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car - ~120 mph
boat - 98 mph (radar)
AH-1G - 195 knots...high angle attack
plane - Mach .88
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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1,000 mph more or less -- at the equator -- circumference of the earth is + or - 25K miles, and she makes a turn every 24hrs.  Ahhh man, I should have said 'relative speed with relationship to the earth's speed of rotation.' Just ahead of a pissed off husband and steady pulling away from him.
The degree of my privacy is no business of yours.
What we've learned from history is that we haven't learned from it.
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143 in car according to local sherrif who let me go that night and around 140 on bike
DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR
I LOVE MY COUNTRY IT'S THE GOV'T I FEAR
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I don't know. How fast can a crazy "Trained in Vietnam" chopper pilot make a Bell Jet Ranger fly? Downhill!
In 1981, I was riding along in the back seat while the fire boss took an after sundown aerial survey of a range fire.
I am sure, just for my benefit, the pilot dropped the nose into about a 45 degree dive and lost about 8000 feet of altitude. I am proud to say, I did not lose my lunch.
A friend has a 1946 Luskin which seats two. Forty horsepower! I am not sure it will make a 100 mph even in a dive. But it sure is fun to ride around in.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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bout 117 in a car. Planes? I can claim once to have steered a plane by sticking my hand out the window.  Oh I will claim fastest speed in a very small car - 100 in a Miata. And I'll claim fastest speed in a fishing boat - 67 (GPS verified) in a 97 Champion with a 2002 model 200 Optimax Not anymore!!  96 mph in an Allison Craft center console bassboat w/ Mercury 2.4 liter Mod VP through a speed trap.
Retired and Loving It!!
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
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Do it today. Tomorrow there may be a law against it.
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172 in a tricked out 94 firebird I used to own.
123 on a 97 Ski-doo Snowmobile I also used to own. That is one trippy ride!
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The King of Battle!
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What's the fastest you have been? single, drunk on scotch at the miami beach int'l boat show... i fell in love 42 times before we got into the show.... women could never resist me when i drank scotch....
"Chances Will Be Taken"
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I ran next to my sisters volkswagon once, she said I clipped 22mph for a few seconds.
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About 130 in my '76 Trans Am. 400 Pontiac engine. Wasn't topped out.
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160 in a car top end. 143 in the 1/4 mile in my dart
God bless Texas-----------------------
Old 300
I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull
Its not how you pick the booger..
but where you put it !!
Roger V Hunter
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About 110 on a snowmobile. Couldn't tell for real sure as the speedo needle was vibrating pretty bad.
140 or so in a 1968 Hurst Olds. Man, that thing would fly! Over 180 in a Viper. I dunno what it is about a boat or snowmobile, but for me at least, doing 50 or 60mph(fastest I have been on either) seems like about twice that in a car. The snowmobile was a Kawasaki 440 liquid cooled on one of the straight stretches in Yellowstone Park. I felt just like a rock being skipped across a lake. I slowed 'er down pretty quick!
The Mayans had it right. If you�re going to predict the future, it�s best to aim far beyond your life expectancy, lest you wind up red-faced in a bunker overstocked with Spam and ammo.
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175 mph in a car... Chevy Camera ZL 1...454 motor...
believe me it felt safer than doing 85 mph in a VW Bug on the interstate with Semis all around you...
motorcyle... 125 mph...Honda 750 Magna..
aircraft... F 4 Phantom II.... don't know... but it was pretty fast...
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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340boy; Thanks for the interesting thread Tim it makes for interesting reading. Thanks to all who've responded as well. In my younger day I had a '71 T-37 that I'd put a bored out 283 small block into. Without going into details as to why we needed to go that fast, though I hope there is some sort of time limit on youthful indiscretions, we had it up to 132mph for awhile. The Sears radials didn't like it much and the cords were sticking out afterward.  One summer, maybe '79 or so, I played with a Kawasaki 500 triple- the old 2 stroke bikes. The speedometer was broken so I don't know what it would do, but I do know it would flat leave a '77 Honda 750 like it was standing still.  A cousin had a V65 Magna that went almost 130mph on it's speedometer with my wife and I on it, but there's no telling whether it was even close at that speed or not. As far as boats go, I can't recall how fast it was. We used to do a fair bit of water skiing in around '81 and the fellow I worked for had a boat with a 350 Chev and an aftermarket prop that seemed to take forever to stop after we'd opened it up, but does 60mph sound too fast for a boat like that? Planes would be whatever a 747 went in the '70's. I seem to recall we got on a plane in Nairobi in the morning and then flew to Rome, then London, then Toronto and then Saskatoon and it was only a few hours later on the same day, even though we'd been flying for what seemed like a week!  Nowadays my daily driver is a '90 Jetta TDI, so when I step on the fuel to accelerate, a small sign comes out of the dash that asks, "Are you kidding?" Thanks again for the interesting thread Tim. I hope you have a good Sunday and a fine week. Regards, Dwayne
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Back when I was young and dumb had an 1100E Suzuki literally floatin' on the center line at 2:30 am with a deputy in hot pursuit about a mile and half back. It was all I could do to stay glued to that gas tank.....
A week later I blew that worn out back tire pulling out from a stop sign.
One of my nine lives right there...........
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One summer, maybe '79 or so, I played with a Kawasaki 500 triple- the old 2 stroke bikes. The speedometer was broken so I don't know what it would do, but I do know it would flat leave a '77 Honda 750 like it was standing still. I know that bike. And like anyone who has ridden one, at the mere mention of it, I giggle. 
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A week later I blew that worn out back tire pulling out from a stop sign.
One of my nine lives right there...........
Amazingly familiar, that story, but it was the next afternoon for me. Amazing that all of those posting are still around to tell of their foolishness!
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It took me a week to sober up......
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There were 750 two stroke triples too.
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1966 BSA Hornet Scrambler, 650 cc twin ~ ~ ~ ~ 110 MPH
1957 Chrysler 300-C, Factory Two-4bbl Carbs ~ ~ 150+ MPH
Flew in a "Coot" boat/plane one time, maybe a 100 MPH (but not so fast in the water).
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