The Rod Millen Group's 1967 FJ45 Land Cruiser Wagon wasn't always this cool, as the base car needed a bit of TLC. Millen's company and Toyota brought it into the 21st century with multiple ...
Racing Watch Rod Millen Anger the Heavens Once Again in His Pikes Peak-Conquering Tacoma The five-time Pikes Peak champion brought his legendary Tacoma …
Rod Millen Pikes Peak Toyota Tacoma. The Toyota Tacoma Pikes Peak can hit 60 MPH in 1.6 seconds thanks to a 1,000 HP 2.1-liter engine. The "truck" was built and driven by New Zealander Rod Millen (Rhys's dad) for the 1998 Pikes Peak Hillclimb. The vehicle has nothing in common with the Tacoma and is, in fact, built on a chrome-molly tubular ...
Who's ready to see Rod Millen's #Tacoma make another run up the hill for the #100thRunning? Via Leadfoot Festival #RoadTo100 #PPIHC2022 #PPIHC #PikesPeak …
Model: Tacoma. 1. Last weekend's 100th Pikes Peak hillclimb saw Rod Millen bring out his 1,000hp Tacoma, which won the unlimited class there in the late Nineties and which still placed a respectable …
Rod Millen Drives Pikes Peak Toyota Tacoma Up The Mountain, It's Like 1999 All Over Again Published: 28 Jun 2022, 08:40 UTC • By: Dragos Chitulescu The …
The mighty Pikes Peak Toyota Tacoma was a crowd-pleaser at the 2003 Goodwood Festival of Speed and it returned in 2007 as a private entry on the hill climb course, driven by New Zealander Rod Millen. Millen drove …
February 2, 2022. Rod Millen is taking his monstrous 1000-horsepower 1998 Toyota Tacoma back up the Rocky Mountains in this year's Pikes Peak Hillclimb. This Tacoma truck that is really only a Tacoma by name wowed motorsport enthusiasts when it won outright honours in the famous Hillclimb in 1998 and '99. It boasts a wickedly fast mid ...
Rod Millen, 71, accepted to take his monstrous 1000-horsepower, 1998 Toyota Tacoma back up the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. This Tacoma boasts an amid …
It's an original build from famed racing driver Rod Millen from 1999. Mods include Land Cruiser 100 series components, a 4.7-liter V8, a Borla exhaust and a lengthened frame with modified bodywork. It also has a 15-gallon water supply for heading off the grid. The Tacoma X-Runner Concept
Rodney K. Rod Millen (born 22 March 1951) is a racing competitor, vehicle designer, and business owner. He has competed in numerous genres of motorsports, including rally racing, offroad racing, hillclimbing, drifting, and super touring. Rod Millen was born in New Zealand. Millen is the father of
In 1994, Millen set a new record up the 12.4-mile course at the wheel of his iconic yellow Celica, back when the Pikes Peak course was entirely dirt from flag to flag. He also claimed the fastest ...
On Sunday, June 26, drivers attacked the 14,000-foot mountain in Colorado in everything from d purpose-built racecars to vintage cars and motorcycles. But fans of the hill climb, and fans of Toyota, watched Rod Millen attack the mountain in his 25-year-old winning Toyota Tacoma race " truck " that was built for Pikes Peak in the 1990s.
Toyota. SEMA members honored the 2024 Toyota Tacoma with the 2023 SEMA Best Midsize Truck of the Year award. This is Toyota's second victory in the Best Midsize Truck category in the last three ...
Found in the 2003 archive, this incredible run by Rod Millen in this ballistic Pikes Peak Toyota Tacoma hillclimb monster left us a bit slack-jawed. The boosted-up-to-the-eyeballs monster belches out fumes as bursts of barely-contained turbo power rip at the rear wheels, sending the car yawing back and forth.
2024 Toyota Tacoma Is The Swiss Army Knife Of Pickups: Offers Hybrid Power, Manual And 6′ Bed. The redesigned Tacoma will be offered with an all-new i-Force Max powertrain developing 326 hp and ...
Mike, whose Honda K24 turbo-swapped Ferrari 308 is almost ready to come out and play, recently stepped out of the garage to witness Rod Millen getting reacquainted with his Tacoma at Willow Springs. The legendary driver stretched the legs of the race truck on the 1-mile, 11-turn course known as the Thief Mile, whose elevation changes at least ...
Rhys joined Rod in the US as a teenager and founded Rhys Millen Racing at the age of 21. RMR (Rhys Millen Racing) is an automotive tuning and parts shop these days concentrating on rally, drift and movie car …
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One of the wildest racing machines to come out of the '90s? Rod Millen's (father of pro driver Rhys Millen) mid-engine, tube-frame Toyota Tacoma. The silhouette racer was one of the fastest machines to climb Pikes Peak in the '90s–back when the route was still comprised of dirt.
In 1998, the Rod Millen Motorsport team designed and built a new Toyota Tacoma racing truck to compete in the 76th Pikes Peak international hill climb, a machine which went on to claim the unlimited class honours in …
One of my closest friends mom is married to Rod Millen and her and her mom just got back from New Zealand where they went to watch Rod participate in the New Zealand Hill Climb. I guess its the equivalent of the Pikes Peak Hill Climb. Anyways, I thought that it was cool that Rod races his CORR...
Five Time Champion Rod Millen to Showcase Toyota Tacoma. Colorado Springs, CO – There have been 98 King of the Mountain titles awarded and one Queen of the Mountain since the inaugural Pikes Peak National Hill Climbing Contest in 1916. On June 26, the 100th King of the Mountain will be celebrated by race fans around the globe when …
Following on from Friday's video about Rod Millen's insane Celica Pikes Peak car, this absolute animal was his follow up, the legendary Pikes Peak Toyota Tacoma pickup truck. Under 900kg, and generally said to be between 900 and 1000bhp, this mid-engine 4wd beast is powered by the same Toyota 503E 2.1 4cyl lump the Celica was, but now even …
If you're a racing fan and the Pikes Peak Hill Climb isn't in your bucket listing, it needs to be.But when you want convincing, right here's a video that ought to change your thoughts, courtesy of a man who is aware of a factor or two in regards to the occasion: Rod Millen.. In 1994, Millen set a brand new file up the 12.4-mile course on the wheel of his …
Motorsports TOYOTA AND MILLEN DO IT IN THE DIRT by Larry Roberts. August, 07, 1998 The press release that came to our motorsports desk read: "Rod Millen Wins Pikes Peak in Toyota Tacoma Truck." If ...
Height: 2 in. Width: 2 in. First held in 1915, Colorado's Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is known as the "Race to the Clouds." Cars climb 4,270 feet over the 12.42-mile race …
It may be on the other side of the world, but the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb has always had a bit of Kiwi flavouring. Rod Millen was one of the hill's biggest names in its 1990s heyday as a former record-holder, and his son Rhys Millen carries the torch today. And another Kiwi looks set to tackle the iconic event in the near future.
Millen, who took all his wins in the 1990s at the wheel of turbo Toyotas, showed up to the 1998 race in this Tacoma silhouette racer, which isn't based on a ladder chassis but a tubular frame...
In a very different time at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, Rod Millen was the king of the mountain. Millen won five of six events between 1994 and 1999, all in …
In October 2021 Pennzoil had a bold idea – bring out of retirement the 1998 and 1999 PPIHC champion Toyota Tacoma. Rod Millen, 71, accepted to take his monstrous 1000-horsepower, 1998 Toyota Tacoma back up the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. This Tacoma boasts an amid-mounted 2.1-litre, turbocharged, four-cylinder engine that can …
Watch In Awe As Rod Millen Drives His Toyota Tacoma At This Year's Pikes Peak Hillclimb. Rod Millen's Toyota Tacoma features an IMSA-sourced 2.1-liter turbo engine with upwards of 1,000...
The Pikes Peak Tacoma was successor to Millen's equally radical Pikes Peak Celica, with which he won the hillclimb with in 1994, 1996, and 1997. In its first outing the car set a record of 10:04:06, which …
Rod Millen, Toyota Tacoma, Pikes Peak Hill Climb, Pikes Peak, Colorado, June 14, 1998 Add to Set Contact us About this Share Summary. First held in 1915, Colorado's Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is known as the "Race to the Clouds." Cars climb 4,270 feet over the 12.42-mile race course. Drivers negotiate 156 turns along the twisting ...
Vintage Videos. Rod Millen Driving his awesome Pikes Peak Tacoma at Goodwood 2003.Amazingly he didn't set the fastest time that year, that honour went to Graeme …
Rod Millen debuted his Millen Motorsports Toyota Celica at the 1994 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. The AWD, carbon fibre-bodied prototype was powered to a record time of 10:04.060 by an 850bhp, 1,500 Nm, 2.1L turbocharged 4-cylinder taken from the IMSA GTP AAR Eagle. Millen replaced the Celica with the Tacoma in 1998, but was …
