This'll twist some knickers
- glasseye
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This'll twist some knickers
Coast to coast in 31 hours.
BMW M5, co-pilot has gyro-stabilized, night vision binoculars, multiple GPS, all the mod cons. Definitely not bus style travel.
http://jalopnik.com/cars/speed-record/a ... 310735.php
pix from the photo gallery.
http://jalopnik.com/photogallery/alexroyctoc/2844273
BMW M5, co-pilot has gyro-stabilized, night vision binoculars, multiple GPS, all the mod cons. Definitely not bus style travel.
http://jalopnik.com/cars/speed-record/a ... 310735.php
pix from the photo gallery.
http://jalopnik.com/photogallery/alexroyctoc/2844273
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Paul Wolfowitz, speaking of Iraq.
- bretski
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Re: This'll twist some knickers
Here at 35*- 40* latitude, that would be an average speed of 106 mph to go coast to coast.glasseye wrote:Coast to coast in 31 hours.
BMW M5
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
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Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
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Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
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- DjEep
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I made it from Sacramento to Oakland in under an hour once. I left my Final Project in my dad's Jeep, and my sister took the Jeep to Sac the night before it was due without telling me. Only thing to do was get it.
Other sister drove me to Sac in the morning, took about two hours. I now had one and a half hours to make it to Oakland, on the biggest freeway in NorCal in mid-morning traffic.
Did it, probably averaged 94MPH the whole way. With occasional speeds topping 105, but the speedo pegged @100mph.
Young and stupid, but young and stupid and on time.
Other sister drove me to Sac in the morning, took about two hours. I now had one and a half hours to make it to Oakland, on the biggest freeway in NorCal in mid-morning traffic.
Did it, probably averaged 94MPH the whole way. With occasional speeds topping 105, but the speedo pegged @100mph.
Young and stupid, but young and stupid and on time.
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- RSorak 71Westy
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Years ago I drove from Miami FL to Memphis TN in 15 hrs....At one point in N FL a guy a Cadillac pulled up beside me and gestured very angrily for me to pull over, I did until he got to my back bumper....Floored it,dumped the clutch and took off and never saw him again. I bet he was really pissed off after that. In a 72 240Z great car.
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- hambone
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Drove from Virginia to Chicago in 17 hours in a '66 Beetle with bad sychros does that count? Land-speed records must be relative that was one wild ride...had to keep it running at gas stations because the sick 6V wouldn't start it without a push-start. Fun!
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it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine
your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat
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it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine
your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat
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- hambone
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Yikes that's a lonnnnnnnng drive.
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it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine
your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat
http://pdxvolksfolks.blogspot.com
it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine
your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat
- covelo
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About 4 years ago my wife and I were heading up to my parents in Wisconsin. It was raining in Illinois and we decided how bad could the weather get on a 4 hour drive. It started to ice near the Wi border but I thought we'll be fine. Near milwaukee changed to snow - then north of milwaukee turned into a whiteout averaging 20 - 25 miles per hour with super gusty winds. Long story short we continued to push on and when we finally made it there were 15" of snow on the ground and it took us 10 hours to get there - it was so dark you couldnt see the road and twice I almost took the off ramp on I43 because you couldnt see.
I'm all out of ideas and I've tried nothing.
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- glasseye
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For those interested in a well-written account of the trip:
http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/ma ... nonballrun
The average speed was about 87mph. Someone commented that they'd be more impressed if the figure was 87 mpg. I agree.
Still, guilty pleasures and excellent reading.
http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/ma ... nonballrun
The average speed was about 87mph. Someone commented that they'd be more impressed if the figure was 87 mpg. I agree.
Still, guilty pleasures and excellent reading.
"This war will pay for itself."
Paul Wolfowitz, speaking of Iraq.
Paul Wolfowitz, speaking of Iraq.
- DjEep
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I googled my trip and it said Sac to Oak could take up to "2 1/2 hours in traffic"
ROTFL
I've personally seen it take 7 hours.
ROTFL
I've personally seen it take 7 hours.
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- MeyerII
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Best I ever did was Detroit to Seattle in two and a half days with eight hours of sleep each night taking I-80 most of the way. Probably not that stunning, but it was fairly difficult. Stayed mostly over 100mph from Iowa through Idaho. One night in Lincoln, one night outside of Boise.
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- DjEep
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You want speed / endurance records, check out the Hyder Seek 49ers, holders of Iron Butt Awards. At the hotel/bar in Hyder, AK there is a wall dedicated to those who have ridden a motorcycle through all 49 land-connected states in 10 days or less, for a total of about 11,000 miles.
The record holder made it under a week, including one 1600+ mile day.
The record holder made it under a week, including one 1600+ mile day.
"Live life, love life. Enjoy the pleasures and the sorrows. For it is the bleak valleys, the dark corners that make the peaks all the more magnificent. And once you realize that, you begin to see the beauty hidden within those valleys, and learn to love the climb." - Anonymous
Do you want to Survive? Or do you want to LIVE?
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- Ritter
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Sonoma County to Incline Village, Nevada, on a Friday before President's Day weekend. We left Santa Rosa at 2 pm. We got to Incline about 1:30 am (for those unfamiliar, if traffic is light and weather is good, it's a 3.5 hour drive). There was a brief 20 minute stop in Fulton to drop our daughter off at grandma's. It poured from the time we left until we got to about Auburn--then it turned to snow. Boy was that a fun white knuckle drive.DjEep wrote:I googled my trip and it said Sac to Oak could take up to "2 1/2 hours in traffic"
ROTFL
I've personally seen it take 7 hours.
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