John Buscema / XV Motorsports 200mph videos
 

John sent these videos for us to check out. I'll let John give the narrative.

Thanks again, John!

Video 1

Video 2

Video 3

Can you say SWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTT!!!!! :faint:

First video is in car footage taking a short right hander, was clocked at 192 MPH on radar there.

Second is same race further up same road. You can see what it's like from inside the car at 200 MPH.

Last one is a drive by of the car running down a 3.5 mile straight at over 200. Volume on it is lower - crank up the volume as the reverberation as the car goes by is pretty cool.

These are short versions of larger files. I'll send the larger ones to Scott. Hopefully they don't kill his email!

Per the other post on going 200 MPH - these were filmed at sanctioned racing events held on closed sections of public highways with safety crews and police on hand.

Car is my 97 Mustang Cobra which in this trim was basically a full on-race car.

Web site at the end of the videos is no longer up. Used to have lots of info, pics and even some tech on it all about what we were doing and open road racing.

John Buscema
XV Motorsports
www.xvmotorsports.com

:thumbsup: Just watching that is pretty intense.

A longer video HERE.

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The doppler effect in the third video (the external shot of the car going by) is pretty extreme.

That is :censored: awesome!

More please. :hail:

What I remember most on my high-speed runs was the awesome wind noise. My car didn't have open exhaust and both the wind & engine noise were competing for Top Dog.

Open road racing is incredibly addicting and expensive. Scary,too. :lol:

Thanks for posting those videos. Kawabunga,,what a rush! :wow:

That is just wwwwwwwwwwoooooooooooowwwwwwwww. :wow:

Glad you all enjoyed those!

They definitely give you a sense of what it's like - and get your adrenaline going. After one of those races I was usually on a serious adrenaline high for at least an hour after finishing a run.

There was one more video I sent to Scott but it was a really big file - almost 3 minutes of in car footage. May be too big a file to put up.

I'm itching to go back out for those again. I'd like to build a 70 Challenger that'll run that fast (or faster).

John Buscema
XV Motorsports
www.xvmotorsports.com

So badass. I need a ride in something that fast. I've been about 150 in a stockcar and that was pretty fast. I'd love to go 200.

John, we sure would love for you to come to Pigeon Forge in September and run the car on the autocross. I hope you can find a way to make it. :thumbsup:

Absolutely incredible videos John...

I love that fly by... :bow:

I always cringe when I watch those videos. Tony Huntimer has some of Carl Chicca's '69 doing 190 MPH at Pony Express. I guess I'd be terrified that some coyote or deer would jump out in front of me and then it's goodbye world. Takes some balls to do open road racing. I got a lot of respect for you John.

I once rode shotgun in a rented Lamborghini Murcielago on a 200-MPH Autobahn blast. It was very scary...but also sooooo fun.

I was wondering
 

who made the racing seat with the special provision for those VW beetle sized nuts you have.

Everyone talks of going fast and running those types of races, but very few have the skills or the nerve to run that class.

My hat off to you Sir!