My £50 Golf’s faster than a £1m Bugatti Veyron

**duglet** · 13-08-2009, 05:15 PM

My £50 Golf’s faster than a £1m Bugatti Veyron

Andy Waite's 180mph Golf

PROUD Andy Waite shows off his 1979 VW Golf – which can blow away a Bugatti Veyron supercar. Father of three Andy, 42, bought the Mk 1 Golf for fifty quid.

That’s nearly £1million less than the price of the Bugatti, the world’s most expensive motor.

But after Andy spent £60,000 on modifications, including a custom-built turbocharged engine, the VW can scorch from 0-60mph in just 2.36 seconds.

Bugatti Veyron

And that’s faster than the Veyron, which takes a tenth of a second longer. The Golf, which has a top speed of 180mph, can also beat the Bugatti in a quarter-mile dash. Andy, of Fordham, Cambs, said creating his “monster” motor had been a labour of love. He drives it in drag races but it is fully road legal and runs on unleaded fuel.

Andy added: “The biggest problem is that once you get over 160 you can only drive it in a straight line because the steering goes wobbly.

Source: The Sun

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**duglet** · 13-08-2009, 05:22 PM

Some more info

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**repeat** · 13-08-2009, 07:21 PM

good on him....would be awesome to drive!!

**240MPS** · 13-08-2009, 07:23 PM

That's pretty quick.

. I would of liked to run my 370Kw HSV GTO down the quarter mile to see want it could do my 1975 SLR 5000 was a 13.6second Qtr mile car back in the 1982...

**shinslinger66** · 13-08-2009, 08:09 PM

Loved the SLR's...now they were a real car...

Which reminds me- what ever happened to the popular drop tanks back in the day? Why did they go out of fashion?

**240MPS** · 13-08-2009, 08:20 PM

I have seen drop tanks on some other cars but never looked has good as it did on the SLR's... Better get back to the thread great Golf.

**shakespeare** · 13-08-2009, 09:31 PM

That's Awesome! Still when you spend that much money on mods (complete rebuild and more!) you'd expect results like that, but man sub 3 sec 0-60mph!!!!!! That's bike territory. I also liked the look of the MK I Golf, reminded me of my MK II Escort!

On the You Tube there were other vids of the Bugatti Golf on the 1/4 mile!