Video: trying to build the fastest ever RX-7 to race up a scary mountainside
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Five months to build a Pikes Peak ready car and learn to drive it full pelt up a big, scary hill? You're on
15 minutes 18 seconds
Rob enters the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, giving himself a generous five months to build a car capable of taking on one of the scariest mountain roads in America.
Oh, and he's got to learn to drive the thing too. Can he pull it off?
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