[SoDak]

I wouldn't presume to vouch for the accuracy of the speedometer on my V65 Magna which I owned in college, but I took that up to around 166-168 once on a straightaway on a calm evening. My helmet was threatening to rip my head off at the time so I couldn't see the exact number.

[autoresponder]

No bike, but my sleeper "stock" 180HP (asbestos & aluminum wrapped stock cast iron exhaust manifold + a straight/no muffler 2 1/2" exhaust pipe out the rear)'65 Corvair Corsa (w/only a non stock front Z-28 Camaro spoiler and 7"x15" rear 'Vette wheels w/G-6015s [6"x14" Z-28 front w/F-7014s]) pulled down to the "P" (MPH) on my stock 140mph speedo without close to redlining once "somewhere in the US".

(13" stock Corvair wheels; I ran 15" rears; instant top end, esp. with higher boost from my TRW)

Early NHRA & later SCCA a key...

BUT FOUR (4) WHEELS, NOT TWO (2)!

- I had heard a Corsa turbo stocker had turned 173mph at Bonneville and early (less HP) Corvair "stock" turbos were breaking over 104mph at NHRA 1/4 drags.

This I received as a personal challenge.

...Then there was the week in '59 when I showed how to shoehorn a 283ci Chevy SB into John Schultz's blown 6 cyl. engine AC Bristol after using a yardstick on my 283ci 270hp Impala...

(Sorry Shelby, you saw it at Opa Locka airfield where your were racing a Birdcage Maserati...)

[hobbes1]

I had a V45 up to 125....Always wanted a 65, another guy told me he had his up to 150, in the desert.....