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  • 00:08 COMM: Hurtling forward at speeds of 226 miles

  • per hour, this is view from inside Britain's fastest road legal car.

  • 00:17 ANDY: Sweet as a nut.

  • 00:20 COMM: Red victor 3 carries a 3000 horse power

  • VA engine that can propel it from 0 to 60 in under a second, yet you can still see owner

  • Andy Frost taking it out for a spin round the streets of Wolverhampton.

  • 00:35 COMM: Andy has dedicated his life to the project

  • spending thousand converting a humble Vauxhall Victor into the speed demon we see today.

  • 00:46 SHANE: So Andy's got everything invested in

  • this. Time, y'know this is a 30 year project for him because realistically this started

  • with Red Victor 1 and the original Red Victor that he bought you know as a VX490 but way

  • back whenever. So this is an evolution of that, sort of lets say dream and so he's got

  • every single thing in his life for 30 years invested into what is sitting right behind

  • him.

  • 01:09 COMM: But Andy's efforts were once again paid

  • back when at the Santa Pod raceway in Bedfordshire, the 53-year-old broke his own speed record

  • by covering a quarter of a mile in just 6.4 seconds.

00:08 COMM: Hurtling forward at speeds of 226 miles

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