Posted on 01/03/2018 8:24:23 PM PST by texas booster
Chron.com reached out to the Texas Department of Public Safety to ask about the fastest speeding tickets from January 1, 2017, to November 28, 2017, and out of the more than 230 tickets sent to us, all of them were faster than 120 mph.
Now, the fastest speed limit in Texas is 80 mph, but 120 is still well over the limit and ranges into the category of reckless driving, which is identified by driving faster than 20 mph over the posted speed, according to local law firms.
Because this information is provided by a state agency, tickets issued by city police departments or county sheriff's offices are not included.
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Not even close for me. My best was 117 through the lights at a drag strip riding a 4 cylinder “metric” back in the days when I believed I wad immortal.
#7.... Story i heard was the chargers kept pace, but the speeder ran out of juice before the red river.
Err 155 in a 71 Montego on I-20 between Abilene and Weatherford was inspiring, as in I haven’t been that fast in a car I was driving, since posted speed was err, 55 I was aiming at triple posted limit but got err, in to traffic that was a bit slower. The road was usually pretty deserted after 10pm I call that one Devine intervention me and my lonesome would have just kept hauling, can’t risk innocent spectators though.
Montego had a 351 Cleveland, c6 and a Holley 4barrel nice, very nice on the highway
KZ1000, 140 MPH, spokes, tube-tires.
I realized I was going to die. Brought her back down to 80.
I wasn’t nearly out of throttle, I think it would have done 160. At that speed on a bike, you get tunnel vision, the road gets real narrow.
You have no problem maintaining your focus.
Thanks. That may be the baddest double-neck guitar ever made.
Excellent review. Thanks. I have four speeding tickets with my 1966 Mustang for doing around 80 mph on Ventura Fwy. south at Lindero Canyon. The traffic school teacher told me three times, “Good to see you again.” Tickets? Yes, before I learned to drive responsibly.
I had one of these up to 115mph on a winding two-lane blacktop road in England riding narrow bias-ply tires. That was living enough to last a long time.
There's a similar one mile event in California as well. I forgot the airport. Duh. I was keeping up with Lincoln LS goings on when I owned a 2006 Lincoln LS 4.0. About 2010 a LS clocked 147mph in its pure stock class. About a year later, the Atlanta drag strip had a Lincoln day and pure stock LS`s were bumping 13.8 in the quarter mile. Fastest I drove it was 120 on open road in the Nebraska plains.
Fastest I have been is I don't know how fast. Speedometer pegged at 150 and the engine kept winding. 1969 Dodge RT with a 440.
I stand corrected as it was in oklahoma not texas.
The engine in that car ended up in a different car, and ended up placing in the top 3 at UIL state competition (second place I think).
Life really looks different once you realize that one is not invulnerable.
That, and answering questions from parents about why you threw out a perfectly good pair of underwear, if no girls or alcohol was involved.
My dad was a well respected reserve deputy so I was familiar with some of his co-workers, and I knew a number of CHP officers. If it wasn’t for that, the number of tickets I did receive would have been much higher. You would think that would teach me a good lesson, but nope. I think I was dropped as a kid.
I’m now 58 and last year was the last time I will do anything stupid, or that’s my current plan and I hope to stick with it.
Sounds like good times! We would have known each other if we grew up in the same area. Hell, I would have known a lot of people on this thread.
For the record, I now know I’m not invulnerable.
130-ish on the Bahn north of Munich. I looked behind me and noticed a couple of cars coming over the rise a few miles behind mirror.
They both, a BMW and a big Benz, blew past me so fast the car rocked from the wind wave. At 130...
125+ 1973 Monte Carlo, 454. When the driver’s front came apart, my buddy was white as a ghost. Took a bit to get pulled over and not hit the center divider. It had a LOT more, but I never got there. Mom wasn’t happy about the destroyed fender and fender wall. I’ve never told her what really happened.
Is that a 3.8?
Unknown. The image name from the source says its a “340,” which on one hand would suggest that it was a 3.4 (a “240” was a 2.4), but on the other hand they did make some with 3.8 litre engines which were also badged as “340.”
Interesting that some of these counties are multiple repeat offenders.
You have a ‘69 Chevelle? You’re a lucky duck! I take it that it is an SS 454, right? What color?
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