Probably about 120 on my buddy's Harley. Sure seemed awful fast with no fairing or windshield. But I got cured of riding fast on a motorcycle when I almost hit a porcupine in a curve at about 90 on my 40hp Suzuki. It was a real fire breather that would do 0 to 60 in about a block. It would do about 110, with the engine at way high RPM's.
My 67 GTO would go somewhere around 150, although the speedometer didn't go that high. I just had to try it a couple of times on a nice straight stretch that is a couple of miles long near here. That car wasn't very practical, but it sure was fun! 10mpg was very good mileage for it, and if you ran it hard, it dropped much lower. I could never keep rear tires on it, either. But I wish I had kept it rather than selling it when a guy offered me more than I thought it was worth back in the 70's. According to the books, it is supposed to be worth about $40k these days. Oh well.
I have never gone very fast on a tractor, probably not even 25, but I have managed to scare myself when the tractor and/or load did something I hadn't expected. I was real glad I wasn't going faster--I might not be typing this.
It is surprising we survived our youth...too many close calls when we took chances we probably shouldn't have. But we were invulnerable!
I wish I still was...but I guess I have actually grown up, finally, and realize that it is not good to tempt fate too many times. I usually drive the speed limit most of the time now. And I don't think I have been stopped for more than 10 years.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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