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.