MidnightToker( • )( • )
2 years ago

Thanks for the finer point. Where did you gain your knowledge from? When did this governing bs start?

It’s a right of passage to drive cars way too fast. This is unamerican!

8trackdisco wrote:


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.
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MACS
2 years ago
2011 Infiniti G37... supposedly governed at 151, but I had it at 145 when I saw the cop. Didn't get to see if it was true. 😰
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MidnightToker( • )( • )
2 years ago

2011 Infiniti G37... supposedly governed at 151, but I had it at 145 when I saw the cop. Didn't get to see if it was true. 😰

MACS wrote:


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.
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DrafterX
2 years ago
140 plus in a 76 Camaro... last number on da speedo... after a few minutes the vertical trims blew of the windshield... kept pushing tho... 🍺
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MidnightToker( • )( • )
2 years ago

140 plus in a 76 Camaro... last number on da speedo... after a few minutes the vertical trims blew of the windshield... kept pushing tho... 🍺

DrafterX wrote:


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

Years ago I had a 95 Chevy Caprice Classic with an LT1 and some special lights and equipment and it was governed at 132. Apparently.

Stogie1020 wrote:


Your generation's version of my '61 Oldsmobile Cutlass with a 350 Rocket and quadrajets?

Any way, I think 132mph is the fastest it would go too.
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danmdevries
2 years ago
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.
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deadeyedick
2 years ago
A '59 Pontiac Bonneville on a flat stretch of Texas nowhere. Speedo only goes to 120 be we were still accelerating.

Would love to take my '65 Corvette out but don't want to chance that # matching engine. It gets to 90 real quick like.
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Palama
2 years ago
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.
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Sunoverbeach
2 years ago
155 in a Porsche 911 GT3 on a track. Prolly could've done a few more, but the upcoming corner skeered me
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tonygraz
2 years ago
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.
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Stogie1020
2 years ago

Your generation's version of my '61 Oldsmobile Cutlass with a 350 Rocket and quadrajets?

Any way, I think 132mph is the fastest it would go too.

rfenst wrote:


:-" It was my patrol car.
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Gene363
2 years ago
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.
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Ram27
2 years ago
110 in my '57 Mercury Convertible 😰 Young and stupid.#-o
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8trackdisco
2 years ago
115 in one of my boss’s sport cars.
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Gene363
2 years ago
Thanks goodnesses this wasn't one of us...

Serious Charge for 18 Year Old Who Killed Motorcyclist in High Speed Crash

She was doing 155 mph before the crash and breaking heavily.


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MACS
2 years ago
18 years old and driving a corvette??

Oh, boy.
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8trackdisco
2 years ago
Perhaps trumped only by 18 year olds driving aggressively with souped up Mustangs.
Corvettes handle a whole lot better.
They scrape a teenage crash victim out of a Mustang up here ever12-18 months.
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Sunoverbeach
2 years ago
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

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Gene363
2 years ago

18 years old and driving a corvette??

Oh, boy.

MACS wrote:



Both Grandsons, as teenagers, expressed they wanted my last Corvette, Only if I hated them would I give them a Corvette. 🌫


OTOH, these teenage drivers, that we wouldn't dream of letting drive a high performance car, could be years into gender transition mutilation/sterilization they could have elected to undergo, years they were a teenager.
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