Yeah I got up to 130 once but on a very flat, straight freeway in my 88 Acura Legend. It was pretty scary but I wanted to see how fast I could go. I can't imagine how stupid you'd have to be to think you could make a turn of any kind that fast or even just change lanes. What a dick.
The stupidest thing I did in college was putting the pedal to the metal in a rental car for the entire rural stretch of highway from Minneapolis to Fargo. For about 200 miles I kept it pegged at 105 mph. That's all that Chrysler K car could do. The other drivers must have done a double take when they saw that shit box flying past them like it was Ryan Dunn's Porsche GT3. The national 55 mph speed limit had just been abolished, so even that desolate stretch of highway was only 65 mph.
Having grown up in the Northeast, I wanted a taste of the open highway. I didn't even have a radar detector, so only by the grace of God I didn't pass one single cop. Most areas were loaded with speed traps in 1988. I was in college to become an airline pilot, so a reckless driving ticket probably would have ruined my career aspirations.
The captain of the college flying team was even stupider. He crashed one of the college's Piper Cherokees into the Mississippi River when he hit a power line taking off from the downtown St Paul airport, trying (and failing) to show off for his buddies like he was Maverick. Nice dead career, stupid.
