Just got back from a trip to FL. Returning the rental in the pre-dawn hours on a long stretch of I-state, got the Sebring up to 110 before I backed out.
Didnt get to drive, but I went on a TERROR RUN back in 66 in a black and gold 350H (Hertz rental) Mustang .... I was very young (8yrs old) but I remember it like it was yesterday... A car nut was born! That rental car ride changed my life. :TU:
I did 120 in a Crown Vic one time, that would be about it, also drove that same car up a mountain access road in the yukon, DRIVE IT LIKE YOU RENTED IT!
120+ sustained (as in 10's of minutes at a time) in a Brandy new '89? Mustang 5.0 HO Convert. going from Las Vegas to Phoenix...... ......only to get a 67 mph speeding ticket in a 55mph zone just miles from the Phoenix airport. Missed the flight too while getting written up - flight home was the reason for the Bonzai run as we didn't want to pay the cost to switch our tickets out of LV. Paid it in the ticket instead.
While in Germany in the Army, a friend of mine rented a Ferrari and we were doing about 150 mph down the Autobahn!! :laugh: :Brow: :3gears:
I stopped driving them fast when the seat back broke in the Cougar I rented. Staring at the roof liner doing 80 on a freeway in Dallas cured me of that.
Now that would be a vacation. :Brow: Something like that would be the only reason I would even consider going to Europe.
It's not that I had it fast, but I did many Starsky and Hutch's in one Dodge Intrepid in a wet Pittsburgh parking lot which was extremely enjoyable. :3gears:
A brand new (9 miles on it when we rented it) galant. Hit 112mph, it also saw about 40 minutes of sliding in about 8 inches of snow. Thoroughly beat on it. Didn't help that it was an auto on the floor that could pop in and out of drive to neutral so 5k drops were fun as well.
7 or 8 years ago I was crossing Florida from Naples to West Palm on I-75 (alligator alley) in a rented Grand Prix at 125 mph for close to an hour. My ex was sleeping the whole way, of course, or I would've heard that familiar "Are you INSANE?" that she was famous for. :laugh:
Live about 2 hours drive from the Germany and have family 5 hours down. Have done plenty 150mph runs for hours at a time. I recommend doing it on Sundays if you ever get over here, big rigs are not alloved on the streets on sundays. Believe me it can be a bit nerve racking when a truck going 1/3 your speed pulls out in front of you when going 150. BTW: It really feels like standing still when you slow down after a long run I actually changed into 1th once at 70mph simply because I thought I was only going 10-20mph.
By any chance did you rent it from Value Rent-A-Car? I used to work there (in Las Vegas) in the early 1990's. The company was owned by Mitsubishi but rented Fords and Lincolns too. We used to have to check over the Mustang GTs real good when they were returned. Lots of Goodyear tires never came back. The best one was a high-mileage engine in a low-mileage GT that someone had rented for just one day. I, myself, drove a 5.0 down to Laughlin, only to have it bottom out in the sand on the way home when we pulled over to switch drivers. Luckily, some guy in a 2.5 ton flatbed was nice enough to pull us back onto the road. But, not to change topics, I had a rented 1993 Mitsubishi Diamante up to 136mph (when the computer shut things down and it coasted to 130 before regaining power.) That was on a service call to Barstow, CA. On a related note, I once drove from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City in my 1963 Riviera (425 cubic inches and no seat belts) in 5 hours and 15 minutes. It's 500 miles and that included one stop for gas. Do the math.
Dont remember what cCO. we rented from - but it was rented in Phoenix....driven to LV....then raced back. My friend had never done a power-brake burnout before. I tuaght him how in that rental and he was soooo giddy with the power that at just about every stoplight (even in Downtown phoenix !!) in 3 lane traffic totally boxed in, he'd sit there roasting the tires. ou: I think it needed new tires and brake shoes - we logged over 1000 miles and got it with under 20 on the clock
