181 in a 75mph zone? in TX (It's on MSN...Not sure if it's news or not? lol)

[Charlie Primero]

#1: 181 mph in a 75 mph zone, Red 2012 Honda CBR1000

Honda for the Win!

Texas also holds the world's record for fastest speeding ticket [God Bless TEXAS], but the story is apocryphal...

http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-car...debut-remembering-a-mythical-speeding-ticket/

 

[majormadmax]

Apocryphal indeed! Here is the alleged story...

“The car was involved in the San Francisco to Miami Gumball 3000 Rally. The driver, Arthur Chirkinian, was arrested and the car towed. His co-driver paid his bail and they retrieved the car from impound. While trying to catch up to the other gumballers the driver noticed smoke and steam from the engine and his gauges showed that the car was over-heating. He pulled over to find his radiator cap had gone “missing” while it was impounded. Arthur Chirkinian hitched a ride to the local Volkswagen dealership where he purchased a brand new Volkswagen Beetle and drove it to where his CCR was parked. He purchased the car because the New Turbo Beetle had just come out and the auto parts stores had not even received any inventory for that car. By placing a call to Koenigsegg they told him that that is the only radiator cap that would fit. He filled the CCR back up with radiator fluid and took the radiator cap off the Beetle and put it on the CCR. He then took off in hopes of catching everyone else, leaving a brand new Turbo Beetle on the side of the road with the doors unlocked and the key still in it. He caught up to the pack later that night in New Orleans.”

Chirkinian himself never even made the 242 MPH ticket claim, but states he reached 238 MPH before they "blew up the speedometer." He then goes on to say "we saw the police...slammed on the brakes...he done us for 127 [MPH]". His claims can be seen in Gumball 3000: The Movie, however none of the activities in question were recorded.

The CCR did break the Guinness World Record for the fastest production car in the world, having attained 241.63 mph (388.87 km/h) on the Nardò Ring (a circular track of 7.8 mi (12.6 km) circumference), beating the record previously held by the McLaren F1. But in April 2005, not long after the CCR claimed the record, a prototype of the long-awaited Bugatti Veyron took the crown with a top speed over 400 km/h (250 mph) with the production model reaching 408.47 km/h (253.81 mph).

Also to note, the CCR ticket was claimed to have been issued in March 2003; but the CCR wasn't unveiled until one year later at the 2004 Geneva Auto Show, and only went into production that year.

As with war stories, they don't necessarily have to be true, just interesting...

Cheers! M2

 

[Army 1911]

Man that is traveling fast. Getting a ticket a whole year before the car was built.

 

[Moonpie]

I watched a campus cop, at what was then known as SouthWest Texas State University, write a guy a up for speeding, going the wrong way, and running a stop sign...............on a skate board!
Dude was hauling ass down a one way street.

 

[RACER X]

I’ll just say I’ve seen a GPS indicting 210mph

And that lambo then was 1200hp, it now has 2300

His Ford GT has 2500+hp and a similar car ran the Texas mile at 293

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[easy rider]

I’ll just say I’ve seen a GPS indicting 210mph

And that lambo then was 1200hp, it now has 2300

His Ford GT has 2500+hp and a similar car ran the Texas mile at 293

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Both out of my price range.