How fast have you driven your aircooled 911?

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by id10t

And for the record, I've had the 356 up to 90 downhill with a tail wind. Coulda maybe gone 95 or even 100 but original motor with 130k on it 4500 seemed like a sane rev limit.

I had my old 1960 VW bug floored for a long downhill stretch and I think I hit 65. The engine sounded like it was about to explode, and it was stable as a washing machine on spin cycle with a large blanket wadded up on one side of the drum. But I was 16 and invulnerable.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I had my old 1960 VW bug floored for a long downhill stretch and I think I hit 65. The engine sounded like it was about to explode, and it was stable as a washing machine on spin cycle with a large blanket wadded up on one side of the drum. But I was 16 and invulnerable.

I hit 110kph in a SEAT 850 (essentially the same as the FIAT 850) in Spain. That was all she had. That car was comical, and rear engined (rear of the car, I don't know if it was rear or mid).

[jamesnmlaw]

135 on the rez but the front end was lifting despite 100 lbs of junk in the frunk. +100 all the time on I25 or Hwy14 doing the Santa Fe run.

[Bill Douglas]

I asked my young niece how fast she has driven her Honda Fit. I thought she would say "120kmh (75mph)", but she said "180kmh (112mph)".

Phew, she's not the sorta girl to check tire pressures etc, but rather she's the sort of girl to think "I've got a good idea." LOL

Opp's I've just figured it out. She did learn to drive in the 911SC as it was the only manual car in the extended family at the time.

[porsche tech]

A lady customer of ours was driving out west near the Bonneville Salt Flats and saw a sign that said “turn here to drive on the salt flats”. She did and sent us this picture. She had a 993TT. You can see her reflection taking the picture while driving +/- 170MPH!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by porsche tech

A lady customer of ours was driving out west near the Bonneville Salt Flats and saw a sign that said “turn here to drive on the salt flats”. She did and sent us this picture. She had a 993TT. You can see her reflection taking the picture while driving +/- 170MPH!

that speed on the salt in a car that's not prepped for it is crazy.

[gtc]

Low 140's in Oregon many years ago in my 3.2.
Got pulled over five minutes later for doing ~72 in a 55.

[pwd72s]

Never more than 73 in my '72 911S. This according to the largest round gauge in the center of the dash.

[A930Rocket]

We should start a thread: what’s the fastest you’ve been pulled over for in your air cooled car?

I was doing a whopping 80 mph in a 70 in the 930 on a lonely stretch of highway one night. Couldn’t believe it. Called a local lawyer and he took care of it for free.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

We should start a thread: what’s the fastest you’ve been pulled over for in your air cooled car?

I was doing a whopping 80 mph in a 70 in the 930 on a lonely stretch of highway one night. Couldn’t believe it. Called a local lawyer and he took care of it for free.

Many years ago, I was about to sell my 911. I drove a buddy to lunch in it, and wanted to give him a thrill ride. I pulled out onto an extra wide 4 lane road with a center turn lane and got on it. Because the light was red, there were no cars in either of the lanes going the direction that I was going. There was very little traffic on the road at all. I pulled out and was probably around 95-100 when I passed about 5-6 cars that were going the opposite direction. As I passed them, and then in my rearview, I noticed that there was some sort of LEO SUV. It was surrounded by the other cars, and I don't think he noticed me until the last second when I noticed him. I looked up in my rear view and saw lights as he was trying to extricate himself from the group of cars that had him surrounded. I let off for a split second, and then got back into it. There was a curve in the road coming up and right at/after the curve was where we had all planned to meet for lunch. I kept accelerating until I had to slow down to get around the corner and duck quickly into the parking lot of the strip center that was the location of our planned lunch.

I found a park in between two giant SUVs and parked there and then sat there waiting for my heart to start beating again. The other guys in the other car eventually showed up and we all went to lunch. There was a lot of talk about the whole thing, and during lunch we watched 3-4 police cars and pair of motorcycles driving up and down the stretch of road in front of the eatery for at least 10-15 mins. When we left, I drove VERY sedately and directly back to work and never drove to lunch in that car again.

[RS America]

162 mph that I can prove, GPS, 165mph that I can't prove, GPS broke
Best Drive 160 miles in 1 hour. Dachau to Nuremburg
190 laps on the Ring, ! 4 wheel off, 1 360 spin
Best Ring, 12 Laps in one Stint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cr8bmBi3Ts Going to a birthday party in Luxembourg +150mph.

Discovery Germany at the Ring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuzPcRyTkZM

[masraum]

Originally Posted by RS America

162 mph that I can prove, GPS, 165mph that I can't prove, GPS broke
Best Drive 160 miles in 1 hour. Dachau to Nuremburg
190 laps on the Ring, ! 4 wheel off, 1 360 spin
Best Ring, 12 Laps in one Stint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cr8bmBi3Ts Going to a birthday party in Luxembourg +150mph.

Discovery Germany at the Ring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuzPcRyTkZM

That's a LOT of laps on the 'Ring!

I was surprised at how patched the part of the bahn was in your "going to a birthday part in Luxembourg" video.

[Jim Bremner]

Air cooled BIG turbo car. Not mine 175 as a passenger. 250+ as a driver

For those that remember my 67 Mustang. 152 was 5,200 rpm.

C6 Corvette 145

Pantera 140+

1966 Fairlane GT with 3 buds plus me 120 and it took a long time for the speedo to start working once it was pegged

125 Kart on the front straight of Fontana 100 or so

Bicycle? 60 or so.. fast enough to have a CHP guy get in front to slow me down. I went around him... In the rain

[RS America]

Originally Posted by masraum

That's a LOT of laps on the 'Ring!

I was surprised at how patched the part of the bahn was in your "going to a birthday part in Luxembourg" video.

I love the Ring, should be on everyone's bucket list. Make sure you have a LSD, it will save you and your car. 190 laps in my RS America, 3 laps in a 997S

Lots of patches on the Autobahn, sort of like, Pay Attention" bumps.

[stevej37]

100 mph in my SC
It felt very stable at that speed for a 45 year old car.

[WolfeMacleod]

About 130.

No rear spoiler, with a chine spoiler. It got "dancy"

Look closely.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

We should start a thread: what’s the fastest you’ve been pulled over for in your air cooled car?

I was doing a whopping 80 mph in a 70 in the 930 on a lonely stretch of highway one night. Couldn’t believe it. Called a local lawyer and he took care of it for free.

or
'Fastest speed you managed to get away from cops with"

not aircooled, my dutch plated 944S, 245kph
WOT run, hadn't seen the cop, clearly he hadn't seen me coming, only noticed as flew by and kept it floored
no way he could catch up, and he had no speed cam so here they can't book you if they can't catch ya


cops followed me around all weekend in town after that, had permanent escort
Every time in the rvmirror
I saw a mustache spelling out : I want YOU to know that WE know what YOU did and well NAIL YOU if you even as much as fart in the wrong direction

That was a fun weekend, go to supermarket, cop behind me, come ut of supermarket, cop still there waiting, give em little wave, hiii ggggguuuuys, going to my gramma now, try to keep uuuup

[pavulon]

Originally Posted by ErVikingo

Hum...

rather not say Audi R8 Plus

This. Modern cars make “go to jail” and DOA way too easy. My son loves WOT pulls too much so he’s not going to drive a genuinely fast car alone for years after getting his license.

[pavegeno]

During my three years in Stuttgart, got plenty of high-speed runs to redline in the 88 3.2 Cab. Rock solid with front and rear spoilers. Kept the car in tip top shape and never felt anything near uncomfortable even with full on hard braking...tail never felt like it wanted to come around.

I never ran the engine above 6200 RPM, the bottom of the red arc, so she probably would easily hit 145 mph or above.

This link is after departing early morning from Garmisch in southern Bavaria through winding back roads along the German Alps and finally arriving at the southern end of Autobahn 7 at the German border north to Ulm (Einstein's birthplace), then switching to Autobahn 8 to Stuttgart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk9QHLM9KYU

[T77911S]

Originally Posted by matthewb0051

Oddly, I felt the exact opposite. I took several trips in my M5 while living in Germany. One, sans family, down towards Swiss border on the A7 near Ulm (down where Abt is headquartered). I recall around 125 mph or a bit north of that. Felt totally comfortable since it was very light traffic and that section of Autobahn was unrestricted.

On the flip side, when driving on the 'Ring I was wetting myself. It is scary as all get out and the motorcycles close you down pretty fast. I also didn't want to crack up my car.

In my 911E I don't think I ever made it over 80 or 85. Just not as comfortable in that as in other cars.

yes, been on track with much faster cars. not scary, but not fun. (corvette track with my STOCK E46). i moved down a class.

just saying, i dont notice the speed on track like i do on the road or i have no "sense" of the speed. but never been over 140 on track.