>>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.
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.