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Re: How Fast Is Your Buick?

85+ ..... and it took awhile to get there
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Re: How Fast Is Your Buick?

I've got a couple cars that have some hold you in the seat action, but I'm not as brave as The Old Guy.
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Re: How Fast Is Your Buick?

Top speed is good but average speed is where my Buick excels.
Coming home from Seattle in the Riviera, we made it from Hot Springs SD to Grand Isle Ne in just a shade over 4 hours. I had the secondaries open and got 7 mpg on that run.
We took a day less then our friends to get home.
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Re: How Fast Is Your Buick?

My son and I were out test driving the Skylark a couple years ago on a long open stretch of South Dakota highway and had it up to 110. Then something went bang and smoke started to come out from under the car. First thought it was a blown tire but that wouldn't smoke. Broke the tranmission case completely in half on the TH 350. Never seen anything like it, scared the @#%@ out of us. In my younger years I had a 1969 Electra and I had the speedometer pegged out on that a couple time, it just floated along at over 120. Of course there was the GSX but that didn't have much top end, but it got to it very very fast.
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Re: How Fast Is Your Buick?

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There are many people that will debate whether it is "brave" or "stupid "
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Re: How Fast Is Your Buick?

I have had my regal turbo to 125 but they were built without speed rated tires so that was as fast as it would go .Everyone says they were faster than the Vette in 87 but this was true only only on the track,not on the highway unless you changed your chip. Norb
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Re: How Fast Is Your Buick?

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There are many people that will debate whether it is "brave" or "stupid "
Toe-may-toe, toe-mah-toe

Or perhaps a little from column A and a little from column B?

I'm too worried about breaking my toys to try to get them to go wicked fast (or is that stupid fast?).
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Re: How Fast Is Your Buick?

My modern cars show roughly 70 mph @ 2000 rpm (forgetting wind friction and speed limiters)
that would translate to 35 mph/1000 rpm.
4000 rpm = 140 mph
4500 rpm = 157 "
5000 rpm = 175 "
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Re: How Fast Is Your Buick?

Not a Buick but almost one: 1966 Toronado (new in 1966) 140 mph speedometer....Pegged for quite a distance on the Queen Elizabeth Highway between Fort Erie and Niagara Falls, Ontario. Never again, there may have been a bit of alcohol involved.
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Re: How Fast Is Your Buick?

are we talking only buick
as a kid
my 65 wildcat was toped out, of course at 16 we all had no fear,
i put a 87 z car together when i worked a body shop fram machine back in the late 80's as well
that one went 167 before i did something in my pants and backed out of it
the poles where going by to fast for me

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