Finn Ari Vatanen, World Rally Champion, competing in the early 80s Group-B rallying era of turbocharged excess, takes a Peugeot 405 T-16 up the legendary Pikes Peak Hill Climb in 1988 as part of this spectacular short film.
The 405 is a two door, light weight, 500bhp man versus machine affair, with the course unrelenting and rather dangerous in places. If this doesn’t whet your appetite to spend all day watching Group-B rallying, or spark an interest in Hill Climbs I don’t know what will.
This is the second installment in my before FaceTube series, looking back at motoring movies before the proliferation of YouTube and Facebook.