At 156 how the heck did he catch up to you?
I'll bet it was a smaller town, cars like that, the cops know who owns them!
A while back (mid 80's) I was clipping along at a 3 digit speed when the Escort started yelling at me, I hammered the brakes and then saw the state trooper coming towards me (Rt.30, divided highway with a wide flat grassy median). The car didn't have a factory paint job, and the body had a few mods done to it. I knew I was toast, so I pulled over, got out, and waited for him. The first thing that he said was "I'm glad that you stopped because I have no idea what kind of car this is." I figured that I couldn't out run a radio and the car DID stand out, so why try? He said he couldn't get a radar lock on me, but he knew I was clipping along pretty good. He wrote me up for 9 over and let me go. Whew!!
'81 Camaro Z28, .060 over 350 in it, 12.5:1, (yeah I had to run race gas in it ALL the time). Best quarter mile time was 9.42@ 147 with 4:56 gears. When I drove it on the street I swapped the pig for 3:00 gears (Ford 9") Power windows, Power locks, T-Tops. For a street legal car it was pretty quick for it's time. The blue bottle in the trunk helped a bunch!
I don't know what it'd do flat out in 5th (Doug Nash 5-speed), but the computer said 200+. Like Rainman, I did have it in excess of 100 over the speed limit, and the passenger (Air Force Colonel) tried like Hell to leave fingerprints in the roll cage.
I told him that I only took it thru 1st, 2nd and 3rd, and there were still 2 more gears to go..... I had connections at the time and ran Goodyear Indy Car rain tires on the street (well, while not quite 100% street legal they DID have tread on them!) The car was more of a road race theme than drag race.
