  Patrick Member Username: Patrick Post Number: 3555 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.209.174.224 |
So I was shooting the breeze at the water cooler with some other guys from work. One guy about my age was talking about how he has his Celica souped up and can get it up to 150. So this burn-out was eavesdropping in the conversation and claimed that he did 160 in a Corvette on 696 and that he had proof. We called him out. The very next day this guy brings in a scratchy old VHS tape dated from May of 1990 and sure enough, it is him at the wheel doing 160 on 696. Has anyone ever witnessed any really reckless driving in Detroit? No, not the BS kind with some Audi-driving chick on a cell phone cutting you off. I am talking about the ones that go all out. Anyone ever see some asshat hit the big 1-5-0 on a local road before? | ||
Johnnny5 Member Username: Johnnny5 Post Number: 337 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 71.227.95.4 |
I've seen people doing well over 130-140+ on 696 (Especially those on bikes). The section just west of Telegraph at about 2-3AM is loaded with morons heading back from a night Downtown. (Message edited by Johnnny5 on August 18, 2006) | ||
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed Post Number: 438 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 24.192.25.47 |
I've done 130 before, but it was on a deserted road in the farmlands of Illinois...and I was scared shitless. I can't imagine 160. | ||
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar Post Number: 142 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 67.185.177.235 |
My cousin did 140 on 275 just south of 696. I can honestly say, I've never feared for my life more than the moment when the deer ran across the road. I mean seriously, deer in Lavonia?? | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 709 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 69.246.10.173 |
I see it all the time on 696 and also on the lodge because there is no place for cops to hide other than the ramps and by the time they get off the ramp, the perp is way around 4-5 curves. the lodge is to risky to do all that due to all the curves... | ||
Planner_727 Member Username: Planner_727 Post Number: 32 Registered: 07-2006 Posted From: 24.33.241.132 |
I-94 from east side to Poletown was an area where freinds of mine used to drive pretty fast routinely. On one occasion I believe he got up to 130. Similar to vision's post, there are so many curves and no fast-lane shoulder, there isn't anywhere for them to hide where they could catch up with you. | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1442 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 65.140.157.78 |
In olden times, when I-696 was newly constructed and only went from I-94/Gratiot to around Van Dyke, there was a disagreement of who's jurisdiction it was to patrol it; the State said it was the various city's problem, and the cities said it was the state's problem. Need I say more... ... my 1968 Pontiac's speedo only went to 130, it was pegged. | ||
Meadows Member Username: Meadows Post Number: 52 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 76.0.223.167 |
<--------Asshat here.  I once had the 150 MPH speedo on my modded Mustang buried on I-96. No idea exactly how fast I was going. Can't remember being especially scared either... | ||
Publicmsu Member Username: Publicmsu Post Number: 668 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 71.65.11.17 |
I've gotten a TDI golf up to 130 on the autobahn in Germany, and that was downhill with the wind behind us and the pedal to the ground. It's so much more enjoyable to drive there... no fear of being pulled over for speeding. Here in Detroit, nothing faster than 110 for myself. 96 east on the way home from East Lansing. As for others, can't say i've seen anything above 110. :| | ||
Kova Member Username: Kova Post Number: 67 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 69.212.230.75 |
that is nothing, check this video out!!!!! http://youtube.com/watch?v=ICL w_Y-WuuI WOOOOOO FORD GT baby (Message edited by KOVA on August 19, 2006) | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 711 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 69.246.10.173 |
those dudes are nuts man... | ||
Swgz31 Member Username: Swgz31 Post Number: 5 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 68.43.3.234 |
Damn I'm jealous, both times I've maxed out on 696 I've only gotten to about 115. Getting up to 120+ in my opinion would be insane, although a lot of fun. With those speeds though the smallest slip up could be deadly. That video from youtube is crazy, come to think about it, I've seen stuff like that going on around 696 before it ends on the way to Lansing (Message edited by swgz31 on August 19, 2006) | ||
Johnnny5 Member Username: Johnnny5 Post Number: 338 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 71.227.95.4 |
Here's another video of a couple likely organ donors. If I was an officer and caught people driving like this my Tazer would run out of batteries. http://www.break.com/index/bmw_m5_vs_audi_rs4.html (Message edited by Johnnny5 on August 19, 2006) | ||
Fnemecek Member Username: Fnemecek Post Number: 1841 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 70.225.113.209 |
Kova, Thanks for posting the video. Two quick comments. #1. At one point the guy in the Corvette says that he's doing 230 km/hr. That translates into roughly 140 mph. And he answered his cell phone while doing it??? #2. Early on, the narrating driver said that the Ford GT was being driven by its chief designer. Man, I met that guy last night. I have a new respect for him after seeing his driving. Although, I seriously wonder how many points are on his license at this point. | ||
Sharmaal Member Username: Sharmaal Post Number: 901 Registered: 09-2004 Posted From: 68.60.139.244 |
Camilo Pardo does indeed drive a GT that is in that color scheme (white with blue pin stripes). I wonder if it was him. | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 1250 Registered: 05-2005 Posted From: 69.136.142.0 |
camilo: I must say that I am SO unimpressed by that guy. I did find the part where they passed the murcielago and gallardo amusing though | ||
Cabasse Member Username: Cabasse Post Number: 16 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 68.42.169.74 |
i hit 120 (the max my spedo could show) in a friggin dodge neon, back in atlanta. it was on 285 -- the perimeter -- and it was around 3:30am on saturday night. i was pissed, i'd driven up from tallahassee to see dj shadow at a 21+ club, and i was only 18-19 and didn't know... (i was in an area southwest of downtown) people disrespect neons, but that little coupe wasn't the slowest car, by any means! | ||
Lmichigan Member Username: Lmichigan Post Number: 4178 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.177.81.18 |
I used to have a 1989 Ford Tempo (first car), and when I'd get the thing over 80 there would be a humming in the car so loud my ears would hurt for hours after getting out of it. Anything above that and it would literally feel like it was falling apart. Needless to say I never pushed it anywhere above 90, but I'm not much of a daredevil, anyway. | ||
Bussey Member Username: Bussey Post Number: 207 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 206.208.94.60 |
I just returned from Germany. I spent my honeymoon there and had the fortunate experience of renting a BMW and driving it on the autobahn. I got up to 220 KPH; which is the equivilient to 140/145 MPH. It wasnt really that scary. | ||
Yaktown Member Username: Yaktown Post Number: 11 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 69.216.97.108 |
Several years ago, I was driving a Dodge Shadow. Not exactly a pocket rocket! I was on I-96 west in that dead zone between Brighton and Lansing. For reasons unknown to me now, I decided to try to get my little car up to 100 MPH. I still wonder why that STATE COP I passed never pulled me over! Perhaps he couldn't believe that car could go that speed. Lucky me! Another time, about 15 years ago, a friend was driving a 1974 Pontiac GTO. We were on our way to Milford and he decides to peg the needle at 120 MPH. I've never seen 2-lane blacktop go by so fast. Nowadays, I'm happy with going 70 on the freeways. I just get in the center lane and lock on my cruise control. | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 2046 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 69.221.36.81 |
These sorts of speeds are absolutely insane. I remember hearing of motorcycle people going over 100 on I-94 in the early morning hours (2 am) out towards Ann Arbor. That's like suicide. I'm guilty of, like most people, throwing the speed limit aside when on large Detroit streets. I'm not an ass that speeds through neighborhoods endangering kids, but you can count on me going up to 50 on Jefferson or Warren when I know the lights won't be stopping me. To be able to get downtown in 10 minutes without going to the highway is pretty sweet. I'm not scared of heights but I'm definitly scared of speed--Patrick's story is insane. | ||
Toolbox Member Username: Toolbox Post Number: 968 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.126.173 |
Porsche 911 Turbo S: 165, Porsche Carrera 4S: 140. Got to ride second seat in an ALMS Viper development car at Road Atlanta. That was a blast. 2 laps at Indy in the back of a Hemi Charger Daytona at some MOPAR event a long time ago. | ||
Bongman Member Username: Bongman Post Number: 1225 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 198.111.56.128 |
I was coming back from Metro Airport one night in weather very similar to what we faced this morning. I was about 5 mph under the speed limit with my wipers pumping big-time just to see. All of a sudden a dude on a motorcycle flew by me doing at least 120 ! I don't know how the guy wasn't hydroplaning. Scared the hell out of me and I was only watching. | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 690 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 69.212.169.194 |
Ford GT, fastest car in its class. Yet, my Mustang GT can go just as fast on I94 during traffic. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 758 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 207.200.116.139 |
Hmmm. On October 20, I'll celebrate my 70th birthday. Didn't get there by doing 130. | ||
Rocket_city Member Username: Rocket_city Post Number: 102 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 141.217.174.224 |
The bikes that you see on the freeways doing insane speeds and tricks is the Detroit Street Ryders. Before I lived in Detroit, I was visiting one day and merging from 75 to 696 west and, timed perfectly with a huge posse of Street Ryders entering the freeway on the Woodward ramp. There had to be nearly 20 of them, so I decided to keep a decent pace with them to see what they do. Cool, but pretty dangerous considering the traffic volumes on 696 through the underground core section of the freeway. www.detroitstreetryders.com For some reason, the "movies" link isn't working on their website. | ||
Bibs Member Username: Bibs Post Number: 543 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.12.116.204 |
At the very beginning of the Utube video, they are at a curve on I-94 and Michigan Ave. About five year ago, I was driving on I-94 on the way to the airport. Two speedsters came up behind me in Detroit on I-94 doing about 100mph but they got stuck in traffic. I thought the show was over and they would slow down. These two cars got into an accident at this very location about 10 seconds before I came around the curve. All four vehicles involved were almost 80% of the way up the embankment. | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 386 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 4.229.12.151 |
Reading this thread is not helping my freeway phobia. Oh and deer are not just in Livonia. I have seen them in Farmington Hills near where I work several times. | ||
Dan Member Username: Dan Post Number: 1259 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.47.194.159 |
Kova Aren't those the two cars that were parked on Woodward a week or so ago? ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=ICL w_Y-WuuI ) Someone posted a pic. | ||
Ray Member Username: Ray Post Number: 764 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 68.41.164.236 |
I know of this really hip girl who was doing 120 on Southfield Road. She had someplace really important to go and I guess she liked to drive fast. Anyway, she was SO cool, she served into the left hand turn lane because the cars in the driving lanes were I guess in her way. Unfortunatlely, she slammed into my friend, who was making a left turn. My friend died instantly and her vehicle was hurled across the road and into the side of a building, where it exploded, reducing her body to charred bone. Incredibly, this really cool chick survived and didn't even spend a day in jail, which for me was the formative event in my life-long conviction that the region's collective sense of right-and-wrong and law enforcement is lax. | ||
Patrick Member Username: Patrick Post Number: 3558 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.209.145.12 |
So sorry about that Ray.Was this right at the end of the Southfield Freeway? | ||
Burnsie Member Username: Burnsie Post Number: 562 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 35.12.23.137 |
Why the hell didn't she serve time for involuntary manslaughter? | ||
Alexei289 Member Username: Alexei289 Post Number: 1215 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 68.61.183.223 |
I guess it depends on how nice your car is... if you got a piece of shit riceburner that does something like 150... your ass is grass... but if your driving a lamborgini with extra balls invested, your probably going to get the cops to use their radars so see what u can do in the quarter mile... | ||
One_shot Member Username: One_shot Post Number: 285 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 152.163.100.8 |
I will admit a few triple digit speeds on local freeways. There were the trips to Sarnia where I seen 140's. Taking my cousin home after a night on Gratiot with the targa top off my '93 Vette and did 150. The highest was 162 in my '96 Vette after a night in Royal Oak. Got on 696 at Woodward heading east and by the time I got to 75 I hit 162. NOT A VERY SMART THING TO DO. Van Dyke ex way between Hall Rd and 23 mile did 140 also. I have retired my younger stupid high speed runs. I have realized that anything can happen and at those speeds the outcome is much more grim. | ||
Scofield Member Username: Scofield Post Number: 19 Registered: 07-2006 Posted From: 152.163.100.8 |
LOL... watched the video... "we need fuel!" well duh! drive like that, I'd need fuel too! | ||
Spacemonkey Member Username: Spacemonkey Post Number: 85 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 63.102.87.27 |
I did 120 mph on I-75 near 9 Mile in a '78 BMW 320i. I got my present Saab 9-3 Linear up to 130 on a country road out near Romeo. | ||
Detroit313 Member Username: Detroit313 Post Number: 177 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 72.229.136.103 |
I easily hit 160 in my 1996 Firebird Firehawk in Nashville. My step father did some modifications to it but that was the last time I had been at 160. Had a 2001 Camero SS but never got it past 130. Pushed my friends Viper to 100........there is a difference between muscle cars and super cars. | ||
Llyn Member Username: Llyn Post Number: 1620 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 68.61.197.206 |
What the hell is it with this thread? People die doing this shit. Is it worth your life and (more importantly) someone else's so that you can say, "hey, I went THIS fast"? I gotta go with Ray on this one. This thread is so cool. Not. | ||
220hendrie1910 Member Username: 220hendrie1910 Post Number: 37 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 20.137.2.50 |
Llyn wrote:
I suspect that there's a link between the thirst for speed and the "expansionist" spirit that underlies American culture. If you can have such thrills with no consequences, why not? This may also be why gun ownership and hunting continue to enjoy such popularity as the rest of the world recoils from such behavior. It doesn't help the situation to know that the Administration's foreign policy, in trade and in war, is similar - push it as far as you can, but not to the point of seriously damaging consequences. Sorry to be sounding preachy in Ottawa. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 6335 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 70.236.198.22 |
How many of you know what the letters for speed rating mean on your tire's sidewall?! I ran my Audi A4 in the desert of Utah for over an hour at the car's top speed of 135 (electonically limited) on the way to their airport in October 2001 to come home for the Freep marathon...didn't want to fly out of LAX, since they were shutting it down if someone blinked wrong after 9/11. When I got BACK from my trip, I discovered the right-front tire had gone flat. I immediately suspected some unethical parking aide who saw my California license plate and wanted to make a few bucks helping me change my tire after they let the air out. That waan't the case...the tire had a MAJOR ply seperation...on the passenger side FRONT tire...and these were the Original Equipment Manufacturer parts for my car...ONLY rated for 130 mph. Their safety guarantee was not enough for the top-end performance of their car. This post would not be here IF that tire had failed at speed. So, I immediately bought an entire set of snow tires, since I already knew I was moving back to Detroit...and drove those snows around LA for the few weeks before my move. Probably the ONLY time snow tires had ever been seen on Los Angeles roads. I now buy tires with MINIMUM speed rating of 150+, just in case I get the urge to see how my baby is aging. Gotta blow out the built-up carbon, doncha know. They just never said if it was in the engine/exhaust or the person's brain... (I just also upped the entire braking system to a full-race cross-drilled ceramic-padded one, only have the stainless-steel lines to install...) | ||
Mrchills Member Username: Mrchills Post Number: 26 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 63.113.196.170 |
Getting up to 120+ in my opinion would be insane It all depends on the type of car that you have and where you are driving. So, yes, if you are driving a typical Detroit made car on a typical Detroit highway, than 120+ is somewhat crazy. Although, I have had my GLI Jetta over 140 a couple times on 696 and even the god foresaken Lodge, not bragging, just pointing it, as I am sure it's not the safest thing to do | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 6357 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 70.236.198.22 |
American cars seemed designed to give inexperienced drivers heebie geebies when they exceed a reasonable limit...in the past I'd swear they engineered in a resonance at about 75 where the car would shimmer and shake and feel like it was about to some apart...but knowing what I do about resonance frequencies I always pushed through that, like that test pilot in "The Right Stuff"...what was that famous jet test pilot's name?! Of course, I risked energizing the structure greater and possibly dissolving the entire thing, but so far that hasn't happened. Fine German cars are designed to run at speed for hours on the Autobahn by drivers who know how to move back to the right lane after they've passed someone. I just wish they would've spent the money on properly rated OEM tires on mine... | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 6359 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 70.236.198.22 |
On my Utah high-speed experience, I found that after about twenty minutes at speed my reflexes and distance vision improved radically...I attributed it to lovely adrenaline. I could differentiate between a semi-truck and car sized blob on the horizon at something over four miles...thought if was five, but I'm doubting myself...I'd try to peg another landmark on the same horizon and check the odometer for the distance, but it was something stupidly far and way beyond my expectations. One truck, though, had a cop RIGHT BEHIND IT...but I'm sure when his radar went off and read 135, he didn't believe a station wagon would be doing that in his desert in the wee morning hours. I've had every car I've ever owned up to its top speed. Highest one was the Ford Contour SVT at 145, matching my previous top speeds in other people's rides of 145 in a Mercedes 300 class sedan and the first-generation Infinity Q45 at merely 140...although THAT car felt that if I pulled back a bit on the steering assembly I would take off into the air...like a Cessna 172RG at 70 mph on takeoff. Very unsettling in a car, though. Come to think of it, the Contour gave me a similar, but lesser feeling. The Germans and Swedes might do speed best, although the Italians have a great reputation...none of my clients who own Ferraris or Lamborghinis EVER drive them faster than 40 mph to the country club, and could not imagine loaning 'em out for good exercise. But my friend down in Boca Raton with the Acura NSX...now HE was a trusting soul...what an absolute blast that car is to drive. Best handling I've yet felt...snuggest cockpit and best balance, too. Just couldn't quite reach its top speed in his subdivision. | ||
Canuckr Member Username: Canuckr Post Number: 45 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 209.69.34.80 |
"But my friend down in Boca Raton with the Acura NSX...now HE was a trusting soul...what an absolute blast that car is to drive. Best handling I've yet felt...snuggest cockpit and best balance, too. Just couldn't quite reach its top speed in his subdivision." I got to take one of those out for a session at Gingerman (racetrack). What an amazing car!! It was a 04 with less then 6xxx on the clock, just meet the owner that day too.. Fastest for me, in the ITR, was around 120 on 94 heading back to Kzoo. At the track; around 130 on the back straight at VIR and Mid-Ohio. | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 401 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 67.107.47.65 |
One time I really opened up the Escort and went 60 in a 50 zone but then I got scared and slowed down again. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 6375 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 70.236.198.22 |
Pam, Yeah, as I always say...if you're gonna speed, SPEED...don't just pussyfoot 5 or 10 safe miles above the limit. 95% of the time, if not MORE, I'm in the right-hand lane, cruisin' the limit...exactly. THAT makes for a zero-stress drive...perhaps, except for the person behind me who never learned how to pass. They're always a good source of laughs. When I'm on a two- or one- lane road, and I notice someone coming up on me, I'll usually find a safe spot to pull over and let them pass. MI Driver's Handbook always said if you see more than a few vehicles stacking up on your tail, you HAVE to allow them to pass safely by pulling over! To me, it is only common sense...but then again, I negate that by our obviously common UNsense of hyper-speeding once in a while. For the record, I WAS caught once for extremely excessive speeding...out in Wyoming. Should'a heard the courtroom GASP when the charges were being read the next morning...117 in a 75. I couldn't tell them I had been slowing down... | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 403 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 67.107.47.65 |
Nope, I'm too wussy. Plus there is a very real possibility my car could blow up at high speeds. | ||
Sumotect Member Username: Sumotect Post Number: 241 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 64.243.32.9 |
There is a name for people who drive that fast on 275 and 696, where you have to do 85 to keep assholes off your bumper. They are called "Organ Donors". | ||
Mountainman Member Username: Mountainman Post Number: 109 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 153.90.230.34 |
I'm sure you've all heard about Montana's recent switch to speed limits. It was actually forced upon the state by the Feds. Interestingly enough, the accident rate went up. In Big Sky country apparently speed limits force people to loose their minds. I guess people actually have been driving faster with the "limits" | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 6400 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 66.227.213.127 |
I dunno, Mountainman. I had heard they introduced a limit to discourage yahoos from around the country trekking up there to test their rides...that was back in 2000 when I was driving across the country moving to CA. I drove up through MN, North Dakota and Montana...and had clients in Bozeman. I asked one about the speed limit thing, since I had JUST bought the Audi A4 Avant, and thought I should break it in properly. He told me the cops were quite harsh with their 'new' limit. Then the other client told me to not worry about it. I gambled, hit my top speed, and got away with it. The Wyoming problem was a few years later...heh. |
