What is the quickest car you driven

[TURBOs4LIFE]

Fastest stock truck

Mine would be a 91 GMC Syclone. These trucks were really fast for being stock!

 

[Ram4Sam]

I was a rich kid in the late 60's..

Neat cars I owned: Z-28 Camaro, 68' Road Runner, and a Boss Mustang. Life was good!



Flash forward to two summers ago. I worked weekends for a racing school at the California speedway. The school bought retired Winston cup and Busch series cars, complete with cup motors, and outfitted them with a second seat for the instructor.

Our job was to gas them, change tires on pit road, strap in the students, etc. We didn't get a paycheck, we got paid with track time after all the sudents had gone home. Students were limited to top speed around 150 or so. After everyone went home, it was our turn! Once we showed the instructors we weren't going to do anything stupid, they would let us up the revlimiters a bit to around 160-170 mph. Driving those cars around a big track at those speeds is better than sex!!



Sam

 

[Okie-Go]

Kind of close I guess. mu cousin had a 75 Grand Prix with a pontiac 455 engine. A friend of mine had a souped up 82 corvette that was kind of scary also.

 

[RBrunson]

Fast & Quick

I would have to say the fastest was a 911 Porsche and the quickest, a stock 92 GMC Syclone. 0-60 in 4. 6sec.

 

[TomGolden]

Well, in high school I got to drive my moms 1976 Ford Pinto station wagon :{ :{ :{



Then the most gutless Toyota pickup ever made - my 1980 with an 85 HP 4 cylinder 20R engine... ... ...



But now I get to drive around in my 400+ HP thundering Cummins powered monster



Best 1/4 mile speed so far is 92. 2 MPH, but that's mostly due to too many gears needing to be shifted... .



Tom

 

[wcaldwell]

'67 Sunbeam Tiger - 0 - 65 mph in 1st gear, 120 in 2nd.



Don't know how fast it would go - I was afraid to find out.





In Naples, Italy, drove an Alfa Romeo 4-door sedan at 230 kph (130 mph) on the open highway on my way to work one morning.

 

[LarryB]

Like KOAman, I'm not sure if MCs count but the scariest thing I ever drove (on the ground) was my GS1100E Suzuki, turbo, Nox, lengthened swing arm, wheelie bar.



Also, during my Road Racing days in the early 80s a friend let me try his Yamaha TZ750



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[klenger]

1970 Plymouth Road Runner (with the wing), 440, trips, and a four speed. It belonged to a friend or ours, and he let me drive it around the block.

 

[rrausch]

In the late 1960's I was fortunate enough to have a lot of hot-rod fanatics as friends. I also owned a yellow '58 Corvette, with a 300+ H. P. 327 in it. I played around with rear end gears, but was too chicken to really find it's top end. But my buddy Mike owned a very mean '56 Vette. He blew up a succession of hot motors... those 283's just couldn't stand up to 2-4bbls and his lead foot! Then he got a wild hair and put a Dodge 426 wedge in that '56 Vette! Man that thing would flat haul. He and I went on a trip to K. C. , in that car and had a lot of fun blowing everything off the road. He would tell me you would have to pull the engine to change the spark plugs. I was a kid and believed him, but knowing hiim he might have been telling the truth! At that time I also had a girlfriend who had a '59 Vette with a built 396 in it. When she bought it the rear end was welded to the frame to prevent wheel-hop we guessed, but we cut the welds and had a good susps. guy get it right. Her '59 would reliably do honest 12 second 1/4 miles.

But the fastest I ever went was in a buddy's Jag. This must have been about 1967 and the Jag must have been an XK160, I don't remember exactly. But my buddy Mike and I were out cruising and we saw amother guy we knew who had just bought this Jag. So we pulled up beside him and asked for a ride. We all piled in that Jag, I was sitting on the hump, and they guy was going through the gears, we were really rolling, and talking, and I looked down at the speedo & tach, and we were redlined doing 138 m. p. h. And I thought, "Shoot, this isn't so fast... " And THEN the guy shifted into 4th gear! ALL true. This was all in the late 1960's when it wasn't cool to own old beat-up Corvettes. All our Vetts were a little doggy looking, but man could they run! And yes, I wish I still owned my Yellow '58!

 

[badinfluence]

I had a 78 monte carlo, 1st year of the smaller body style, I put a 454 in it (tight fit). around 160 mph it would start to unload the front springs. It had a 2. 73 rear end gear. That car was a little scary.

 

[Shrimpy]

Don't Laugh

Buddie of mine had a 1984 Dodge Omni GLH. 2. 2 Turbo four with a five speed. This thing was insane from standing start to around 90 or so. He played with the waste gate and water injection, was pushing somewhere in the 225 - 240 hp. Not excessive but for a car that weighted all of 2600 lbs. it would FLY. Best time was a 13. 20 pass at 101 mph. It died on top because of gearing.



The great thing was, in typical street racing style (short burts of speed, not 1/4 mile,) nothing could touch it. Everyone heres all the stories about busting vette's and z's and stang's. This car could do it!!!! We humiliated a guy in a newer z-28 one night. He never said lets go to a marked quarter, if he had he would have taken us. He was content to get that AZZZ busted about 5 differant times from light to light.



Those were the days.



P. S. Extra BOMB points to anyone who knows what GLH stood for at Mopar headquarters.

 

[RustyJC]

Re: Don't Laugh

Originally posted by Shrimpy

P. S. Extra BOMB points to anyone who knows what GLH stood for at Mopar headquarters.

GLH = Goes Like Hell!!



PM me and I'll give you the address to send my new injectors, South Bend clutch, etc.



Rusty

 

[jandtjil]

Pretty boring but my current rental, a (EURO)Ford Focus stationwagon with a 4cyl diesel. I backed off at 200KPH, it would still accelerate.



JJ

 

[dresslered]

I had a friend's 1972 Dino Ferrari 246 GTS for a day. That thing just wanted to go!!! :--)

 

[Shrimpy]

Way to go Rusty... ... . You got it right!!!!!



I'll have to issue an I. O. U. on the BOMB parts.

 

[hdm48]

Street legal and no bikes? OK, well I guess it would have to be my old Hemi Road Runner. Rather than get into all the details I will say it did the quarter in 10:40's with M/T street tires. With slicks it did 9:20's. But that was in the 'good old days' before I got married.

Now if you want to talk about actual race cars or bikes??



--dave--

 

[E7mack96]

Quickest Car

THe quickest i've ever driven, that was mine, was my '79 Buick regal turbo car that I put a 69 455 Olds engine in. It had big cam, 150 Hp NOS, and a BG Carb. This car was faster than 1/4 mile shows. It ran a 12. 0 at 121. Had a corporate 7. 5 ring gear 2. 73 Peg Leg (Not Posi) rear end. We would have to ease into it and not juice it until 1/2 thru 2nd gear (Turbo 400). This car was baaad on the freeway. 180mph top speed. If we would really hammer off the line, (when it hit 2nd gear), it would spit out the spider gears.



God, I love big TORQUE!!

 

[JR2]

1971 Ford Thunderbird 4 door with sucide doors. Had a 429 Cobra Jet... . Shifted into overdrive at 95 and would push you into the seat. Took it to 115 mph and got scared. . it needed a front end alignment and new tires...



I am betting that my truck is just about as fast... .

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Fastest car I've ever driven was a friends Ferrari Testarossa (sp?) when I lived in the SF bay area - drove that thing across the Dumbarton (sp? again) bridge at 170 mph . That was fun to say the least. Quickest car would have to be a high school buddies Camaro that would run in the mid 10's in the 1/4.



For real speed though it would be bikes, ran a "production" ZX10 at Bonnevile to 172 mph (the land speed record for that class was set on the same bike later in the day by Doug Meyers - I was on the pit crew for it). Ran a full bore GSX-R1100 at Willow springs once for an 8 hr endurance race and was probably in the 180 mph range in turn 8 (no speedo). By far the fastest though was when a friend let me ride his top fuel Suzuki at Sears Point to a 7. 90@198 mph (he was in the low 7's with it) - that one scared me, handed the bike back to him and told him he was nuts. For about a split second (all the time I had to spare) I thought I was gonna die for sure.

 

[chuck3]

69 Dodge Charger R/T. 440, 4 speed, Speedo read 150 and I pushed it past that more than once.