my little brother had a Z-1 lingenfelter super charged monster.....I thought it was squirrely as hell....and the cockpit felt like a tomb....I’m six five..too tight and poor visibility
Posted on 03/13/2019 7:04:13 PM PDT by Mariner
Are you attempting to make some point?
What were you doing then to make 3x min wage at 22?
I was a few months our of the service, working as a equipment mechanic at Hughes Aircraft. That was not much of an income in SoCal.
Co-worker had a Hennessey modified Vette that he said would do 208mph , but conceded it would be closer to 200 mph with my 220 pound carcass in the passenger seat ..... 198mph that day is the fastest I’ve been on a Texas farm to market road . I think it was 2012 or newer model.... body / windows didn’t seem to be built for that speed, I thought my side window was gonna explode at that speed ....... Only Vette I’ve ever owned was the 1984 model. Was a great road trip ride !
198mph...
That’s fast enough. LOL I rode with my dad in his Plymouth Fury police cruiser. The speedo was certified to 140 on those and we buried it running down a speeder on a highway out in eastern CO. Those corn rows looked like a solid wall on each side of the two lane. That 440 Magnum could run.
A rather funny comment was made about structural integrity at track speeds was the Supra feeling like it was carved out of asolid ingot of metal, and the Corvette feeling like a collection of parts in flying in close formation.
Frame twisting sounds like GM still does not have structural integrity mastered.
my little brother had a Z-1 lingenfelter super charged monster.....I thought it was squirrely as hell....and the cockpit felt like a tomb....I’m six five..too tight and poor visibility
My 1980 Suzuki GS 1100R would smoke a CBX and that awkward motor mounting
CBX crazy bike....
Agree ..... the only one I’ve owned was as stated the 84 model and stayed pretty much within the lines. It’s ride was harsh even when roads were good . Lots of gremlins and repairs back then. Hope yer well , Stay Safe !
LOL !
Yep .... my first car was a 64 Plymouth Fury with the 361 hemi .... old push button trans mission ! Fast car. Loved em , Sold mine when I went into the service.
198 is faster than I’ve ever been on terra firma
I went 300 kph on the autobahn near Stuttgart in 88 in a Ruf tuned 928S4 (rented in Frankfurt) with my preggers Brasilian wife ...she was asleep...she woke up and man she let me have it
My little brothers infamous lingenfelter would crest 200 a bit...he did that on a vacant interstate in 2000 with my oldest daughter then 21 riding shotgun...praying with her head tween her knees....and she ain’t super religious
My most exciting high speed is two instances:
My 1984 GPZ triple bored over and mikunis and yoshi hand blown pipe and racing slick and wheelie bar and of course NO2 injection
Old airstrip..a 9 second ET bike..a screamer ....somewhere north of 175 when I rolled her out past the quarter mile
Bikes nowadays easy run mid 200s if you got the cash
I saw some guy in Istanbul on the famous bridge running a Kawasaki factory race bike at 400 kph in 26 seconds
My dad had been a fighter jock
He would take his Duke up with me and fly on the deck on the Mississippi River buzzing big barges tug pilothouses at insane speeds...exciting as well
Like what I read about millennials and STDs: See a hot young chick, you want to hit it, but you are afraid of the consequences.
Use to cruise in northern Italy around Aviano airbase in a 6 cylinder 75 Porsche 914 at 230kmh, ran on Pirelli P7’s ..... Back an forth to Munich . Also had a 72 Maserati Mexico as well , all european specs...... I was never a crotch rocket fan , Did have Penton dirt bikes as a teen and KLR 650’s for my to and from work rig while still active duty .......
LMAO ! ......understand !
I’ve got a clean GS1100SE, less engine, stored given to me after it was purchased just for the motor to go in a fuely.
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