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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 01:56 PM
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What is your Land Speed Record?
I saw the thread about the guy on the bike going 200 mph plus. The fastest I ever went was probably 125-130 mph and I was a passenger. My fasted driving was probablt 115 mph in a 76 Impala (I loved that beast).

So what is your personal LSR?
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 01:56 PM
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1. About 30 seconds.
What?
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mrboba1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 01:57 PM
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2. Passenger in a Honda Prelude
Went 105 mph on highway around Raleigh

(scared the piss outta me - especially when he had to slam on the brakes when somone only doing 65 in a 55 pulled over in front of us)
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Worst Username Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 01:57 PM
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3. Depends on what you are looking at
on a runway, I've been in a plane going well over 300...

but in a car, I've probably never exceeded 100. I had a civic that could go 95 downhill with a good tail wind, though!
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-04 11:26 AM
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33. On a runway, you've always been below 250 knots.
Planes aren't allowed to exceed 250 knots below 10,000 feet.


:hi:
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 01:57 PM
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4. 135, in my converible Mustang GT
Following a car with diplomatic license plates on the way to Dallas from Austin when I was about 23/24. Wheeeee!
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 01:58 PM
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I don't know in mph but...
Once I drove 240 KMPH.Can someone tell me how much it is in mph ?
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:00 PM
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I'm no expert, but I believe 150
Edited on Tue Sep-21-04 02:00 PM by ldsjocktx
1.6 kilometers per mile.
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mrboba1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:02 PM
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9. heheheheheh
"I'm no expert"

Nice!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x1699395
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:03 PM
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12. I'm glad someone got it
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Bluzmann57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 01:58 PM
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5. Foot speed? Timed with an hourglass
However many years ago I had a hot rod type car and me and another guy raced at speeds about 110-115 mph. Scary stuff as I look back. And stupid stuff too for amateurs like me.
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 01:59 PM
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6. about 100
a number of times between Dallas and Little Rock. Since my wreck (weather related, not speed) many years later I barely drive the speed limit.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:00 PM
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7. The first Husker Du album.
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:02 PM
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11. Doesn't that play at 45?
I know the Meat Puppets first did, perhaps I confuse the two.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:06 PM
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15. I have the CD, sadly.
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:07 PM
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17. You have it, and that is what counts
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:01 PM
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8. Car 140 or so, Motorcycle 130.
Never want to do that again.
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:02 PM
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10. IIRC 230 kph
About 140 mph.

And now all thogether:
"Wir fahren auf der Autobahn"


:hi:
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HEIL PRESIDENT GOD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:04 PM
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13. When I had an RX-7
I used to get in trouble coming back from college two hours earlier than expected.

I remember the needle hitting 150 at one point somewhere west of Bakersfield.
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Droopy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:05 PM
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14. About 115 mph as a passenger
In a '69 Olds Cutlas.

I went about 100 mph in an old Mazda pick up truck that I used to own on my way home one night. I don't know why or what got into me. The next day went I went out and started up the truck it was running real rough. I looked under the hood and found the distributor was cracked.
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:07 PM
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16. 120+ in a 66 Chevy Impala...
This was The Date From Hell during my high school years. I won't give you all of the details, but it ended in a high speed chase. We were being chased by a thug who wanted to bash in my skull. (We know this because he tried, with a hammer, before we made it to the car.)
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Fovea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:13 PM
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18. My favorite has to be
48mph on a short wheelbase recumbent bike.
Downhill, screaming 'Whhhhoooooooweeeeeee!!!'

That was back when I still had COBRA coverage.
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KurtNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:14 PM
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19. I'm no speed demon but
did 140+ (needle bouncing on 140) in a Datsun (that's Nissan for you youngin's) 280Z. It was stupid - thank god it was straight empty highway.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:16 PM
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20. 142-145
turn arrived, let off gas with more to go

still, I have no plans to retry
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:21 PM
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21. 85 Mph, but I was on a gravel shoulder
The left shoulder of a two lane highway...

passing an 18-wheeler that was also passing an 18-wheeler...

driving a Datsun station wagon with 4 passengers on-board...

and a Mexican highway patrol on my tail.


Ah, good times....

:evilgrin:
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markbark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:22 PM
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22. When I was young and invincible...
and stationed in Germany I regularly did a Munich to Stuttgart run in about 50 minutes. (BMW K1000.... GADS I miss that bike! :D )

(for you East coasters, a rough equivalent would be from Baltimore to Richmond)

--MAB
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:23 PM
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23. I'm not sure
I had a 69 Grand prix that claimed it would do 140 and I had it maxed a couple of times. I rode in a Datsun 280z from Barstow to Vegas that was maxed all the way.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:33 PM
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24. 135 in a 1976 VW Rabbit
Yes, it was modified a little bit.

It looked like this:
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Droopy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:38 PM
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26. Modified a BIT???
That Rabbit must have been on steroids!
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:38 PM
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27. Damn, you have a death wish?
Those things were dangerous at 55.
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-04 11:24 AM
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30. Over a cliff?
With its atrocious drag coefficient, a Rabbit's terminal velocity IS probably somewhere close to 135mph...


;)
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blindpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:38 PM
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25. about 300mph
I walked into a polar bear den w/bear by mistake, my exit speed was quite amazing.Think of the Flash.
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Jokerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:42 PM
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28. About 145 mph in my buddy's Porsche
He was drunk and passed out in the passenger seat. I was sober, it was 2 AM and I got us home in record time.
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:51 PM
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29. 147mph
In a Porsche 944 Turbo as a passenger.

130mph in a Porsche 911 as a driver.
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tsakshaug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-04 11:26 AM
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31. 10.9 seconds
in the 100m dash.
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-04 11:26 AM
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32. About 135 in a '69 Pontiac GTO convertable
Great car.

And 125 on a snowmobile ('98 Arctic Cat ZR500 demo). Wheeeeeeeeeeee...........
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tsakshaug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-04 11:28 AM
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34. My daddy said
son you're gonna drive me to drinkin'
if you don't stop drivin that
hot rod Lincoln
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