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300+ MPH street driven Record Holder
Some years ago, Mark @ Luhn Performance, his wife Jill, and I went to the Victoria Texas Area to watch John Clegg, a Pontiac Racer, try to run 200 mph with his RAT GOAT (Pure Pontiac Power - 1964 Lemans body).
The car was powered by a large Vortech Supercharger. He ran about 196 MPH. Skip Fix was also at the Texas Mile. So Johns car probably weighed 3600 lbs with him in the car. (There was a Ford GT Sports Car with twin Turbos that ran 287 mph on the Texas Mile the same day. So I see where recently (last few days) where a similar Ford GT race car set a new MPH record at the NASA Space Center in Florida. More info in a bit. Tom V. https://www.foxnews.com/auto/florida...ecord-mph-ford 310.08 mph with twin turbos 331 cid
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Wow, and the body looks mostly stock without lots of aerodynamic mods.
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Danny Thompson will tell you that having a properly sized front chin spoiler will have a
difference. He flipped a Ford Mustang over on its back at Bonneville one year at 265 mph. https://www.fordgt500.com/threads/ho...-mustang.8132/ 310 is scary fast. But a much better body shape vs a Mustang Tom V.
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