Here's how I built the world's fastest rental car
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- The claims in this video, while plausible and entertaining, are not supported by the traditionally accepted forms of Cannonball evidence and proof. Please enjoy the story but understand that VINwiki is NOT validating this record or stating it as truth.
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Fred Ashmore just set the solo Cannonball record driving from New York to Los Angeles in a rented 2019 Ford Mustang GT with 130 extra gallons of fuel onboard. It took him just 25 hours 55 minutes. Read more in Road & Track - bit.ly/2YuylNi
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The claims in this video, while plausible and entertaining, are not supported by the traditionally accepted forms of Cannonball evidence and proof. Please enjoy the story but understand that VINwiki is NOT validating this record or stating it as truth.
This claim was a BS run. Constantly says he did a "solo" run then says "WE" in multiple statements. Video shows camera video of difference scenes (while might not be of actual run).
Says he had no equipment yet says he had a scanner. 159 or 69 miles per hour on a rental car. Don't rental cars have governers in them to prevent "wreck less driving" speeds.
Shows pictures of guys. How did those other guys keep up. They would need the same set up to keep up with this mustang.
I call a bullshit story. He has the smirk of a habitual liar. He believes his own lies.
No proof..never happened. Good story though. 👏
Damn. Was a cool story though.
It never added up. BS from day 1.
@@marcv.5574 I thought the premium rental cars like this had upper limit alerts. Tamper with the computer or get it past a max speed and boom....like you ran out of gas. Also his screenshots seemed a bit altered....
Having such a serious sounding disclaimer as the opening is so hilarious, I just wouldn't know where to start. 2 years, still laughing.
I am so glad that Fred was able to secure this car from the dealer that bought it from Avis. It would have been a shame for this car to have gone off to live a normal Mustang life and ended up in a crowd somewhere.
😂😂😂
😂
It’d also be kind of funny, someone driving the cross country record car with no idea
shots fired lol
I thought you would bought the car from under him
[Latest report from Space X Dragon]: From up here we can see the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids of Giza, and Fred Ashmore's balls.
🤣🤣
Wears no speed limit shirt - at the rental pickup. Legend. Brock is smiling down.
Anyone else find is ironic that he had those blue lives matter stickers on his Cobra, yet his completely disrespects all law enforcement by breaking the speed limit and endangering drivers (and cops) across multiple states?
@@assoonaspastablepizza8135 and how is that implying that their lives don't matter
@@assoonaspastablepizza8135 maybe its to be on the cop's good side if he gets pulled over
AsSoonAsPastable Pizza defund patrolling police
@@assoonaspastablepizza8135 Ironic how? "I installed the lightbar so I could see well past my headlights" (Care for others in not wanting to harm them and thus end his run) 'Endangering Cops' by not leading them in any high speed pursuits? As he said last video, any blue lights and he was toast.
As I said in a last vid thread, To set the record, you must be successful, and you have to leave others unscathed, and basically yourself. That requires FAR more care than basically anyone he would be proximate to on the journey.
Dumb is not the same thing as Stupid.
Pretty interesting that when large crowds are banned a mustang sets the record for going straight.
Good point.
Lmao
No I see large crowds rioting with no politions saying that's bad... wait its outside... so you cant smell the fart of someone walking in front of you... yah right stupido to say it ok to protest outside as its outside Farts still smell outside...
large crowds banned unless they're rioting and looting
@@rickmathews6044 or storming the capitol
This guy just redefined all parameters for breaking a cannon ball record
Wait till a guy with a TDI turbo makes it in 5 hours less. That's what I'm betting on being the future.
Covid really helped though
blckbldng traffic has been back to normal in some states so covid only helped in like a couple states
@@THESLlCK As a TDI enthusiast, a TDI couldn't beat this record, the speeds are just too high. You would have to run a car that was so modified there would be no fuel economy advantage.
Right?!? Like now what haha magical refueling
what he actually meant to say was "I used google maps instead of apple maps because I wanted to not end up in Canada"
Can’t stand google maps I’ve never had any issues using my iphone.
@@Thumper68 Can't stand Apple Maps. A friend and I once tried using both to navigate us through some heavy LA traffic and Google gave us a way better route.
I know the joke but seriously. As of the past year Apple Maps has KILLED google maps. It always takes me on the best route to get to my destination. Beats my friends with google maps everytime
Andrew H I mean idk about you but google basically has access to almost every phone out there, since everyone with a google acc accepts that they can track your location, so the traffic info is basically the best you can currently get.
I hate Apple Maps. I hate the audio of maps so I just look where I’m at on it and I know when to turn. Apple Maps shows you that you’re before the turn as you’re passing it. Google maps always shows the right location
God this guy can turn a rental car into a cannonball record holder, and not get into to much trouble with the rental company, but I rent a car and they notice any super small scratch or ding and charge me
Bad week for rental mustangs.
Isn't "world's fastest rental car" just any rental car?
Technically u can rent a rocket ship
Jeremy Clarkson did say that 😂
Motlaka Makhura when he raced the Toyota against James in the boat lol
I always think of Days of Thunder.
as a rental car employee who has been (speed) ticketed in a Versa Note, yes..........
This dude probably dropped an epic beef jerky/cliff bar monster dump off in California.
Rumour has it it was south bound and down keep on flushing......what did you eat fred......I gotta take fred 10-100
And I was worried Hertz would be upset that I'd maxed out their Mustang on the salt at Bonneville!
I maxed out Hertz's Jeep Compass, but that's only because the Hwy 40 speed limit in Arizona is 75. The Compass struggled to get there.
Pro Tip: dont eat jalapeno corn bread and drink coffee during your run
*shudders*
Rip butthole
Driving a bomb. Literally
At 159MPH at some areas!
Yeah wouldn't want to crash at those speeds with that setup.
@@andmicbro1 Extra fuel or not crashing even at highway speeds is bad. Crashing at 100 mph plus you'd be lucky to survive without the gas. Dead is dead, all that gas isn't going to make you more dead. You just make it harder for the authorities to ID you because they need to do the dental analysis.
The faster you try to go, the more dangerous the run becomes. . . Higher speeds, bigger fuel tanks, mobile fueling etc. At some point the record will get pushed into extremely dangerous territory. Maybe it's already there.
someone set him up
Fred: I outran my headlights
Speed of Light: come again??!!
Guess you forgot driver's ed...DON'T OVER DRIVE YOUR HEADLIGHTS AFTER DARK.
Factory headlights aren't aimed at infinity, eventually they'll hit the ground.
Drivers Ed Resources - “Overdriving your headlights means not being able to stop inside the illuminated area ahead. It is difficult to judge other vehicles' speeds and distances at night. Do not overdrive your headlights-it creates a blind "crash area" in front of your vehicle. You should be able to stop inside the illuminated area ahead.”
Smh...the faster you drive at night the further ahead you need to be able to see because you're traveling the length of the beams in a second or less...and the brighter illumination let's others better judge your position.
Mustang: (weights two tons)
"Its lightweight"
compared to the dodge
Compared to a scatpack charger yeah
@@JokahFACE its still heavyer than most mid-size sedans, so its still heavyer
It’s all relative...
Drive one and see for yourself. It handles it well.
Avis is probably going to have a giant poster of your face that says "don't rent to"
The *2020 version* of the 60s *Hertz "Rent-a-Racer"*
Ed the type of guy to go the a treadmill at the gym and Whisper "don't let these guys walk over you"
Ford soon to release the 2021 Mustang Cannonball Edition..... lol
Brilliant!
so is he now the record holder? in a solo run? In a rented car? Can someone get this man a beer?
Yup
apparently solo-run only... per an Ed post there is a faster time to be announced still.
Ed talked about people wanting to have runs classified in different ways and I think he said he didn't like the idea. However the title says solo run. He also mentioned there were multiple records set in the past couple months, I think there might be something closer to 25 hopefully high 24 coming soon.
@@Eargesplitten-Loudenboomer wait until I rent a kia forte!
Hold mine so I can get him his.
Wouldn’t Avis have a GPS tracker on their rental car to show this thing being driven at high rate of speed for an extended period of time?
Good question.
They do but most of the time they’re never checked or monitored. Only when you get into an accident they can figure out what you’ve been doing and see if you are to blame somehow.
Enterprise only uses them on HD trucks
Be cool if they'd supply him with the data for verification. Lol. I know. Not gonna happen.
Last video some rental car company workers said no one is really watching.
I love that there still are people that do amazing things without filming it.
The light bar addition ('out-driving your headlights') was something C2C Express racers Diem & Turner realized. So they added the 4 hella lights on the front of their Ferrari 308 for their record time run in 1983.
Did anyone actually knows he’s a “FORD GUY “
Awesome work Fred! And thanks for telling us more about your setup. That bit with cocking the rear view to the corner to see on-ramps is very clever.
I'm confused as to how it would help. Wouldn't it already be too late?
Glad to help anytime...’m
the mustang has blind spot mirrors built in to see if there was anyone you missed going thru that crowd.
Fred sent it twice back to back. Goes to show how good Mustangs are. Congrats on the record Fred!
I did not really understand if he's a ford guy or not
Fred please be careful on your next adventure make sure you got good tires. You were really lucky, it didn't blow during your cannonball.
and this is why you dont buy ex rental cars lol
I have an ex rental mustang ecoboost. Competition orange with extras, like 18k miles and was less than a year old for at the time for 19k. I’ve put several thousand dollars into mods as well. 4 years as my hard driven daily and she’s never had a single problem. Not all ex rentals are bad (:
The Fig no i got it with 19k miles.
I find the man approaching me at the end of the video to have subtle aggressive tones. Direct eye contact, walking straight towards me, and using an authoritative tone of voice doesn't compel me to buy things just so you guys know. I feel like prey being stalked haha.
sirgallium ... and that haircut 😂
@@kimosabbe50 I was thinking of mentioning that too lol but that actually would require it's own entire video about the downfall of the fade in American society. Fades don't exist anymore. Everybody sees those pictures of WW2 guys with those awesome haircuts and they think I want that and rightly so because those haircuts are awesome. The thing is though you have to be able to fade to get a cut like that, and apparently from what I've read it requires a razor to do properly and nowadays normal hair cutters aren't allowed to fade with a razor or something? Either way, it doesn't happen anymore. Now they just use the buzzers at one setting all the way up, and then cut the hair on top with scissors with zero attempt at fading in between and it makes it look like either you want attention or just bad compared to those old awesome fade cuts. It's a plague in modern society just like wearing suits that are too tight and pull with a giant X shape on the chest to the button. I get it it's the style of the time but guess what, wearing clothes that fit you properly will always override the "style of the time".
@@El_Chompo some people just don't have great barbers. A good barber knows how to a fade, its a common technique taught at every barberschool. Also, not every fade is a skin fade and requires the use of a razer, or foil shaver.
This scared the hell out of me. I just bought a 2019 silver Gt premium that looks exactly like that, same rims and everything, and it was a previous rental. The only thing that saved me was that the Texas license plate in his pictures didn’t match up to the Texas license plate that was on mine before I purchased it lol. Thank God. I also found out that mine was limited to 80mph while it was being rented out. Not that that changes anything.
Why, if anything you should be relieved. Any car that can average almost 120mph for 25 straight hours is the definition of dead nuts reliable.
Gasoline is interesting stuff and not as dangerous as people think... vapors in an enclosed space are the biggest issue, but as a liquid, gas is fairly safe.
Fairly clear this is not as seat of the pants is initially indicated. A lot of this was well thought out prior. Out-driving the headlights... high speed fun... "Is that a"... and it past you... love it.
And luck is with this guy right now... clean run, mechanical failures before/after but not during, cheap tire replacement... lets head to the casino!!!
I heard that Chuck Norris broke the record unofficially on a 2 speed pedal bike. With no chain.
I WISH SOMEONE WOULD SMASH THE RECORD ALREADY IN A SMART FOUR-TWO!
the engine is to small.
Not if you replace it with a Hayabusa engine like some have
If true... and it may well be ...it's impressive. Very impressive.
In 1967 driving a 67 427 435 hp Vette with a 3.36 rear end I went from Steamboat Springs Colo to Menlo Park Calif in 8 hrs 20 minutes.
There was quite a bit of mountain driving and at high speed the Vette got MAYBE around 8mpg. With a 20 gal tank there were as I recall around 6 fuel stops.
Top end on the Vette was right around 153mph with the 3.36 gear.
I did outrun a Utah patrolman around 40 miles from the Nevada border and make it into Nevada .The car was on the original supposedly premium factory red line tires.
Which weren't much of a tire.
Anyway I regarded that as pretty fast at that time.
Years later driving a Porsche 928 in 1983 I went from Las Vegas to Los Angeles in 2 hrs 15 minutes.
I came in the back way thru the desert .
Both times I recall being wrung out at the end of the drive.
The combination of driving the car in triple digits and watching for police produces a fair amount of tension.
I find 25 to 26 hours solo at triple digits monumental for a solo driver.
He's right about wearing the tires out at sustained high speed .
On the Steamboat to Menlo run I started with about 3000 miles on the factory tires. The morning after my arrival I noticed all 4 tires were nearly bald and had to be immediately replaced.
Of c ourselves now cars are enormously more capable as witness a midrange rental Mustang with a 159mph top end.
And superior braking handling and modern Z rated radial tires.
This guy's planning and prep was pretty impressive.
.I especially liked his choice of a relatively pedestrian white car.
For some reason white cars going fast don't attract nearly as much unfavorable attention as red orange yellow or black cars. And a whie 4 door sedan is best of all in 2006 I had a white E55 with Renntech mods.
The car was fast.
I could and did regularly cruise at around 90 mph on the way to Las Vegas and after hitting the Nevada state libe increase to 140.
Did this multiple times. Never got stopped.
By contrast in the mid 80s I had a red Ferrari Testarossa.
Got a ticket outside of Palm S I rings for 58mph in a 55 zone.
Cops are basically big game hunters at heart.
They absolutely LOVE tagging a bright colored red high performance car.
White sedans.... nah.
Around 5 years ago in my 2013 mustang gt I drove from Palo Alto, CA to Sacramento, CA (130miles) in about an hour and 20 mins. I was hitting 100 miles the entire way and for some odd reason that night there was no real traffic. If you know the Bay Area there is ALWAYS traffic.
Hes got a really good point with the light bar. Usually when we do top speed runs its only for a few minutes at max lol
It would be smart to run a Crown Vic decom with a coyote in it.
Great call on the light bar. They are great for night driving.
No shit? 🤦♂️
Despite this record being during this period where there's a lot less traffic on the roads, it really deserves credit for how it was done... for me there's true essence of cannonball in this record! Get the best car you can get your hands on and just drive like you stole it!
Rental companies hate this guy
Ford owes him a new mustang
So a coyote swapped econoline with a rear 500 gal tank should do the trick. Hell why not an ambulance. 🤔
Aerodynamics and fuel economy really. Also the fact that you stand out and cops will notice a van going really fast.
Mark M and they aren’t gonna notice a flashy sports car with a flood light on the front going fast lmao
@@markm0000 transit van has a cd of .32-34 which its not bad. As for my comment. It was a joke.
@@blue_lancer_es Drag is a function of both Cd and frontal area and directly proportional to both factors. A low drag coefficient helps, but that frontal area will get you every time. You'd have a lower top speed and much lower MPG at that speed in the van.
@@markm0000 what about a truck/SUV. You have ton of them in the US and you can probably fit that big tank in it. Aerodynamics won't be best but it could be interesting.
If you see a solar eclipse double check!! It might just be Fred's balls blocking the sun.☀️
This guy's a great storyteller. More please.
Well that's the one of the best ways I've seen someone get blacklisted from renting cars.
I've done a bunch of long distance sailboat racing solo where you often push yourself beyond 24 hours straight. My biggest issue at 300 am after being awake for 24 hours was hallucinations. It's really freaky when it happens and you have to constantly talk yourself back to focusing on what's real and what isn't. How did he avoid hallucinating?
I think he kind of did when he hit the California agricultural inspection point.
Glad to hear he went out and bought the car. Awesome.
This guy is great! Has awesome ideas and executed! Would love hearing more from him.
Oh no the blues lives matter sticker on that car 😂😂😂
Oof.
@@KMcNally117 big oof
gigantic oof
Anyone else find is ironic that he had those blue lives matter sticker on his Cobra, yet his completely disrespects all law enforcement by breaking the speed limit and endangering drivers (and cops) across multiple states? What a #jackass. #BLM
AsSoonAsPastable Pizza I bet you if he was stopped though, he would stop and respect the officer and not try to kill him unlike you.
“Anything that’s been driven that hard by that many people, you don’t wanna stick your key in it”
Rental car companies HATE this one simple quick easy Mustang trick you can c2c at 150mph average....
My guy wore a crossed out speed sign to the rental shop 😂😂😂😂
You know a collector is going to try and buy this car for its part in automotive history...
No need: he bought it back from the dealer Avis sold it to.
What a sweet tire shop guy :)
So the rental went back into the fleet?
No they took one look at the mileage and sold it.
Ed Bolian commented that Fred bought the car after it went up for sale
Yes and then I bought it from the dealer
Nice! So glad for this second video covering these details!👍
VINwiki, you guys have created a monster! There's no telling how many people want to try this bc you brought light to the run. My friends and I talk about it often, what car, which route, what season. All the variables.
Great choice with the R3 and ALP! The R7 is top notch as well. :)
You would know sir. I bought my R3 because of your reviews. Great detector.
Man, this guy was on a mission!
2 years later this mustang shows on Facebook: all highway miles, owned by adult, never been driven violently.
Can totally understand how the refinement of a very modern car like the current Mustang would make a solo trip much more bearable. Fred made a very good decision taking this on in a 5.0 automatic Mustang (I guess they don't make them in a manual config these days). A five year old German sedan like an E55, BMW M5 or an Audi RS6 Wagon could be better but only marginally.
Fred nailed it. That is a great record.
I still can’t believe there were people bitching about his bumper!
Those fisheye mirrors are one of the best features.
Love the channel! Great video!
Thanks so much!
Go Fred! Ed...of course you did more than 1 video with the great Fred Ashmore in town! Lol. I hope to see a Vinwiki account of the 2019 C2C win by Fred!
Ford should sponser you, what a great advertisement for them.
Thank you vinwiki for standing with the men and women in blue
Is it your opinion that people who drive 160 mph on average for 3,000 mi somehow support law enforcement?
Committing multiple crimes to support the boys in blue, is just about the dumbest thing I've read in 2020
I know this is unrelated, but my best 1000 mile solo run was Des Moines Iowa to Gulf Port Mississippi. My time was 9:54 in an 91 CRX HF but with a Z1 head and Y8 manifold, header, exhaust, intake, chipped and tuned PS9 obd0 ecu with one wire vtec. at full tilt with a dx trans i topped out at 140-150ish speedo not great. it had HX wheels on nittos. gsr front breaks and sway bars and a ton of rust. this was back in 08 when i was returning back to post at Keesler AFB. I averaged 35-40 miles per gal. So 37 times 11 gal 407 miles per tank plus another civic tank in the back to feed the primary so 814 total mile range. Fun times will do again. PS. only one short stop for 5 gals to finish. Cost to do this 1k car gas and mods. the sold the car for 5500 a week later.
You are the greatest cannonballer of all times. For sure the bravest
I went to high-school in Maine MCI the will of many up there is unmatched
I met this guy in real life to buy a set of wheels and he is an extremely genuine and generous guy and was also really fond to talk to.
1963 1/2 Galaxie. A man after my own heart
6:06 Absolutely agree. If I could put a light bar on my H2R I would.
why would he need it though? I mean on a motorcycle i understand but why on a car? I live in germany and i go faster than 150mph often & never wished for more light on the car. If you can't see, might aswell turn the high beams on
Eat a lot of salt, always a great idea. Said no kidney ever.
An otherwise healthy body can be "shocked" occasionally, without adverse consequences. In fact, "shocking" a body with fasting, alternating hot / cold temperature changes, etc. can be beneficial.
Yea I don't think Fred is a pinnacle of a healthy diet.
I'm glad he gave the old timer $100.00 and some business.
This guy redefines the mantra 'don't be gentle it's a rental'!
Tire speed rating is an interesting topic because you can clearly drive much faster than a tire's speed rating, people do it all the time. So why are there speed ratings? It's for long duration. If you exceed the speed rating for a long enough amount of time the tire will delaminate.
I heard the maine accent come out a couple times strong!
eventually someone will get a chase plane with good optics to scout while someone drives flat out at 200+ mph. after that the nonstop refuel will come then the 100 mph refuel. the future is bright
Kudos to the Coyote. She's nice and broke in now
Funny he’s talking about salted food, I usually end up dehydrated on road trips to avoid stopping and just sip water
looks for comments.
The only place I’ve used my shrewd negotiator skills so far is to annoy people in monopoly so they would give me their stuff cheaper.
9:00 in when he says a cop is gonna want to know why another cop is hauling ass, I can confirm. Going 90 in a 35 in an old CVPI, I was pulled over by an unmarked in the hood. He just flipped his shit while telling me that he thought I was a cop going to an important call, then told me to gtfo of his beat and not do it again.
That black car clip looked awesome
Great video. Loved the story.
I did Nashua to Mentone down the East Coast of Australia in under 18 hours in an '89 Nissan Pulsar w no mods. Fuel stops werw like an F1 pitstop. Couldn't put my arms down for hours after getting home. Kept rising to the steering wheel position by themselves. The good old days before highway patrol.
Some super good karma for a nice guy. Love the story, and love that it was done in a Ford 👍
Thats no joke on the Beef Jerky!!
At some point, you gotta think... is this guy doing the run by himself because he chose to or because he couldn't find someone to run with him. After the last video it's pretty apparent he likes to listen to himself talk
He said his brother was supposed to go but couldn't get the time off. So he went solo.
Yall should just use night vision goggles and urn your lights off
Great achievement, great story! Congratulations Fred!
Hello, vinwiki team 😁 nice video
Love that terre haute made a picture. Always wondered how my i70 got used around my area for these cannonball events.
All with a Uniden R3 - great detector. Have a R1 in my wife's car and a R7 in mine
I rented a Mustang in pdx for a roadtrip in 2006... 4400 miles in one week. When I returned it they did a doubletake... unlimited mileage... thanks Hertz.
Lol, just did a road trip from DC to Denver last month in a Hyundai, started with about 700 miles, put 5000 miles in ten days.
Last time I was this early, the CHP still had a 25% chance!
Love the technical explanation and no bullshittt
This guy just said "with the mustang being light, being nimble"... im not sure you know what a mustang is.
He drove a mustang across the country in 25 hours
I doubt he “doesn’t know what a mustang is”