Got beaten to the aeroplanes! Regularly achieve 500mph going to meetings across Europe!
Fastest I’ve driven is about 140mph – once in an Audi A6, only to see a police car travelling the other direction as I was about to touch the rev limiter in 6th. I can still remember the coppers face!
Also topped out a Vectra V6 Sri thingy (hire car 🙂 ) on the M69. Engine was a bit looser after that.
However, the scariest moment was V-max in an extremely silly Hillman Imp I had. The engine was good for 8500rpm, but getting beyond 6500 in 4th was tricky. Either way that’s a good 105mph. Wound it up as hard as it would go on the A50 one early Sunday morning whilst playing silly buggers with a mate in a Ford Fairlane on the way to Donington.
At 95mph there were two loud ‘clunks’ and it got noisier.
Turns out the aerodynamics are so bad that the doors get sucked off the latches by half an inch. As I was 20 years old I did the mature thing and kept my foot in….