![]() 08/19/2013 at 16:48 • Filed to: Fastest Car | ![]() | ![]() |
So, Casper started a nice conversation friday about fast cars we have owned , driven , etc...which led me to pose this question...What's the fastest car you have actually touched. Lots of people have been in the presence of fast cars , but often can't get close enough to make contact. I consider myself lucky to have touched the Summers's brothers LSR car Goldenrod, back when I was on the state fair circuit. Also , I've ridden shotgun in a nitrous injected ZR1, but that's another story...
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fastest car I've been in and touched are the same: McLaren SLR
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This:
It was in a Sam's Club parking lot
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That would have to be the Ford GT.
EDIT: Nevermind, it was an Ariel Atom 300
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At the Swap Shop in Ft. Lauderdale
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Got to sit in this one once. The guy lives around the corner from me.
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To be honest, I don't quite remember. All I remember is that I sat in quite a few really fast cars when I was a kid. I think one of them may or may not have been an F1 car, possibly belonging to the unsuccessful Jaaaaag team.
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My mistake, A Veyron at Braman Motors in Miami.
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No pics, but I got to fuck around with a 70 GTO funny car that ran 5 second quarters when I was 13. I got to sit in it and make sure the throttle didn't get stuck!
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I don't generally touch cars, I'm always afraid the alarm goes nuts. I remember having done so with an Unipower GT and earlier, with a Ford StreetKa, though.
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Touched two of this bad boys at the Pagani Factory. One was the car on Top Gear receiving a service and the other was " run of the mill ".
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HPD ARX-03a LMP1 car in AMLS. Got to touch it during the Baltimore GP last year. Granted at the time I didn't know anything about racing, so I didn't know if it was a P1, P2, or PC car.
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I've touched a Murcielago...MP4-12C Spider...959... I think the Murcielago has the highest claimed top speed of those, but they're all just above the 200mph mark.
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I've touched a couple of F1 cars. Ooh, and a pair of Porsche 917s at Goodwood!
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458 Italia at Disney. I only got it up to 120 or so, but it was on a track, and a lot of fun.
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Lucky fuck! Just the passenger seat?
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hope I get to go to Goodwood someday...
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The ZXX or the FXX?
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No the center seat! He would have taken me for a ride too, but he had an appointment unfortunately.
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I also did see an S7, FXX, Enzo, F40, Bugattis, a Michael Schumacher F1 Ferrari and a ton of other exotics at The Celebration Exotic Car festival a couple of years ago, but I didn't touch them. I try not to touch other people's cars when I'm at car shows, and I've taught my kids the same.
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I think it's probably this. I just got to sit in it though.
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Supercharged Audi R8 V10
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ZXX
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I got sit in an NSX at a C&C gathering once.
It was awesome.
I'm not sure if I would count it, but at a different C&C gathering, I accidentally bumped my head on the interior of the driver side door of an SLS AMG.
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I gingerly stroked this car's rear right fender once.
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that counts.
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That's a beautiful car. I love that color on it too.
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i'm with you. I was a kid when I saw the Goldenrod at the fair and the guy running the exhibit let me touch it without my asking .
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Fictional... The Batmobile.
Real: The top fuel dragster I was rubbing all over at the car show this weekend. 0-300 in a quarter mile is pretty speedy.
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Is this in California?
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This is the fastest (or at least most performance oriented) car I've ridden in
I've sat in an old Indy car too.
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I got to touch this vehicle at speed week when speaking to one of the mechanics.
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my favorite part of an NHRA event is the pits . you can get up-close to everything !
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Man, I am envious! That's a dream car for sure, especially in "chrome" orange!
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Ferrari F430 Spyder (Spider?) I drove in Maranello! Granted It was only for 10 min and I was not allowed to left-foot brake... Still though, the nice Italian gentleman who accompanied me (read: non english speaking rental company chaperone.) made me stop in the middle of a highway so I could test the launch control! I did 0-155kph with my foot slammed all the way to the floor, V8 screaming through the gears behind me. Best 10 min of my life. Anyway, its the F430 or a Bently Continental GTC (didn't get to drive that one...)
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The opposite, I touched the Original first Mercedes at a car show.
There was no one around, and I reached over and touched it.
It now has my fingerprint on it.
I believe it was the first time they showed the 2009 Mercedes F-cell.
But my fastest car ?
Probably a 86' Corvette or a 65' Mustang .
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Touched it's nose. Boop!
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Same here Bugatti Veyron in Chicago.
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Nope. Scottsdale, Arizona. He hasn't driven it in a while. He did pick this one up a few years ago: