Photo courtesy Andy Frost/Red Victor Racing

We’ve been following the exploits of our good friend, Englishman Andy Frost, for more than three years since he first set out to make his vision a reality with the creation of what he hoped to be (and had every intention of being) the quickest and fastest street legal car in the world. With little more than

some chromoly tubing and a Vauxhall body mold in his shop, Frost made no bones about his goals. Some might say he put the wagon a little ahead of the horse, but determination can accomplish a lot of things.

Andy debuted the meticulously engineered ’72 Vauxhall Pro Street/Pro Modified machine nearly a year ago, but ran into mechanical woes that setback further testing until later in the year.

"Frosty" partaking in his post-record setting Breakfast of Champions of the same name.

This spring, he became the first racer into the six-second zone in England aboard a fully street legal machine when he clicked off a 6.999 at 218.14 MPH at the Auto Trader Easter Thunderball Motorsports Extravaganza at the Santa Pod Raceway.

The years and months of tireless work, the high points and low points, and the previous records of the last three years all blossomed into the defining moment that Frost had dreamt of when he first formulated the plans for Red Victor 3 on Monday at Santa Pod, however, when the driver affectionately known as “Frosty” made the quickest and fastest pass by a true street legal and street-driven car in drag racing history at 6.592 seconds at 220.09 MPH. Andy had been 6.71 and 219 MPH earlier in the weekend to officially claim the title of the world’s quickest street machine, but he and tuner Shane Tecklenburg plugged away and found more than a tenth in the combo.

“This weekend has been the culmination of three years of dedication and hard work from a team of people who wanted one thing. That is to create a car that would set street legal world records that would take a long while to be broken,” said Frost. “As everyone following our story has seen, it hasn’t all gone to plan, but our determination to succeed overcame any issues we had. To finally not only just beat the record, but to really eat into it has made all of us really proud of what we’ve achieved so far, and we’re not stopping here either!”

Andy’s 6.71 and 6.59 Laps at Santa Pod Captured by QuarterMileHigh

“For me personally, it’s really cool to be able to show our talents off on a global stage, rather than just a national one,” continued Frost. “Of course this weekend couldn’t have happened without the help of a few dedicated people in the last month or so. These include tuning legend Shane Tecklenburg, who was at the track, Hutch transmissions, Marc Lamude, Jon Webster, Owen developments, Injector dynamics, Precision turbo, Motec and my totally professional crew who worked incredibly hard for five days to overcome the little issues we had.”

On the record-setting pass, Frost was 1.15 to sixty-feet, 4.39 at 176.07 to half track, 5.59 at 1000-feet, and 6.592 out the back.

The claim of being the quickest and fastest street car in the world is of course a murky one with plenty of arguments on either side. Frost’s 540-inch, twin-turbocharged machine is not only street legal, but is fully capable of jumping into traffic as evidenced by a video captured on the streets of Wellingborough last fall. Others, however, might argue that American Larry Larson, whose Nova has run 6.90’s following hundreds of miles of continuous driving and held said title for years, is the true embodiment of a street car. Regardless of how you look at it, both have accomplished something truly mind-boggling in their own rights, and both deserve every bit of recognition they receive, official title holder or not.

There is of course one way to settle all the arguments, and it involves a ship and a container. Let’s make it happen, gentlemen!