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#1 on a motorcycle?? Me I was clocked at 145 MPH on a motorcycle.
#2 In a car a 1967 Alfa Ramoe 165 MPH
#3 a tractor. My Ex wife said she read 45 MPH when she was behind me on my Ford 841 with Sherman combo tranny
Hobby farm
 
Never set any speed records on a tractor.

In 1973 I had a borrowed Honda 350 out after midnight one night on a stretch of new concrete 2-lane highway, and before I knew it I was running over 90. Again, no records set...and the funny thing is, after realizing that my butt was mere inches off the pavement at over 90 MPH, I somehow felt a lot safer after I backed down to about 70.

In my own car, I probably haven't been much faster than the 125 I was running when I broke a rear U-joint and twisted a driveshaft in two on my '64 Chevelle at 3 am...that was about 1974. Busy highways, I discovered, become almost deserted when you break down at 3 am, 10 miles from the nearest town.

In someone else's car, I had my brother-in-law's '80 Corvette up to around 145 on a new stretch of interstate in about 1986...the steering suddenly got light somewhere around 125-130, so I backed it down. That run was with my BIL riding shotgun, and was beer-induced. The others were fueled strictly by youthful stupidity, when we're all 10 feet tall and bulletproof until we discover otherwise.
 
Saw the speedo pass 140 on a Kawasaki Z1 when I was 18 years old. Couldn't bear to look down or go any faster.

Hit 130 plus in a 67 Pontiac Firebird 400 4 speed. Holy crap what a sensation. Geared to run fast. Drove a buddys 56 Chevy with a 427 and dual carbed tunnel ram manifold that would pull the front fenders up so far you couldn't see over the hood. Various later cars hit 110 plus.

My 10 acres are flat. The 46 2N goes fast enough in 3rd gear pulling a bush hog to make me smile as I sling it around. No speeding tickets there.
 
No motorcycle experience here....although I've had a polaris 4-wheeler atv at an indicated 60+ a time or two.

In a car, dad had a Lexus a couple years back with a 160mph speedo and I saw an indicated 135 or so in it a couple times.

Doesn't really compare though to my racing experiences driving a dirt latemodel stockcar at Bellville KS on the big halfmile track there. "Average" lap speeds were recorded in the 125-130mph area, meaning quite a bit higher on the faster stretches(not really a true "straightaway" at Bellville since the track kinda is a big bowl). Keep in mind too that this is on dirt... sideways sometimes, with other cars 4ft or less in front and in back of ya, no windsheild, just a helmet with plastic tearaways on the facesheild. At my local "weekly" 3/8ths mile dirt track the county sherrif clocked us at 95 on the back straightaway, probably slowed to 65-70 in the corners....

Not sure about a tractor either, but the tractor ride that SEEMED the fastest was one time on a Super A when it ran outta gas and my brother towed me home down the highway on a chain behind a pickup....apparantly he misread my frantic hand signals to slow down....but we made it in one peice anyway. He got a poundin' after that one!
 
Fast enough to outrun the state trooper and that's all that mattered at the time :) ZZZZZZZZZZZZZoooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
 

I rode with a guy in a BMW Z3 at 310 kmh (185mph) and he was still pushing the pedal when a truck up ahead pulled out to pass and he had to slow down. I love truck drivers and hate BMW's. Never again.......... If he ever offers me a ride again, I'll probably whip his a$$.

Wasn't me, but there is a video floating around here of an old guy on his tractor behing clocked at 240 something kmh. They use cameras to flash speeders and the old guy was passing one when a guy on a Ninja set off the sensor and the tractor ended up between him and the camera.

Dave
 
I had a stock 71 chevy 1/2 ton with a 350 that registered 100mph. I had the speedometer past 100 and back up to 10mph I don't know how fast I was going but I out ran a Dodge charger. I was a passenger in a chevy 1/2 ton that was clocked at 140.....never again. I seldom get over 60 anymore.
 
I droped a 283 in a Vega when I was a young fool . It goofed up the speedometer but I had it where the frontend was getting real light , felt like the thing was ready for liftoff . Went fast enough back then I dont have to run much over 50 now !! How did we every make it though our 20s !!
 
120+ in a modified 1973 chevy camaro. backed off because the front end felt like it was going to become airborne. hardly any steering.
 
AWW guys I had a '53 Studebaker that was so fast I had to put 12V on because it would get ahead of a 6V light. Ihad to look in the rear view to see the light. Better stop now before someone tells a lie!
 
1968 Corvette, 427, factory fuel injection. State police got me doing 163 in a 65 MPH zone. First question they ask me was, Do you know how fast you were going? Replied Nope, speedometer stops at a 160. They didn't have a sense of humor.
 
motorcycle=never
vehicle was a 93 Dodge Dakota 120+ in 4th with 1,000 rpm to go and 5th gear had to back off when the oil pressure went away that little 3.9 V6 had many V8 cars and trucks wondering "What just happened?" when I left them after 3rd gear
Tractor=MF 231 in 4th and wide open that's all I know
 
Rode my sons GSXR 1100 Suzuki @ 130. No need to go any faster ever again.

Rode in the passenger seat of a Camaro Pro Stocker on a "co-pilot night" at a drag strip. Just under 160 mph.

Drove an old CO-OP tractor with a Chrysler 6-banger. Engine was breathed on a little. We estimated speed from known speed at a certain rpm X rpm's actually turned. SHould have been something like 60MPH. That seemed faster than the Pro Stocker
 
Hey there:
Back in 1955, I once had my Nash Ambassador
(with Continental on back), up to about 130?
Thats when my wife screamed "slow down", I
was just 22 then, and didn"t stop to think
about what I was doing. Now, my wheelchair
just don"t go very fast.
Bob
God Bless
 
130 in a 74 big block chevelle. ran out of rpms. cousin had an F12 with a 6-banger chevy and a hisler overdrive--45 mph with the front end shakin and me ridin on the drawbar.
 
Chevy Corvair, suprisingly hot little car. Speedo went to 140, and I had needle pointing straight down, (160?). Still accelerating when I backed off. This was the 140hp 4 carb engine.
 
I indicated 155 using GPS on my FJR1300 this last July in Colorado. I was following a Kawasaki C-14. Long winding roads and you could see for miles.
 
In the early 60s Nevada had no speed limit.
I drove across the entire state, East to West
at 90 mph, in a 57 Oldsmobile Super 88.
I believe to road was US #30
 
Barney Oldfield was clocked at a little over 64 mph on an Allis Chalmers Model U on Firestone tires at the Wisconsin State Fair.
 
107 on a Honda 305 SuperHawk in 1972......down a long steep hill on highway 55. Tach read over 11,000, speedo said 111. I believed the tach since Honda advertised 99mph @ 10,000 rpm at the time.
 
I've never been on a cycle, and my record speed in my ford escort is about 110, but I had a NewHolland 8970 doing 32 mph with a full 5600 gallon tanker behind me(gravity assited)
 
Ron, you're right about the Speedbowl in Belleville, KS. It's more like a circle with the sides flattened a little than an oval track.

I once owned a sprint car with a cousin of mine for a few years, and we ran at Belleville a few times. Our driver was leading a race once, out in front where I could hear just him. He went six laps without ever letting off the gas, just held it flat to the floor.

Fastest in a stock car, probably 130 fairly regularly. Fastest on the road, I once pegged the speedometer in a '57 Mercury. It had about another ten mph above the 120 mark. That was the same car a New Mexico State Trooper clocked me at 87 in a 70 zone after I'd come up hill for a mile.
 
I used to drive at speeds up to 90MPM on main roads and easy 100mph on highway 5 days a week. 120MPH on the Parkway once. Now im getting honked at for driving too slow.But then again, i used to have turret lights on the roof of my cruiser.
 
Not often you can find a long stretch of road, with no traffic around here, and these high speed endeavors definitely belong on a track or elsewhere.

GSXR 1100 Suzuki 150 mph, once, was a good friends, he said, don't hurt yourself, no restriction pipe, carb kit, all dialed in and tuned in, never again- one wrong move and the air seems like it will pull you right off the bike. Did a bit less than that on my 650 maximum, that suzuki would toss you right over though, those crotch rockets are unreal, once was enough.

'96 mustang cobra convertible - 140 mph, top speed supposed to be 152 mph, the car will do it, but it's kind of scary, never again, the air rushing over the top seems to push downward on that car, one little thing goes wrong, you're toast.


'64 ford 4000 gas - S-O-S trans. 10th gear headed down the road, was a former NYS thruway mowing tractor, was darned fast for a tractor, seemed well over 30 MPH, just cannot imagine something going wrong on the front end while riding on the fender !

One thing about all of this, high speeds are nothing to fool with, have all kinds of respect for high speed, been there and done that, no need to go there anymore and I don't recommned it unless one is trained, equipped and at the appropriate facility etc.
 
Chased down a bad guy once in a police persuit car and topped 160 mph. At the time I was young and fireproof, now im old and dont see any sence of speeding, Im also fire burnt.
 
150+ in a 76 Gran Fury ex-Troop car w/440. 160+ in a '71 Road Runner w/383. That was far scarier than the GF. Regularly used to run 120-125+ in the older 90's Chevy Troop cars.

I retire 12/19. No more fast rides for me.
 
My stock 53 Olds, Super 88 would bounce between 115-118 on the flat. Once a Dodge 400D, I was following, tried to out run me. With him breaking the wind on a S.E. Nebraska, rolling hills, State Highway he would lead about 200 feet going up hill and 100 feet down hill. My speedometer’s top number was 120 but that day the needle went to where 130 would have been. The Dodge slowed down wanting me to pass, to see if I could out run them. Knowing I could not, I stayed behind them until our highways parted. I think they thought that my Olds had been hopped up.

Few people who knew me then, thought that I would ever reach my current late 60's. Here is a recent obituary of another lucky guy.
Obit
 
Fastest I've ever been was in a 1988 Mustang GT (5.0 5 speed) my senior year of high school. I don't know how fast I was going because the speedometer only goes up to 85mph, but I had it wound all the way around to the trip meter peg which is almost back around to zero.

On a tractor, probably 20mph.

I am lucky enough to live in an area that has some wide open space where I can open up a car, but those days are pretty much gone, spoiled by crime, so now the state has spent all they can afford on putting more police in the area. Now the area is full of all sorts of unmarked and marked police vehicles from all agencies. Even the remote rural roads that the police never used to patrol are now getting patrolled. In the paper a couple of days ago, the nearby city was looking to cut some of some of their professional firefighters and start charging for certain kinds of calls in order to afford 5 more city police officers, not because they feel they don't need the firemen, but because they feel the city is not safe enough, and this is with a city police, state police, and a large Sheriffs office already in the city.
 
Several high-speed dives around 300mph as a pilot.

SORRY . . .

Misread the question - thought it was DOVE instead of DROVE.
 
As a Ford mechanic, I repaired a Persuit car (purchased at auction by a county mounty, it ran terribly, and had a mis aligned intake manuifold gasket) When fixed, he took me for a very scarry ride at 150+
It was a Galexy with a 429 tunnel port. It laid 300 feet of positrac rubber on the way out of town with the lights and sireeeeen on.
Most impressive fast was going 575 knots west and being passed the opposite way by an F18 doing Mach 0.9 it was 1/2 mile away, and known to be going to happen by all parties in both cockpits. the airbus 320 I was in, and the Military pilot. All done in a blink of an eye. Jim
 
145 on honda v65 magna 115 in a 1975 camaro and as fast as my 2n or my 1967 ford 2000 go in high gear
 
125 mph, on the interstate, on my way to work driving my year old at the time, 92 5.0L mustang LX with a 5-spd that was equiped with a 140 mph speedo. I was rollin pretty hard when I was passed by a guy in a vette. I didnt catch him but he never lost me. I had a 60 mile drive and got to work a little early that day.
 
tractor- we have a Lehr tractor and when I was younger, I would run that thing about 36 mph. I remember looking down and seeing the front wheels wobble a little and got scared.
 
145 in my '68 Corvette coupe..327-325 horse..About 60 in my '66 CJ5 with the 392 Hemi/Torqueflite..It would go faster , just didn't have the nads to hang on any faster than that..Glad I grew up.......
 
About 120 in a 69 GTO.. not all that fast compared to a lot of these. Scariest ride was a 73 IH feed truck carrying 10 tones of barley in a 4 wheel slide around a curve at maybe 40 mph right after the township grader had prettied up the gravel. He watched the whole thing while sitting there eating his lunch and was not happy.
I've driven like Granny ever since.
 
145 MPH Yamaha FZR with storm blowing in from behind. 167 MPH Honda CBR Race Bike at Putnam Park in Indiana. 18 MPH JD 4955. Jim
 
#1 - Not stupid enough to go very fast on a motorcycle
#2 - 178 - Richard Petty Driving experience
#3 - Not stupid enough to go full throttle on a tractor!
 
#1 no motorcycle for me Yamaha Banshee ATV 112MPH
#2 1986 Chevery K10 clocked by a vette at 125 MPH wind force just got too much. still had pedal left.
#3 Fastest I went was Farmall MD with 20.8 X38 with overreving motor 60 MPH and pulled away from chase truck
Never drove it but seen it and helped build it.
Farmall MD chassis with 455 Olds Rocket. 23.1 X 38 rear tires and 75 MPH with throttle to go was common.
Brad
 
If mopeds count- 48

I got my 66 Bel Air up to about 120 (down hill) and then quickly found out first hand what brake fade was like with 4 wheel drum brakes...

Our Oliver 1855 goes about 25.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Probably about 120 on my buddy's Harley. Sure seemed awful fast with no fairing or windshield. But I got cured of riding fast on a motorcycle when I almost hit a porcupine in a curve at about 90 on my 40hp Suzuki. It was a real fire breather that would do 0 to 60 in about a block. It would do about 110, with the engine at way high RPM's.

My 67 GTO would go somewhere around 150, although the speedometer didn't go that high. I just had to try it a couple of times on a nice straight stretch that is a couple of miles long near here. That car wasn't very practical, but it sure was fun! 10mpg was very good mileage for it, and if you ran it hard, it dropped much lower. I could never keep rear tires on it, either. But I wish I had kept it rather than selling it when a guy offered me more than I thought it was worth back in the 70's. According to the books, it is supposed to be worth about $40k these days. Oh well.

I have never gone very fast on a tractor, probably not even 25, but I have managed to scare myself when the tractor and/or load did something I hadn't expected. I was real glad I wasn't going faster--I might not be typing this.

It is surprising we survived our youth...too many close calls when we took chances we probably shouldn't have. But we were invulnerable!

I wish I still was...but I guess I have actually grown up, finally, and realize that it is not good to tempt fate too many times. I usually drive the speed limit most of the time now. And I don't think I have been stopped for more than 10 years.
 
114 MPH on a little 600 Artic Cat ZR, on a 15 mile long, hard packed lake in Quebec. Nothing around but the other guys with me, so there was no sensation of speed.
 
Old, I have delt with you, and read many of your posts and truly enjoy all of them. That being said, I kinda relate this question to tavern talk as to how many beers I drank last Friday before we drank the wiskey, not to mention the wine etc. You know how smart I am? Give me a twelve pack, I will drink it, and then I will tell you just how smart I am.

Don't get me wrong, I was a teenager once myself, and almost killed myself trying to teach everyone how smart and fast I could drive...but I,m on the flip side now digging kids out of their avoidable dare devil escapades. As often the lucky ones died, the less fortunate can now blink their eyes to show they understand they made a mistake. By the way, when they blink their eyes real fast and look at the hospital plug, they are trying to tell you to please pull the plug for them as they can't do it themselves.

Most of the folks from our area has heard of a 17-18 year old gal from Elkader Iowa that was enjoying Senior skip day with her classmates. She is the one that has been to Sweden for their miricle cure, and she does have some tingeling in her legs now after the treatment. I was the one who tried to tell her to calm her in the back of the Ambulance when she screamed she could not feel her legs. Probably it could be just a result from the sweling.


So therefore I won't coment how stupid I am, or was at a younger age. Every now and then when I get a old age pain (no pun intended) I wonder if it is a result of one of the twisted up chunks of fast moving steel that I crawled away from in my younger days.

I mean no disrespect with my coments old, just a cridical point of view from a lucky old pain riden man. (no pun intended again)

For the fast ones, I wonder of your feelings when your child quotes of a faster speed than yours, or perhaps a grandchild making claim of such escapades?

You probably know by now the one about...My Grandfather died peacfuly in his sleep. Unlike the rest of the folks in his car screaming at the top of their lungs.

Sorry for the rudness, my sons step sister age 21 was indeed screaming ten munites before and up to till the time of her death. Please stop and let me out, I'm scared. Some of the skid marks are still there from the estamated 120 mph accident on the 25 mph street in Prarie Du Chine Wisc. That was 10 years ago, and ruts in the blacktop go in the direction of the small tree and utility pole that stoped the speeding car. Three survived including the driver that suided the State of Wisc. for a inperfection in the street. The victum did not attend her own funeral as she had to be examined for the cause of death instead (a last munite decision from the State of Wisconson) Ten years and it's still hard to type with tears in my eyes.

NE IA
 
Well just let me say this. The car at 165 was back when I was 16 years old which has been a few decades. The motorcycle was back when I was 20 give or take a year or 2 and in the navy and the tractor was when I was say 27 or so and didn't even know it would go that fast, Now days I keep to the speed limit and don't push my luck but back then you know how it was young dumb and full of_____
 
I like totaly understand, just hoped you weren't trying to relive your childhood days. We enjoy you here, and sounds like you are on the right track for old age (ya again no pun intended)

Just the other night we helped a young drinking age young lad that was real beer smart out of his predicament. He will be ok probably except for the hangover. Reasoning with a drunk is just like reasoning with my ex-wives attorney, or a politician.

NE IA
 
Had a new Sunbeam Tiger in 1965, with the origional 2 bbl carb, 260 Ford, 288 rearend, it'd do 140 anytime, could outrun a JAG XKE up to that. Later with a 302,7,000 rpm, 65 in 1st, 105 in 2nd, ?? in 3rd and 4th, never had the urge to find out. Once ran from a cop in town, stopped at every stopsign, about 3 blocks apart, he didn't stop, outran him til his radio kicked in.
 
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