Yeah, when I was 16 I had a 1956 Bel Air with a 9,000 RPM small block Chevy motor in it and a Muncie Rock Crusher 4-Speed. In the rear I usually ran 4.56 gears. With that kind of rpm it would still top out at about 125, but I had it set up for street racing and I made a lot of money racing illegally.
One night I had this little hottie with me and some older dude tried to egg me into racing him. We got to the outskirts of town and I floored it. I smoked his ass. He never saw it coming. As I was slowing down at the mile intersection, a set of cop lights came on. It was the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. I pulled over and he came up to the window. He saw the little honey in the car. He got real upset and told me that he didn't give a damn if I was to roll my car at a high rate of speed and it burst into flames. No, I'm concerned about this innocent passenger. You're at the wheel of a 5500 pound automobile and you don't give a damn about her. Good lord, he went on and on about it. He even asked my date if she needed a ride home? (She later told me that when he said that it made her feel creepy.) He spewed for about 25 minutes and then he just turned and walked away.
I have no idea of why as a long hair with a long history of street racing, that I got off. He could have easily pulled my license and took me to jail.
There are many more high speed chases I was involved in, both cars and big Jap bikes. I was considered a hero by some and a no good son of a bitch by others. I street raced from 1971 until 1986. Most of the time on Douglas BLVD in Wichita, Kansas. I had the big block Buick GS bored and stroked out to a 472 and it had nitrous. It had a tricked out Turbo 400 automatic. (Good thing too, as I would have been breaking gears with a 4-Speed.) I had a 68 Chevelle with a bored out 454 and twin Holley carbs on a Tunnel Ram. That car was tubbed with slicks and I took it to Wichita on a flat bed trailer. I had a 69 GTO, but I pulled the Pontiac motor and put a Chevy 502 big block in it. I ran a Holley Dominator carb with a special Tunnel Ram and 2 and a 1/2 in diameter racing headers. It ran around a 9.88. I made a lot of money with it. Then of course I had the 69 Vette Stingray. It had a 427 L88 engine bored to a 440. It had a special Holley 1050CFM carb. I ran a one bottle nitrous system with the nitrous dispenser built inside of the carb so the real gas came down on the bottled gas. The only reason the Muncie 4-Speed didn't break was because the Vette only weighed about 2800 pounds. I ran 12-inch wide Goodrich TA's and I had to buy a pair about every three weeks.
All of these cars were tubbed, including the Vette. Narrowed rear axles, the whole nine yards.
With cars like that (and bikes) I had a lot of run in's with the MAN.