Presenting The World's Fastest... Auto Rickshaw

The fast and the curious!

Transcript

00:00We're hoping to reach somewhere between 80 and 100 miles an hour.

00:27We had a stopover for two days in Bangkok and while we were there I took the family

00:43out on some tuk-tuk rides and we just loved the feeling of buzzing through the streets

00:47and the kind of excitement of it and when I went back home I was constantly looking

00:52on eBay.

00:57So my wife went to bed and after she went to bed and I hoped that she was safely asleep

01:04I went on eBay and pressed buy it now and made for a slightly difficult conversation

01:08in the morning over breakfast but she came around eventually.

01:21Every single nut and bolt on it has been replaced and upgraded so it's actually probably

01:26better condition than it was when it left the factory in 1971.

01:38I've been on a strict diet as well and yeah so we're hoping with the kind of lost weight

01:43and the aerodynamics we could reach 90 to 100.

02:14The world flashes by definitely it's yeah it's not an experience I wish to do too many

02:20times but I'm willing to do it for a good cause.