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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00:0001. Pull the trigger

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

00:13road legal car.

00:1402. Get into Rotary

00:1603. Red Victor 3

00:19Red Victor 3 carries a 3000 horsepower V8 engine that can propell it from 0-60 and under

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

00:30streets of Wolverhampton.

00:3201. Andy has dedicated his life to the project, spending thousands converting a humble Vauxhall

00:39Victor into the speed demon you see today.

00:4202. So Andy's got everything invested in this, time, you know this is a 30 year project for

00:50him because realistically this started with Red Victor 1, the original Red Victor that

00:54he bought as a VX490 way back whenever. So this is an evolution of that sort of let's

00:59say dream and so he's got every single thing in his life for 30 years invested in what's

01:06sitting right behind me.

01:0703. But Andy's efforts were once again paid back when at the Santa Pod raceway in Bedfordshire

01:13the 53 year old broke his own speed record by covering a quarter of a mile in just 6.4

01:19seconds.

01:2004. Andy's world record has just been broken by an American team, but he has vowed to go

01:36even faster.

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

01:44claim its crown.

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