Here's how I built the world's fastest rental car 

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.

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.

Wears no speed limit shirt - at the rental pickup. Legend. Brock is smiling down.

[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.

Pretty interesting that when large crowds are banned a mustang sets the record for going straight.

Not one crowd was harmed during this

what he actually meant to say was "I used google maps instead of apple maps because I wanted to not end up in Canada"

Smartest comment I've heard on any car channel- "Wouldn't it be nice to have a video of it?" Fred- "Probably not because it would land me in jail..." Love seeing all the folks posting up their evidence, Diesel Brothers, cough, cough...

This guy just redefined all parameters for breaking a cannon ball record

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?

And I was worried Hertz would be upset that I'd maxed out their Mustang on the salt at Bonneville!

I’m not a car person by any means, but I love listening to these Cannonball stories.

This dude probably dropped an epic beef jerky/cliff bar monster dump off in California.

Pro Tip: dont eat jalapeno corn bread and drink coffee during your run

Fred: I outran my headlights Speed of Light: come again??!!

He went full Jeremy Clarkson.

Ed the type of guy to go the a treadmill at the gym and Whisper "don't let these guys walk over you"

I'm more impressed with a solo run like this than a team effort with blockers and spotters every 30 miles.

so is he now the record holder? in a solo run? In a rented car? Can someone get this man a beer?

Driving a bomb. Literally

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.

Mustang: (weights two tons) "Its lightweight"

Someone at the rental car company is getting fired after this video

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"*

I'm gonna lay it on that the record will drop below 24 hours in the next 3 years

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?

vinwiki- posts 3 seconds ago me - i am speed

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.

Why didn’t he mention the compartment he added for hiding the coke and Adderall

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.

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.

THIS IS WHY YOU NEVER BUY A FORMER RENTAL CAR, LOL......GUYS BEAT THEM DOWN!!!

This run just sounds so stressful driving at that speed for so long while trying to be hyper aware of law enforcement and road hazards.

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.

Fred sent it twice back to back. Goes to show how good Mustangs are. Congrats on the record Fred!

Ford soon to release the 2021 Mustang Cannonball Edition..... lol

Wow one of my favorite stories of the recent videos, was cool listening to him explain the reasoning behind the choices of equipment and car! Interesting to hear how dynamic it is driving the cannonball by yourself as well. Seems exhilarating!

He chose a AWESOME car obviously, but I feel like he had the right idea in the beginning with the Taurus Police Interceptor, you’d have the look of law enforcement, city, state, and federal all use them so any state it would blend in PLUS folks would be less likely to call in on you thinking law enforcement. With the interceptor the engine and suspension is made for speed and handling so maybe someone will make a Taurus cannonball car 🤷🏻‍♂️ just my 2 cents worth

Did anyone actually knows he’s a “FORD GUY “

That rental Company punching the air right now

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.

Note to self. Put new tires on before attempting.

I love that there still are people that do amazing things without filming it.

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!

and this is why you dont buy ex rental cars lol

I did not really understand if he's a ford guy or not

That's the one thing that freaks me out when ripping around in my car. Things just happen a lot quicker than they normally would at regular speed limits and people aren't expecting vehicles driving 100+ miles an hour so when they look to get over your pretty far back there but when they actually do get over your on their ass or hit them so it's not me worried about screwing up Driving fast, it's someone else not anticipating high speed vehicles and them screwing up which in turn causes me to wreck. I've always wanted a street bike as well but I'm always worried someone's going to kill me out there. There's a lottttttt of idiots out there on the roads I just can't trust other people.

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!

So a coyote swapped econoline with a rear 500 gal tank should do the trick. Hell why not an ambulance. 🤔

I'd be nice to have a road like the autobahn in the USA stretch from Washington to Florida and Maine to southern California.

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 😂😂😂

It would be smart to run a Crown Vic decom with a coyote in it.

This guy's a great storyteller. More please.

Great choice with the R3 and ALP! The R7 is top notch as well. :)

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!

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

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.

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?

Ford owes him a new mustang

Nice! So glad for this second video covering these details!👍

He commented on my video I did about this! Dude is crazy. 26 hours straight lmao crazy accomplishment

Great call on the light bar. They are great for night driving.

If you see a solar eclipse double check!! It might just be Fred's balls blocking the sun.☀️

Glad to hear he went out and bought the car. Awesome.

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!!!

Well that's the one of the best ways I've seen someone get blacklisted from renting cars.

Probably some kind of record on accrued mileage during a rental period. That would have been funny to see the agents reaction when he recorded the "odometer in" number.

Love the channel! Great video!

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.

Ford should sponser you, what a great advertisement for them.

13:25 Finally! Only took 24 years to finally see a picture of another street run vehucle that had the passenger side seat pulled out. Only mine was pulled out to seat extra passengers. Fit 9 in a 78 Datsun B-210.

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.

What a sweet tire shop guy :)

Eat a lot of salt, always a great idea. Said no kidney ever.

Some super good karma for a nice guy. Love the story, and love that it was done in a Ford 👍

Man, this guy was on a mission!

I still can’t believe there were people bitching about his bumper!

As a ford guy too im glad u did it in a Mustang, but I gotta admit a fake police charger sounds like a better idea

the mustang has blind spot mirrors built in to see if there was anyone you missed going thru that crowd.

Rental companies hate this guy

Great story as always , does it count as an actual record if it’s not done during the cannonball run event ?

I wonder what the rental company of this mustang would say after hearing about this cannon ball

This guy is a hero and innovator!!! Rental Mustang is the answer...

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.

You are the greatest cannonballer of all times. For sure the bravest

Great Story & I can relate ....over here in South Africa the longest continuous trip I did alone was 20hrs straight...refueling times were my only chance to stretch legs, although I did at some stages swopped feet just to give my gas foot some rest....driving cross legged...hahaha! Longest I've ever been on a trip with no stopping except for fuel was me n my dad doing a 29hr35min trip one way...28hr back to go fetch my 61 Chevy Impala..... thats draining, but was worth it...hahaha

While I think these records should count this makes the idea of an * for covid seem reasonable. 0 - a few spotters, no teammates to swap driving, and fairly standard tech. It's clear it's is a different type of race with fewer officers on the road, or at least having officers disinterested in giving out tickets. That all being said, Congrats on crushing the record and glad to see someone do it in an "everyman" kind of style!

Great achievement, great story! Congratulations Fred!

Who else never wanted a car, especially a mustang until these videos.?

So the rental went back into the fleet?

Radar detector sounds nice, oh wait I'm in VA 😞

Do y’all remember that kid with a mustang that was clocked doing 200mph?

Ford, give this guy a new car, some recognition and respect!!!!

Dude's got some brass balls to do a solo Cannonball in a friggin' rental car. That's classy as f#ck.

2 years later this mustang shows on Facebook: all highway miles, owned by adult, never been driven violently.

I heard the maine accent come out a couple times strong!