Your Earliest Fast Car Experiences?

May 1967 when I got the GTS new from Carl Price Lincoln, Mercury Dodge in Jasper, Alabama my Dad had to leave me up there and wait for them to get it cleaned up and ready for delivery. He had to come home and milk the cows. It was raining that day and I asked the service manager about the break end period. He told me as soon as it quit raining it was ready to go. On the way out of town I was following a car running about 45 mph and when I went out to pass him I hit passing gear and almost swapped ends. I have been in love with it ever since.