Man turns a £60 car to the world's fastest street car., For realz? Options

[ExSane]

I found this article on a website. I don't know if you guys read this before but it's kinda interesting.
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PROUD Andy Frost owns the world’s fastest street car a clapped-out VAUXHALL he paid £60 for.

The dad of three has transformed his 1972 K-reg into a mean machine that does 0-60 in ONE second.

The Vauxhall Victor takes just 7.8 seconds to hit 183mph which would leave even Formula 1 racers for dead.

Engineer Andy bought the banger 25 years ago and has since lavished £100,000 on it.

The car is street legal but so old it doesn’t need a tax disc.

He has fitted it with a modified 9.3-litre Chevrolet engine.

Andy, 45, of Wolverhampton, grinned: “We could’ve had a bigger house. “But we have a unique car faster than any other on the road.”

Wife Debbie, 41, said: “The car’s become like one of the family.”



This post has been edited by ExSane: Nov 3, 2006 - 12:11 AM

[giang723]

geez, imagine the fuel bill, but damn that's fast

[ExSane]

geez, imagine the fuel bill, but damn that's fast

Yeah, he makes alot of gas stops on the way to pick up his son from school and back. I would have thought he would enlarge the fuel tank or something by 3x the size.