT, both on the German Autobahn. The 220 km/h was under very safe conditions (hardly any traffic, straight road), but my friend drove 270 km/h between Frankfurt and Wiesbaden in fairly high traffic. I was was genuinely frightened.

3 hours ago, martin-w said:

You beat me. 110 for me. But I get scared at 60.

I was terrified, but was racing this other dude and wanted to beat him.  We were on a sparsely trafficked section of about 10 miles of freeway.

The actual top speed of that car was about 120mph, but I was on a downhill slope so was able to hit 130.

The fastest I ever got after that was 180kph on the Italian autostrada.

I'll never go that fast again except in an airliner, or maybe high speed train if we ever get one in the U.S.

Dave

My fastest was 115 in my 68 Chevelle SS 396. Still had pedal left, but I was more worried about the car than the speed. For some reason, speed never scared me. It probably should have.

My son, long after the fact, told me he got our Mercedes ML-500 up to 140 once. Probably governed at that speed. The thing accelerated like the Chevelle. It was more Chrysler than Mercedes, I don't recommend them, but it had some Mercedes engineering in it. It was cheap enough, bought used.

A friend with a 64 427 Galaxy claimed he got a phone call that said he'd been clocked at 152. He may have been telling the truth but that car tended to float at higher speeds. He said he was chasing a Fairlane but couldn't catch it; lighter car with the same engine which apparently wasn't showroom stock but I don't know the details. It looked normal. Probably had a long rear axle ratio at the time; he tended to change them a lot, usually after breaking the old one. 🙂 

I got to drive on the Autobahn in Germany, but not that fast. The "end of 135 kph speed limit" sign was impressive. Had a sergeant in our unit who had brought his bright orange Super Bee over; said he raced Porches a lot.

Thanks for bringing back the memories.

Hook

Speaking of Autobahn: this guy created some controversy a few years ago because he went more than 400 km/h 🙂

 

 

25 minutes ago, qqwertz said:

Speaking of Autobahn: this guy created some controversy a few years ago because he went more than 400 km/h 🙂

 

260 mph.

With other cars on the road and not on a track, that's just not acceptable.  

Wow!  That was fun!  It triggered some nostalgia in me from a time long, long ago.

There was a time when sports cars were popular.  MGs, Triumps, Austin Healys, Lotuses, and even some Mercedes.

It was a time when stores were closed on Sunday and auto-crosses were held in shopping center parking lots.  My brother had a TR3 and I watched him enter quite a few,

And road rallys.  I road with him in a couple.

With a wife and three kids I could never afford both a sports car and a station wagon...not even an MG TD.  So I lived the sports car scene vicariously through my little brother.

I think of those days sometimes.  And it's always with fondness.

Noel

54 minutes ago, martin-w said:

 

260 mph.

With other cars on the road and not on a track, that's just not acceptable.  

That's what the authorities thought as well. He got a fine, I think.

2 hours ago, qqwertz said:

That's what the authorities thought as well. He got a fine, I think.

Well, the sign did say, "Fine for speeding." 😄 

23 hours ago, martin-w said:

 

You beat me. 110 for me. But I get scared at 60. 😄

Must admit I find high speed in cars rather horrible; it's that 'enclosed' feeling and the knowledge that if anything happens over 40mph there's a lot of energy within that mass that's got to be dumped somewhere...

My father was a traffic policeman for many years through the fifties and sixties and had a habit of pressing an imaginary brake pedal whenever my mother was at the wheel - which used to irritate her no end and it's a trait I've inherited and has the same effect on my wife!😃

Motorcycles on the other hand...in 1985 I had a red Kawasaki Gpz 1100 which at the time was a very fast motorcycle indeed. My friends and I used to go all around Europe in the summer on our bikes. We were on the A5 out of Frankfurt heading for Hannover - the intention was to go into West Berlin - it was mid morning and traffic was light. I'd been sat in the left hand lane doing a comfortable 130mph indicated, passing everything when I glanced at my right hand mirror and it was completely red. It took my brain a few seconds to process this information. I looked in my left hand mirror and had the view of the carriageway behind me. I looked in my righthand mirror again and it was just...red. I thought the mirror glass had fallen out and I was just looking at the mirror holder...but something wasn't right.

 I then took a quick look over my shoulder and three feet off my rear wheel sat a bright red Porche!

I managed to control my astonishment, open the throttle and pulled gently over into the 'slow' lane. Whereupon the Porche overtook me slowly and then continued to accelerate away into the distance. 

He did give me a polite wave in the mirror though!😲