Thread: Top end speed
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Old 01-24-2008, 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by COBRA427 View Post
After reading all the above posts, I personally find it very very hard to believe that Dick Smith could attain an incredible speed of 198 mph as reported back then.

How could that possibly be? Did he have a spoiler /wing and 800+ hp?
What do you guys think??
I think it's very well documented that Mr. Smith did indeed reached 198 as reported.
I suspect he had a little more than your standard "crate motor" under the hood.
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