Posted on 12/02/2013 8:23:46 PM PST by grundle
Paul Walker liked his cars fast fast fast -- in fact, he once boasted about hitting a top speed of 185 MPH -- and it wasn't on a racetrack ... it was on a freeway.
"The Fast & The Furious" star -- who died in a fiery car crash on Saturday -- made the revelation on GTChannel back in 2011 ... while taking a Nissan GT-R out for a test spin in Japan.
"The fastest I've ever gone is 184 to 186," Walker says on the video .... and then he reveals how fast he was clocked on an actual racetrack.
As TMZ reported ... law enforcement believes speed was a factor in the crash of the Porsche Carrera GT that killed Walker and his friend Roger Rodas in Santa Clarita, CA ... although it was Rodas -- not Walker -- who was driving at the time of the collision.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
I did 145 mph in a friends Jaguar XK8 back in 2005.
Awsesome ride. Went from Carmel to Los Altos Hills.
Once I came upon traffic I thought “Faguar. Nice ride but, I don’t want a homomobile”.
145 mph Mitsubishi GTVR4 in 1999
175mph Piper Lance the greatest off road vehicle
350mph in Vampire jet
500mph commercially
18,000mph on earth screaming along through space and time, God as my co-pilot on my couch and I have never felt safer!
I did 100 mph for a short distance on a highway in VA in my 2010 V8 Mustang a month or so ago and I’d swear I wasn’t doing much over 60 if I didn’t know better.
I hit 90 in my 1970 Pinto, by flooring it coming down off the Great New Jersey Divide going east on I-78. Very scary. Once was enough.
In my case, that would have been my own self, on a handful of occasions. A couple of them, just a roll of the dice. Still gives me shudders. So I ain't pointin' no fingers.
You know really, in this case of Walker, on this particular drive, I don't think they were doing anything particularly outrageous. I guess they were just too used to getting close to the edge and suddenly found themselves going over it. Kind of like James Dean. They wrote a song about him.
It’s like driving the Space Shuttle.
176MPH in my C5 Corvette. Had more to go, but I hit a small rise in the road that gave me a heart attack out early one morning on HWY 37 between Vallejo and Novato.
The wheels never left the ground, but the body suddenly lifted a few inches and at that speed and in a convertible, it was a real cheek cleancher.
I would routinely drive 140-150 MPH on empty Hiways late at night/early in the morning. The car was so stable it felt like 70MPH
The best were early morning drives on HWY 1 in Marin County up to the top of Mt. Tamalpais or Muir Woods or Stinston Beach.
That’s a drivers road.
Hitting the apex of the turn, downshift and getting on the gas and power sliding thru it and accelerating out of the turn as if you were shot out of a gun and looking in your mirror and seeing a wisp of tire smoke curling up into the still morning air and even catching a whiff.
Man, I miss having a “Canyon Carver” and driving a sports car to its limits.
Rear-heavy Porsche’s aren’t very forgiving while a Corvette or a BMW is far more so, to the point where you can control under-steer by letting off of the gas pedal a bit and finding that fine line between power sliding the rear-wheels (Not to be confused with “drifting”) thru a turn so they are grabbing and pushing your car thru the turn, but at their limits.
That’s what driving is all about.
165mph on Alligator Alley in 1972 driving a Pantera when it was 2-lane.....and alligators were often seen crossing it as there were no fences like now.....sure glad none were crossing it when I was........crazy 27 years old......
Nobody’s asking you to exalt him, but you were attacking him as if he were the driver and therefore responsible for what happened. Which was exactly the point of this little hit piece. Congratulations, you just did exactly what the liberal media wanted.
My dad had one of those for a few years. I never had it over 120, since the front end was sort of loose by the time I drove it. He sold it around 1974, by which time 5 of us kids had abused it severely.
My brother has a 68 E Type, and you’re right the faster you go, the smoother it runs. Felt like I was in a plane at about 120-130 mph.
Speed Kills. Duh!
"Go Greased Lightning!"
I agree. I just ordered the Blue Ray set of Band of Brothers Saturday. What a great legacy all those guys left!
I did 169 in a school zone in a Yugo SS. The cop couldn’t catch me.
I got an indicated 154 mph on my 2006 Yamaha FZ6.
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Just a week or so ago, there was a guy speeding on a rice burner bike here one night. Lots of video. He was doing 185 on freeways and (I think) an Interstate, as he headed South of Dallas.
Cops were chasing and losing ground. Cops were posted ahead on entry ramps and immediately tried to pursue when they spotted him coming. By the time they could get up to speed he was almost out of sight.
Biker finally pulled over when his ride ran out of gas.
...In HS, a friend’s dad bought a new ‘59 Pontiac. Huge tank, with a huge V-8. We tired of shooting pool at our regular place in Dallas and decided to go to Fort Worth to a pool hall. A new toll road between the two cities had recently opened (50 cents for the 30 mile ride).
There was virtually no traffic at that time of night and that big Pontiac hit 137 as we made the trip in about 15 minutes. They built fine cars in the ‘50s!
...Owned a used ‘82 280ZX. That car would just hum and purr at 85 in 5th gear on the Interstates and was very stable. Always lusted after a 300ZX, but knew that it could be trouble, as I was in my 40s, married, kids, etc. lol
I once did 75 in a Camry.
It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end.
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