Posted by Hal/Eastern WA on May 31, 2012 at 00:26:00 from (97.119.244.50):
In Reply to: Re: this is fast posted by old on May 30, 2012 at 19:14:06:
Old, could that have been 165 kilometers per hour? I have been over 150 miles an hour a few times, and that is REALLY FLYING!!!!! Especially on a deserted, but public road. Something I would never do again, but back in the 400+ horsepower days of my youth, we just had to see how fast our cars would go. Only a very few of the cars I ever drove or rode in would go 150.
When I was a young man, we also did a bunch of drag racing at our local sanctioned drag strip and also lots of street racing. In the quarter mile, if your car would achieve over 110 at the quarter mile mark, it was a VERY VERY strong runner, or an actual, prepared race car. I have never tried 1/8 mile drag racing, but I would expect speeds at the end of the eighth mile mark to be lots slower than the speeds the same car might do in the quarter.
I have been reading car magazines since the early 60"s, and don"t recall ever reading about any Alfas that were anywhere nearly that fast. 165 miles per hour is Ferrari and Maserati territory, and they cost many times what an Alfa cost in those days.
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