one of the few car models I've wanted to see in person, but have never found at a museum, car show, cruise or on the street while out walking around or driving around, the Buick Century Free Spirit, which had two sticker appearances

https://www.hagerty.com/marketplace/classified/1975-Buick-Century/3ccdb082-ab1e-4318-92b6-4f741e25bae2

https://www.virtualparking.net/post/702/1976-buick-free-spirit-official-pace-car

https://www.junkyardlife.com/2012/08/cars-in-yards-1976-buick-century-free.html

Seems that Parnelli drove it up Pikes Peak! 

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/325807354304899686/

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/04/1981-buick-regal-was-pace-car-for-indy.html

the Coronet so cool it got Larry Chen to do a feature on it at Pikes Peak! J.T. Taylor's '67 that I've been following (gained 135 Hp by improving only the bolt on induction up to, not including, the intake)

someone forgot to play it safe and not lock up their brakes while racing up Pike's.... instead, they went for a small aircraft pilot's license, solo

 

J.T. Taylor's Competition B-Body qualified for the 2026 Pikes Peak Hillclimb in the Open class

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=27429233716709257&set=pcb.27429265796706049

racing up Pike's Peak

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=27084683657879609&set=pcb.27084688441212464

two 1939 Lago were built for the French GP, but instead, were smuggled out of Europe to the USA in 1941, to race in the Indy 500, but instead, raced Pike's Peak t

 

Pikes Peak, 2025, Larry Chen's photography

Pike's Peak, back when it was dirt in the 90s

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=122170516736800813&set=pcb.122170516760800813

a 68 Road Runner that is destined for Pikes Peak... how do I know? I talked to the owner/driver/pilot/awesome guy, and he's got one hell of a story - and a cooler job. He's on the Pikes Peak tech crew at the start of the race!

Richard and his buddy Ben, both grew up with a 68 383 4 speed Road Runner... how unreal is that? But their dads also both died when these guys were young. Tragic, and just unreal coincidence. Now they have partnered on this Road Runner to race on Pikes Peak next year, June 21, 2026

Ben's father passed away in 2023 three days before he was set to race for the first time at Pikes Peak. 

The first car he built with his dad was a 68 Road Runner and when Richard asked him if he could drive any car in Pikes Peak race, what would be? 

Ben responded "a road runner " 

Since Richard's father also had a Road Runner, things got really interesting. Richard lost his father in the Oklahoma City bombing and had been holding on to his dad’s car ever since. And both of their dad's cars were 68 383 4 speed cars!

That day the idea was born to build it for Pikes Peak. With some amazing help, the Road Runner was built in only 94 days to make SEMA. 

The team at Apex Auto Works absolutely crushed the build.

hear the story in a podcast at https://www.inwheeltimepodcast.com/restoring-a-roadrunner-a-fathers-legacy/

Richard's hoping to get Isky to sign that decal, it's been on the car forever... I hope he takes the window off the car and finds Isky and gets it autographed! 

I'm loving the wing, and how it attaches! When you figure that adding a wing is going to damage the original body, or the trunk lid, and try to figure out a way to get one on a classic Mopar without damaging anything? Brilliant

Starting with a Nascar chassis, removing 208 pounds of lead ballast in the frame, dropping the body of his dad's 68 Road Runner over that race car chassis, and getting the result that Plymouth was trying for in 1968 - a car ready for racing on the Nascar / Grand National tracks

https://www.facebook.com/ApexAutoWorks/

https://apexautoworkstx.com/our-work

https://www.instagram.com/wrenchrally/

https://www.facebook.com/ben.ryan.35175633/

Good news, Optima and Mobil 1 are covering Pikes Peak racing, live

https://www.youtube.com/@OfficialMobil1/streams

the Button Foust Pikes Peak racer

Ford's Pikes Peak racing van

 https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2023/11/10/race-to-the-clouds--supervan-vs--pikes-peak.html

awwww hell, Ol Smokey, the 1949 Ford I've featured a couple of times, has flown off Pikes Peak, 175 feet down, and rolled 9 times, then came to a stop utterly wrecked and won't be rebuilt. Driver is fine, but the brakes weren't (and had no redundancy system)

during last weekend's Pikes Peak Hill Climb, Smokey had a complete brake failure Birdsall recalled in an Instagram post.

The truck flew about 175 feet down the cliff onto it's roof, and then rolled 8 or 9 times before it came to a stop in a snow drift.

the cage, safety belts, and helmet were perfect. 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ct-Xl0iuqCv/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=286abcdf-a67a-4f04-b8da-4fdfb6555c78

https://www.thedrive.com/news/pikes-peak-diesel-record-breaking-ford-pickup-destroyed-after-sailing-over-cliff

https://www.facebook.com/scottbirdsall

https://twitter.com/cospringsrunner/status/1673541174815236098/photo/2

Pike's Peak racing 2023 is in the books, and on the video clips

Robin Shute captured his fourth title in five years, driving a 2018 Wolf TSC-FS in 8:40.080 and nudged second-place finisher Romain Dumas, also a four-time champion, by more than seven seconds.

https://gazette.com/pikes-peak-hill-climb/robin-shute-wins-king-of-the-mountain-at-hill-climb-for-fourth-time-in-five/article_ee2b476e-139b-11ee-8a55-a789c2418b6f.html

https://gazette.com/pikes-peak-hill-climb/rhys-millen-breaks-own-production-car-record-fights-through-adverse-final-sections-at-pikes-peak/article_03741f18-135d-11ee-9945-db2ded28fa7e.html#tncms-source=article-nav-next

Lotus by Anstead, Button, and driven by Foust heading up Pike's Peak for the 101st Running June 25, 2023

Radford has been brought back to life, principally, by three men: Former F1 world champion Mr Button, who’ll do the development driving duties, TV presenter and car builder Ant Anstead and designer Mark Stubbs. The 62-2 will cost from around $400k and be offered in three ‘starter’ specs - Classic, Gold Leaf and JPS

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/radford-pikes-peak-edition-2023

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/retro/radford-type-62-2-jps-all-kinds-special

https://www.motor1.com/photo/7258369/radford-type-62-2-pikes-peak-edition/

Jaguar D-Type driven by Bill Krause up Pike's Peak photographed by Ray Brock

https://www.hagerty.com/media/motorsports/chevy-powered-jaguar-gets-dirty-at-pikes-peak/

'71 Barracuda running Pikes Peak, from onboard camera. As always, don't waste your time on the first minute of video, just skip to the action

https://moparconnectionmagazine.com/video-jess-neals-stroked-cuda-participates-in-the-100th-running-of-pikes-peak-international-hill-climb/

https://www.facebook.com/Team-CUDA-482485918428086/

Team Shelby Pikes Peak Adventure, Pierre Ford, and Tuscany West, cheered on the street legal 2022 Shelby Mustang GT 500 SE, in the 100th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Shelby American, with a 13:37.383

https://ppihc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022-Overall-Results.pdf

 https://www.shelby.com/multimedia/News/ArtMID/5059/ArticleID/107/Robert-Prilika-Drives-2022-Shelby-GT500SE-Into-Record-Book
https://www.facebook.com/groups/610823252385260/user/1219690841/

Pikes Peak in the fog, but this driver is still lead footing it at 141 mph

Bronczilla, it looks crazy, I love it

It has an aluminum tube-frame chassis built by in 1993 with a fiberglass racing body. It's rear-wheel drive, with a 351 a four-speed racing transmission from Auto Gear Engineering.

It had the class win in 1994, a then-record-setting finish in the Super Truck class of 11:36.630

https://www.thedrive.com/news/this-ford-bronco-bronczilla-race-truck-shows-why-pikes-peak-is-still-great