As driver: cut down Range Rover racer - est. 130mph (the speedo finished at 120) As passenger: 170mph in a Jaguar, being taken around Silverstone to get shots of Derek Warwick - can't remember the type as it was over ten years ago. I remember him apologising for being slow, as it was wet...
Cotty PS - the shots were a bit wobbly :-) >My personal best on a public way was in my 1979 Jaguar XJ12. It was on >route 18 in New Jersey. I entered on route 79 and headed east toward >route 34. I didn't see any speed traps, so I turned around and held it >to the floor going the other way. 138 mph on the speedo. On a dragstrip >I went 187 in a 1420 pound dragster that had been broken in half in an >earlier crash and welded back together. It was powered by a fuel >injected 6.7 liter Pontiac engine running on 70% nitromethane. It blew >one head gasket in the lights and covered me with oil. But I was only >19 at the time, so my stupidity is entirely excusable. In the following >years I built some much faster drag cars (a Corvette that went 237 in >6.35 seconds) but never drove any of them. I had learned the meaning of >fear. >Paul >On Feb 23, 2004, at 8:24 PM, John Francis wrote: > >>> >>> My personally driven top speed is a more modest 105mph in my first car >> >> I've done 120mph or more in three cars: >> >> o A Bentley R-type (on the A127 coming back from Southend). >> I started out running at around 80mph, and the speed gradually >> crept up. Absolutely no sensation of speed. Fortunately I >> didn't have to slow down rapidly, as I'm sure thar drum brakes >> (even if they are 14" drums) would take a long time to have >> much of an effect on a car that heavy going that fast. >> >> o My Triumph Vitesse on the motorway spur from the M4 to Reading. >> Scary - the front of the car was almost lifting off the road. >> >> o My current car - a Ford Mustang GT convertible - on route 3 >> at around 2:00 am, with no other traffic in sight. That was >> in 1986, when the car was new. >>
