Bullet Bob wrote:

It wasn't a blue 66 fastback was it?

BB

no I'm pretty sure it was a 65 with white stripes!!!   

Honestly, 176 is hard to believe.  It seems to indicate a gross misunderstanding of what it takes to achieve those speeds.  Most people think that if you just throw enough HP at a car it will go as fast as you want.  Truth is the aerodynamics on these cars are horrible, and they are always drag limited much more so than power limited.  Even with a pretty serious engine making say 700HP I don't see speeds over 150 being very realistic.  Keep in mind the Cobras couldn't break that speed, light as they were and with all the power tricks they could throw at a 427.  The Daytona Coupes were an aerodynamic evolution to allow the concept to run faster than 150.  It would be interesting to see a Cobra in a wind tunnel, but I have to believe that it has considerably less frontal area than a Mustang.  Then there's the air under the car and the potential to literally lift the car right off the road at speed.  Yeah, I call BS on this.  I'm filing it with the stories about street cars pulling the front wheels off the ground, and the car with the $100 bill taped to the dash. 

Saw a documentary a while back on the Flying Mile. They profiled a team with a Fox bodied mustang with a supercharged Windsor. They were overdriving the blower to make 30psig, effectively making a hand grenade motor, plus wearing out a blower belt each one way run. By the time they had the engine tuned up to the max they were down to one blower belt. The driver made two hundred mph plus very small change, but with no blower belt for a return run they did not receive an official time. The car owner told the camera that with different blower pulleys, the Fox body was a daily driver. It's a good story.

Hmmmmmmmmmm. If I can "wring"50mph out of 1st gear.....then 5X50=????
Sorry........I can see hood and fenders flying off  before top end is reached!!!
6s6

terry wrote:

I guess you doubters need to read this

http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/videos/a25836/hennessey-mustang-breaks-200-mph/

probably could have gone faster if it was more aerodynamically pleasing............

terry wrote:

I guess you doubters need to read this

http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/videos/a25836/hennessey-mustang-breaks-200-mph/

A late model car from a tuner known for building insane cars.  Not surprising at all.  BUT, also not what we're talking about here.  Aerodynamically the '65 Mustang in question is significantly worse than that car.  It took 774HP to get that car to break 200.  It would take a lot more to get a '65 to do that, and that's assuming it didn't flip right off the road from the lack of downforce before you got to that speed.  Its not a question of impossible; its a question of extremely unlikely. 
 

Hey TKO, I'm confused. Where did it say anything about a 65 doing 208?

What's this about a blue '66 fastback?  

But... that's what we do BEST !!

We're car guys. That's what we do !!!

Okay, so the body is probably capable of it.  The question then is power.  From some searching it seems the top speed for the GT is somewhere in the 160MPH range, possibly the more specialized cars (GT500, etc.) could push it further.  Obviously there's aftermarket parts that could be added on top of that too.  The question becomes does it run out of RPM before it can hit 208MPH?  I would imagine it isn't going to pull top gear, and the rear gear is probably such that it maxes out RPM before it hits that speed, in which case power is irrelevant; it just gets to to the top speed faster.  It would seem to me that the car would have to be purpose built for maximum top speed, which is counter to how most people build a fast street car.  It does seem more believable now that we know it was a newer body style.  BUT, still pretty sure that at the least a decent lawyer could make mincemeat out of the cop's story and get this guy off.