Thats nothing.
My Dad is about 45 as well and he's always been a lunatic on the road. (well, to a certain extent)
My Dad drives a 1990 Nissan Skyline GTS-4 (R32) and a while ago he stopped at some red lights in the city he lives near, and this Nissan Skyline GTS-t Type M pulls up beside him, with some young hoon driving it.
He started revving his engine, so Dad did too.
Then as the light went green, they both floored it, and Dad flew away from the GTS-t as it was still spinning it's wheels at the lights.
And earlier this year the road between his town and the city he works in was closed/getting closed due to snow.
So he managed to get through and after driving through the snow for a while (without chains on) he came apon a group of cars doing about 40-50km/h. Naturally he got sick of driving slowly beside them, so he went on the other side of the road and floored it, covering the side of one car completely in snow/slush due to Dad going by so fast.
This sort of thing happened all the way back to town, so there was everyone else doing 40-50km/h and here was Dad doing about 70-90km/h.
Snow has never stopped Dad from getting anywhere.
Millions of years ago when we were on the farm, we were heading home one night in the VERY deep snow (was so deep in places, that the Graders got stuck!) in the Ford Falcon (with chains on i might add) and we were driving up a steep and winding road with hill on one side and a massive drop on the other. Being only about 4-5 years old at the time, i chickened out, as we were getting closer and closer to the edge, so me, Mum and my brother/s walked up to the top of the hill and a while later Dad drove up. (at one time i saw lights going down, and i thought he had gone off the cliff)
Anyway, my conclusion is, that your Father is not the only one that does this sort of thing!