Re: IML: How fast, bub?
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Re: IML: How fast, bub?
- From: "JIM LORENZEN" <jdlpdx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:19:54 -0800
Also "back in the day", mid '70s to be exact and me in
my 20s a very understanding and sympathetic Oregon State Patrolman clocked and
stopped me and my '60 early one morning on I-5. He told me he had me going
127mph and climbing - and I didn't have the accelerator all the way to the
floor. As the freeway was basically empty and I was sober (crazy perhaps
but sober) and he being a MoPar freak, he let me off with a warning after a long
discussion about hemis and wedges.
Yes it was stupid but that can I say except I don't do
it anymore.
That said, if Remco wants to pursue 200mph in an
Imperial project that looks to be well researched then I say Go
for it!!! Just because at 60 I don't have the
reflexes, desire and maybe mental agility I once had doesn't
mean he doesn't and shouldn't. If our forebearers didn't "push
the envelope" many of us would be living in a very
crowded Europe and there wouldn't be any Imperials.
Jim L. in OR
'60 Crown 4dr
Southampton
'62 Crown 4dr Southampton
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 6:33 AM
Subject: Re: IML: How fast, bub?
"Back in the
day" I use to drive my '56 fast enough to bury the
speedometer needle. The
previous owner suggested that he had driven it
130 mph. I don't know how
fast I was going, but it was well over 100,
probably over 120. The last time
I recall doing it was in 1974 on I-5
in Seattle, along side of another '56
that belonged to a friend of
mine. We happened to meet on the freeway going
the same direction and
both had the same idea. Back then, our roads were
abandoned due to the
Boeing lay offs, but it was still very illegal. I was
also very young
and stupid. Having said that, the car would travel that
fast.
I "tested" my '60 LeBaron and had it going fast enough for the
speedometer to register 115. It floated along like I was going 65 mph,
but that also was a long time ago, and before I learned that there is
never a time when its okay to drive like that on a public road. In
those
days the police would have scolded me if I had been caught, but
the reality
of it was that I could have killed people. I am very sorry
about
that.
Driving an Imperial "as fast as it will go" is fine, but it needs
to be
done at a race track, not on a public road.
Paul
W.
-----Original Message-----
From: Klebert L. Hall <crocuta@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To:
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Sent: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 4:25 am
Subject: Re: IML: Not so fast,
bub?
What Remco's doing with his '57 obviously isn't for everyone
(it's more
extreme than I'd go, but I still think it's cool), but I think
the
horror being expressed is a little over the top. I expect he's talking
about 800+ *brake* horsepower, for one thing - you guys all know that
with enough money, you can just go buy a buy sedan with that kind of
grunt these days? BMWs and Mercedes make 'em (the Maybachs, some of the
few cars made to the size and luxury of Imperials these days, have it),
heck, you can buy a Chrysler 300 with what has to be around 600+ bhp...
Aftermarket people will give you all the power you want. It's pretty
easy to get *trucks* with this sort of power, aftermarket, and the
SRT-10 makes 500 *net*...
You don't hear about too many of these cars
crashing, though - lots
more Corrolas etc.
Don't underestimate the
high-speed prowess of our cars, either. Sure,
they weren't meant to be run
at 200mph, but they *were* designed for
100+ mph running. I drove my '62 all
the way through from Ohio to
Colorado at a little over 100 back in the day,
and it was *effortless*
That car only came alive over 80 - it felt like you
were coasting at
lower speeds. It handled highway curves effortlessly at
those speeds,
too, though I wouldn't have tried it in the city. I once broke
the car
away at highway speeds into a 100-270-100 degree fishtail during
accident-avoidance, and it handled that like a champ, too - nice and
flat, good response to controls, predictable and stable.
It sounds like
Remco has a good idea of what he's doing, and he's
replacing the systems he
thinks need upgrading.
As for the risk of some sort of tragedy occurring
during his speed
runs: well, he won't be breaking the law. Say he is in a
wreck and
somebody gets killed - how is that worse than if the same thing
happened at 40mph? There are really only three reasons for car crashes
-
mechanical failure, bad luck, and failure of operator skill and
judgment.
Those can happen at any speed, and can be fatal at even city
velocities.
I wouldn't suggest that anybody go and do what he's doing, but I
applaud him and can't wait to hear how it turns out.
-Kle.
'69
Crown 4DHT (hasn't gone over 20mph, since I had to put it in
reserve)
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