Every so often, there is a sanctioned event in south Texas called: “The Texas Mile”. I believe the next one is scheduled for March 23rd thru the 25th and held in Victoria, TX at the airport there. I may go to it....just to watch a little bit.
It’s amazing just how fast some of these cars, and motorcycles, really are once they’re turned loose where they can really be opened up without fear of the law.
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 got my Tacoma up to 100 mph on a gravel road in Big Bend Ranch State Park in about 2013.
It was a very flat, straight road in an area that does not get a lot of rain.
Never again!