00:09One man who could never be described as likely to be late for his own funeral is Arnie Toman.
00:20His hearse goes from 0 to 60 in just 2.26 seconds.
00:32And built to drive the world's fastest hearse.
00:36There is no other hearse in the world built to this level of performance.
00:45Arnie, from Chicago, Illinois, is vice president of AMS Performance
00:50and on investigating the record for the world's fastest hearse,
00:54decided to fit a 1996 Chevy Caprice with a 6-litre turbocharged engine, generating 1,000 horsepower.
01:10We've broken and currently hold many records for the different platforms we work on.
01:14But if you're not into that kind of car, it really doesn't mean that much.
01:17I was looking to hold a record that anyone could relate to.
01:21Something you could tell your mom about and she would understand.
01:23When Arnie started his project in 2009, the record was 13.72 seconds to cover quarter of a mile.
01:32While the build was in progress, a Transylvanian hearse took a new record of 11.6 seconds in 2010.
01:40So when Arnie's car named Madness, after his favourite Iron Maiden song,
01:45Can I Play With Madness, made it to the track, it had a lot of work to do.
02:06It set a new world record by covering a quarter of a mile in just 9.94 seconds, at a
02:13speed of 137 miles per hour.
02:26But for Arnie, this isn't quite fast enough.
02:32For 2015, we've got a new forged engine and a bigger turbo.
02:37The car is now making 1,300 horsepower, so I plan to make this record even harder to beat.
02:43Robo!
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