As a civilian, in '94 I drove from Amherst MA to Key Largo FL in an 85 Subi Loyale. Also 20+hours but shared driving with others in the car......oh the smells that came from that car!
As a civilian, in '94 I drove from Amherst MA to Key Largo FL in an 85 Subi Loyale. Also 20+hours but shared driving with others in the car......oh the smells that came from that car!
Either Oshawa to Newmarket, Ontario, or a 24-hour offroad rally, I'd have to compare to be sure.
Update: Offroad rally takes it by a large margin.
1200ish miles. Charlotte to Austin back in '08. We drove non stop only stopping for gas and didn't sit down at a restaurant the entire trip. Left Charlotte around 7pm and pulled into Austin at 3pm. That was a painful ride in an f150 without cruise control.
If we're doing team driving, I did Michigan to Alaska in 72ish hours with one 3 hour stop because the pumps wern't open. Slept at the pump. We should have stopped and looked around.
Houston to Birmingham , 703mi, in a driving rain on July 1st of this year in the 'V' Did i mention I-10 still sucks from Htown to Baton Rouge?
On a return trip form California in 1975, I broke down in Tucumcari NM while driving a 1973 SAAB 99 . Nursed it back to Avon Lake Ohio solo .....1400+mi @40 mph tops .......and the state troopers were a common sight . Found out the diaphragm in the SU had a tear. 
Around 900 miles, St. Louis to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in a 1981 Fairmont Futura. Left STL after work on Friday night and arrived in MD about 9:00a the next morning.
Drove from Sterling, VA to Hope, AR. 1,110 miles, did it in 17 hours. This was almost 10 years ago, driving more than 600 miles in one day is tough for me now.
1147 miles in 19 hours, Tulsa to Raleigh on I40. Could have done it in 18, but highway road work through Nashville. Which, to my knowledge is still unfinished 22 years later
1561 miles, Key West to Beverly Hills Michigan in a 32' RV non stop, but did swap off driving every few hours with my wife so I didn't do it all myself. Longest true solo no stop was Topeka Ks to home pulling my Miata back from Nationals. That was 850 miles.
Drove from home to Hays Ks and back twice this summer to drop off and pick up the eldest from camp. That was two 2,100 mile round trips in a weekend. Allegedly after dropping her off Sunday morning a vehicle covered 179.5 miles in exactly two hours flat.
I'm kind of ashamed I've never taken a truly epic road trip. The most I've done in one day was around 525 miles from Farmington Hills, MI to somewhere near Olney, MD.
As a child I was a passenger for multiple trips from MI to FL (and back a few days later) in one long haul. Then there was the time my parents did a marathon session from Wyoming back to Michigan. The trip out there took several days with stops at various parks. I keep saying I am going to drive myself to the desert SW, taking my tent and my bicycle, but it's never happened. My wife does not like long car rides, so she generally reels me in when I get to excitted about these things.
For a spring break, I tried to drive to Pensacola FL from Appleton, WI by going down I-55 and missed the turn on I-12 and ended up driving through NOLA. Only made it back into Mississippi that night. Probably 1200 miles. Sat on an empty beach in Pensacola the next day, and my buddy and I decided to drive back home since the place was vacant. Slept in a trucker's rest stop with a security booth that night somewhere in Mississippi again. So about 2600 miles in 3 days for 6 hours on a lonely beach with one buddy.
Green Bay to Miles City Montana was right around 1000 miles and I did that after an 8 hours of office work. I was pulling into Miles City with the sunrise.
My latest was another after office work drive and a late work day (8pm) for my wife, then we loaded up the kids and drove to Petoskey MI (only 300 miles) check into a hotel room for 4 hours, grabbed some car parts from Wayslow and drove home the next day (another 300 miles). This trip told us we should not drive back to Miles City, as the our toddler didn't handle it nearly as well as he did when he was an infant. Hence our Amtrak trip. It's a much nicer place to be.
700 miles in a car. 670 miles on a bike.
1400 miles.
San Antonio to LA.
21 hours.
After a 16 hour day from north Florida to San Antonio. There was an 8 hour sleep after the first leg to prep for the long leg.
All of this solo, after doing the reverse a few days earlier.
I was young and stupid, and broke, so driving made more sense than flying...
In reply to Adrian_Thompson :
I'm assuming you mean two 2,100-mile round trips in a weekend each? Because 4,200 miles in 48 hours is pretty damn spectacular.
In reply to Adrian_Thompson :
Well done, sir! That is genuine Cannonball Run speed 
1200 miles from Kansas City to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. My buddy was based out there and needed his car so I drove it out for him. Let me tell you it's not to bad soaking up 1200 miles in a 1994 Jaguar XJ6.
1200 miles from Eugene, OR to Durango, CO, but with two of us trading driving over 26 hours. Not that anybody gets any sleep in a Toyota Corona.
I take a little perverse pride in the fact that we raced a mountain bike time trial two hours after arriving. I think the change from 400 to 6500 feet of elevation got us more than the sleep deprivation.
Some of you guys are masochists.
I have to say aside from just generally being tired from being awake for 16 hours on five hours sleep the wife's Lincoln is a very comfortable way to do big miles.
I don't know the mileage but when I was much younger I drove for a little over 24 hours straight. It was all just wondering around back roads not going anywhere through Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania so I doubt the mileage was huge. I have no desire to do that again.
I drove from Oak Island, NC to Elkins, WV and back a couple years ago. I stopped over in Elkins for a couple hours to eat dinner and walk around and then back in the car. Round trip was something a bit over 1000 miles solo driving.
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/most-miles-driven-in-a-single-day/109002/page1/
My longest trips were both around 1100 miles. Once from Inwood, WV to Miami, and once was an unintentional speed run from Inwood to Indianapolis and back.
The Miami run was just a really long day, no driving heroics. The Indianapolis trip was a favor to a friend. We left around 6pm on a weekday night after work and got back a little before 7am the next morning.
My old dark blue unmarked P71 was the PERFECT car for this job. 
1,096 miles from Waterloo, Iowa to Kings Point, NY (Long Island) in a 1987 Chevy Nova (Corolla)
Or was it an ‘86? Doesn’t matter it was awful
Solo trip Seattle to Bismarck in 17hr, a bit over 1200mi, done in one gulp in something that makes the trip rather pleasant. Drove home the next day, no problems atall.
Seattle to SF in a hotrodded 69 Datsun 510, 800some miles, it took a day to recover and this was when I was young and immortal. Ears ringing, dizzy, numb extremeties, gack. Would Not care to repeat, not in that car..
1800 on the nose, Portland Ore to Baileyville, KS in a turbo 626 with a screwed up 5th gear syncro. I basically got to hold the thing in gear for about 27 hours straight. That was *stupid* and I just wanted to be done with a really awful summer internship and get home.
In a few weeks I get to drive from West Haven CT to the south west side of Kansas City. I think that's a bit under 1400 and I hope to do that in two days.
Jan 2016 I took a miata Dallas to Dulles (Tx to VA) over 32-33hours with an 8hour stop for sleep in Bryant, AR so 1015ish in one shot
always interesting bringing an "unknown to me" track car on summer tires up to Virginia as a heavy rain / sleet storm rolls in
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