I'm curious as to what the scariest, by scary I mean fast not heap of crap, ride you people have been in. I've been in 13 second Camaros, 12 second Camaros, a mid 12 second Evo, Corvettes, and other misc. cars. My scariest was this one guy's silver 67 Dart. 340 punched to 380 something inches, roller cam, big single plane manifold, big carb, prolly 10.5-11.5 to one, aluminum heads of some sort. Gutted interior, everything was light. Seats, cage, suspension, rear. It was a mid 10 second MOTOR car. Then there was an NOS plate kit he didn't use yet. I was lucky enough to get a ride in it in October of 2005. We accelerated from 0 to about 3 times the posted speed limit of 35 in about 1000 feet. I'm trying to stay out of trouble by not saying a speed. We got to Dunkin Donuts where we were going and when I got out, I couldn't stand I was shaking so much. Then on the way back, I got a ride in a white 67 which was equally fast. The best part of the night was pulling up to 2 blondes in an Integra and watching these girls laugh at us we sat at a light waiting to turn with the lump of the cam shaking the car. It was hard to sleep that night because I knew that this was one of things I will tell my kids about until the day I die.

 

a ride in my friend's 10 second Mercury Capri (doesn't look like much...but FAST)

 

Too late ... 3 x the posted speed is blatant reckless driving:impatient

IB4TL

BTW, "scary" is relative. SCARY is driving on a two-lane in the mountains, tail comes loose AT the speed limit because of gravel on the road ... 3000' Granite mountain to the right. 3000' foot DROP to the left, no guardrail and you pull a 360 ending up 14" sideways from a fiery death in the valley below.

You get to learn the Almighty real quick right about then and respect speed limits.

Riding in ANY drag car is nothing compares to inches from instant death.

 

^^ true...however, it was "scary" how fast the capri actually went at the track considering the fact that it is a CAPRI!

Not exactly a car I would consider doing a 1/4 mile in ~10 seconds at about 132 mph...

 

The scariest ride for me was at a track, Spring Mountain with a fellow PDX driver in his nearly full race prepared S2000. After the first lap to warm up the tires, he scared the livin snot out of me coming into a tight off-camber 2nd gear left turn hot off a 110+ sweeper. The back end twitched loose and all I could see was the concrete barrier. He was good though, pulled it out and mashed the throttle again for the next short straight. He continued to scare the crap out of me for the next 20 minutes...

Since then, I believe he had it measured and if I remember correct it pulls about 1.2 g in the corners......

 

780 rear wheel HP supercharged Viper GTS Coupe. Never again will I ride

 

Mallory Park, Leicestershire, UK.

Twin-Turbo Ultima on slicks - apparently pushing 900+ hp, stuck to the road like you would not believe. Brakes to die for and more acceleration than I thought was possible.

Warm-up and installation lap was bloody scary, the five 'fliers' where way off the scale.

 

I would have to say it was a toss up between a '64 289 AC Shelby Cobra and a '65 TVR Griffith 289. Awesome cars in their day.

The TVR was downright squirrely.

 

My scariest was not a car but a bike. And the scary part was I was not the driver but the passenger. It was a 3 cylinder Kawasaki 2 stroke back in the 70's. The driver was crazy and we travelled from Auburn AL to Chattanoga TN to pick up another bike at way too high a speed for the two land roads we were on. Never again!

 

F-16 Fighter Jet.

9 G's.

1.2 x The Speed of Sound.

27,000 Pounds of Thrust.

 

Compared to that.....I've got nuthin'!
My most fun ride was in a '62 Ferrari 250 GTO at Sears Point. I thought they sounded great from the outside, but INSIDE!!!!
Jim

 

Okay, I think that probably says it! Thanks for serving our country!

 

My little 315hp M Coupe could be pretty scary, it just never stopped pulling and had some fun handling.

Any moto ride has to be the scariest though, it feels terribly fast and can fall over and crush you to boot

 

I wasn't a pilot during my 23-year Air Force career, just had the privilege to ride in and fly the F-16 one time. I have a long post about the event in this thread if anyone is interested:

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ad.php?t=86273

And my scariest on-the-ground ride:

7-Series Bimmer on the Autobahn... glanced over at the speedo once and saw 310 kph. I don't mind driving a car that fast, but being a passenger with no control is not a good feeling.

And thanks, oldtrojan66... for your appreciation.

 

I'm jealous of the F-16 ride.

Anyway - back on topic - scariest ride of my life - when my not-yet-father-in-law decided that I should drive his beautiful Austin Healy 3000 back from picking up a pizza. For those of you who have never driven one - apparently reverse is down and slightly to the left - about where you might think second gear would be if you didn't know better. Man that's a bad noise.

He still let me marry his daughter and laughs about it to this day. LOL!

 

1970 VW van with 6 passengers taking a turn at 15 mph.

 

LOL I feel you man!!!

 

Now THAT really conjures up some mental images.

 

Ha! I had a '72 VW Van that I could put into a drift on a dirt road sweeper. I think I may have scared a passenger or two doing that!

 

space mountain...

 

This year at Buttonwillow in my friend's 997 GT3 - sick car.

 

1975 Yamaha TZ-750 at Daytona. Inline four cylinder two stroke road race bike. I thought the clutch was slipping coming off the banking onto the front straight when I shifted to fifth gear and getting ready for sixth. I was okay with it until they told me it was "just spinning the back wheel". I tried to play it off, didn't work.

 

My '05 Mustang GT @145+
I don't know the full number, I ran out of dial.
(don't block my post yet, read the next paragraph.)

The scary part and the thing that will prevent me from
ever doing it again... If caught I AM going to JAIL!!!
And I think I would also like to keep my car.
(ok now you can block it)

Scariest (not because of breaking the law) was an '86
Integra I owned, it has twice spun out of control in rainy
weather under the speed limit. The scariest time was on
an embankment at less than 35 mph. I did a 720 spin, it
felt like the whole thing was in slow motion.

What do you do the 1st time you see the driver behind
you? Nothing you are too busy panicking. What do you do
the 2nd time? You realized by now there's nothing you
can do so, you wave. They waved back. It was a miracle
my car didn't slide into the thick oncoming traffic or into
the wall.

 

You are a much braver man than I !!
Remember they had that engine in a Flat Track bike,too!! YIPES!!
Jim

 

OK, you win ... pilot or not

9 Gs? Arent you like blacked out by then

When I think about this, although I saw death on the 3000' drop spinning the MR2 Turbo in Colorado, it happened so fast and everything in slow motion probably the Longest scariest ride was on ........

The Mighty Mouse roller coaster as a kid. Stupid wheels of the roller coaster were tucked intight and it looked JUST like the car was going to tip over on every turn. Several people died everywhere because they just had to stand up in front and got thrown out ... scared the crap out of a kid.

if we're talking cars other than .... death. I guess I was 15, no license, took a ride in a "big kids" (like early twenties) Hemi Roadrunner with open headers. Not only did the ground shake like an earthquake but THAT was when I understood what the word "understeer" meant since the beast couldn't handle any corner. that was the day I realized massive acceleration meant squat at the first corner and although I craved a Muscle car ... it was sportscars for me.