What ever happened to the 3 peugeot 205 t16 pikes peak cars?

[TheThing]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-K1B4sTX4o

[TheThing]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-K1B4sTX4o

[F1GTRUeno]

There's a video on youtube (or at least there was) of a load of Peugeot's famous rally cars and such in a storage warehouse.

I know they've got a museum in Sochaux so it was probably the museum storage compound but I'd be willing to bet they're there.

Edit - here's the video at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrnTgoTr1t8

Edited by F1GTRUeno on Thursday 25th December 23:33

[Save Ferris]

It looks like there is one of the Dakar cars in Sochaux

[Steven_RW]

Interesting topic. Does anyone know what is strapped to the back window of the yellow t16 in the photo? Is it a radiator or something similar?


On the subject of pikes peak: All hail Climb Dance :-)

Regards,
Steven_RW

[mfmman]

Steven_RW said:

Interesting topic. Does anyone know what is strapped to the back window of the yellow t16 in the photo? Is it a radiator or something similar?


On the subject of pikes peak: All hail Climb Dance :-)

Regards,
Steven_RW

Sand ramps

For getting out of soft sand etc

[Steven_RW]

mfmman said:

Sand ramps

For getting out of soft sand etc

Thanks.

Steven_RW

[greenscooby]

brilliant video F1GTRUeno. Its suprising whats still out there but no pikes peak! I will e-mail peugeot and see if I get a reply.

[F1GTRUeno]

They definitely have at least one in storage, looks like it was let out to play last year....

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dusson/10043200934/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dusson/10043280836/i...

[aeropilot]

F1GTRUeno said:

They definitely have at least one in storage, looks like it was let out to play last year....

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dusson/10043200934/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dusson/10043280836/i...

That's a Dakar 205 and a Pikes Peak 405, so not what the OP was asking about.

This is Ari in 1987 in the Pikes Peak 205T16E2

[Steven_RW]

Hi - any details on power output of the pikes peak 205 in the pic above?

What a beast it looks! :-)

RW

[greenscooby]

peugeot reckon 600bhp for this car!!!!!! but if you look into what the evo2 rally drivers were pushing out at the time which was up to 650 bhp according to Juha K (peugeot asked them how much power they wanted the cars to have and they capped it at that as they did not want any more). I personally have heard over 700bhp and possible up to 800bhp and the car was around 150kg lighter as well. People reckon the Audi had 1000bhp though but not 100% sure on them figures either.

[greenscooby]

Hi all just got an update from the Peugeot mueseum. One of the pikes peak 205 t16 actually got stripped out and the bits put into a 405 of some sort. I am still waitin for more info at the moment though.

[greenscooby]

Hi all just got an update from the Peugeot mueseum. One of the pikes peak 205 t16 actually got stripped out and the bits put into a 405 of some sort. I am still waitin for more info at the moment though.

[aeropilot]

greenscooby said:

Hi all just got an update from the Peugeot mueseum. One of the pikes peak 205 t16 actually got stripped out and the bits put into a 405 of some sort. I am still waitin for more info at the moment though.

Yes, this has already been mentioned in earlier posts.

The following year (1988) Peugeot & Ari went back to Pikes Peak with the 405T16, effectively a re-shell of the previous years's 205, with a longer wheelbase and a few added tweeks and mods. This car is retained by the Peugeot museum IIRC.

Pikes Peak 1988

[DeuxCentCinq]

I need to visit this museum.

[greenscooby]

Me too

[Old Merc]

I seam to remember seeing one at the Goodwood Festival a few years ago ??

Any way I`m sure you all have seen this many times??
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=climb...

Tell me,why did they tarmac the hill??? much better loose.

[aeropilot]

Old Merc said:

Tell me,why did they tarmac the hill??? much better loose.

Lawsuit brought about by the Sierra Club, which is a US based environmental organisation.

The paving of Pikes Peak is the result of a Sierra Club lawsuit settled by the town of Colorado Springs in 1999. The Sierra Club sued saying that the town was damaging the mountain (National Forest land) in terms of runoff and excess gravel used to maintain the loose surface road to the top and was violating the "Clean Water Act".

The town fought the lawsuit briefly out of concern for what impact it would have on the annual Hillclimb and the cost to pave the road to the top of the 14,110 mountain but then gave in, seeing the writing on the legal wall with the Sierra Club likely better and more aggressively funded in this effort than the taxpayers of Colorado Springs.

And so some 12 years after capitulation, Pikes Peak was eventaully paved from top to bottom and I guess the environment there is "saved".

[greenscooby]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciagqfd9s04

Hi all this shows what happened to two of the 205s