What's The Fastest That You've Never Driven?

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terry

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This came up in conversation up the pub last night.

I admitted that I didn't drive at 130mph in a hired Volkswagen Santana back in the 1980's, on the way to an audit in Bradford.

However this seems to be tame compared to the Scottish guy who didn't do 170mph in a Ford Sierra Cosworth along the Ayr by-pass. Not only not that but he wasn't working for a garage at the time and it wasn't a customer's car.
 
I wasn't accelerating past 120mph on the road into Castlebar just after I had bought a new car as I wasn't really interested in seeing how fast it could go. On my way back out of town ten minutes later (slowly), I noticed John Garda setting up a speed checkpoint. The current car doesn't do more than 100mph, and to be honest, I get giddy doing more than 80.
 
I wasn't doing 110mph a few years back in my old Astra when the blue flashing lights came up behind me (& went howling past on pulling in, thank God!) & I wasn't doing 100mph in the boss's car on the way to Taunton races one day as he was saying "faster, go faster...." & I wasn't doing 95mph in the fast lane on the M4 in rush hour (trying to get to the bookies to see a bumper after I finished work one day) when the car cut out completely due to a problem with the electrics....that was scary, I can tell you!!!
 
or me doing 115 on M5 between BRISTOL AND WESTON just testing my rocket last year but its not the norm as its more like 70 mph to........
but have you really noticed that you are driving tho: stood still if driving inside the the limits I only drove that speed so as to test it out but all these people can't be testing theirs surely as its sustained speed.............. :o :o
 
My Alfa can definitely go 140mph, my boyfriend reliably informed me. :blink: :confused:

(I stopped him driving it shortly after that statement!)
 
:what:

I will tell Mrs Hartigan, and she will make you drive the Corsa in future to collect your pension. :P
 
When based in London we had to travel every day at 125 mph on journeys to Swansea/Bristol, when you got used to the speed factor it was like travelling by aeroplane you would hardly believe you was moving, when you reduced to 50/40/30 mph it seemed you was crawling.

regards,

TERRY.
 
The 9 y.o. Proton does not do 105mph on the bit of straight between Brighton and Lingfield. But it does do 100 rather too easily.

But I did not drive very, very much faster when I got back from Saudi, because I didn't buy the Lancia Dedra I sat in, briefly, at the dealer's, before getting seriously frightened by the dials. A bit of a shame, really, because a year after getting used to weird things like roundabouts and speed bumps, I could've sworn I wouldn't be driving at 140...

My Mother informs me her chum was not doing well over 130 mph in his Ferrari one evening in Bahrain, many years ago, and she was NOT leaning out of the passenger window screaming "This is fantaaaaaaaaaaastic..."
 
I don't think my Alfa will do 140? :cry: I'm jealous now.

My favourite car of the three we own (boast, brag etc) is the one that struggles to hit 55mph, yet will go up a 40 degree, wet incline like gearoid in a Girl Guides meeting! I love my Landy!
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Just before Christmas I did 235kmh in a colleagues car on the Autobahn which was an experience.
 
A person I know, who sometimes posts on a forum that is very like this one, had some fun with a BMW 5 series with the reg M6COY on the road from Swindon to Cheltenham.

No need to guess who was driving the BMW. At speeds up to 120 mph they both made their way to the best racecourse in the country.

On the same road, while overtaking a lorry just before the roundabout at the end of the dual carriageway a forum member passenger nearly s**t himself as the car went into the roundabout at very high speed.

Fortunately that other person on the other forum has driven on the track Lamborginis, Dodge Vipers, Noble M12s and similar supercars.

However not to be recommended and never to be repeated.
 
I had no need to imagine not going fast today.

That is because I got my truck stuck in one of my fields and had to be pulled out by the Rustic's Merlo..

It is good that I can give such amusement and pleasure to those around me... :shy:
 
I would like to make it clear that I didn't accidentally ram Tina Gifford's Land Rover in Findon High Street about five years ago, and in a fit of panic most certainly didn't drive off at an extremely high speed. :ph34r:
 
Sold FSO's for $3500 (new) to the USAF in the mid to late eighties.Never did do over 40mph in one of those. :)
 
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