Red Victor: Britain's Fastest Road Legal Car

Ridiculous Rides

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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00:0002. Red Victor 3

00:07Hurtling forwards at speeds of 226mph this is the view from inside Britain's fastest

00:13road legal car.

00:1501. Red Victor 3

00:19Red Victor 3 carries a 3,000 horsepower V8 engine that can propel it from 0 to 60 in

00:25under a second, yet you can still see owner Andy Frost taking it out for a spin around

00:30the streets of Wolverhampton.

00:3201.00 Andy has dedicated his life to the project,

00:37spending thousands converting a humble Vauxhall Victor into the speed demon you see today.

00:4302.00 ANDY FROST So Andy's got everything invested in this,

00:48time, you know this is a 30 year project for him because realistically this started with

00:51Red Victor 1, the original Red Victor that he bought as a VX490 way back whenever.

00:57So this is an evolution of that sort of let's say dream and so he's got every single thing

01:03in his life for 30 years invested in what's sitting right behind me.

01:0703.00 But Andy's efforts were once again paid back

01:10when at the Santa Pod Raceway in Bedfordshire, the 53 year old broke his own speed record

01:16by covering a quarter of a mile in just 6.4 seconds.

01:2104.00 Andy's world record has just been broken by

01:34an American team, but he has vowed to go even faster.

01:39And with investors already backing him financially, next year Red Victor will surely be back to

01:44claim it's crown.

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