Boyhowdy, that's the understatement of the year !
sure glad i never did anything as silly as an hour so at 100+ on 95 in the Maine boonies !
Posted on 09/29/2016 8:01:51 AM PDT by smokingfrog
Normally I fall behind drivers like that, but they REALLY wanted to play, and I just wanted to get back to Seattle.
120 is the fastest I ever drove at 18. Florida has some looong straightaways on their highways.
Rode in a friend’s 60’s something Plymouth Gran Fury one night and hit 140 during a full moon. He turned the headlights out of a few seconds on that run.
It’s amazing that God’s Grace covers such stupidity.
In my younger days down here in moonshine country, they were called Fordalacs.
I once was in a machine shop on business and saw a pile of adapters to mate a Cadillac engine to a Ford transmission and that pile was over knee high.
V-10 but still impressive.
Exactly, that’s my point. A dodge neon going 146 is not that surprising....to me anyway.
There’s a 25 mile stretch of four-lane between Kinston and New Bern, NC down on the coast that is probably equally as boring as your Maine road.
Semi’s blow through there late at night and decimate the deer population. The 100 yard long blood smears on the road ending in a pile of fur bits helps to break up the monotony of that drive.
It’s a good, well-paved road, LOL.
Those ugly square Volvo's were a good platform, and handling packages could be bought. V8 conversions were not out of the norm, specifically from a Wrecked Mustang V8 GT, the Vette engine not so much. I knew someone who's Diesel blew in the Volvo, and for what it cost to fix it, they could have bought the V8 kit and a Engine Swap from a wrecked Mustang. I don't think the other Volvo engines were much cheaper if they lunched...
“No way a Dodge Neon went that fast.”
153:
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/dodge-neon-srt-4-road-test
“The Neon SRT-4 rips to 60 mph in 5.6 seconds, to 100 in 13.8, covers a quarter-mile in 14.2 seconds at 102 mph, and keeps on huffin’ all the way to 153 mph.”
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/dodge-neon-srt-4-road-test
I remember being that age, driving to Florida with a friend, and going through South Carolina at 105, early on a Sunday morning when there was nobody else on the road.
I missed that version. Wow.
No, his parents’ auto insurance is going to go way up.
OTOH, his parents’ health insurance and bank account will decrease significantly when he crashes and burns and kills someone else.
“18 years old, eh? Why am I not surprised...”
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Ditto !
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Sunbeam Tiger? Agent Smart’s favorite.
When I was young and foolish I was a one-third owner in a Ford Stock Car. One of the other owners took one of our engines and put it in an F-250 and we drove it from Albuquerque to Little Rock at 100 mph. We managed to go about 100 miles between fill-ups. We probably could have made the trip in the same amount of time and saved a lot on gas if we had left the truck stock and drove the speed limit.
Boyhowdy, that's the understatement of the year !
sure glad i never did anything as silly as an hour so at 100+ on 95 in the Maine boonies !
I think you’re right. Just nosed around for a couple of minutes.
You may have to take off a limiter, but that variant may not have one.
Getting the drive over with has it merits. :) However, according to wbill theres lots to see in that area. LOL, news to me...
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