What is your average speed

[Maclab58]

45 seems to be the best for my stock Vicky, my sport coupe with a balanced inserted engine with a 6.0 head hit 60 last week with stock rear and trans. Was a bit too fast for comfort.

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Should have Vermin drivin' by Saturday, don't have the speedomometer goin' yet, "HANG ON, BUSTER T. and count the fence posts" Buster T's Pet Guy.

[rwp]

40-45

[Kirby1374]

Originally Posted by luckyal

Around town usually about 25, in the country about 35 to 40 and rarely over that ! I am not in a hurry to get where I am going in the old girl. Drive it to enjoy it and not like you are in a race !
Al

Maybe I find racing enjoyable I drive between 45 and 55 on the highway.

[Jordan]

Usually 55, but if I'm on a busy hwy 60-65. I do have overdrive.

[Geo. H]

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Pretty near zero, right now.

[P.S.]

You certainly have a LOT of answers!!

My car is all stock, no overdrive or hopped up motor, and it does 55 no sweat. Sounds a little screetchy getting near 60 or higher, but feels like it would do it if asked. Never had it past 58 MPH. Need to balance the front wheels before attempting that! Was a tad spooky.

Most comfortable speed is 45 or so.

Do you guys with overdrives have to balance your front wheels? Or do you just tolerate the steering wheel shaking over 55?

[Kurt in NJ]

There are days that my average speed is very low --1,or 2 mph when all I drive is a local parade, there have been other days that the average speed was over 50 from driving most of the day at 60-65

[Patrick L.]

40-45 mostly, 50-55 at times if needed

[Gold Digger]

45-50 mostly but in a hurry 50- 55.

[V4F]

highway .. 60-65 . town speed limit .

[Chris in CT]

When I'm on secondary roads, I'm most comfortable at 50 mph. I really prefer 30-35 on the back roads between the northern lakes for summer cruising. I had it up to 70 when I was doing road tests on the Burlington crankshaft, but the car is basically stock, and I did not feel safe at that speed. "Take it slow and easy, babe, if you want to get along with me..."

[JBill]

Originally Posted by J Franklin

My most relaxing drive in my car was from Cottage Grove Oregon to Reedsport on Smith River rd. at an average speed of around 25-30 MPH. We saw only one car each way on the road with us.

I'm with Franklin here. My car will do 50 or 55, but I'm not comfortable going that speed. I enjoy a ride most just purring along at 30 or 35 on some out-in-the-country blacktop.

[John Stone]

45, Cars seems to like that speed.

[rons49]

I have a pure stock setup with a late side bowl Zenith. 40-45 cruising. Will go to 60. I tried a Tillotson and got 62 with level road & no wind years ago.

[mtnmice]

Hi Bob:

How is spring in "Merry Ole E......" ?

I don't know about the engine, but my most comfortable "butt speed" is VNE 40 mph. Faster than that I begin to imagine all sorts of strange vibrations and noises. Additionally, since I am never actually going anywhere, I want to make the trip last as long as I can.

[P.S.]

Originally Posted by mtnmice

since I am never actually going anywhere, I want to make the trip last as long as I can.

How come you don't use your car as ............... a car? Why not use it for a trip to the grocery store or to visit a friend?

Wife and I use our car all the time like a "regular car" and it's a lot of fun! Using the Model A as our family car has turned out to be the most fun we could ever imagine in a motor vehicle. Try it!

We have only done part of a club "tour" one time, we were bored to tears and it was most unpleasant. We bailed out on the group before the destination and did our own thing.

[mtnmice]

Hi PS:

Originally Posted by mtnmice
since I am never actually going anywhere, I want to make the trip last as long as I can.

You asked, "How come you don't use your car as ............... a car? Why not use it for a trip to the grocery store or to visit a friend?"



That is a durn good question and one I am ashamed to answer publically. I am old coot and grumpy and generally don't like people. (Present company excepted, of course.) So when I do go somewhere a crowd always forms and people ask idiotic questions and generally annoy me. More than once I have come back to the car to see the door or hood flopped back on itself with some fud with his head into it, giving a seminar on the thing. Then there are those who, despite how far out you park, will park up next to you and they WILL hit you with a door or bumper. So anyway, I know I'm a little odd but there it is. Actually it is not as bad as it used to be back in the mid 60s. Back then old fools would gather who had actually owned a Model A once and they would happily go on with their psedo expertise and it was difficult to get loose from them. They are bout all dead now so that misery is gone. Undoubtedly, I will be next!


PS, you are a lucky man to have a wife who likes riding in your car....mine despises it! (Or maybe it is just being "Couped" up (pun intended) with me that she finds vexacious.

;-)

[brum1]

35 mph all day long; having a bit of a commute to work each day, i am not interested in trafiic or speed, and usually find myself on the back roads with no worries

[CarlG]

As soon as the ice (& gravel) goes away, I'll be driving mine to work every day I can. But I only have about a 5 mile commute, and that will be at 30-45 mph depending on the speed limits along the way.