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[Chuck C]

122 mph....on foot
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[Jason Whyte]

589mph -- on F-Zero for Super Nintendo.
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[Kevin Potts]

While I was actually driving. About 110 in my old 74 Charger.
While someone else was driving. Last year on a very deserted stretch of I-35 in the K.C. metro at 3 in the morning, my buddy and I hit 139 in his girlfriends 1999 Camaro SS convertible. Good lord, that thing would get up and move.
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[Ashley Seymour]

130 in my 71 Camaro outside of Brainard Minnesota while on summer camp for the guard.

 

[mark_d]

120 in my old Renault 5 Turbo up the A69 in Northumberland on a drizzly day (wipers don't work so good at that speed), 120 when my dad was driving a friend's Daimler Sovereign - it felt like 30 , 115 in my current SEAT turbo diesel, and about 105 in a little Chevy Cavalier hire car driving from San Francisco to LA - I wanted to break the ton on US soil. As I was slowing down, a police car pulled out from behind a support pillar of an overpass on the central reservation and I almost pooed my pants...
He wasn't after me - thank goodness.
Mark

 

[Mats Kellberg]

Must have been this summer, in my cousins Audi S2 (330 hp engine. Yes, it has been modified).
He was trying to scare his girlfriend (and mine too), unfortunately she just got angry
Any how, the speed was approx 275 kph (I think that equals approx. 170 mph).
What a rush!
We were still going about 170 kph (105 mph ?) when we came through a bend. I'm talking G-force here
Revv it up.
/Mats Kellberg
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[John Besse]

I've hit the governer on my 1998 Jeep Cherokee Sport, before I totaled it... Not on the same drive! I have also reached the governer on my 2000 Ford Explorer. I think they are somewhere around 115. I had a 1996 Mustang that I hit about 120 in, but it was swerving so hard I had to drop back down to about 90. Whenever I get the money to buy my Suzuki Kitana 600 CC bike, I'll have to make an update to this thread

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[Joe Tompkins]

127 miles per hour!! More impressive is that I
did it in 10.47 seconds in my '69 Z drag car.
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[brentl]

In my car ... an old 85 Civic ... about 175 downhill with the wind
In a buddies Rally Nova about 200.
KPH of course
Brent L
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[Tim Hoover]

Somewhere around 120 mph in my trusty 5.0 Mustang. It was also a pretty twisty road. Sometimes, it just helps to know how fast you can take a particular stretch of highway.

 

[Michael St. Clair]

Well over 120 in a 1968 Chrysler Newport with a 440ci V8.
108 in a 1989 VW Golf.
Remember, tires are the weakest link. Do not exceed speed ratings of tires for anything but seconds, and make sure pressure is correct. And of course, don't do this anywhere that you can't see humans or traffic from a couple of miles away. Hell, just don't do it. I can't condone it.
I don't push the Miata that hard on straights, it's all about the cornering to me now. Plus I'm older and smarter.

 

[Dome Vongvises]

110mph in a 98 ML320 and 120mph in a 94 Jeep Grand Cherokee. All this on the most dangerous road in America, the Moutain Parkway that connects good ole East Kentucky with the rest of civilization.

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[Bruce Hedtke]

170+ mph in a testing Viper. Nice flat and straight lake bed, no speed limits...a Viper=heaven.
Bruce
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[Rob Tomlin]

155 mph!
I did this in my '93 Twin Turbo Rx-7 (Third Generation). This car was built for speed! When I hit about 110 or so, the car really planted itself nicely. After that, you are going so fast you are not really driving the car as much as you are aiming it!
The scary thing was that when I hit 155 mph, I still felt the motor had a lot left to give! I chickened out before the twin turbo rotary motor did!
I did it just see if the car could really do it. Supposedly it will do 165 mph, possibly more with some of my modifications.

 

[Matthew Chmiel]

20mph on a bike.

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[Jim_F]

140mph in a car.
51mph on a bicycle.
I must have been insane in both instances.

 

[Sean Conklin]

51mph on a bicycle.

That is insane!

How did you do this? Downhill? Tricked out 10 speed?
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[Jim_F]

Downhill, in the slipstream of a tandem bicycle.
It was on a nice wide, smooth road with excellent visibility. Still, one bad encounter with a pavement seam, and...
I also hit 50mph at the same place the following year.

 

[brentl]

20mph on a bike.
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[Duane_T]

The gauge in my 68 Ford Galaxy 4-door went to 120mph - I went past it - to I would guess 125 or 130.