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Old 11-21-2018, 05:01 AM
 
Location: Southwestern, USA, now.
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The fastest car I’ve ever been in is a 1968 Pontiac Firebird 400. At 145 MPH it felt like a small rocket.
Wow! Those muscle cars!
My BMW 5 series...sunroof open, even, 119....dropped down cuz didn't want a ticket on I-25....smooth as silk.
My high school boyfriends got me hooked on cars.
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Old 11-21-2018, 05:09 AM
 
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Fastest car I drove was a 1967 convertible Mustang with 289 cid engine. It was on sale at a dealership in 1989 and I could have traded in my 1984 Buick Skyhawk to get the car. I was 20 years old and realized it was too much temptation for my driving skills. No power steering, no power brakes, small thin tires, and no three point belts. I was already pushing my 80 something horsepower 2.0L engine with the 4 speed manual.
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Old 11-21-2018, 05:34 AM
 
Location: plano
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Not sure really.


Fastest driven are four different age/models of Ferrari. Drive your cream present from my sister in law. We did not drive fast as the owner was in the lead car we followed and changed to cars being driven so we all got to drive all models.


Had a college friend who had a 1967 Shelby GT500 convertible, his grand parents bought it for him in college. It was one cool car with a roll bar and top down.


Ive driven 125 mph in a car I owned a first year Mazda RX7 Turbo, believe it was first year the turbo came out.
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Old 11-21-2018, 06:07 AM
 
Location: North West Arkansas (zone 6b)
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fastest car I've driven is a bmw 750, but the fastest *feeling* car I've driven is my Miata. it's not fast, but it sure FEELS fast.
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Old 11-21-2018, 06:50 AM
 
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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I had a 1972 El Camino with a 350 V8, 330 horsepower but I never went over 90 in it, but once when I needed new tires anyway I did a nice long burnout. My current F150 5.0 Coyote with 385 HP is probably faster. The fastest I have ever gone was 120+ (pegged the speedometer) on my father's 1964 Chrysler Wagon, back about 1970.
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Old 11-21-2018, 07:18 AM
 
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Fastest car Ive ever been in was a 2017 Challenger SRT8 manual.
When I was buying my car the salesman gave me his SRT8 to try out. (He told me it was his but I still believe it was a demo)
It was slush snowing at the time, so I couldnt really see what it was really like, and never got up to speed, but it was still fun.

Fastest Ive ever driven was around 135 in my last Hemi, and the car still wanted more.
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Old 11-21-2018, 08:19 AM
 
Location: Montgomery County, PA
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The fastest car I've ever owned is probably my current Lexus ES350 but it's not the kind of car that makes you wanna go fast. I am sure it'll hit 130 or so. Here is a better question. What's the longest you've driven with the gas pedal floored. People just want to know "what she'll do." Mine was a straight two hour drive at 110mph on a stretch of I-65 out of Chicago back in the 70s, going at it with a Firebird. I wouldn't dare do it for 10 seconds today.
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Old 11-21-2018, 08:28 AM
 
Location: plano
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I had a half a dozen of the early Infiniti Q45's. They were fast at that time but not by todays or super car standards. I drove one 1000 miles home from NM mountains in the mid 90s. Route I took started out with 8 miles of a forest service trail I drove, dogging horse back cowboys driving cattle down the trail. It was early Sunday morning and I had about 120 miles of unoccupied state highway back to I40. Sleeping spouse so set the cruise control over 100 mph and let her rip. It was the four wheel steer version know as a T in those days, handled fine on this jaunt.


Had a similar long high way stretch on I10 140 to 200 miles east os El Paso. Traffic was flowing up around 100 mph so I did the safe thing and joined them lol.


No tickets in either trip in fact no law enforcement seen on either trip and no other cars on the road that 120 miles in NM.


Didnt thnnk of my Q45T when posting earlier
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Old 11-21-2018, 08:33 AM
 
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Close to 140 2016 Cadillac ATS-V


There was some left, but I got my fix
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Old 11-21-2018, 09:20 AM
 
Location: Willamette Valley, Oregon
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In 1975 I drove a Norton 750 motorcycle. Yes, it's not a car, but it was so quick and fast it scared the hell out of me. I got it up to 140 before I panicked and throttled it down. I also rode in a friends 427 Corvette. He didn't really punch it but we were doing about 100 just. like. that.
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