That would probably be about as fast as one could get away with on such a trip. Any faster and those wheels are not touching the ground.
Proving that American roads are able to support much higher speeds than the posted speed limit.
/johnny
how many speeding tickets?
I believe the starting and ending points are the same used in the old Cannon Ball Runs of forty years ago.
I find it a bit hard to believe you can average 98 mph across the entire country and not get pulled over by a cop.
Heck, 30 years ago Burt Reynolds did it in about an hour and a half. I saw it in Cannonball Run.
Not bad. I once made it from Amarillo, TX to Albuquerque, NM in 2.5 hours in a 1970 Hurst-Olds 442.
I went from Placerville to Wyoming to a place to get real fireworks just over the state line and back in less than 24 hours 16 years ago. On 80 the whole way in a '94 Camaro. Only law enforcement I saw was going through Reno... :>)
My friend’s brother once drove from LA to our town in Michigan in the summer of 1965 in his Austin Healy in one day. We were pre-teens. We thought it was so cool. He was a big time record producer. His son grew up to be a famous singer in a band with the initials The RHCP.
They must have been using racing grade tires.I don’t think even tires graded for highway use would be able to survive those speeds.
Back in the 70’s I drove from the East Coast of Florida to San Antonio Texas.I did Pretty well until I hit Houston and my tires started rumbling.
I stopped at a Firestone Tire dealer and the guy told me the belts were separating on the Steel Radial 500’s I was using.
Those tires apparently couldn’t take the heat of that kind of drive.
Geez! I did Wilmington, N.C. to Sacramento, CA in 76 hours driving solo. I could have made it sooner if the damned Ryder truck hadn’t been governed at 70 mph ... and I didn’t stop to sleep.
Ping
On NewYears Day 1997 I was in a race fron Daytona Beach to La Jolla . Not a canonball but after hitting our checkpoints we found ourselves running at 110-130 in my Porsche to get to the daily endpoint. Had a blast but I was exhausted by the time I was home in California. Two cars out of 36 starters did not get a speeding ticket, both Porsches ( one was mine)and both running the Valentine One radar detector.
The first long distance driver was a woman:
Bertha Benz Memorial Route
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Benz_Memorial_Route
That's damn' impressive coast-to-coast.
I have to wonder how many "lookouts" he had along the way to avoid the various State Highway Patrol's and their "eyes in the sky."
Ohio and Indiana are particularly nasty that way. I got busted doing 126 on the Indiana State Tollroad back in 1987 in a turbocharged Nissan 200SX on my way home from Buffalo, NY to the SW Suburbs of Chicago.
The officer in the pursuit car that had been chasing me for 18 miles (and was several miles behind me unbeknownst to me) wasn't the one who caught me. It was the bear in the air.
Never tried doing anything that stupid again.