00:00They say it's mad, they say it's brilliant, I say it's fun, a lot of people say why, but the
00:05good thing for me, it just makes so many people smile.
00:16Kevin Nix has taken his love of sheds to a whole new level. He's taken one out on the road.
00:23This is the world's fastest shed. It's an idea I came up with, so I built it, got it all
00:29fully approved and road legal.
00:30I got into the racing events, the top speed events, and I travel all over the country racing it.
00:37I do it, I like it. Just kind of came up with the idea, I had a car sat there
00:40I was going to scrap, too good to scrap, came up with the idea, so set to and built it.
00:45The whole thing's completely steel-framed, so it's incredibly strong, but incredibly heavy, 2 1⁄4 tons.
00:53The classic car brigade sometimes frowned upon it, with things like, this can't be legal, but of course it is.
01:05The field for this unique road-worthy shed, which started life as a Volkswagen Passat, took owner Kevin £5,000
01:12and 7 months.
01:14And to get his engine really speedy, he's added a ride the surprising chemical into the mix to go that
01:20extra mile.
01:21I have to run it on nitrous when I'm racing. The horsepower's 200, but with the nitrous that adds an
01:28extra 75.
01:30Nitrous oxide, which many of you probably know that, it's actually laughing gas, and at certain times you get your
01:36revs high enough,
01:38you squirt it in, and it's an oxygenator. And I've got a wet system on here, so it adds that
01:44and fuel to give it an extra 75 horsepower.
01:49Here it is. All the original cars just inside it here. You've got a complete steel frame right the way
01:56around it.
01:57Steel under here. 2.8 V6 petrol, and here's the nitrous system here, which goes on, it's all underneath this
02:06cowling.
02:06Kevin is currently on a charity drive, taking his shed all the way from Land's End to John O'Groats,
02:12to raise money for a local hospice.
02:15Today he's halfway, up in Yorkshire, at Elvington Races, hoping to smash his original record of 88 miles per hour,
02:24by reaching 100 miles an hour.
02:26But will he make it?
02:43Didn't quite get to the 100 miles an hour out there, but I was close.
02:4896.831 miles an hour, and a two and a quarter tonne shed isn't bad, is it?
02:52No idea what the future holds for this one. I'm incredibly proud of building it, for the fun that we've
02:59had in it, my daughter and I.
03:01The places it's taken us, the people that I've met.
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