sureshot007
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- Kenmore, NY
Has anyone attempted a run up Pike's Peak in a Jeep?
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Pikes Peak?
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Frank Z
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- Colorado Springs
Of course.
Pay your toll and enjoy the view.
Pay your toll and enjoy the view.
sureshot007
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- Kenmore, NY
Somehow I knew I'd get that response.
I did a quick search to see what the record is for a Jeep, but didn't find any attempts. This was, of course, I quick search. Figured I'd probably get better results just asking you guys.
I did a quick search to see what the record is for a Jeep, but didn't find any attempts. This was, of course, I quick search. Figured I'd probably get better results just asking you guys.
Frank Z
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- Colorado Springs
I guess I misunderstood your question.
sureshot007
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- Kenmore, NY
I did a slightly better search and came up with this:
So, I think it's a safe bet that the first two aren't XJs. I'd be curious to know more about the 1989 - anyone have more info?
So, I think it's a safe bet that the first two aren't XJs. I'd be curious to know more about the 1989 - anyone have more info?
XJLI
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- Location
- Long Island, NY
Don Adams was a big name in jeep desert racing, I'm not sure what class F designates.
cody4359
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- Location
- tacoma, wa
not in the jeep, but i did just drive it a bit over a month ago..
sureshot007
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- Location
- Kenmore, NY
Sucks that it's all paved now.
XJLI
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- Long Island, NY
Even the race is 100% Paved?
sureshot007
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- Location
- Kenmore, NY
Yes 
XJLI
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- Long Island, NY
Aw man, I didn't know that. That blows.
WheelinJR
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- Location
- Portland, Oregon
Yeah, Pikes Peak is a cool competition. Much cooler when it was all dirt back in the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJsHlugRls4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJsHlugRls4
Ya I've been working up there finishing the concrete retention ponds, and some asphalt that needed relplaced. It is Very crappy that PPHWY is all paved. I think a race up old stage road/upper gold camp from the broadmore in the springs to victor/cripple creek would be a stellar race, and its ALL dirt.
Marcelo73
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- Location
- Montevideo
Je, I read Pikes Peak and instantly cames to my memory this video with Ari Vatanen. It's worth watching every second, and the part at 3:28 is simply amazing.
The good old times of Rally Group B.
tbburg
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- Scottsdale AZ
It does suck that it's all paved now, but the alternative was to close the road. Environmental issue. Seems all the gravel would wash off the road in the winter, then in the spring, the state DOT would truck tons and tons of new gravel up there, just to repeat the cycle the following year. Seems it was having a detrimental effect on the mountain.
I drove up with a friend in a carbureted CJ when it was still dirt/gravel. 'Old 304 would just barely stay running at the top. Passed three model-A Fords coming up on the way down.
Jeepspeedchief
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- Orange, Ca.
Don Adam's 1989 Jeep was a Comanche with AMC big block. It is still sitting in his barn in Colorado.
