A FATHER who built a shed on top of his old car “just for fun” has had it officially declared the fastest shed in the world.
Kevin Nicks, from Great Rollright, near Chipping Norton, raced his creation at Elvington Airfield, near York, on Sunday in an attempt break the world shed spped record.
He needed to beat 58.41mph and was ‘thrilled’ when he reached a record-breaking speed of 70.77mph.
The father-of-one , who went to the event with his 12-year-old daughter, built the car for fun and hopes to make more in the future.
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He said: “We had such a laugh driving it down the motorway. One of the highlights of the whole weekend for me was when we were blasting Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen and singing at the top of our voices. People were driving past filming us.”
The 50-year-old said he was disappointed that the shed only reached 70mph as he knew it could go faster.
He added: “The timers were under pressure and only let me use a quarter of a mile of the runway. But at the end they let me have another go and I used the whole mile and got to 80.46mph.”
Mr Nicks built the wooden shed on top of his 1999 2.8l V6 Volkswagen Passat, a project which cost £5,000 and took just over six months to complete.
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