Your Earliest Fast Car Experiences?

When I was about twelve my buddies dad who was an engineer for AMC, had I'm guessing (44 years ago) about a 66 American. He asked if we wanted to go for a ride, he had just shut the hood. He headed toward the road going to the lake. As soon as we passed the tracks, he stopped, put it in first wound it up and dumped the clutch. Rubber through first and second and chirped third. I don't know how fast we hit after fourth but I will never forget it. I was always a car freak, and my dad was always working on cars but not into fast. I do remember dad burying the speedo on our 73 New Yorker, ticked because of it overheating earlier. Didn't overheat and obviously he had fixed the problem.