Marv’s Garage: 5mins of raw win.

My dad loves his Peugeots, and i have to say watching brave souls like automotive Demi-God Ari Vatenan pilot 500hp 4-wheel drive Group B bullets like the 205 T16, i got it. I'll never forget dad buying me a Peugeot VHS for my birthday and feeling a bit flat - until he hit play and the most awesome piece of driving and car footage i had seen splashed across our living room.

Climb Dance was a movie made of Ari Vatenan driving a Peugeot 405 T16 specially built to break the Pikes Peak record in 1988. The 405 was an evolution of the epic 500hp 205 T16 Group B rally car, which was outlawed at the end of 1986.

In 87 Peugeot took their rally monster in the Paris-Dakar endurance rally and Pikes Peak. Lessons learned led to a $1mil update to build the bigger, 2dr, 4wd, 4-wheel steer, mid-engined 600hp 405 T16, which won a score of rally-raids, plus Pikes Peak in 88 and 89.

Climb Dance is epic because it is real. It inspired a generation of gearheads, as it really was rally legend Ari Vatenan thundering up Pikes Peak hillclimb like a Freakin' Mad Dawg. On dirt. In a bewinged monster. One handed in parts.

We may only see 5mins of the record-setting 10min 47s run but it is a pure, visceral ride that showcases Vatenan's mammoth talent and bids a farewell to an era of brutally fast, mega-hp rally cars we'll never see again. They truly were F1 cars on dirt.

If you don't watch it and pop a semi you're dead from the neck down.