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Well,maybe this would be a good discussion, then(for a little fun.)

On another site I frequent called Audio Karma, there was a thread where they were all talking about what was the fastest speed you've ever been up to, while in a car (NOT necessarily doing the driving.) And also, the crazy things done at said speed

In my case, the fastest i have ever been, was about 20 years ago, in Rodney's (former user-friend) camaro. It registered 130MPH, but he had it buried, for a bit, so most likely. about 140.

As for myself, once, about 11 years ago, I was in my '87 Buick Riv, dong about 70 on a country road, when a RR track came up quite suddenly. I was airborne, for a few seconds. Needless to say, I slowed down right after that.

Anyone care to share their daredevil stories?

I've been 100+ mph in numerous vehicles... usualy while passing big rigs in the country.

I got up to 115 in my mothers plymouth fury III in the 70s.

Well,maybe this would be a good discussion, then(for a little fun.)

On another site I frequent called Audio Karma, there was a thread where they were all talking about what was the fastest speed you've ever been up to, while in a car (NOT necessarily doing the driving.) And also, the crazy things done at said speed

In my case, the fastest i have ever been, was about 20 years ago, in Rodney's (former user-friend) camaro. It registered 130MPH, but he had it buried, for a bit, so most likely. about 140.

As for myself, once, about 11 years ago, I was in my '87 Buick Riv, dong about 70 on a country road, when a RR track came up quite suddenly. I was airborne, for a few seconds. Needless to say, I slowed down right after that.

Anyone care to share their daredevil stories?

OK, here goes:

I remember when I was real little, we had a 1968 Buick Wildcat, when we were going to Florida in 1969, my father cranked the car up to 140 MPH on I-95. He's more mellow at the age of 68 now, he just does 100. B-)

Myself, I think I've been up to 100 MPH a couple of times. First time was in a Ford cargo van. I was working for Budget Rent-A-Truck in 1989, we had to run a box truck and a van to Westmorland County, about 50 miles. The guy driving the box truck, well, I think he was a bit loopy to say the least and I had to keep up with him, he had his truck going 100 MPH at least. I wondered how I got the 6 cylinder Ford van up that fast, my speedometer was way past 85, it was pointing on the "D" on the gearshift indicator. We also went that fast through the Fort Pitt tunnels, here in Pittsburgh, people slow down before entering tunnels, it is a Pittsburgh thing it seems.

I had my Ford Explorer up that fast too, I heard they top out at 110 MPH from sources on the Explorer I've found. I did 85 to 90 on winding West Virginia highways in the mountains too.

This isn't the fastest but kind of bewildering was where I was running a 26 foot box truck out east and where the Parkway West meets I-376 (Parkway East) after getting out of the Fort Pitt Tunnels, there is a ramp that uses steel joining to keep the slabs together, I hit one of them and the truck shifted 3 feet to the left (centrifical force) into the other lane as I weas turning right. Those joining braces can be "slippy" (Pittsburgh word for "Slippery") if you hit them the wrong way.

Another horror story, when I had to run a Lincoln Town Car out east, at the same place where I had the experience with the truck, my car stalled, the dashboard lit up like a Christmas tree and I drifted to an emergency pulloff. I cranked the car, wouldn't start. It was a Sunday, the office was closed, and Pittsburgh is like a ghost town. There was no one around me, it was like "The Twilight Zone" episode where they had the Air Force pilot wandering around an abandoned city. Heck, if Rod Serling pulled over to offer help, I would have accepted it. B-) Well, after 15 minutes of waiting, nobody around, I decided to crank the car again, nothing to lose. It fired up, when along my way and picked up my ride back, no problems. I think at that time, Ford had problems with overheating their computer modules to where it would shut the car down.