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Gene363
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2 years ago

#1101

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.

8trackdisco wrote:

They do that. 🍺

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MidnightToker( • )( • )
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2 years ago

#1102

155 in a Porsche 911 GT3 on a track. Prolly could've done a few more, but the upcoming corner skeered me

Sunoverbeach wrote:

Was that an "Xtreme Xperience" track run by any chance?
I did the Ferrari 458 one year, and the Lamborghini Murcielago a couple years later.

MidnightToker( • )( • )
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2 years ago

#1103

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.

Sunoverbeach
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2 years ago

#1104

'Twas an Xtreme Xperience thing. Farhers day gift from the wife. Went for the GT500 but it was broken. So, they gave me the Porsche and tickets voucher for the following year. The 2 for 1 was cool, but don't know that I'd do it again. 3 laps wasn't enough for the cost IMO

Palama
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2 years ago

#1105

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

Sunoverbeach wrote:

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. 😎

MidnightToker( • )( • )
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2 years ago

#1106

First car was a 89 Pontiac Firebird hot rodded with a 327, a Hurst 6 speed, and straight pipes.

Cherry red w/T tops, pop up headlights, and a wicked exhaust note. Almost killed myself several times in that thing.

Gene363
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2 years ago

#1107

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. 😂

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Sunoverbeach
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2 years ago

#1108

Had an '85 Firebird as my second car. Far from hot rodded. V5 at the time of purchase. Mechanic was able to get the 6th cylinder firing. Then it threw a rod 2yrs later. It was purty tho

On an actual recently acquired note: every single person on the planet is living in the past. Takes about 80 milliseconds for the brain to process what's going on at any given time

MidnightToker( • )( • )
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2 years ago

#1109

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.

jeebling
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2 years ago

#1110

130 in my Chrysler 300C. It had more to give but I lost my nuts and took my foot off the gas to let it slow down. My biggest speeding ticket was for 110 on the interstate in the middle of the desert heading to California. I just knew I was going straight to jail but the trooper just wrote the ticket and told me to slow down because he wanted me to make it to my duty station unharmed. He didn’t even give me attitude. That was in the 80’s. Not sure what might happen these days.

tonygraz
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2 years ago

#1111

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.

Sunoverbeach
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2 years ago

#1112

I know a guy who knows a tranny guy

rfenst
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2 years ago

#1113

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.

Gene363 wrote:

KILLJOY!

Gene363
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2 years ago

#1114

KILLJOY!

rfenst wrote:

Guilty, but then I'm a LONG way from teenager. 🌫 😂

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plinytheelder
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2 years ago

#1115

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

8trackdisco wrote:

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

MidnightToker( • )( • )
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2 years ago

#1116

Not recently acquired knowledge but on topic.

The world's fastest street legal production car the Bugatti Chiron that does 300 mph+ requires custom carbon fiber reinforced tires that cost 50k per set. Oil change costs 20k but if you can afford a 3-4 million dollar car that won't matter.