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Shulda had a 65 Mustang with a 289 and an automatic.... I KNOW it's capable of over 125mph. Thank goodness no blow outs, nor cops and common sense prevailed before I finished putting my foot through the firewall.
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It was a 289, of course, you had to have the 289 to get the GT option. Today, I'd want the auto but back in '65, I was wanting to shift. The 3 spd was standard and I went with it. But if it would have gone 125 mph, I'd have seen if it would. Back then, before a lot of interstates, Texas had some really good roads, some nice and straight like the area after Alice down toward McAllan. Very few people living out that way, ranch land. More than likely it still is. I may have made a mistake about the crusing speed in that area, it was more like 90 mph.
No more of that kind of non-sense for a long time. Sure didn't let my two kids hear about those days (the speed), I did not want them try to do the same thing.
We are hearing reports of terrible crashes involving speeding and racing, especially in El Paso, TX as well as Cruces. Just too many cars & trucks on the roads these days to be doing what I did in the late '60s and early '70s. Often speed and drinking gets them. I never did the drinking. My nephew, lost his only son in a bad crash involving both down in Harlingen, TX in a much faster and meaner Mustang than a '65 about 3 years ago. The car looked like a soda can wrapped around a pole. The young man had just gotten the car. I do not believe his dad even knew the boy had a car. Very hard on the families who get killed and so often the one who was speeding is not hurt and others are killed. Bad stuff hot cars and youth! My Great-Nephew only killed himself, he lost control and hit a telephone pole or a palm tree. Can't recall which.
Lights out very quickly. Prom time is very deadly nation wide for kids being killed.
Maybe gas should be $5 a gallon, it would final take some cars off the roads and Hwys. My wifes brother in law in So Cal said they are seeing less traffic with the high cost of gas. Most from kids not being out just driving to be driving.
However, I sure am hoping the price will keep going down. If not, it could hurt our travel plans, not to mention the economy of the nation.
DesertHawk
Reformed Speeder Long Time Back