for a top speed...what is even the point of that?!?!?!
I dont drive top speed. But if you grew up in the performance muscle car era of old. We always wanted to know top end.
No we didnt' drive that way. It was just for general knowledge and bragging rights.
The difference between us and what the kids are doing today. We didnt' Have mid-town street races( thats crazy ).
We had places we hung out picked our races. Drove to rural good roads. No traffic, we monitored the start and finnish lines with 2 way radio's.In case of unexpected traffic.
Sometimes we were 10 miles out of the city. If anyone was hurt or killed it would have been us. Believe me my crowd never wrecked. We did blow a motor or trans.
Im still a performance gear head. My last mustang had $10k of performance(motor,suspension,trans,axle, etc) in it. Ran mid 10's.
In town my wife told I drove it like an old lady...LOL...Part of growing up and not being stupid.
It is nice to see factory performance and aftermarket come back. It seems many that have the money are being stupid with mid-town racing. Some off the showroom cars are blowing the socks off of our stock '60 and '70 models. But in town is a no-no.