Court Date Set for 182mph Driver - (Lamborghinis are fast)

AP ^ | September 4, 2003 | AP

[Damocles]

Court Date Set for 182mph Driver

LEHIGHTON, PA-September 4, 2003 — Just how fast will a Lamborghini go?

Police in Lehighton, Pennsylvania, charge William Faenza Junior was doing 182 in his Lamborghini Diablo.

Officers also charge Faenza was driving drunk. Police say they caught up with him when he pulled into a gas station.

While Faenza concedes he may have been doing 100, he denies going nearly 200 miles per hour.

He says if he was going that fast, the police would have never caught him.

Besides, Faenza says the wheels on his Lamborghini start to shake when he goes faster than 70.

He's to appear in court next Wednesday.

[RoughDobermann]

105, 1973 MGB.

Ha! 108.235 mph, 1978 Triumph Spitfire 1500. Take that, MG boy!

[dead]

I hit 114 in a 1967 Buick Wildcat (that was about 16 years old at the time.)

It was shaking like a paint mixer.

[nkycincinnatikid]

Thanks, an automotive scribe once immortalised the Tiger as "ten gallons of sh*t in a five gallon bucket". But I proved unworthy of your accolade as I eventually buried it under some old Geezers Oldsmobile who had stopped on a blind curve of an expressway entrance ramp to put on his seatbelt. I have a friend who lives around Spingfield, to hear him tell it you all live in Paradise.

[patton]

A leer jet made an emergency landing on the autobahn - a porsche right behind it was blinking its lights...

[drgnwrks]

796 mph in a Talon T-38A -

[Quilla]

A Wildcat, eh?

[bullseye1911]

I had a '70 454 vette in my mid 20's (young, dumb and full o' cum). The speedo went to 160 and said MPH at the bottom of the cluster. Strohs induced brain damage caused me to wrap the speedo around 'till it bounced off the "M". Don't know how accurate it is at that speed, but had to be 150+. Michigan U.S.27 north of Lansing

[tje]

I think there were some later models with Chrysler 340 in them...

[Damocles]

...should I decide to go that fast again.

Who are you kidding? Of course you're gonna try to go that fast agian, it's genetic...

[Steely Tom]

130 on the road between Asheville and Hendersonville NC (Rt. 29 IIRC). 1979. I was in the back seat. Considerable quantities of a North Carolina beverage called "Purple Jesus" was being consumed. 1:30 in the morning. Them telephone poles looked like a picket fence, no lie.

I'm lucky in so many ways.

(steely)

[Damocles]

Aw geez! Thanks for ruining it for the rest of us.

Now I feel like such a loser!

[OldCorps]

Oh, I forgot to add this:

You know how cops are soooo calm and cool as they get out of their cars and come up to the driver's side window? Well, this didn't happen. the cop was seriously pissed!!! He got out, slammed his door hard and stormed up to the chic driving the cutless. I'd love to have heard that discussion.

My alternate theory is that it was Hitlery Clinton, then wife of the governor of Arkansas, who of course even then didn't have to obey the laws made for us mere mortals.

[fnord]

Like I can afford a new Jag, lol.

I bought it used, and don't know what it has off-hand. A friend has a recent Mustang that creams me off the line (mine is automatic), but I catch him fairly quickly and my thinking is my top end is better than his.

The times i've been in the 110-120 range, it is smooth as silk, and the rpms are in the cruising range.

[al_c]

Ha! 108.235 mph, 1978 Triumph Spitfire 1500. Take that, MG boy!

Downhill with a tailwind? ;o)
I had a 70 and a 71 Spit. Loved 'em both.

[GunsareOK]

The one time I tried to run from a DC cop on my way to work I got a flat from all the debris on the shoulder and had to stop. I had been well ahead of him on the shoulder and by splitting lanes and had no intention of stopping otherwise. I thought he was going to take me to jail but I ended up with a $5 ticket.

This was in November of 1979. I was riding a 1976 Honda 750F motorcycle--4 cyls, single overhead cam. A few years before I rode 105 on this bike for about 70 miles and went through the main fuel supply of about 3 gallons.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I was a freshman in college home for the summer when buddy Sam drove by with a new Dodge Super Bee, saying he had made an amazing discovery. The Dodge would hit 100 miles per hour without kicking in the four bbl carb, he claimed. I jumped in for a first-hand exibition.
We were doing an easy 90 as we left the city limits heading west on Highway 2, a two-lane blacktop running across southern Iowa. As we came over a hill at 105, we observed a highway patrolman had pulled over a semi carrying eight or ten new cars. Sam got over to the left lane and the trooper stepped up and held on to the semi's left mirror as we went by.
We took back road gravel back to town and I came to the conclusion that it would be a good idea to keep my distance from Sam and his Super Bee.

[Space Wrangler]

Used to be, you could go out on the interstate late at night, and seemingly have the entire road to yourself. We used to go out on the interstates at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning, and literally not see another car for miles. I can even remember getting on one stretch where it was a downhill slope, and you could see for 3 miles and firing tracer rounds out of a 30.06, and watching them bounce down the roadway. It just isn't that way anymore. I'm not scared of the speed, just what some other idiot might decide to do out there while I'm getting my speed thrills. I still like speed, but now I tend to do it on a more forgiving medium...the water. I have a '00 Yamaha GP1200R (that's a personal watercraft) that I've done some upgrades to and I can get about 74 mph out of it. That's confirmed on GPS. Not quite like the motorcycles and cars of my youth, but 74 on the water is haulin'!!!! And one of these days I'm going to get one of those go-fast offshore boats like a Baja Outlaw 26. Twin 502's, and making about 800 hp. 100+ on the water is every bit as thrilling as 200 on land.

[RoughDobermann]

Downhill with a tailwind? ;o)

Actually, yes. Both. Was fully loaded too. Of course, in true Triumph fashion, the exhaust manifold cracked as soon I backed off the throttle. Was rather loud...

[Squantos]

I believe it. The Autobhans actually were dispersal air fields during the cold war. Course you already knew that ........:o)

Stay Safe Dude !

[inPhase]

130mph in a ford mondeo on deutschland autobahn;

that is not the routine fastest there. Road culture supports it. But you have to know when and where (eg berlin to munich early or late)

120-25 mph routine and stable in a porsche.