We’re used to seeing a ton of cool classic cars and muscle cars over on Richard Rawlings and Gas Monkey Garage’s YouTube channel, but here’s something a little different.
It’s still an awesome sports car, but in reality, it’s an iconic racer – the Ford GT – that gets fully modified in order to become the world’s fastest road-legal car.
Previously no one managed to reach 300 mph and this is the team’s second try; we see whether Richard Rawlings and the sizable team in a cool location manage to coax enough power (and bravery) out of the car and driver on the airfield to see if the impossible is… well, possible.
The Richard Rawling’s And Johnny Bohmer Record Breaking-Ford GT
This is in fact a collaboration between Rawlings and Johnny Bohmer with his custom first-gen Ford GT, a car that gets turned up to 10 in order to reach the hallowed 300 mph point.
It’s a 2006 Ford GT with around 1,800 hp at the start of the video, with forced induction pushing the powerplant to its limit. The team is at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility, located in Kennedy Space Center, Florida and we get plenty of behind-the-scenes footage of the prep work.
As Bohmer’s YouTube description puts it: “his company and vehicle design program, Johnny Bohmer Proving Grounds, LLC, which provides guidelines, consulting and testing in accordance with numerous testing facilities throughout the United States”.
YouTube star Rawlings began sponsoring the car in 2016, and today they’re hoping to see the car go faster than ever. It certainly looks awesome and sounds great as the team applies tape to the edges and gaps in the bodywork to keep it aerodynamic, reduce drag and stop the panels from getting ripped from the car at speed.
Richard Rawlings And The Fastest Road-Legal Car Ever
This car – the BADD GT - is regularly seen on the road and also makes trips to drop off the kids at school, so it seems like a legit attempt at a 300-mph production car.
In the first runs down the strip, the car makes progressively faster trips with more throttle and boost. It’s worth knowing that the team was trying out a FuelTech FT600 ECU and the speed got measured with various different gadgets like a Racelogic VBox Performance Box Touch and four Garmin Ultra 30 cameras.
The best comes last as the top speed recorded is 310 mph, which is faster than a Bugatti Veyron by a great margin. In fact, Bohmer also states that the car has 500-700 more hp left of untapped potential. We look forward to seeing if this car can continue breaking records.