Lt. Gov backs driver cited at 220mph on SH130
Posted 10/25/2012 12:39:00 PM

God Bless Texas. Land of the free, home of the batshit crazy. Crazy like John Hennessey who took his 1,226 VR1200 Cadillac CTS-V to test the 85 MPH highway's tag systems at higher speeds. The Lone Star State's fastest carmaker on the western hemisphere's fastest highway, what could be better? Simple. He also brought a tuned Camaro.

Clear lanes, full tanks, can't lose. John Hennessey tells Jalopnik he bumped into Texas Lt. Gov David Dewhurst and mentioned he'd maybe have a nice car or two that could be used to test the TxTag toll tag systems of the recently-opened high-speed section of SH-130.

As fellow Texans, the Lt. Gov and officials from the Texas Department of Transportation replied to this wonderful idea in the affirmative and the awesomeness you see here is the result.

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Posted By: Producer Thomas  

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