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They say it's mad, they say it's brilliant, they say it's fun, a lot of people say why
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but the good thing for me, it just makes so many people smile. Kevin Nix has taken his love of sheds to a whole new level
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He's taken one out on the road. This is the world's fastest shed
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It was an idea I came up with, so I built it, got it all fully approved and road legal
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I got into the racing events, the top speed events, and I travelled all over the country racing it
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I do it, I like it. Just kind of came up with the idea, I had a car sat there I was going to scrap
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Too good to scrap, came up with the idea, so set to and built it
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The whole thing's completely steel framed, so it's incredibly strong, but incredibly heavy, two and a quarter tons
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The classic car brigade sometimes frowned upon it with things like this can't be legal, but of course it is
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The field for this unique roadworthy shed, which started life as a Volkswagen Passat
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took on a Kevin £5,000 and seven months. And to get his engine really speedy
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he's added a rather surprising chemical into the mix to go that extra mile
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I run it on nitrous when I'm racing. The horsepower is 200 but with the nitrous that adds an extra 75 Nitrous oxide which many of you probably know that it actually laughing gas And at certain times you get your revs high enough you squirt it in and it an
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oxygenator. And I've got a wet system on here, so it adds that and fuel to give it an extra
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75 horsepower. Here it is. All the original cars just inside it here. You've got a complete steel frame
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right the way around it, steel under here, 2.8 V6 petrol, and here's the nitrous system here, which goes on, it's all underneath this cowling
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Kevin is currently on a charity drive, taking his shed all the way from Land's End to John O'Groats
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to raise money for a local hospice. Today he's halfway, up in Yorkshire, at Elvington Races
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hoping to smash his original record of 88 miles per hour by reaching 100 miles an hour
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But will he make it? Didn't quite get to the 100 miles an hour out there
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but I was close. 96.831 miles an hour in a 2.25 tonne shed isn't bad, is it
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No idea what the future holds for this one. I'm incredibly proud of building it, for the fun that we've had in it, my daughter and I, the places it's taken us, the people that I've met
