I guess being "a young man in a hurry" isn't always a good thing.

That's the way you do it...you play the guitar on the MTV.:cool:

I didn't know either. I was shocked by the graphs/numbers.

Maybe Kilometers per hour?

Dang... That Red line ! - When ~5' and 1g = death. Yikes!

Once ya reach a hundred ... yer practically home free!

I like g'rafs :D

Here you go...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1684709921.jpg

roflmao

That reminds me of a good muscle car story I heard a few months ago. I was watching the Garage Squad crew on Motor Trend get a black '69 Charger Daytona with white butt stripe back on the road... 440 w/ a 4 bbl.

I love the way they did it, getting the engine up to snuff, refreshing the interior, fresh exhaust, and I forget what they did with brakes and suspension, etc. And thankfully they pretty much left the body alone... maybe buffing out part of it and leaving the nicks and cracked paint areas as is. It looked completely badass. They put new black stock-appearing steel wheels with dog dish hubcaps on it and redline tires.

The story... this had been the guy's dad's car. He had bought it new back in the day when he got back from 'Nam... he traded in a '68 Charger and $1200 (or $1800, can't remember) for it somewhere in CA. When the sale was final, he asked the sales staff to recommend a nearby stretch of road where he could open it up. They told him and he headed out.

He had it wide open shortly thereafter and was enjoying himself when he heard a low thump-thump-thump sound. It started getting a bit louder, so probably thinking he was about to have a blowout, he backed off, but the thumping kept getting louder.

Turns out the sound was because the CA Highway Patrol had sicced a chopper on him and when it was all over, they wrote him up for 167 MPH... he framed the ticket and his son still has it... it's framed.

I found photos of the car online... forgot it had a white interior... seems out of character for a car like this.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1684740472.jpg

Having had my 944 up into this speed range while chasing someone that got carried away in hand cuffs, I can absolutely agree that the street cars of old do not make those speeds comfortable on the street at all.

I had to sit for about an hour after the ordeal was over before I drove home.
Gave me the serious shakes, and no, it was not an empty road.
It was probably watching an eighteen wheeler go into drift mode from a sudden evasive move that might have made the bigger share for the shakes.
When the trailer of an eighteen wheeler and the cab are two and a half lanes different it makes a lot of tire smoke.

Even if it is far more comfortable in terms of feel and handling to be in or above that speed range in a modern car, the "trees" are still just as hard.