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Giving new meaning to meals on wheels; the speedy table, dubbed the Fastfood, aimed to break the world record for the fastest furniture.

Perry Watkins, 47, an amateur mechanic from Wingrave near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire created the speedy table from a Reliant Scimitar sports car chassis which is equipped with the fuel-injected 4 litre Land Rover Discovery engine, boosted by the nitrous oxide injection in his garage at home in just over a year. The amazing vehicle table has six chairs, elegant place setting and a dummy that bears a close resemblance to Top Gear’s The Stig, while the table's driver sits in the centre, with his head sticking out of the table just underneath the roast chicken. The table also boasts two silver teapots for the exhaust fumes, its brake lights encased in rolled up napkins and road-legal vehicle's tax disc is stuck onto the champagne bucket.

The Queen Anne table laid out for a silver service dinner achieved an average speed of 113.8mph, although it hit 130mph at one point at an official record attempt at

"The tablecloth was flapping away and I was trying to spot the finish line. It was quite difficult."

Guinness must ratify the achievement to oust the record held by Edd China for the sofa he designed and built that reached a speed of 92mph at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, Leicestershire, UK, on May 11, 2007

Watkins, whose day job is as a sales director at high street shoe repairer Timpson, already holds the world records for the flattest (Flatmobile) and the smallest car (Wind Up). Watkins is certainly not a rocket scientist - he says he's not even an engineer: "I'm a shoe repairer by trade. I just started off tinkering with bicycles, mopeds, bikes, and progressed to cars.

"I'm completely self taught," He said "If I don't know how to do something I'll just ask someone or look it up on the internet!"