{"id":3783,"date":"2022-01-19T19:13:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T19:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3783"},"modified":"2022-01-19T19:13:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T19:13:39","slug":"177-km-h-110-mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/01\/177-km-h-110-mph\/","title":{"rendered":"177 km\/h (110 mph)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had been in the family for a year by then, I believe. We were busy building the family house every weekend, which included trips to the French Lowe\u2019s or Home Depot. Dad drove a Ford Fiesta hatchback because who cares about driving people around? We\u2019re moving weight (concrete mix bags), bro!<\/p>\n


So weird to look at now. Another life, another dimension, I don\u2019t know.<\/em><\/p>\n

Summer. On a sunny Sunday morning on the freeway, we were on our way to get some lumber or something. Maybe I was a little bored, though really happy to be sitting in the passenger seat instead of laying down in the back. Dad decided to do something.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I\u2019m thinking about pushing the car, to see how fast it can go, don\u2019t tell your mom\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

My face probably lit up at the idea of not only doing something risky and illegal, but doing it without anyone else knowing about it. Plus, I really wanted to see what\u2019s like to drive really fast. I imagine I just said \u201cok!\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n

It was on the A4 freeway<\/a>, which where we were about to get our \u201cspeed demon\u201d scream, was the largest freeway in France: four lanes both ways. He also chose the part where it goes a little bit downhill.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs your seatbelt tight? Here we go!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

He jumped on the left lane and started to push his foot on the gas. I remember feeling so giddy.<\/p>\n

130 km\/h (80 mph) is the max authorized on freeways, but we used to rarely go that fast in general. 110 km\/h was the usual freeway speed. And we were about to pass it!<\/p>\n

115…120…130…145… Now we\u2019re passing everyone. 150.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still have a bit of room under the pedal, but not much!\u201d<\/em> Dad is yelling now because the noise inside the car is pretty loud. That freeway at that time is a lot like a lot of US freeways: no asphalt, just rough concrete. He floors it.<\/p>\n

155…160… I want to see 200!! I know it\u2019s impossible \u2013I already know at that time that only sports cars can go that fast\u2013 but it seems so close. The needle moves slower now. 165… 170…<\/p>\n

We reach 177 km\/h (110 mph). The car is vibrating heavily. We stay at that speed for a few minutes. It\u2019s thrilling, the engine is roaring. It\u2019s also not really as exciting as I thought it would be! We\u2019re passing other vehicles faster. But it\u2019s Sunday and we are not late for anything.<\/p>\n

Dad slows down. We exit and go back home, silently. We never did that ever again with any of the next family cars. <\/p>\n

It was cool enough that I remember it to this day, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had been in the family for a year by then, I believe. We were busy building the family house every weekend, which included trips to the French Lowe\u2019s or Home Depot. Dad drove a Ford Fiesta hatchback because who cares about driving people around? We\u2019re moving weight (concrete mix bags), bro! So weird to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3784,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions\/3784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}