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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.

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