What ever happened to the 3 peugeot 205 t16 pikes peak cars?
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What ever happened to the 3 yellow peugeot 205 t16 pikes peak cars? I am a massive fan of these cars but have not been able to find out any info where these cars went to after the race had finished. Were they put into storage/mueseum, were they made into the paris dakar specials or were they destroyed? You can find all kinds of info on the standard t16 as these are in mueseums still but nothing of the pikes peak type. Can any one help???
What ever happened to the 3 yellow peugeot 205 t16 pikes peak cars? I am a massive fan of these cars but have not been able to find out any info where these cars went to after the race had finished. Were they put into storage/mueseum, were they made into the paris dakar specials or were they destroyed? You can find all kinds of info on the standard t16 as these are in mueseums still but nothing of the pikes peak type. Can any one help???
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.
It shows 1 of the two yellow 205t16 pikes peak getting transformed into a 405t16 pikes peak. I have been reliably informed the third 205 pikes peak car was modified into a big winged white rally cross car and was stolen and never seen again to this day. So the two 405t16 pikes peak cars are 205t16s.
Mmmmm, this is exactly what I thought and I had prooved it To my self, I thought I was a right clever so and so But from a reliable source it's totally wrong, as this car was in the Peugeot France museums and is still about. The peugeot museum them selves don't know what happened to the third car being stolen. On my quest to find out what happened to these cars , even though I thought I knew the answer and was correct, I contacted'Ari Vatanen who I think thought I was talking about the 405 pikes peak and did not know the 405 is actually a 205 ( I don't know how though??), Jean Todt, no answer , Emmanuelle from the Peugeot museum and the work shop manager, very helpful and Chris from the Group b club via some one that owns a 405t16 pikes peak, very help full.
Hi all just recieved this from Jean Todt. Its nothing new as we know what happened to these cars but I thought I would share it with you any way and it was very nice of him to reply.
Dear Sir,
Further to your mail, Mr Jean Todt have asked me to investigate about the 205 Turbo 16 Pikes Peak cars.
As you may know the 205 and the 405 Turbo16 shared the same engine and chassis. After the first participation at the Pikes Peak hill climb in 1987, the three 205 became three 405Turbo16 the following years by changing the bodywork. So the 205's does not exist anymore.
We don’t have much information about the technical data but the power was approximatively 500hp in 1987.
Kind regards.
Dear Sir,
Further to your mail, Mr Jean Todt have asked me to investigate about the 205 Turbo 16 Pikes Peak cars.
As you may know the 205 and the 405 Turbo16 shared the same engine and chassis. After the first participation at the Pikes Peak hill climb in 1987, the three 205 became three 405Turbo16 the following years by changing the bodywork. So the 205's does not exist anymore.
We don’t have much information about the technical data but the power was approximatively 500hp in 1987.
Kind regards.
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