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 ...
It’s not going 185 mph that kills you, it the decelerating from 185 to 0 in a tenth of a second when you hit an immovable object.
As this guy realized.
But not for long.
I’ve been over 150 on surface streets many times in the early 50s street racing.
What guy hasn’t gone somewhat insane in a vehicle? Some of us were lucky. Others weren’t.
Not making any judgments here. Sorry to see the guy’s life cut short like this.
Please Lord, don’t let them turn this guy into another James Dean, they’ll hyperventilate over for the next 50 years.
The autopsy confirmed he had dandruff too.
They found head and shoulders in the glove box.
Took a Supra out to the Cali desert and ran 160.
Scared the **** out of me.
R.I.P. Paul. Thank God the guy driving didn’t take out other innocent folks that night.
I once did 140 MPH in an Audi A6. But that was in Germany on the Autobahn outside Stuttgart.
He also had foot odor. They found one of his feet in a dumpster three blocks away.
On the record, I have not gone insane in a vehicle. Ever.
Stong desire to live coupled with a strong desire not to wantonly kill others. Or have a criminal record.
see, now, THIS is the right place to do that kind of thing.
>>I’ve been over 150 on surface streets many times in the early 50s street racing<<
One time here I said I went 200 MPH.
I didn’t mean that it was a typO — I was 125 MPH (1968 Buick Wildcat). But I was stuck with my post (in retrospect I should have just said it was typo but I was young and stupid)
But I have to tell you, that speed scared the crap out of me.
But I did peg that sucker! Ah, Detroit iron V8s! 5 MPG and 4-barrel carbs!
I think it is possible in the right car to do 185, but not in metro LA, since there isn’t a straightaway with enough length to do so. The 10 EB on the other side of Mira Loma? yeah, maybe.
CC
Also jumped hills in a CAMRY at 110 in Maryland and my sister used to race her MR2 twin turbo in SoCal.
Hot cars turn young kids into idiots.
When you do those speeds, those years, you knew you were crazy.lol
Been going on since the days of the chariots....
My prediction is the families of the two deceased will sue the car company complaining of some defect in the vehicle.
Yeah, I took a loaner Supra out to the desert (my dad worked for Toyota). It started to rattle like hell after 140 and I got it up to 160 and then stopped. I and my passenger were scared ****less.
I remember my dad took me and my sister in a 94 Supra on a Maryland road with about a mile straightaway and rocketed it up to 130 and then braked down to 35 for a hairpin curve. If my mom knew, she would have castrated him.
170 on a straight 2 lane, back in the day, 429 Cobra :)
I still have the car. It has different tags.
/johnny
72 Mustang Mach I on I-465 at 3 a.m. About 115-120. The tach said she had more to give, but the crappy steering had it drifting across the lanes and that’s all I cared to do. Told the guys in my son’s wedding party I got pulled over in front of the reception hall in the Mustang about 30 years earlier. They wanted to know what I was doing and I said “about 85.” Fall Creek Road has lots of curves there. Sheriff let me go; I think he knew my dad.
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