Red Victor: Britain's Fastest Road Legal Car

  • 8 months ago
Andy Frost's Red Victor 3 held the World street legal quarter-mile speed record for more than two years.
The car carries a 3000 plus horsepower V8 engine that, from a standing start could assist it hitting speeds of 226mph over a quarter-of-a mile.
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00:00 00:36 COMM: Hurtling forwards at speeds of 226 miles
00:10 per hour, this is the view from inside Britain's fastest road legal car.
00:15 00:46 COMM: Red Victor 3 carries a 3000 horsepower
00:22 V8 engine that can propel it from 0-60 in under a second.
00:26 Yet you can still see owner Andy Frost taking it out for a spin around the streets of Wolverhampton.
00:32 01:10 COMM: Andy has dedicated his life to the project,
00:37 spending thousands converting a humble Vauxhall Victor into the speed demon you see today.
00:43 01:19 ANDY FROST: So Andy's got everything invested
00:47 in this, time, you know this is a 30 year project for him because realistically this
00:51 started with Red Victor 1.
00:52 The original Red Victor that he bought as a VX490 way back whenever.
00:57 So this is an evolution of that sort of let's say dream and so he's got every single thing
01:03 in his life for 30 years invested in what's sitting right behind me.
01:07 01:39 COMM: But Andy's efforts were once again paid
01:09 back when at the Santa Pod Raceway in Bedfordshire, the 53 year old broke his own speed record
01:16 by covering a quarter of a mile in just 6.4 seconds.
01:20 02.06 ANDY FROST 6.4, 6.25, 6.40, oh come on you f***er, come on!
01:31 02.20 COMM: Andy's world record has just been broken
01:34 by an American team but he has vowed to go even faster.
01:39 And with investors already backing him financially, next year Red Victor will surely be back to
01:44 claim its crown.
01:45 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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