I have this little 2 month vacation this summer called a "sabbatical" and I am contemplating taking the family to the Pike Peak Hillclimb. I went back in 1998 and it was a fun event to see.
Anyway...looking at the entry list, I spotted this car.
Jeff MacPherson
Bozeman, MT
Pikes Peak Open
1970 Porsche 914
Anyone know who it is?
-Britain
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This guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_MacPherson
Driver Jeff MacPherson (Bozeman, Montana) is entered in the Pikes Peak Open Division and has strong credentials. He was 8th at the 1987 Indianapolis 500 won by Al Unser and won $117,000 for his top ten finish. MacPherson finished just ahead of Mario Andretti in the ’87 Indy 500. He’s driving a 1971 Porsche 914 on Pikes Peak this sumer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_MacPherson
Driver Jeff MacPherson (Bozeman, Montana) is entered in the Pikes Peak Open Division and has strong credentials. He was 8th at the 1987 Indianapolis 500 won by Al Unser and won $117,000 for his top ten finish. MacPherson finished just ahead of Mario Andretti in the ’87 Indy 500. He’s driving a 1971 Porsche 914 on Pikes Peak this sumer.
I have always wondered if a 914 had ever been entered. I tried looking it up on several PP history sites and never found one. This could be the first!
I'm going to try and make it this year, my own backyard and I have never been 
Nice.
Maybe I should enter my car....hmmm, it is all paved this year and I have a turbo!
-Britain
Maybe I should enter my car....hmmm, it is all paved this year and I have a turbo!
-Britain
QUOTE(URY914 @ Apr 13 2012, 01:17 PM) 
I have always wondered if a 914 had ever been entered. I tried looking it up on several PP history sites and never found one. This could be the first!
Didn't Jeff Zwart run his 914-6 at Pikes Peak?
I vaguely remember seeing a video on youtube of him in the 914, somewhere in-between the million other videos of him ...
QUOTE(Ferg @ Apr 13 2012, 01:21 PM)
I'm going to try and make it this year, my own backyard and I have never been
For many years I've always wanted to go,
this is enough of a motivator to think about it this year.
I think Pike Peak's and 914 are perfect for each other
my vintage club has a class with the organizers of the event
we have a lot of vintage cars entered
mostly V8's though
the organizers won't allow any vintage car slower than a certain threshold to run...
It sounds like Jeff may be running in an open class though
its an expensive event
the practice windows are 1 run per a day for 2 or so days...
(they don't close the mountain for the days of practice... they have a couple of hours of closure from 5am -7am kinda thing)
then the race.
I think entry fee is around a grand.
it beats cars up bad..
you need to tap into the knowledge of the previous pikes peak community on tires.
we have a lot of vintage cars entered
mostly V8's though
the organizers won't allow any vintage car slower than a certain threshold to run...
It sounds like Jeff may be running in an open class though
its an expensive event
the practice windows are 1 run per a day for 2 or so days...
(they don't close the mountain for the days of practice... they have a couple of hours of closure from 5am -7am kinda thing)
then the race.
I think entry fee is around a grand.
it beats cars up bad..
you need to tap into the knowledge of the previous pikes peak community on tires.
Wow that is cool. I went around 10 years ago and it was fun a crazy Suzuki guy always has some insane rig there from Japan. And Rod Millan had a Toyota truck bodied indy car !
Wonder if the 914 entered is crazy modified?
Wonder if the 914 entered is crazy modified?
Back in the late 1970s there were a number of "specials" built with 914-4 motors for Pike's Peak. Built by Garretson's in Mountain View CA.
And there were 914s running the Peak in the 70s as well.
--DD
And there were 914s running the Peak in the 70s as well.
--DD
Here are photo's also from last year here
I don't seem to be able to capture it and post it here...
but worth looking I promise
NICE SHOT!... time to change your undies
I don't seem to be able to capture it and post it here...
but worth looking I promise
NICE SHOT!... time to change your undies
It is very very fun. I have not been since probably 2000. Dont go up for the day - go the night before and camp. It is a blast.
Be preparred for snow - it is not all that rare for it to happen. Its amaizing how thin the air gets at the top of that mountain, it's WAY up there. I remember in the late 80's I thought something was really wrong with my little GTI - it would barely idle!
Fun stuff!! I still remember the Audi coupes - soooooo cool.
Be preparred for snow - it is not all that rare for it to happen. Its amaizing how thin the air gets at the top of that mountain, it's WAY up there. I remember in the late 80's I thought something was really wrong with my little GTI - it would barely idle!
Fun stuff!! I still remember the Audi coupes - soooooo cool.
Is is very good for spectators? Is there a specific area for spectators or can you pretty much watch from where ever you like. I can't imagine it's like a european rallye where folks are situated all over the course.
QUOTE(Elliot Cannon @ Apr 13 2012, 04:01 PM)
Is is very good for spectators? Is there a specific area for spectators or can you pretty much watch from where ever you like. I can't imagine it's like a european rallye where folks are situated all over the course.
You can go just about anywhere you can drive or hike to. Best vantage points you can see several turns.
Weather is really sketchy.
We went up the night before and slept in the back of my friends van.
QUOTE(brant @ Apr 13 2012, 05:13 PM)
I love watching the big old cars race. :-) That Cuda was fun to watch.
My favorite pikes peak video, though...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGaYz5aLegc
Wish I had a high-rez copy of it...
zach
this is a great video also: ford fiesta
still its amazing what the vintage, rear wheel drive, heavy, old, all metal cars can do. My friend keith davidson has won the vintage class 2 or 3 years now in a ford falcon. I believe its still a 289 also! His time last year was 12:44 so I think its amazing that he is within 2 and a half minutes of the turbo/4wheel drive cars that are carbon fiber dedicated hill climb and ralley cars. His is just an old vintage track car that still has door panels and a dash!
still its amazing what the vintage, rear wheel drive, heavy, old, all metal cars can do. My friend keith davidson has won the vintage class 2 or 3 years now in a ford falcon. I believe its still a 289 also! His time last year was 12:44 so I think its amazing that he is within 2 and a half minutes of the turbo/4wheel drive cars that are carbon fiber dedicated hill climb and ralley cars. His is just an old vintage track car that still has door panels and a dash!
QUOTE(brant @ Apr 14 2012, 06:58 PM)
this is a great video also: ford fiesta
Nice driving and that scenery is always thrilling to watch! Havent seen that clip of Marcus driving Pikes Peak. One grazy Finnish rally driver, ex world champpion.
Rod Millen's record-breaking celica was at laguna seca several years back at the monterey historics, I had a chance to check it out really well. Talk about trick.
That turbo suzuki monster barely beat Millen's record but only after they paved the top.
I attended a dinner that night after the historics with Mr. Millen and some guy named Ivan iron man. I think his last name was stewart or something like that.
Juan Fangio, Dave Jordan and Scooter Patrick were also there.
Awesome stories. Fangio had a very young and pretty girl hanging off his arm, evidently it was his neice. Their hotel room was right next to mine. They must have a VERY close family
I still have an autographed picture of the shelby toyota S2000 they used to race signed by Scooter and Jones, and I didn't even have to ask for it!
Two of the coolest, neatest, most down to earth guys I've ever met.
The kind of guys you'd help move just so you could hang out with them.
That turbo suzuki monster barely beat Millen's record but only after they paved the top.
I attended a dinner that night after the historics with Mr. Millen and some guy named Ivan iron man. I think his last name was stewart or something like that.
Juan Fangio, Dave Jordan and Scooter Patrick were also there.
Awesome stories. Fangio had a very young and pretty girl hanging off his arm, evidently it was his neice. Their hotel room was right next to mine. They must have a VERY close family
I still have an autographed picture of the shelby toyota S2000 they used to race signed by Scooter and Jones, and I didn't even have to ask for it!
Two of the coolest, neatest, most down to earth guys I've ever met.
The kind of guys you'd help move just so you could hang out with them.
No, not that Fangio, Juan Fangio the II.
Dis guy, drove toyotas in IMSA and did pretty good. Arguably one of the most winningest cars ever. Won darn near every race it ever entered, and usually took 1st and 2nd :
Dis guy, drove toyotas in IMSA and did pretty good. Arguably one of the most winningest cars ever. Won darn near every race it ever entered, and usually took 1st and 2nd :
QUOTE
Winning at Road Atlanta and Mid-Ohio in the ’92 season’s first half, Davy Jones’ and his Jaguar would later be relegated to scrapping for second and third-place finishes with the likes of Geoff Brabham and Chip Robinson (Nissan NPT 91 A, B) Wayne Taylor and Tommy Kendall (Chevrolet Intrepids; by then two distinct teams) and Price Cobb (Mazda RX-792P). A talented pool of drivers to be sure and all of whom finished either second or third at one time or another in 1992, but also a clear testimonial to the AAR Eagle Toyota’s strengths, which closed the 1992 season winning nine of the 13 races on the schedule.
“Starting with the ’92 New Orleans race (that year’s seventh), (Dan) Gurney’s two (Eagle MKIII) Toyotas went on a seven race consecutive-win run, with either (Juan) Fangio (II) or P.J. Jones winning in the (Nos.) 99 or 98 (respectively), Raffauf said.
“Now, I don’t want to take anything away from someone like Dan Gurney, because before he gained access to the factory deal he clearly paid his dues in this sport and today remains one of its finest ambassadors, but in 1992 and 1993 the Toyota operation versus pretty much of the rest of the paddock was like a tank-on-tank shootout between a (WWII German) Tiger II tank and a Russian T-34.”
In 1993’s 11-round IMSA race season, excepting the July round at Road America and from which it was absent (some say it was due to “budgetary issues” whereas others say “purely political” reasons were the root cause), the AAR Eagle Toyota MkIII won every race in which it participated.
In seven of the 10 races which the Eagle won it likewise finished second. Another Eagle first place produced a third-place for the sister car. The worst finish of any Eagle in 1993 was at the end of Daytona’s Rolex 24, wherein the No. 99 Eagle of Fangio, Andy Wallace and Kenny Acheson finished 27th. Of course, on the same scale’s highest end was the No. 98 sister car (below, on the way to its 1993 Rolex 24 win), with drivers P.J. Jones, Rocky Moran and Mark Dismore – preserving the team’s ongoing win streak started at the 1992 New Orleans race.
“Starting with the ’92 New Orleans race (that year’s seventh), (Dan) Gurney’s two (Eagle MKIII) Toyotas went on a seven race consecutive-win run, with either (Juan) Fangio (II) or P.J. Jones winning in the (Nos.) 99 or 98 (respectively), Raffauf said.
“Now, I don’t want to take anything away from someone like Dan Gurney, because before he gained access to the factory deal he clearly paid his dues in this sport and today remains one of its finest ambassadors, but in 1992 and 1993 the Toyota operation versus pretty much of the rest of the paddock was like a tank-on-tank shootout between a (WWII German) Tiger II tank and a Russian T-34.”
In 1993’s 11-round IMSA race season, excepting the July round at Road America and from which it was absent (some say it was due to “budgetary issues” whereas others say “purely political” reasons were the root cause), the AAR Eagle Toyota MkIII won every race in which it participated.
In seven of the 10 races which the Eagle won it likewise finished second. Another Eagle first place produced a third-place for the sister car. The worst finish of any Eagle in 1993 was at the end of Daytona’s Rolex 24, wherein the No. 99 Eagle of Fangio, Andy Wallace and Kenny Acheson finished 27th. Of course, on the same scale’s highest end was the No. 98 sister car (below, on the way to its 1993 Rolex 24 win), with drivers P.J. Jones, Rocky Moran and Mark Dismore – preserving the team’s ongoing win streak started at the 1992 New Orleans race.
QUOTE(Ferg @ Apr 13 2012, 01:21 PM)
I'm going to try and make it this year, my own backyard and I have never been
REALLY!
look at all the snow on the side of the road in this one..
gotta wonder what the road temp is and how well those race tires are going to hold at below freezing road temps...
Keith's practice session in a vintage 1963 ford falcon, 2011
gotta wonder what the road temp is and how well those race tires are going to hold at below freezing road temps...
Keith's practice session in a vintage 1963 ford falcon, 2011
QUOTE(brant @ Apr 14 2012, 05:57 PM)
look at all the snow on the side of the road in this one..
gotta wonder what the road temp is and how well those race tires are going to hold at below freezing road temps...
Keith's practice session in a vintage 1963 ford falcon, 2011
WOW, that thing handles WAY(!!!!!!) better than my '62 Ranchero. . . I would have been off the road by the
)QUOTE(SirAndy @ Apr 13 2012, 04:34 PM)
QUOTE(URY914 @ Apr 13 2012, 01:17 PM)
I have always wondered if a 914 had ever been entered. I tried looking it up on several PP history sites and never found one. This could be the first!
Didn't Jeff Zwart run his 914-6 at Pikes Peak?
I vaguely remember seeing a video on youtube of him in the 914, somewhere in-between the million other videos of him ...
I think that video of the 914/6 was a hillclimb "down under"
QUOTE(dlestep @ Apr 16 2012, 09:04 AM)
QUOTE(SirAndy @ Apr 13 2012, 04:34 PM)
QUOTE(URY914 @ Apr 13 2012, 01:17 PM)
I have always wondered if a 914 had ever been entered. I tried looking it up on several PP history sites and never found one. This could be the first!
Didn't Jeff Zwart run his 914-6 at Pikes Peak?
I vaguely remember seeing a video on youtube of him in the 914, somewhere in-between the million other videos of him ...
I think that video of the 914/6 was a hillclimb "down under"
I know that one ...
But i vaguely remember seeing one of him driving his 914 at Pikes Peak.
Or could be my Alzheimer kicking in.
QUOTE(SirAndy @ Apr 16 2012, 09:09 AM)
QUOTE(dlestep @ Apr 16 2012, 09:04 AM)
QUOTE(SirAndy @ Apr 13 2012, 04:34 PM)
QUOTE(URY914 @ Apr 13 2012, 01:17 PM)
I have always wondered if a 914 had ever been entered. I tried looking it up on several PP history sites and never found one. This could be the first!
Didn't Jeff Zwart run his 914-6 at Pikes Peak?
I vaguely remember seeing a video on youtube of him in the 914, somewhere in-between the million other videos of him ...
I think that video of the 914/6 was a hillclimb "down under"
I know that one ...
But i vaguely remember seeing one of him driving his 914 at Pikes Peak.
Or could be my Alzheimer kicking in.
Would love to give that little hill a try in a 914. Here's me attacking the 'real' Pikes Peak a few months back.... admittedly a bit slower than I would have liked in the uphill sections with my little 4 pot, but she gave it all she had
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaY8BZRGI7g
QUOTE(6freak @ Apr 14 2012, 04:29 PM)
QUOTE(Ferg @ Apr 13 2012, 01:21 PM)
I'm going to try and make it this year, my own backyard and I have never been
REALLY!
Yes really, the road was dirt
Check it out, I found a picture of the 914 running Pikes Peak this year. Looks heavily modified with center seat. I would love to get more pictures/info on this car.
-Britain
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-Britain
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My friend Julian owns the Lister driven by Rick Knoop in the exhibition class.
It's qualifying at #9 . It's a purpose built club racer with n/a Chevy power.
MacPhersons 914 is close, qualifying at #12 in the Pikes peak open class.
Rick says he can squeeze a bit more out of the Lister.The car is also doing Bonneville this year.
It's qualifying at #9 . It's a purpose built club racer with n/a Chevy power.
MacPhersons 914 is close, qualifying at #12 in the Pikes peak open class.
Rick says he can squeeze a bit more out of the Lister.The car is also doing Bonneville this year.
Driver Jeff MacPherson (Bozeman, Montana) is entered in the Pikes Peak Open Division and has strong credentials. He was 8th at the 1987 Indianapolis 500 won by Al Unser and won $117,000 for his top ten finish. MacPherson finished just ahead of Mario Andretti in the ’87 Indy 500. He’s driving a 1971 Porsche 914 on Pikes Peak this sumer.
http://www.usacracing.com/ppihc/news_ppihc/5210.html
http://www.usacracing.com/ppihc/news_ppihc/5210.html
So what part of that car is a 914? 
QUOTE(URY914 @ Aug 9 2012, 06:51 AM)
So what part of that car is a 914?
its' shadow at 3 o'clock
QUOTE(Britain Smith @ Apr 13 2012, 01:21 PM)
Nice.
Maybe I should enter my car....hmmm, it is all paved this year and I have a turbo!
-Britain
Do it!
Every hillclimber's dream.
Does you ECU compensation for altitude?
I mean there are some dramatic altitude changes on that road. They start higher up than any of the hills we run on the West Coast. The mountain is 14,110 and they gain 4,721 feet during the 156-turn course, so the start is above 9.300 feet.
No ECU compensator, no motor at the end.
QUOTE(Britain Smith @ Aug 8 2012, 07:37 PM)
Check it out, I found a picture of the 914 running Pikes Peak this year. Looks heavily modified with center seat. I would love to get more pictures/info on this car.
Not much 914 left on that thing ...
Looks like double a-arm front suspension. Does anyone know what engine is in it? I would love to see more pictures under the bodywork. The paint and bodywork looks amazing!
-Britain
-Britain
It's a Corvette engine Britain, with ZO6 Brakes.
I would say 914 in appearance, just like John Force's car is Mustang in appearance.
More info on the car. Its LS6 powered with a G50/52 full tube chassis and C6 corvette suspension with Z06 rotors and calipers. Sheridan body and a real 914 windsheild frame and cowl with vin #. Jeff is a great guy and was really excited to put a car together for this hill climb. Glad to see he got it together in the nick of time. Had the race not been rescheduled he might not have made it. I have been checking on the results and have not seen anything on a time yet. Hope he does well.
Looks like PPIHC just listed some more times and Jeff Macpherson in a 914 ran 11:55.2
Rick Knoop drove Julians Chevy powered Lister to 10:56.240 for 1st place in exhibition class.
Not too shabby. The regular use of the Lister is club road racing.
Not too shabby. The regular use of the Lister is club road racing.
QUOTE(moggy @ Apr 16 2012, 01:16 PM)
QUOTE(SirAndy @ Apr 16 2012, 09:09 AM)
QUOTE(dlestep @ Apr 16 2012, 09:04 AM)
QUOTE(SirAndy @ Apr 13 2012, 04:34 PM)
QUOTE(URY914 @ Apr 13 2012, 01:17 PM)
I have always wondered if a 914 had ever been entered. I tried looking it up on several PP history sites and never found one. This could be the first!
Didn't Jeff Zwart run his 914-6 at Pikes Peak?
I vaguely remember seeing a video on youtube of him in the 914, somewhere in-between the million other videos of him ...
I think that video of the 914/6 was a hillclimb "down under"
I know that one ...
But i vaguely remember seeing one of him driving his 914 at Pikes Peak.
Or could be my Alzheimer kicking in.
Would love to give that little hill a try in a 914. Here's me attacking the 'real' Pikes Peak a few months back.... admittedly a bit slower than I would have liked in the uphill sections with my little 4 pot, but she gave it all she had
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaY8BZRGI7g
You are having way to much fun. No way that event would ever happen in California.
Would you let us run there if we shipped over?
At least it has a windshield and looks like a 914 
I love the look.
I love the look.
Surprised this is just now getting posted.....
Jeremy is a top SCCA National Tour event driver from the Dallas area. I have seen that car up close in Blytheville 2 years ago. I know some people in LR that are close friends with this guy. Amazing that these two basically walked away from this off course ride!!! Second year in a row that a car has went off on that same corner I believe...
PPIHC 2011 Crash
QUOTE(csdilligaf @ Aug 12 2012, 06:16 PM)
Looks like PPIHC just listed some more times and Jeff Macpherson in a 914 ran 11:55.2
Found a short clip of Jeff's car going around a couple turns:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKYyrDDixuw...tailpage#t=124s
Check out the tail dragger at the end of the clip - WOW.
QUOTE(perrysan @ Aug 15 2012, 12:58 PM)
QUOTE(csdilligaf @ Aug 12 2012, 06:16 PM)
Looks like PPIHC just listed some more times and Jeff Macpherson in a 914 ran 11:55.2
Found a short clip of Jeff's car going around a couple turns:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKYyrDDixuw...tailpage#t=124s
Check out the tail dragger at the end of the clip - WOW.
That 914 is low and wide! I liked the Freightliner hanging the rear out and laying some rubber! (rewind the video to 0:29 to see it). He needed more downforce.
Richard
Have these been posted yet? Paul Dallenbach's crash (stuck throttle) in a 1400 HP twin turbo unlimited car...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnolSTQgy9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2T0c-xDdwc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpQtPhRDDs4
Dallenbach is OK. Some of those spectators should consider themselves lucky to alive.
Richard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnolSTQgy9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2T0c-xDdwc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpQtPhRDDs4
Dallenbach is OK. Some of those spectators should consider themselves lucky to alive.
Richard
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