What Was The Fastest Car You Ever Owned

Splitpair

For me it was a 1970 Hemi Orange GTX 440 CI with two 4 BBL Carter carbs on a modified 413 CI cross-ram manifold.

The manifold came out of my New Yorker which my GF totaled out while trying to knock over a palm tree, she was on her way home from a party and had a tad too much to drink and the palm tree in my front yard got in her way.

This is what the GTX looked like but mine didn’t have that popup hood scoop, they constantly failed to work so I replaced the hood with one off of a Roadrunner I was parceling out.

This is what that manifold looked like installed on a 413.

randavis

This is mine. I’m the original owner. It now has a 511 cu. in. engine. It has turned 12.76 seconds in a ¼ mile on street tires and pump gas. I still have it. At the current time, the engine is being rebuilt after a roller lifter failed. I’m waiting on custom pushrods.

Sparkchaser

Hmmm? Now if you asked what was the slowest.
Never got in to fast. Thinking back on it, I was mostly interested in cheap and cheap to run. 😀

Splitpair

randavis

What is that 69 or so?

PL1

I was going to say 1970. I had one of these at one point in my life. I bought it for $300. It had a 383 Magnum without the original carb. The body was in rough condition, but it was fast as Hell!! The friend I bought from told me to rev it up to 5000 RPM and slap the shifter into drive. It lifted the front end off the ground. Then it was up and down as I tried to recover. 😁

Splitpair

PL1 The friend I bought from told me to rev it up to 5000 RPM and slap the shifter into drive.

That’s a good way to blow out a planetary.

PL1

Splitpair That’s a good way to blow out a planetary.

I definitely should have known better, the friend who I bought it off of told me to do it. ☺️ I was young and dumb.

Somewhat-Reticent

PL1 Hopefully we learn from the mistakes we survive.

Splitpair

PL1 I definitely should have known better, the friend who I bought it off of told me to do it.

While I have never done that before I have done some dumb things that have left me wondering why am I still alive.

I used to own a strip of 5 warehouses, 2 of which I used as private automotive shops., one summer evening a couple of friends and I managed to complete getting a 426 Hemi shoehorned into the engine compartment of a 67 Dodge Dart, we didn’t have the exhaust system built yet but wanted to take it for a test drive anyway.

So with one guy following me and a friend riding along we rolled out and took it for a ride on Perimeter Road on the north side of Ft Lauderdale International Airport.

The run out was reasonably uneventful on the way back to the warehouse I nailed the Hemi to the floor, the hood slightly raised up and something just wasn’t correct, I went to slow down and the brake pedal went to the floor with a hard left approaching, I needed to slow down or end up out in the sticks or on the SCL tracks.

I moved the car to the left and used the chain link fence surrounding the airport to slow the car down to a stop, I yelled for the guy behind me to push the car back to the end warehouse slowly.

We manually pushed the Dart into the warehouse and locked the OHD, one of my other friends yelled the fuzz is everywhere, se we backed my car into the other warehouse and closed the door with us inside. The office was air conditioned so we hung out there for the rest of the night finishing off a case of Budweiser then sleeping in chairs or on the couch.

Next morning we walked around, the coast was clear so we plied into my car and went to Lester’s for breakfast, turning east on to Perimeter Road we noticed about ¾ miles of fencing was wrecked, fabric ripped and torn with the posts bent sideways.

Back at the warehouse we opened the north unit and checked out the Dart, it was totaled, the drivers side was shredded, the left front fender and bumper was pushed back into the tire, the radiator was pushed back into the fan turning both into scrap metal.

What got my attention was the master brake cylinder and booster where bent outward partially off the firewall, the home made engine mounts had torn lose from the K-Member and the engine rolled within the engine compartment.

Oh well, the following weekend we recovered the engine, transmission battery and stuff and the rest was off to the junk yard where I got a whopping $15 for the Dart.

That was almost a $300 dollar error and probably would have been much more if I had gotten caught for wrecking the fence.

No more A bodies for me.

Milo_DeTeckel

In May 2019 I took delivery of a 2019 Corvette Z06 Convertible and I sold it in May 2024.

On July 2, 2025 my Cobra replica was delivered by a car shipper from Ohio.

The Corvette Z06 Convertible was the fastest car I ever owned and the Cobra replica is the most fun car I have ever owned. The Cobra replica has the largest engine on any car I ever owned at 504.8 cubic inches.

“No car has been more revered for the ability to kill its owners than the AC Cobra and the series of replicars that have been built in its image.”

takeahike

Splitpair

I have this on my rear bumper.

HFB1217

The Best Beast there was and She was My Beast
Bought it used not new but she was still a Fine Machine.

Splitpair

HFB1217 Bought it used not new but she was still a Fine Machine.

That’s a B body, which was also used for the Super Bee, Road Runner and GTX.

The real nice thing about the Hemi Charger was it could be ordered with a plain hood and single color paint scheme making it a real sleeper, at one time I has a 69 Charger 440 in Midnight Black and a GTX in Hemi Orange, which I removed the 383 and replaced it with a 440 utilizing a double 4 bbl crossover intake manifold.

The only real problem with the B bodies was they where light in the a**, I came up with a way to solve that by welding front sway bars pulled from Plymouth Fury’s installed reversed and connected to the Unibody frame and rear axle shock pads, that literally moved the center of gravity rearward under acceleration providing better traction.

Now for some reason a lot of guys installed extensions on the rear leaf springs which jacked up the a** of the vehicle, it made the vehicle look different, but actually pushed the center of gravity forward increasing the traction problems.

Back when, on a regular basis I and my GF and some friends would go out the the Hollywood speedway next the the Snortatorium on Friday nights and take turns running one of my Road Runners down the quarter mile, I never documented how many other B bodies I blew the doors off of Drag Racing but it had to be in the hundreds.

Even stranger was my Road Runner, it had a automatic transmission which confused a number of 4 speed manual guys, who I outran.

That turned into a nice little side business of selling modified rebuilt automatics or valve bodies which combined with a high stall torque converter would always beat a 4 on the floor every time.

GadgetsRme

When I got back from ’Nam I bought a ’71 4dr Impala 350 cu in. I rented a slot in the hobby shop on base. I put $1200 (1972) dollars worth of parts and machining into it. I ended up with a “Your Daddy’s car” that would seriously kick some butt. I tried to find the top end going across Kansas and gave up when the power poles started looking like a picket fence. The speedometer needle was down behind the dash fascia trying to beat itself to death.

Splitpair

GadgetsRme When I got back from ’Nam I bought a ’71 4dr Impala 350 cu in. I rented a slot in the hobby shop on base. I put $1200 (1972) dollars worth of parts and machining into it. I ended up with a “Your Daddy’s car” that would seriously kick some butt. I tried to find the top end going across Kansas and gave up when the power poles started looking like a picket fence. The speedometer needle was down behind the dash fascia trying to beat itself to death.

The vehicle you described was what I would call a sleeper. Along that line I purchased a couple of 1970 Plymouth Fury . ones that where surplus from the Plantation Police Department dirt cheap, they wouldn’t run because both had stripped out the nylon nubs on the timing chains, a very common problem with the 440’s factory chains, the nylon nubs where used to reduce noise which with a 440 sure as heck didn’t matter.

I replaced both chains with after-markets and sold one of the Fury’s to a friend for enough to cover my costs.

They where a basic beige color so I and some friends who knew body work way better than I did removed the police decals and repainted both of them.

For a vehicle that heavy they where impressively fast and real nice to drive, what I referred to as a poor mans Caddy.

Then one night I had some a-hole in a Ford Pinto going the opposite way on SW 31st Ave off of Davie toss a beer bottle that bounced off my windshield leaving a crack in the glass, we did a fast U-turn and decided to have some fun.

Now my friend I sold the other Fury to and I had installed Pre-Progress Line 100 watt GE low band (35.14 KHz) two-way radios in our cars allowing us to communicate for well over two counties, back then there where no cell phones, so I applied for and was granted a FCC license on 35.14.

I called him and it turned out he was just leaving his home for the night and was only a few blocks away from where I was pursuing the the Pinto and he joined in.

The driver of the Pinto realized he made a bad mistake and started to try to get away from us, (not happening with a Pinto and 440 Fury I), he was driving West on Riverland Road to 441, then South to head West on St Rd 84, a real dumb move.

He got up to 75 or so West bound in 84 and I slowly made contact with his rear bumper then hit the gas, I got him up to around 100 or so, knerfed him to the left and off he went into the Sawgrass, way out into the Sawgrass, a rather mucky and skin slicing walk back to 84 to find a way back home.

That was a lesson learned, don’t toss beer bottled at other peoples cars.

GadgetsRme

Splitpair
Yeppers nylon on the timing gear was one of the things that went bye-bye. What was really nice about that car after all that work was when Colorado instituted the annual emissions test it still passed. If they had ever done a compression test on that engine they would have been in for a surprise. The original was a low compression engine at 160psi. When I got done with it ……. 210psi. I ran Sunoco 120 in it when I was in Missouri. I also had to replace the transmission later because the stock tranny couldn’t stand the gaff. I never had to do any mod’s to the body. I had a lot of fun messing with people’s minds with that car.

takeahike

I never had a supercar but my fastest one was my ’06 Infiniti G35. It had a 280 horsepower 3.5 liter V6. It was certainly faster than the first new car my parents ever bought, a ’65 Plymouth Belvedere II with a 225 CID Slant 6, a dud if there ever was one. Since the Infiniti was kind of a gift for her and has now been sold every time we see one while we’re going anywhere my GF sheds a tear. 😢

'06 Infiniti G35

'65 Plymouth Belvedere II

knot

GadgetsRme I had a 71 2 door impala with the 400 badged engine. The engine was actually a 402 big block GM built from the 396. It was a sleeper beast of a car.

urbanriot

Splitpair 1966 Chevy Nova. I have Polaroid pics of it, Polaroid pics of me leaning against it with my arms crossed and a cigarette in my mouth like the coolest guy on the block, but I’m too heartbroken to take them out of a shoebox of photos upstairs because it was smashed up outside of my ability to control. I will never own a car that I loved as much as that car for the rest of my life and in my mind it was the fastest car I’ve ever driven or driven against.

Splitpair

urbanriot I will never own a car that I loved as much as that car for the rest of my life and in my mind it was the fastest car I’ve ever driven or driven against.

Never say never, you just might find another to spend some time on.

I just bought a 69 Road Runner up in Ohio, the owner inherited it from his late Grandfather, he thought he hit a goldmine and was asking $10K for the car, The photographs of it looked nice so I drove up there with the intent to rent a car hauler and tow it back.

What I found was a car full of Bondo with a almost rusted out unibody and the engine and transmission where behind the car sitting on the floor, he had gold all right fools gold, I offered him $1500 he said he would think about so I gave him my phone number and went back to the hotel PO’ed I drove that far for nothing.

The next morning having checked out he called me and accepted the offer, I rented a trailer and hauled the engine and transmission home, the car was supposed to be delivered last week, but to save money I accepted to be put on a waiting list with the car transport company, it will get here some day when the have a open slot on a truck.

It’s going to be a real BB to restore properly but it will be worth the money to do properly, I just need to find a shop where I can rent a space to work, I do welding, but that restoration will need a real professional welder, as my luck goes my next door neighbor runs a mobile welding company and will do the work between jobs and a very fair price, the only other person I need to find is a real good paint and body man who can shape and tack weld in sheet metal so all the Bondo can be removed, that person I am still searching for.