Update: 1320video was with Zach during his quest for an eight-second pass. The above video added on March 20 captures his trials, tribulations, and ultimate success over the course of a very long weekend.
We aren’t going to lie – this old Ford Taurus SHO and its owner Zach Wright are working-class heroes to us. We first saw The Blue Turd (Wright’s official name for the car) just over a year ago when it only produced 800 horsepower (597 kilowatts). We revisited him that summer when, with his stock SHO engine block upgraded to 1,000 hp (746 kW), he ran several nine-second passes to officially become the world’s fastest Taurus. Since then he made an appearance on the Netflix show Fastest Car, and with the engine now producing an estimated 1,100 hp (820 kW) to the wheels, he’s going even faster.
That brings us to this article, focusing on what Wright accomplished this past weekend. He faced numerous mechanical challenges and a Coronavirus…
