Red Racer Factory

The Red Racer Factory is an abandoned tricycle factory in the Capital Wasteland.

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The Red Racer tricycle factory is where you will meet Goalie Ledoux and two members of his gang, Sudden-Death Overtime. It's situated one map square to the northeast of the Nuka-Cola Plant, although you can't go due northeast from there, per se. Instead go north, then turn east when you come across a diner up a hill.

The various ghouls encountered in the initial levels exhibit the curiousity of suffering from exploding heads after death, accompanying an electronic "chirp". Further exploration, particularly into the CEO Offices, reveals super mutants, also with a penchant for bursting heads after death. Eventually, a mad scientist known as "The Surgeon", armed with a missile launcher, will accost the player. Reading the various computers reveals that The Surgeon was apparently experimenting with enthralling various mutant creatures with a brain implant. It is revealed that the reason for their heads exploding was a means of cover-up, and also as a failsafe in the event that he loses control. The player can activate the failsafe if they have the Science skill needed to hack the computer terminals with the option.

There is also a Glowing One named Stefan, who is revealed from the notes of the Surgeon to be a particularly prized thrall. On The Surgeon's body is a key that will open up two safes nearby and the cage holding Stefan, as well as a Missile Launcher and the Surgeon's Lab Coat.

If you are wearing the Ghoul Mask, you don't need to kill a single enemy here as all appear green. Furthermore, you will be able to talk to The Surgeon albeit he will tell you that they're busy and you should leave him/her alone.


 * Note: The Surgeon could either be a man or a woman, but this has no effect on any possible dialogue or combat.

Notable Loot

 * Goalie Ledoux wears a unique mask named Ledoux's Hockey Mask that gives the wearer +25 Action Points and has a damage resistance of 5.
 * D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine under a bucket, on top of a large machine, next to a tool box, turpentine, ammo box and hammer at the northeastern side of the factory floor. Must drop down from a catwalk. This area is difficult to find, and you'll need to run all the way around the upstairs areas in order to reach this room.  It's located between two generators up a small step ladder.
 * You can find Nikola Tesla and You behind a locked door (Lockpicking 50 required) in CEO offices.
 * A copy of Dean's Electronics is well hidden near a toolbox above the machinery in the first assembly room straight forward from the main entrance. Jump up onto some barrels to get onto one of the machines and find it.
 * A Nuka-Cola Quantum can be found in the same room as Stefan (locked gate)

Related Quests

 * Just for the Taste of It