What's the fastest and longest you have driven!

[devesvws]

back in 95 in my 93 corrado slc i went 140 for about 5 min wow what a feeling i started trembling after i slowed down to the speed limit

[Kombi]

130 mph about 40min '70 911T
90 mph 15 min '69 Squareback
80 mph 10 min '67 bus
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[beetleboy58]

65 in the 67 westy........85 in the 66 beetle 1600sp.......60 with my 58 beetles pan(yes,pan only,no body).140 in my brothers 85 gmc- the u-joint let go and blew a hole in the turbo 350 tranny .......

[jimmy4]

i drove the ghia for 7 straight hours once.....

[gostros]

For those of you familiar with the Salt Lake area, I did 100 uphill over point of the mountain on my 1990 kawasaki zephyr. Pretty windy.

[ivsamhell]

80 on a vespa. good shit ther.

[53 0val]

[GeorgeL]

In the late '70s I worked for the GM proving ground in Mesa, AZ. We sometimes clocked over 1000 miles in an 8-hour shift while abuse-testing Corvettes. That was on a 5-mile circular track. Nothing like the sense of turning right for 1000 miles and not having gone anywhere.

In a VW? I've seen the high side of 80 a couple of times in my '71 bay, but normally keep it around 60. Our '69 bug touches 80 fairly regularly while driving the freeways, but is much happier at about 70.

In my youth, I took a 30 mile trip in a friend's 911 in less than 15 minutes. It was legal, too, as we were in Nevada before the 55 was imposed.

[Dub Owner]

70 in my cousins Thing with my dads 1835cc with 2 barrel progressive, no air cleaner.
Fastest i have ever gone was in a Chevy Lumina or something like that. 125mph for a few miles. i was just a little kid. i could have pissed my pants!
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67 baja hit a deer
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74 412 slowly putting back together
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[vwman18]

I maintained 100mph in my Fastback during a trip to Miami a few years back. The stretch of I-95 from Port St. Lucie to PGA Blvd in West Palm Beach (about 40 miles) is generally a low traffic, cop free area. I had to slow down after that due to traffic and construction, but it was a great ride. Smooth like buttah! Of course, it did have a 2110 in it at the time.

[vwdmc16]

well since you guys are including non VW experiences i will include mine, i was in my buddies '01 ZO6 Vette and we got up to 145mph while racing a '02 BMW M3 in West Sacramento, hes gotten that thing up to 170 himself.
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'72 Honda Z600
'81 Delorean

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[billmetric]

I used to test drive new New Beetles for a dealership, when the first few 1.8 Turbo Beetles came in in the early 2000's something, I had one up to 125 on a twisty bumpy 2 lane back road, I think they had top speed limiters around 130-133 or so, plenty fast for anything Beetle shaped, on the early cars the rear wing "deployed" at 85, sounded like a parachute opening up at that speed, the newer ones open around 40 now, not as dramatic sounding

my dad had a lot of cool cars when I was in high school, I used to drive his 1959 Cadillac Hearse to school, top speed was 106 and It would hit that speed on a regular basis, I had his 1929 Model A Ford up to 75 quite a few times too, usually downhill on a dirt road thru a one lane bridge, on 30 year old 4.50X21 inch tires

I had a 1966 Beetle while I was in the Air Force in Germany with the original 1300 engine and it would do 80 forever, I saw the speedo needle so far past 90 a few times that it was past the turn signal arrows
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[Mexicanhippie714]

i once went 95 mph in my 1972 bus that's the fastest i've ever gone and i dont plan anytime soon unless its downhill on going that fast ever again. This other time down hill i went about maybe 100 i got pulled over and the cop couldnt believe it. He said he had never ever pulled over a bus for speeding he left me off with a warning in this other car a 2002 passat i went 120 i dont know how long but i know that i went from Orange County to San Fransisco in 4 hours and 30 minutes

[Dub Owner]

[GeorgeL]

[LORD VADER]

i drove my 73 sb from madera ca to arapaho oklahoma going 75-80

[draginwagen]

85 for about 10 min in my bug with a driver seat and a eggcrate as the passenger seat my buddy keep on falling of and everytime he fell it shook the car. and i had no seatbelts, no lights at all , no carpet and no side windows just a windshield
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[shkdwnstrt]

80 in my 75 Westy. White knuckles.
130 in my cadilac deville. felt like I was doing 45 in my Westy.

[GostaBerling]

90 in my 87 cabriolet, could have gone a little faster but it sounded like the top was gonna fly off.

95 in my 2003 mitsu outlander all wheel drive, she just wouldn't go any faster.

110 in my 1960 Cadillac. Felt like doing 60, smooth as could be.

118 in my 1998 supercharged Riviera.

124 riding in my friends 1994 Pontiac GTP, through traffic in KC.
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[Tank83]

155 miles in a 2000 BMW 540i Touring on german highway (Autobahn).