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Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: vaz on June 22, 2006, 22:46:11
believe it or not mine was an austin princess  2200  and it went round the clock while i had it  :lol:
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: blackbob on June 22, 2006, 22:49:00
could do a ton in the westminster down the rigate m25 sliproad before they completed the m25  :lol:
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: jjsaul on June 22, 2006, 22:50:48
are we on about mileage or speed here....

both our LR's are well over 100k

and ive had 96 ish out of the RRC on the *cough* private road ;) *cough*
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: vaz on June 22, 2006, 22:53:22
no speed mate princess died a rattaly death shortly after :lol:  :lol:
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: ben_haynes on June 22, 2006, 22:59:48
My own vehicle or a company car

first ever was a Company car Fiat punto 1.2 8v

and

My own was a 1.1 rover metro 4 speed
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: Edge on June 22, 2006, 23:04:31
B*W 320, used to think they were good cars......then i saw the light. Something went wrong with the accelerator, didnt speed on purpose.
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Post by: v8kenny on June 22, 2006, 23:58:33
My mate's Dad's Lotus Elan..........that he built himself.................................in a shed......................... :shock:
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: ritchiea2005 on June 23, 2006, 00:42:48
Honda crx horrible bright green thing dont know what i was thinking :?
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: discograham on June 23, 2006, 01:18:33
probobly my hunter gt or humber sceptre... memory gets vague....
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: Jim-Willy on June 23, 2006, 02:46:43
Jeep Cherokee 4.0 Stealth
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: Manicminer on June 23, 2006, 06:18:09
My father's Austin 1300 Mot failure parked in the corner and forgotten about.
He turned his back for a minute and I took it for a spin. :shock:

I was 14 at the time and it took a long downhill straight to get up to speed.
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: p4203 on June 23, 2006, 07:07:52
matra simca bagheera my dads mate company car when i was a lad
 we thought it was cool . haven't seen one for years  :shock:
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: Frankie-Boy on June 23, 2006, 07:44:21
The first car I went to the ton in was a Supercharged Range Rover, It was only briefly and only a couple of weeks ago, what a car.  :wink:
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: rollazuki on June 23, 2006, 08:19:51
Kawasaki gpz305
so excited I did it again, and again, nearly hit the next roundabout, cos the brakes faded, top fun!
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: suzota on June 23, 2006, 08:24:22
my boss's bmw 3 series.

or my suzuki gt550 motorcycle.
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: Plum on June 23, 2006, 08:33:19
Me ole mans Hilman minx way back in the 70s through a place called Beverley Westwood in Beverley E/Yorkshire with all me mates in . . . . . as you do . . . . . . had to slow as the minx started to sound funny. . . .  then realised that the breaks wern't quite up to the job in them days . . . . . . ah well . . . . alls well that ends well. . . . . . Cheers. . . .
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: freeagent on June 23, 2006, 08:36:43
my old VW Jetta GT... still my favorite road car....
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: MK-90 on June 23, 2006, 09:54:57
My dads VW Passat company car while we took it back to the lease company.  He was in his new saab  8)  8)
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: Bush Tucker Man on June 23, 2006, 10:23:19
Whilst driving; the first time was probably in my dads Cavalier :oops:
Whilst passenger; 3.0 V6  Mk 1 Capri

Driving on private ground; 130+ (TVR Griffith)
Passenger on private ground; 165mph, in the wet :(scared):  (TVR Sagaris)

On 2 wheels; 130'-ish' pillion on a CBR600
On (unpowered) 2-wheels; 60mph* down East Chevin at Otley, & a similar speed down Holme-Moss :(scared):  :(bigshock):


*
Not the places to have a car pull out in front of you, but overaking them was fun:(biggrin):
Very accurate speedometers on bikes, if set up correctly, perhaps a discrepancy of less than a foot per mile?? (hence a similar accuracy for speed measurement)
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: MrTFWitt on June 23, 2006, 10:24:17
Austin Princess 1800 HLS, wound it up to 110 on the clock.

Surely that was in KMH M'lud ?

It too expired before I got it home, one of the push rods bounced out and I got to do my first head removal.

Sold it to my dad to pay for driving lessons and he wrote it off a week later.
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: Bishops Finger on June 23, 2006, 10:46:21
Cavalier mk2
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: WishIhadaLandy on June 23, 2006, 10:49:25
Haven't managed it yet, not that i'm trying really, but my fiesta has done the sunny side of 85 :)
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: DaveS on June 23, 2006, 11:23:34
Datsun Violet 160J SSS coupe (in Germany where it was legal) still got overtaken though!! :shock:
Previous motors never went that quick!
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: Mart on June 23, 2006, 11:30:19
MK2 fiesta XR2 can't say i've been past 120 that was in my RS1600i, our lass has done 145 passengerin in a mates skyline and that was when he had to slow down for a wagon pulling out without the NOS switched on 550bhp of jap rocket oh and it was a private road honest mr occifer
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: landroverkeith on June 23, 2006, 14:32:57
first car i owned that was capable of that was my subaru imprezza :) i lovedddd that car shame it loved the petrol far too much
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: Range Rover Blues on June 23, 2006, 14:38:53
Probably a Cossie, we used to get them up to 130 plus on the test track at Bassildon before the next corner.

Been in an Escort cossie flat out at 140 too.  What a hoot :D
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: Jimbo on June 23, 2006, 14:45:18
Escort 1300 petrol van - well, the clock said a ton !

Whilst on the subject of silly things done in the past, we used to leave Hemel on the A414, slip onto the M1 south, and then get out into lane 3 (outside lane) of the M1 south, before getting off 300 yds later onto the M10 south (having carved back across 3 lanes of the M1  :shock: ) - and this was usually in a convoy of 3 or 4 vans. Really funny then, but I'm amazed now that we never got nicked and/or hurt in a pile up !
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: HotShot on June 23, 2006, 14:56:07
Long time ago -
1st car, Capri RS3100
1st bike, Honda 750 F1
Best ever in a Landy [90], 93mph
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: Damonski on June 23, 2006, 16:32:36
White BMW 318i Automatic - E938 UBA got it to 120 on a track day
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: V8MoneyPit on June 23, 2006, 16:49:38
The first would have been my Rover SD1 3.5 V8 when I was 18. Then the MG Midget race car.

Fastest I've been as a passenger was about 160 in a Group B Peugeot 205 T16, scary! And the fastest I've driven would be about 150 in a Lotus Esprit around the test track, awesome!
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: MTyrrell on June 23, 2006, 17:25:04
The first car i did a ton in was works Peugeot 607 coming back from a site visit Germany, on the autoban of causee  :wink:
Title: 100
Post by: timberdog on June 23, 2006, 17:33:17
Morris Marina TC...he he those were the days
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: LOFTY on June 23, 2006, 17:45:57
My first car, and the car i did it in, was a Fiat 128 Rally, left hand drive import, 1.3 OHC, it would out corner a XR3.

Didnt look so good, when a artic came around a blind corner, on the wrong side of the road, and drove over the bonnet, tractor unit and trailer, pushed the engine into the tarmac.

Best bit of advice given to me by my girlfreinds mum (at the time) who taught me to drive, and sold me the Fiat 128 Rally,                                                  

"TREAT ALL OTHER ROAD USERS AS IDIOTS",

by which she means, "just because they indicate left, doesnt mean they wont turn right" and another good one, just because they are looking at you, doesnt mean they wont pull out infront of you" :shock:
Title: Re: 100
Post by: V8MoneyPit on June 23, 2006, 17:51:52
Quote from: "timberdog"
Morris Marina TC...he he those were the days


Ahhh..... that is what I aspired to when I bought the 1.3 Marina......NOT! Surprisingly fast, but they forgot to design it to go round corners  :lol:
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: j99mud on June 23, 2006, 18:01:35
as a passenger in germany, my dads volvo v70 T5 157mph now that was alot of fun but driving was 120mph in my dads renult espace  :D
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: Reaper on June 23, 2006, 18:17:47
100mph Hillam Avenger 1500 (A40)
124mph Mk2 Escort RS cosworth (track)
140mph Porsch 944 (German autobarn)
165mph Ferrari F40 (M4)

Now I stick to 70mph ish in my old age  :lol:  :wink:
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: mark.yellow.series.3 on June 23, 2006, 19:12:41
my Nova 1.3 sr, i had one before all the boy racers.
speed doesnt interest me now though.
but i was a passenger in my mates scooby prodrive, over a ton up a hill on country back roads, i thoght i was going to die that day, but what a car 8)
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: marjan on June 23, 2006, 19:38:11
Renault 21 GTS (1989).
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: bezzabsa on June 23, 2006, 21:20:31
1st Ford cortin Mk 4 1600 gl..(GFK 687T)
2nd Rover 418 gsd
fastest ever in car .. boss's merc 450 sel 6.9 litre - halesowen to bristol in 37 minutes  :shock: 150 average and 3/4's of a tank of juice!!
fastest on 2 wheels...erm dunno didnt have chance to look (over 140 tho'), been pillion on a busa doing 160 ish..
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: Berliner Beer on June 23, 2006, 22:13:11
Yugo 55a   E reg Down a long steep Hill
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: burgerman on June 23, 2006, 22:25:47
mk1 astra gte, great car for its day, but hidiously stupid to insure if you were a learner at eighteen :o


   Current highest speeed to date  184 mph     (used to work in an a aston martin dealership)   :D  :P  :P    this is all alledgally of course on private roads ect, :wink:
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: DaveDavies on June 24, 2006, 00:35:29
In my dads Capri as a learner - he fell asleep, it was a dual carriageway, no one on the road and it just happened  :D

He wasn't pleased when he woke and said how #@#@ fast we going [-(
Title: FIRST CAR YOU DID A TON IN ?
Post by: Evilgoat on June 24, 2006, 19:11:40
I got 102 out of the Volvo, private road of course, tailwind and downhill.

Only car not capable I've had is the zook.

Managed 157.6 on MIRAs test track in the audi, I didnt look t the MPG reading but I suspect it as something along the lines of -E-
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