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.

[OldCorps]

"115 in a 35 zone, when I was 18...showing a guy in a Camaro how slow his car was compared to a 750 Honda 4."

Ok, confession time here. How fast were you going when you got your biggest speeding ticket? I'll go first:

Speed____Posted SpeedLimit_____Circumstances_____Fine/Jail?

Me:

110/55/North of Albany NY/Being Stupid, late to a funeral/got a pro bono attorney/ $200 fine

anyone beat that?

[wardaddy]

It was a CV2 for sure. I think if a car is beyond a certain age that they waive all the safety garbage...like with old Safari style Land Rovers etc.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I owned four Jaguars. A Mark VII, a 1960 150 S Roadster and the two 1966 E Types. The 150 had the gold head 9 compression ratio E engine. It was one of the last ones made and I think there were E-Types already being produced on a nearby line. It featured twin straight pipes (I saw no reason for mufflers at this stage in my life) and the lovely electric overdrive, which allowed an almost infinite variation in exhaust notes, from purr to ripping canvas.
The Mark was a great pickup car. The ladies thought it was a Rolls and it did have all that lovely wood trim and leather on the inside.
The last one was the 66 Coupe. White with red leather. It was sold to a guy from NW Iowa who wanted to restore it and I think he may still have it.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Citroens are kind of neet. I got to drive one for a day. Even with the smallish 4 cyl, it was very comfy inside, once I got used to the mushroom brake peddle and a few other French ideas.

[BRO68]

My 150 was 3.8 coupe with a factory sunroof, two 1 3/4 inch SUs and no overdrive. I bought it in '65 for $1700. No one at time wanted 120s/140s/150s 'cause the E-Types were so hot. I made the mistake once of driving with the fabric sunroof open at 120 - peeled it right off.

I got tired of rebuilding the Jag gearbox and replaced it with a Warner T-10 but the 2.54 first gear was too high and I swapped the 3.54 rear end for a 4.09 from an overdrive model. I used to really fake out the E-Types with my speed shifts.

The car was a lot of fun, went like stink when it ran right and I had a lot of great times. Traded it on an new Alfa GTV in '71.

My 120 was a very late 1954 model and had many XK-140 parts on it. Cost me all of $600 in 1963. Speaking of ripping canvas, the exhaust note from that single pipe right behind your left ear was absolutely deafening from the open cockpit.

[motzman]

3 Ferrari's!!

3?!?

You absolutely Rule!

[#3Fan]

In 1988 I got a ticket for 143mph in a 55 zone. I knew the cop was lying because I was going faster than that. 1987 Mustang GT, BTW.

150 and 140 in two Monte Carlos. Heard over the scanner because they didn't get me (statute of limitatations has ran out, it was in the 80s). I think the cops were exaggerating though to explain why they didn't get me. I also drove a Nascar race car at Atlanta Motor Speedway but I don't know how fast I went. 140 on a V65 once (it would've went faster though).

[JayNorth]

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

My wife's best friend when we lived in Southern California was the wife of a CHP officer and she drove waaaaaay over the limit all the time in her Porsche. The car was registered with the CHP HQ as the address. She said that she didn't usually get stopped but when she did there was no ticket when they found out who her husband was. My wife was so jealous because I had bought her a sports car too and she couldn't play.

[Just_de_facts]

You have just been flirting with disaster. My personal best
was a 193 mph in a Lingenfelter enhanced 1996 Corvette on
I-65 South just past Harding road to Cool Springs exit at 4:00 a.m.
Got pulled over by Brentwood after I left the Interstate because
Nashvegas cops couldnt catch me. We had a nice long chat and
they let me go with a speeding ticket but with speed unspecified.
A mere $65 problem. I shudder to think what old Barbarta Haynes
would have done to me.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

128mph, German Autobahn, BMW 325i (E36 model).

125mph two lane road,1997 328i. I know what you mean about the accleration cutout.

The fastest was over 140(probably closer to 160) in a 69 Grand Prix, 455 4 barrel, trying to get home from Columbia,SC after cutting school. The drive is 80 miles. We made home in a hurry

[danmar]

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

I have some strong reservations about this. In my wild years I was going at about 150MPH in a custom Ferrari 512BB (on the German autobahn E1, 0400 Hour) and the damn car was becoming airborne scaring the living daylites out of me.

The car needs a tremendous amount of down force to keep the wheels on the ground at that speed, not to mention the condition of the road. At that speed (182MPH) a little imperfection on the road can send you and your machine to kingdom come real fast.(...and drunk?)
Not to mention that the tires would be on fire real fast, unless you drive on pure racing tires at all times.

Me thinks this is a made up story just for the hell of it!...it does not pass the smelling test.
How do I know this? I used to race cars for a living!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Hey - 100 in a '92 Jetta is my limit....... lol.......

[wardaddy]

Man....that is incredible on that stretch of road. Around Old Hickory Blvd exit there is a pretty broad curve that would have scared the feces out of me.

I should clarify "cheating the reaper" on boats and planes.

The first was a semi controlled crash on a beach(faulty fuel gauge)...the bird flipped over and injured the pilot pretty bad. I was unscathed.

The other was a "running out of daylight" emergency landing on a rather small gravel road in Northern Amazonia.

I have lost nearly a dozen friends and associates to light aircraft crashes.

The boat was a single screw 28' Chriscraft that lost the outdrive packing and sank pronto after we shut down the motor due to the sparks from the clanging drive near the fuel tanks. I was up to my waist in water yelling my position to Clearwater Coasties when she rolled over. My buddy and I had our Mae Wests on and one of those little 2' baby rafts to keep our Marlboro Reds and flares and most importantly strobe light dry. We floated about from about 4PM till 10:30 (September) till a longliner with two hardcores and a Philipino prostitute picked us up...thanks to the strobe.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The gearboxes in the E Types after 64 or 65 when the 4.2 was introduced were an absolute jewel to drive, compared to the Moss box with its non-synchro 1st gear.
Did you ever notice that the head doesn't fit exactly on the block of 4.2s...
I understand they had to rejigger the spacing of the jugs with the bigger bore, but saved money by using the 3.8 head. It doesn't quite fit exactly but worked OK...

[Petronski]

Run and dump...yeah, I did that once, in heavy rush hour traffic outbound just before the Squirrel Hill tunnels. Got nailed dead to rights by radar but the dude was slow to deploy and I was not above using the breakdown lane. I dumped off, crossed the overpass, parked quick and stood watching as he did some hunting for me.

And the punchline...I was driving a powder blue K car.

[wardaddy]

K car...excellent choice for a quick fade in an urban area.

[eldoradude]

120+ in a '71 Chevelle passing a CHP on 280 south between Woodside Rd. and Alpine in the S.F. peninsula going home from Woodside H.S. Got off the freeway and ducked into my girlfriend's driveway in Ladera...staring out the windshield saying, "Stupid, stupid, stupid..." Didn't find me though.

Got home and didn't say anything. Dad borrowed the car to go to the library and when he got back he grabbed me and asked what happened to the speedometer because it was fried. I tried the old, "I dunno..." bs and he said he knew I was driving too fast because that's what always happened to the speedometer in his Olds when he went past the max. Then he got an oh sh*t look on his face when he saw Mom and left the room. That was 26 years ago and I still laugh remembering it.

[wardaddy]

was your epee in your free hand?

[Ready4Freddy]

157 mph on I10 between Sealy & Columbus. Took me ~ 2 miles to stop to keep the brakes from fading. Trooper wrote me for 110, the max his radar went at the time, and said he just had to ask how fast I was really going. After I told him, he asked if I wasn't a bit afraid of being maimed in a wreck at that speed, I said of course not, a wreck at that speed & I'd be dead.

Oh yeah - Kawasaki, 2 up. One fast bike....... :>)

[BRO68]

I never fiddled with the 4.2s so I don't know much about them. As I recall, they didn't wind as high as the 3.4s and 3.8s, is that right? I drove a late model E-Type a couple times and you're right about the gearbox, it's like night and day.

The bore spacing on the 3.4s and 3.8s was the same 'cause I swapped a 3.8 crank for a 3.4 once when it snapped. Actually, as I recall, everything (except pistons) interchanged between the 3.4 and 3.8.

No, wait. The oil pans and pump pickups were different. My 3.8 had a stamped oilpan and the old 3.4 had BEAUTIFUL cast aluminum pans. I used to actually polish it was so pretty. But OMG, 14 quarts of oil to fill it!