I first read it in a motorhead magazine. Motor Trend, Road and Track, Car and Driver, etc. But now it's common knowledge among motorheads. I would say it's been going on since the 90s though a lot more common now being that it's cheaper to do now. At first it was only in top end sports cars. Cars they expected to be going fast. It was definitely in the older Corvettes.

Bummer. Especially if he nailed you going that fast.

My land speed record is 170+ aboard a Yamaha R1. I say plus because I stopped glancing down at the speedo at 170 and was still accelerating for a few seconds so 175-180.

I love the deep rumble of a cast iron big block, and the smell of half burnt fuel coming from the tailpipe

I've found the top speed of pretty much every vehicle I've owned or driven.

Ridgeline cuts fuel at 111.
The Ram was governed right around 100
My Chevy 2500 was limited to 97
Wife's Civic runs out of steam around 103.

Fastest I've done on 4 wheels is about 150 according to the aim solo. Speedo pegged out at 120. Was done on track.

Never knew how fast my Road Runner could go. Was only concerned with the quarter mile time. But after spending close to $2,000 on it in ‘75 and’76 while going to school and working part time, I decided it wasn’t going to be worth it to spend another K just to cut my time down a tenth or so.

Spent the money on upgrading my stereo system instead. Got a Dual CS 701 turntable and a Nakamichi 700 cassette deck and was very happy with those choices. Probably only stereo geeks know what they are.

Got my '69 Torino 428 Cobra up t 180-185 with pedal left for about a minute. Amazing how many things you can think of going bad in such a short time.

125 in my Nissan Pulsar - slowed down quick. Was on the way to a funeral.

I hit 123 mph in my '93 Corvette on an interstate, it was still accelerating but I started slowing down because traffic and road conditions were coming at me faster than I had time to drive safely.

115 in one of my boss’s sport cars.

18 years old and driving a corvette??

Oh, boy.

Due to rampant stupidity, No teenager should have any vehicle like that. They should all drive a Mitsubishi Mirage. About 78hp. Yes, this also applies to 18yr old me

This is not recently acquired. Figured it out around my early 30s

They do that.

A high school friend of mine used to be allowed to drive his father's Dodge Viper when he was 16 until he wrecked it. His dad still let him drive his original AMG Hummer. I Lost touch with him after HS but I still see him occasionally on the road in a Ferrari only because the car makes me look.

My first car was a ‘66 Plymouth Valiant 200 4-door. Iirc, it had a Slant-6, 270 ci engine, with not much hp or torque. Dad and my oldest brother went “shopping” one day and surprised me with it. Nice of them ‘cept I wouldn’t have ever bought a grannie car. Most of my summer job’s earnings was to pay back my Dad.

OTOH, that car was perfect for the beach / island cruising as the paint job was getting funky and I didn’t have the bug to keep my car spit ‘n polish nice. My buddies would pile into the car and we’d go to the North Shore or Leeward side to check out the surf or skin dive. With 4 or 5 guys in the car, getting it up to 60 - 70 mph was a minor challenge.

After a year-ish I was offered the opportunity to buy the Road Runner and grabbed it. In a weird and total coincidence, I ended up selling the Valiant back to the same man that sold it to my Dad.

My inlaws had a Valiant slant six station wagon. It was one long last vehicle and slow vehicle. My wife and I borrowed the Valiant to go car shopping, it had to be floored to get going to highway speeds.

We we're shopping for a Plymouth Satellite. At the first dealership all they had to test drive was the Roadrunner version(?) I don't recall exactly, anyway, having driven in in the Valiant, pulling out of the dealership I hit the gas like I did earlier that day, Oh My! Unfortunately, my wife was with me so we did not buy that car.

On the topic of hot rods and recently acquired knowledge, they just found a moonshiners cave under a historic NASCAR raceway in NC.

In case you didn't know moonshiners were the pioneers of hot rodding cars in order to outrun police and NASCAR was born from that.

Never had a Pontiac I couldn't blow up except that old second hand 9 passenger wagon, but the tranny went on that before I could.

KILLJOY!

I had a 2000 Audi A6 2.7T that was governed to 135 (tires). Had it chipped giving it 60 more HP. In the text from the company doing the procedure, You remove your box, send it to them, and they send it back chipped, they had a disclaimer that if you want your speed limit removed, send them a receipt for Z-rated tires and they would take the govern off.

Yes sir, here you are.

1st thing I did upon putting the ecm back in was take it to 140 to verify it was gone. This was in 2001

The average age of baseballs in the bigs is 7 pitches.

It just occurred to me that today's date, April 2, 2024 is a palindrome...4/2/24.

Bees have two stomachs.
One for their food. The other for honey making.

The honey is created by a series of fluid exchanges between bees.

When you are enjoying honey, it is essentially bee vomit.

Nice catch!

$1.3B Powerball ticket sold in Oregon.

Hmm, who do we know from there?

The average refund check issued by the IRS so far this year is $3,182 as of March 1st.

Sleepy Joe thanks you for the free loan. Ya can't fix stupid.

Waiting on mine...