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A PETROLHEAD has built what he believes is the world’s fastest shopping trolley, which he has affectionately dubbed the ’Shopper Chopper’. The custom creation, made by US patent office clerk Calvin VanSant, from Pennsylvania, is also the world’s only street legal drivable shopping trolley. The current official record for the ‘world’s fastest shopping trolley’ is 45mph (72kph), set by British-based petrolhead Matt McKeown in 2013, but Calvin’s cart does 50mph on the motorway and he says it has a high speed of 80mph. At a height of 10ft, the trolley is surprisingly lightweight, weighing in at just 1.3 tonnes - the same weight as a small family car - and has a V8 engine.   Videographer / director: Shopper Chopper LLC Producer: Bunmi Adigun, Ellie Winstanley Editor: Marcus Cooper

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00:00The most fun thing to do is just drag this thing down the street.

00:16Struggle to fit your grocery shopping into the car?

00:19Calvin Van Sant and his son-in-law Bren might just have what you're looking for.

00:26The Pennsylvanian duo started building the world's fastest shopping trolley back in 2010.

00:33We originally built it for our local parade, it took about two years to start to finish.

00:36Completed in 2012, the unusual vehicle measures 10 feet tall and 13 foot long and it can carry

00:44up to six people.

00:47The super-sized trolley is capable of reaching speeds of over 50 miles per hour.

00:55It even glows in the dark.

00:58Perhaps most surprisingly, the vehicle is 100% road legal.

01:02A fair number of times we get put over, usually it's because the policeman wants a photograph.

01:08We've never actually been asked for our license and registration.

01:10I'm always so proud of them, I'm ready to give them to them, but we've never been asked.

01:15The trolley is such a hit that Carl is considering building an even more outrageous shopper-chopper

01:21in the near future.

Shopper Chopper - World’s Fastest Drivable Shopping Cart

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