i mentioned to a friend that id love to know the real top speed of my xj diesel jaguar and he says his BiL works in a USA airbase in Lincolnshire and every Sunday they use the runway downtime to race a few cars along it as a fair few GI's bring in the muscle cars from home.
I duly met up with the group of car nutters (after a very thorough search of me and my car even xray my pills and take one apart to test it)
They were so great when i arrived. they had a few cars set out so if the jag broke or i was scared of breaking it i could use another car.
this runway i was told is 6ish miles long so enough time to get to top speed we hoped.
the timing was done by a black box type gps device i think.
jagaur xj diesel clocked 152.9 mph. i was thrilled with this and was just going to get an early morning burger from one of the crew and someone asked how fast ive driven before and my reply was about 150ish.
he shows me a chevrolet corvette lookalike with just a plastic body and fixed windows. i knew it was fast as was told it had 800hp but we were clocked at 205.6 and was told it can do a bit more. tried again and did 212.5mph. i then drove the corvette thing and managed 192mph before i chickened out
we saw some more cars go through the speed test
Lincoln town-car 98 mph
Ferrari testrossa 151mph
insignia elite 200ps auto 141mph
specialist fire engine 125mph
1983 Granada 2.8i ghiaX 130mph
and finally me on the back as pillion on a ducatti motorbike at 179mph
Last edited by: nyx2k on Mon 13 Aug 12 at 15:00
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