Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Vampire is a turbojet-propelled car that currently holds the outright British land speed record, driven by Colin Fallows to a mean speed of 300.3 mph (483.3 km/h) on July 5, 2000 at Elvington, Yorkshire, England. Vampire was 30 feet (9.1 m) long and consumed from 7 to 10 UK gallons of fuel per mile. Powered by a Rolls-Royce Orpheus turbojet engine, it could accelerate from standstill to 272 mph (438 km/h) in six seconds, a personal best set at Santa Pod Raceway. Vampire was originally constructed by Allan ''Bootsie'' Herridge, a pioneer British drag racer, as one of a pair of identical match-race jet dragsters in 1981.