 Powered by a Rolls-Royce Orpheus turbojet engine, it could accelerate from standstill to 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.The sister car "Hellbender" was involved in a crash in 1986 in which Mark Woodley, an experienced dragster driver, was killed.