[A Snake]

Crazy as hell, but I once got my Contemporary up to 180 on the reverse speedo. Up to about 160-165, the car felt rock solid. Mind you I didn't just stick my leg in it, I worked my way up to speed. The road was smooth and flat and wide and no traffic.

Above 165, the road seemed to get rougher and I was getting pretty nervous, but I stepped down and got to see the speedo hit 180.

Noise? What noise? At that speed, noise was absolutely the very last thing on my mind. I had my hands full of snarling Cobra! When the individual bars of the center stripe become one and telephone poles look like a picket fence going by......that's speed!!

Scared? Yup. Never did it again. Not enough cojones! Many many times over 100 though. Hell I could hit 100 at the top of second gear!

Put the rear out in the corners on PIR and it always came back thanks to the tried and true Bluestreaks. Got up to about 135-140 on the short straight coming out of the old turn 9 in front of the grandstands. Could have gone faster, but turns 1,2 and 3 are a chicane and I didn't have enough brakes for more entry speed. Now that was a rush! Funny thing is, doing that on a track didn't scare me at all and the car loved it! Open highway? Never again. I don't care where it is.

Al