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This is a truck. It is a fast truck. It is coming up for auction, and you might want to pay attention because it is fast. Very, very fast. 0-60mph in 1.3 seconds fast.It"s a road-legal, 1984 Chevy S10 packing 640bhp from a naturally aspirated 7.0-litre V8. Though, because this truck lives its life a quarter mile at a time, there is also nitrous oxide which boosts it up to that P1-rivalling 900bhp.In fact, it does actually live its life a quarter mile at a time. It is able to run the benchmark drag race in eight seconds flat, having spent many, many years doing incredible things at Santa Pod raceway (read: it"s been thrashed to hell and back).There"s also the small matter of it being capable of 0-124mph in 5.6 seconds, and a top speed of over 150mph. FROM A TRUCK. Yikes.As expected, there is a full roll cage, and such novel features as heating and electric windows. The current owner has been in charge of this 900bhp drag-racing mad-machine for the past 24 years, and in that time has racked up 85,000 worth of work. It"s even got a full MOT, valid until November this year. Which means of course, it"s fully road legal. It even runs on normal petrol, not, y"know, dynamite.However, those exorbitant bills are not a reflection of the price. The price, dear reader, when it comes up for auction in April at the CCA sale in Birmingham, is expected to be between 30,000 and 35,000.So for the price of a Ford Focus RS, you could have a machine that works really, really well in a straight line. Just exercise caution on wet roundaboutsShare this page: FacebookTwitterGoogle+WhatsAppMailtoCopy link
Date written: 9 Mar 2017
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ID: 7005
This is a truck. It is a fast truck. It is coming up for auction, and you might want to pay attention because it is fast. Very, very fast. 0-60mph in 1.3 seconds fast.It"s a road-legal, 1984 Chevy S10 packing 640bhp from a naturally aspirated 7.0-litre V8. Though, because this truck lives its life a quarter mile at a time, there is also nitrous oxide which boosts it up to that P1-rivalling 900bhp.In fact, it does actually live its life a quarter mile at a time. It is able to run the benchmark drag race in eight seconds flat, having spent many, many years doing incredible things at Santa Pod raceway (read: it"s been thrashed to hell and back).There"s also the small matter of it being capable of 0-124mph in 5.6 seconds, and a top speed of over 150mph. FROM A TRUCK. Yikes.As expected, there is a full roll cage, and such novel features as heating and electric windows. The current owner has been in charge of this 900bhp drag-racing mad-machine for the past 24 years, and in that time has racked up 85,000 worth of work. It"s even got a full MOT, valid until November this year. Which means of course, it"s fully road legal. It even runs on normal petrol, not, y"know, dynamite.However, those exorbitant bills are not a reflection of the price. The price, dear reader, when it comes up for auction in April at the CCA sale in Birmingham, is expected to be between 30,000 and 35,000.So for the price of a Ford Focus RS, you could have a machine that works really, really well in a straight line. Just exercise caution on wet roundaboutsShare this page: FacebookTwitterGoogle+WhatsAppMailtoCopy link
Date written: 9 Mar 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 7005
