What's the first car that you drove over 100 mph?

[493 Mike]

My 3rd car was a 63 Savoy that I transplanted a 59 413 w/CI TF into, 2.76 gears. I outran the police one night but, I didn't find out they were after me until the next day. Never a problem.
Mike

 

[Dennis H]

63 Chevy Impala 2 door 327. Gold color. Speedo on top of dash with long L/R Sweep. Buried it at 120 IIRC. My friend Randy’s BIL’s car. Ernie. Hamilton Blvd, Allentown. Late at night.

By comparison it is easy to get 130 in the HC with no effort. Feels like 50.

 

[Mackman]

My Dad bought an unmarked 67 Fury I with a 440 at a NY State police auction in 1969. It was geared for the highway, and man would it roll!

 

[ZR9B]

83.....78 delta 88. About 120 and smooth as can be....then in a 71 satellite...I thought it was going to come apart

 

[dla4567]

K Car.
Yea, it’ll do a hundred.

 

[patrick66]

Dad's 1963 Thunderbird coupe. White with red interior and black textured top. 390, all the hardtop options except AM/FM and the K-H wire wheels. What a wonderful car to drive! I hit 115 mph on a nice, long, straight stretch of Colorado 92 one Saturday night, when I was 16. Pic is pretty damned close. I was sad and mad when Dad sold the car to a guy in Denver. Ouch. I took my date to the prom in the car my junior year. What a great time!

 

[RGAZ]

1977 Ford LTD, over 100 but was scary.

1988 Honda CRX Si Turbo custom actually had it clocked over 135 before it started to fly.

RGAZ

 

[Longknife]

Here is a good one, how about a 55 Olds 88, four door sedan!!! Had a flash light to see gauges because the dash light wouldn't work. It was a beast, but the back seat was HUGE, I used it a LOT!!!! Then there was my older sisters 68 chevelle SS convert., 396 four speed, I pegged the speedo on prom night '69.,,, with the top down!!!!!!! And there was my older bros 68 GTS 383 torque flite, OHHH the stories,,, it went every where but straight coming off the line!!!! I really don't know how I got away with so much shtttt!!!!

 

[68BabyBlue]

My first GTX in 1980, 110 mph, never tested the upper limit until the very last time I drove it, had just sprung for new tires. Before my buddy Bob Miller sold me Baby Blue, he opened her up to 135 on a midnight ride down I-95 outside Baltimore. When he tells the story today, he adds a part about an angel riding in the passenger's seat, while an idiot teenager courted disaster on bias ply tires.

 

[maxwedgechar]

In 1964 my parents bought a 25,000 mile red and white ’59 Plymouth Sport Suburban, 9 passenger, Golden Commando 395 (395 Ft LBs of torque @ 3000 RPM), 361 Cu In, 305 HP, Torqueflite, 3.31 SureGrip, PS, PB, Power windows, power tailgate window with the switch right inside next to the rear seat, air leveling system, MirrorMatic electronic day/night mirror and doggy dish wheel covers. We visited my grandparents on Friday, Saturday or Sunday nights right outside Philly and coming home, on the Roosevelt Blvd, Mom normally drove while Dad was sacked out. The boulevard is light to light 3 or 6 lanes depending on the time period and if Mom was first at the light she was first across! She would go right up against the secondarys but not pop the quad. My brother and I would be in the back seat laughing at the guys who got snookered off the line. Mom's philosophy was that most accidents happen at intersections and the faster you're through one the safer you are! And yes I still subscribe to that philosophy! One time Mom was at a traffic light and when it went green the guy in the left turn lane tried to beat her across the intersection. Operative word was tried! Mom punched it for the only time and she took off down the road. The conversation after school went like “Did that ever happen to you”? “Uh, yeah Mom, once or twice”!
So then in 1968 I got my driver’s license and yes my parents let a 17 year old loose on the public highways with 300HP! I lived in Levittown, PA and went to high school in Langhorne, PA. The high school is on the hill overlooking what is lovingly known in the area as “The Superhighway”. The Superhighway is a 4 lane limited access road built in the late Thirties to go from right above where the PA turnpike RT 1 interchange is to Trenton, NJ. It didn’t get to Trenton until much later. What it did was go about 5 or 6 miles and end at a stop sign TEE intersection with piles of stone on the other side of the road. At least once or twice a week, it seemed, a street racer or a drunk would end up in the piles of stone. The deal with my parents was that I was allowed to drive to school one day a week. First week, after school, I went out and did 90 MPH! Wow! Then second week, 100 MPH! Third week I followed one of the guys in his ’61, ’62 or ’63 T-Bird and we went top end! I couldn’t catch him, but he couldn’t get away either. My speedometer said somewhere around 115. I couldn’t “peg” the needle but above 110-115 it would bang against the peg.
Every time I drove the car I was looking for a race, at a stop light, from a roll or top end. I manually shifted the trans. At first I did the second gear and drive buttons. Dad said never to use first gear button, but when I lost a heads up to a ’57 or ’58 Fury by a car length I started using first. The tough part was the car weighed about 4,000 pounds and I was giving away 400 or 500 pounds to cars like neighbor kid’s 327 4 speed Impala. He beat me one afternoon after school on The Superhighway by about a car and a half. The other thing was a cast iron Torqueflite couldn’t hold second gear. At around 80 it would upshift automatically. A full throttle upshift into drive the car would jump anywhere from half a fender to half a car on whoever I was racing. My favorite place to race was the Levittown Parkway, a four lane road from one side of Levittown to the other. One night I raced a ’64 Gran Prix from a 15 MPH roll. I don’t think it was a 421, I think it may have been a standard 303 horsepower 389. We were even, fender to fender, door to door until I went into drive and pulled a half a fender on him. And we stayed into it. It was 1:30 in the morning and we were coming up to a blinking yellow intersection. A car had stopped at the blinking red and had plenty to go through the light but no he stayed to see who won! We went through the intersection at about 110.

 

[Ron H]

1967 GTO, buried the speedo during a race with another guy...also in a '67 GTO...never knew who he was; but he had the knack of showing up when I'd do a cruise through our town after I got off of work at 10PM before going home. Back then most everything was closed and the highway out of town was pretty wide open.

 

[ckessel]

In the late 70's, driving my 73 340 Duster, they had just opened up I-15 through Escondido. A friend was beside me in his car and we were enjoying the nice smooth freeway with no cars around late at night.

 

[coronet68mx]

My first car was a 1979 ford Fairmont, pretty much a mustang with a square body, a small V8 302 I feel like I was flying, I was 16 at that time, man I really like that car.

 

[ACME A12]

1970 Duster 340 on Okinawa in the late seventies. Finding anyplace to let her run wide open on that tiny island without going to jail was a real challenge...

 

[ZR9B]

K Car.
Yea, it’ll do a hundred.

My k car did

 

[Cranky]

First car....66 Belvedere sedan (yeah, 4dr) with a mild 383, 915 factory big valve heads. It would easily bury the needle with the 2.94 gears that the car came with stock....it also ran a 14.80 with those gears crossing just as it shifted into 3rd.

 

[dsd1967]

My 71 Duster, 318 auto, 2:76 gears would hover around 120 on the speedo on a long straight run. One night on a long straight back country road I was maxed out when a cat decides to try to cross the road in front of me. It quickly realized it wasn't going to make it across the road and took off down the road trying to outrun me.....I never lifted....wouldn't have mattered if I did. What a mess in the engine compartment.

 

[Brandy]

My mother's Mach 1.

 

[Ranger16]

'69 Road Runner (first one back in '69). Buried the needle, but that's when I was young, stupid and invincible.

 

[PeteBell68]

1976 Mercury Marquis - what a boat but a ton of fun at the drive in ..