| SPEEDIEST SILVER SHADOW |
| Tuesday, 06 December 2011 00:00 |
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Owned by drag race fanatic Matt Wright, this unlikely star of Santa Pod’s recent Flame and Thunder event ran the quarter-mile straight in just 7.94 seconds, hitting 175 mph in the process. This is presumably one Rolls-Royce in which the loudest noise you’ll hear isn’t the ticking of the clock… |
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Think of a white Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow and you’ll probably conjure up images of classic wedding transport. But this one’s a bit different – powered as it is by a 588cu.in. (or roughly a 10-litre) Chevrolet V8, making it almost certainly the fastest-accelerating old Roller in the country.