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Highway Speeds

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I hit 95 on a straight section of highway near my house. The car was a 2000 Cavalier.

I don't think I'll be driving it anywhere near that fast again. The thing felt like it was going to come apart at the seams.
 
So is the poll how fast I was going when I got a ticket or how fast I've ever gone in any car. You have two questions in the post and no question in the actual poll...
 
When I got my speeding ticket, I was going 74 on the BQE. In NYC, the speed limit drops to 50mph for no reason on expressways/parkways; and the "bridge approach" to the Verazano has a speed limit of 45. That day, they had a few cops with LIDAR guns standing around a slight, blind bend in the road.

The worst was I had been going down to DC with a friend to visit my brother. On the way back up north, we were on the Turnpike and my friend was going 95 in my car. A cop pulls up behind us and motions for us to move over, just so that he could go faster.
 
Originally posted by: Kelemvor
So is the poll how fast I was going when I got a ticket or how fast I've ever gone in any car. You have two questions in the post and no question in the actual poll...

Changed the poll to be more specific.
 
When I got my Saab 900 way back in the early 90s, it was an 87 model IIRC, I had it upto 145 where the peg was, so I don't actually know. I didn't get a ticket, and thank God for long straight empty roads in West Texas.

Now I don't actually even own a car.

Fastest I ever got a ticket for was around 85. My ex got popped at 104, and managed to cry her way out of it. If the written warning didn't back up the story, I would have never believed it.
 
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