160 MPH, is it possible

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160 MPH, is it possible

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In a stock Carrera Speedster?
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What's the rest of that 303 phone number. Is it still for sale? I'm in the buying mood. Don't care if won't go 160 mph
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no
160 kph = 99mph; yes

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Yes, if you drop it out of an airplane.
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It is on the speedo face, so must be true.

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Vic Skirmants wrote: Sun Dec 01, 2019 2:39 pm no
160 kph = 99mph; yes
Maybe he just knew more tricks than you Vic!
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Hah! Guess someone looked at the Carrera speedo, which goes to 160mph and made the assumption this was the top end for the car. I remember once, when mine was parked on a Manhattan street and I was nearby, a couple of guys looked through the side window and I overheard one tell his friend, "Man, this thing does 160mph!" Of course I didn't enlighten him.

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Yes and those poor muscle cars that could only go 85 mph.
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even if it could go 160mph, not sure I want to be in it at that speed!!!!
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My B had a 160 mph speedo in it, most people who saw it assumed it would go that fast. Some years later I heard it was purchased in order to get the speedo. It had the steel trans intermediate plate too, but I am pretty sure it wasn’t ever a C2. Makes me wonder about it’s history.
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I drove the Carrera Speedster after seeing an ad for it in about 1975 in the the Denver Post. I was most impressed by the lack of noise from the single oval outlet sport exhaust. The exhaust had a home-made oval baffle just inside the outlet. It had many 1/4 inch holes and was held in place with a couple of sheet metal screws so if you wanted to annoy your neighbors-- or go 160 mph--the baffle was easy to remove. I didn't have a screwdriver with me so I didn't try for the advertised 160 mph top speed. I may have gone 35mph. I didn't buy it, but I soon bought a T-6 B Carrera 2 coupe with AC condensers (that's what the seller told me) in the nose. I didn't argue, even though it had a push rod engine, as the price was $2000.
























































































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