It’s ridiculous to get a ticket going 5mph over the speed limit, unless it is a school zone.

Only had one. 63 in 50, Frisco Tx. 1995. Just didnt get off the long pedal in time.

But there was the time my junior year. Almost got a good one, but his DPD 1966 Ford was no match for my 327 powered 57 Bel Aire.

94 in a 35 for me.

Was making a test hit on a remote county road in my hotrod and just happened to have a deputy come over the hill as I let off the throttle. IIRC the fine was around $500, no option for differed or defensive driving.

My first I think was 13 over in a 35 mph zone. I was 2 weeks into driving. Last time I was pulled over was 87 in a 70 and got a warning coming home from a buddies ranch.

Never had one either. Plenty of warnings though.

Oklahoma is stupid.

Texas is prima facie speed law.

Oklahoma is stupid.

Oklahoma is absolute speed law.

Oklahoma is stupid.

In Oklahoma if you’re doing the posted speed limit, but in a construction zone with workers present, or on a wide open highway yet there’s a slight drizzle, or on a busy highway on a bright Sunny dry day, it’s your responsibility to slow down.

Oklahoma is stupid.

The posted speed limit is the absolute fastest you can drive, and it better be perfect conditions.

Texas is prima facie speed law, if you can justify the speed you’re going, then you have a chance to beat the ticket in court because the officer has to justify that your speed was too fast for the road and given conditions.

Oklahoma is stupid.

People in oklahome cannot drive either for the record. Good god they do not get it. 35mph getting on 75 in Colbert is not a good idea.

I got pulled over doing 85 on the Indian nation turnpike a few years back. The officer got me out of my truck and sat me down in his patrol car and proceeded to give me a tongue lashing. He asked me what would happen if I was driving 10 mph over the speed limit in Texas. I told him that I'd probably get run over if I was only going 10 over in Texas. I didn't get a warning on that one.

Arizona Indian Nation. I had a [censored]-n-git, 348 cubes, Chevy. Bet a Navajo cop I knew that he couldn’t catch me. I proved that I was right. He had better sense to take the mountain roads like I did.

I now cringe when I think about that.

148 in I believe a 55. It was 35e north of Main St in the early 1990s. Beat the ticket in court.

Since I worked in the performance aftermarket for a very long time I have driven some unbelievable cars. Got clocked at 207 by an officer on 635 going west towards the airport while tuning a car. The officer let me go without a ticket because we were in Governor Bill Clements Ferrari bb512 that we had built and installed a twin turbo system for. It had an aftermarket market fuel injection system on it that we were tuning. Prior to chassis dynos coming along you had to use the road for a dyno with one person driving and another person in the passenger seat on the computer.

My personal best on a public highway in a car that I own is 226 verified with GPS, a data logging system that uses an accelerometer, and an old CK10 radar gun. I have personally clocked a car at 271mph on hwy 635 before it became a double decker road.

The worst ratio speed to posted limit ticket I got wasn't for speeding, it was for exhibition of acceleration and unlawful speed contest. That was in about 1995 on Trinity Rd., west of Beltline in Irving near an old skating rink. I was likely doing 100+ in a 35 but it was a non-residential street with no traffic in the middle of the night. Still unsafe.

We then headed east on Shady Grove towards the Dallas line where SG turns into Regal Row for the next hot spot. Got stopped at SG and Loop 12 for improper stop (cop said I stopped 12" past the white stripe). LEO admitted writing that ticket because of what kind of car I was driving.

Three tickets in the matter of 20 minutes.

I have a list somewhere of all the DFW spots we used to hit back then.

Not me but I had a friend in high school who got one for 101 in a school zone......

The roads in Oklahoma are so bad I don't see how people speed.

One morning driving I79 in WV I was a little late for work and highway was empty so I decided to see if I could peg the speedo on the Gran Torino. Headed down a big hill and looked my rear view mirror. There was a county mountie 10' off my bumper just as I hit 120. Not sure where he came from because I had passed the last on ramp several miles back. I am guessing he was running a parallel state hwy and saw me. I slowed to about 60. Speed limit then was 55. He followed for about a mile and then jumped in front of me and exited at a weigh station. Hit the blue lights once. I decided not to follow him into the weigh station. He got back on the highway and came up beside me. His partner flashed me a double 5 hand signal. I gave him the ok signal and he went on. I told the story to a buddy who was a county deputy. He explained that the interstates in that area are state trooper domain and they have told the county mounties to stay off them. He also told me that he could have gotten me out of a ticket.

How many people were able to out run the cop and get away with it?

Back before it became a felony in TX to run from the police I did it on a pretty regular basis. After they made it a felony I stopped doing it. Having cars that could easily hit 200mph in a mile from a dead stop made running pretty easy. All of my friends and I were prolific street racers and running from the law was simply a part of that.

My funniest running from the police story was out in Mesquite. There was an officer running radar in the middle of the night back when there was Zero traffic on 635 in the middle of the night so I doubled back, got my car up to about 185 miles an hour and zoomed past him. I then went home and changed cars and did the same thing again. Then I went home and grabbed a motorcycle that was also really fast and did it once more. Keep in mind that the fastest police cars on the road in that era were the 5 L Fox body Mustangs that on a good day with a slight tailwind and a slight downhill run could hit 148 miles an hour if there weren't lights on top of the car. If there were lights on the roof of the car it slowed down by about 15 mph top speed. The Crown Vics of the era would run slightly over 120 mph while the Caprese Classics that had the LT1 engines would run in the high 130s and usually had better brakes than any of the other police cars on the road. I learned that if a trooper in a 5 L Mustang was chasing you all you had to do was stand on the brakes two or three times and at that point he had no brakes left because the ones on his car were overheated and then you would simply make a turn and go back the other way.

After the first fast and furious movie hit the movie theaters all of my friends and I became disillusioned with the new street racing scene that that movie prompted and we changed what we were doing.

In 1976 I had a Dodge Challenger blow by me at a high speed and I tried catching him in my 1970 El Camino. I came to a passing lane on a hill and went to pass a car while going 110 mph. As I went past the car, I could finally see that it was a highway patrol. I immediately let off the gas and got ready to go to jail after being pulled over. Much to my surprise the highway patrol car never came after me or the Dodge Challenger. The Challenger had to be going 130 mph because he was running away from me easily. We do stupid things when we are young and luckily, we lived through them.

My one and only speeding ticket I got was in 1986 and I was going 72 in a 60-mph zone on highway 84 outside of Snyder as I was coming home from a ski trip in Toas NM. Haven`t had a ticket since.

I’m sure glad I asked about speeding tickets. Some great stories showed up - unclebubba and blkt2 for SURE.

105 in a 55 back in the day. Was doing 112-116 just a few seconds before that. I’ve driven that road several hundred times and got popped three times, my average mph was 32 over.

Knock on wood haven’t had a ticket in 14 yrs.

Fastest I’ve been on a public highway was 155 between Dalrock and Bass Pro, not a soul on the road other than me and the passenger, and he screamed for his life like a sissy.

He was the same one that screamed like a girl when we hit 85mph in my SxS.

I was racing a slowish 5.0 on Lewisville Main Street in about 1994 way on the west end. Got to St. Philip's church and two Lewisville cops were sitting at the light that was red. We both locked 'em up but I was so far ahead I slid through the intersection into Flower Mound. I looked in the mirror and saw them surround the Mustang so I floored it, turned right up there somewhere near Timbercreek Elementary and made my way back to Rocky Point/407 area via Flower Mound. Put the car in my girlfriend's (now wife) parents' garage (they were out of town), and laid low for a while.



I've done 138 between North Loop 288 and the Love's station and 133 between St. Jo and Nocona on 82 where it's flat and straight for a couple miles. It's been a long time and all I have to think about is the front u-joint breaking, losing a tire, or an animal running in front of me to make me slow down.



We should start a new thread about all the old '90's racing spots in DFW.

70 in a 40 in 1975. Last one. I've been stopped a few times but they let me slide cause they knew me.

Seven ticket stops in the past 20 years and my chl has gotten me a warning on all seven. Seems the LEO just wants to talk guns. Bores my wife to death lol.