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My Dad's stories are in many ways crazier than mine. I think the oldest vehicles I have traveled 100+ MPH were from the 1960s. He was racing cars in the 1940s and doing stupid things on motorcycles in the 1950s.
My Dad tells a great story of riding from San Francisco to Grace Idaho during the mid 1950s on a BMW motorcycle and getting pulled over doing 115 mph somewhere in Idaho. The Trooper asked my Dad where he was coming from, upon hearing San Francisco the Trooper exclaimed "*$%#! (^$%# you've been riding like this all day!" One my my Dad's motorcycle buddies during that period had a Vincent Black Shadow, which as I recall was the fastest production motorcycle until the 1980s.
My Dad tells a great story of riding from San Francisco to Grace Idaho during the mid 1950s on a BMW motorcycle and getting pulled over doing 115 mph somewhere in Idaho. The Trooper asked my Dad where he was coming from, upon hearing San Francisco the Trooper exclaimed "*$%#! (^$%# you've been riding like this all day!" One my my Dad's motorcycle buddies during that period had a Vincent Black Shadow, which as I recall was the fastest production motorcycle until the 1980s.