The 2 that should have been

"505Turbeaux" (505turbeaux)
03/18/2015 at 14:03 • Filed to: None

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DISCUSSION (26)

KnowsAboutCars > 505Turbeaux
03/18/2015 at 14:07

Someone needs to built a coupe 505 out of regular sedan 505.

505Turbeaux > KnowsAboutCars
03/18/2015 at 14:08

how hard can it be really? I have one to donate!

TheHondaBro > 505Turbeaux
03/18/2015 at 14:08

So, do you like 505s?

505Turbeaux > TheHondaBro
03/18/2015 at 14:10

no I hate them

TheHondaBro > 505Turbeaux
03/18/2015 at 14:10

Gotcha.

RallyWrench > 505Turbeaux
03/18/2015 at 14:10

DAT COUPE

Tareim - V8 powered > 505Turbeaux
03/18/2015 at 14:11

just get it to RETRO Lifestyle LTD (in the UK) and they'll get it sorted, they are currently doing an MG ZT Coupe from a saloon

505Turbeaux > Tareim - V8 powered
03/18/2015 at 14:12

maybe I will just have them just do a Rover 75 coupe instead

505Turbeaux > RallyWrench
03/18/2015 at 14:12

dem TRX's doe

KnowsAboutCars > 505Turbeaux
03/18/2015 at 14:25

Or go to the Finnish guy who built this.

Kinja'd!!!

RallyWrench > 505Turbeaux
03/18/2015 at 14:35

Yeah, it's too bad those wheels look so good.

505Turbeaux > RallyWrench
03/18/2015 at 14:39

they did make them in 16" flavor, but they are pricey since everyone wants them

Sweet Trav > 505Turbeaux
03/18/2015 at 14:44

Wow. I never thought I'd like a French car this much. Talk about a good idea!

Needs an LS swap though...

duurtlang > 505Turbeaux
03/18/2015 at 16:24

Oh wow. I don't care for the convertible, but if that coupe actually existed I'd certainly be owning one right now before 2025. It's like the daddy to my 406 coupe.

505Turbeaux > duurtlang
03/18/2015 at 16:27

it reminds me an awful lot of a Volvo 780 in the greenhouse, which I have always liked. BTW my girlfriend and I are hammering out a budget right now on an import. We are close for sure. I need to pop you an email from my personal account since I am leaving my job next month

duurtlang > 505Turbeaux
03/19/2015 at 08:09

Sounds good to me. I'm happy to help.

505 - morphine not found > 505Turbeaux
03/19/2015 at 09:53

I have been to the Peugeot museum in Sochaux, the one this pic was taken in front of, and i can validate, from my time there, that if you like 505s, you will in deed need a second set of trousers after seeing these two in person.

The only thing redeeming Peugeot is that they kept on making these babies until 1983

Kinja'd!!!

I was there on a press event, and we got the chance to drive a great assortment of old Pugs - this was in 2010 i think, when they turned 200. I drove an 1983 V6 504 Coupé, an example that had 800km on the clock. No typo, that's eight hundred kilometers. Looked like a museum example. It was a peach, and i want one very badly. They make great rally cars too, so they say....

One thing of note though, while we are on the subject. I know this was different in the States, but the "affordable Coupe/GT" market basically collapsed in Europe after the energy crisis in 1979. Loads of now classic types vanished without successors at the very same time, which makes me think this is the reason Peugeot didn't follow up on the 504 Coupé and Cabriolet. Only Opel carried on the torch with the Monza, and that proved to be a huge sales flop, so I can see why we have to do without a 505 Coupe... still, one can wish.

505Turbeaux > 505 - morphine not found
03/19/2015 at 09:55

excellent comment. Interesting story. You drove pretty much a brand new 504 coupe. God damn

505 - morphine not found > 505Turbeaux
03/19/2015 at 10:02

whiff of petrol smell though, some of the piping must have been 27 years old. But it was the perfect car, a 5speed manual V6TI. Wait, let me try and dig up a video of this, so you can have a heart attack.

There you go :-D Sorry the VO is in Hungarian, but the pics speak for themselves, even though this was the very first story i filmed too not just wrote.....

505Turbeaux > 505 - morphine not found
03/19/2015 at 10:04

good lord. I need some new pants now! And I havent even been to the museum yet!

505 - morphine not found > 505Turbeaux
03/19/2015 at 10:12

You want more? The is a small no-comment version of the Bandama Coupe that's seen at the end of that video. They took us on passenger rides. It is a crap film, sorry about that, i would do much better today, but the noise, and the seemingly endless drift these can pull makes it worth it.

The driver is Jean-Claude Lefèbvre, who won the 1978 Safari rally as co-driver in one of these. He commented that they didn't change the shocks since, so the car handled badly, but you cannot really see that....

505Turbeaux > 505 - morphine not found
03/19/2015 at 10:17

so that is your bag, you are a film maker by trade? This is awesome regardless

505 - morphine not found > 505Turbeaux
03/19/2015 at 10:24

Sort of, yes. I loved cars since i was a kid, so in 2004 I entered the world of work at a production office, where we did a weekly 25min motoring show. Started from low down and in the past ten years learned the trade - my main job is producer / head of office, but i can edit too (using Edius), and am not afraid to hold the camera either. Nowadays I lead the work of a small, local cable TV, and have a venture on the side, with two long-time cooperatives, where we do creative production - ads, corporate image films, that sort of thing. That motoring tv show ended in 2013 though, so i have a distinct longing to film cars again - but as Chris Harris described in his jalopnik column the other day this is pretty hard these days to do properly.

505Turbeaux > 505 - morphine not found
03/19/2015 at 10:35

agreed. So hey, while I have you on the line, do you have any seat time in a 505 dangel? Also are you on facebook or anything?

505 - morphine not found > 505Turbeaux
03/19/2015 at 12:50

sorry, had to fetch the kids. yep, i'm on fb lets connect! No, i haven't even been close to a Dangel, let alone drive one, sadly. There are a few in Hungary though, just the other day a subaru-loving friend of mine shot this for me on his evening commute.

Kinja'd!!!

They even crop up in the classifieds on occasion, though they are rare, even in France if leboncoin.fr is anything to go by, so maybe one day i find a nice one, and get the owner to agree to a session in the mag i write for these days.... will share if that happens, for sure

505Turbeaux > 505 - morphine not found
03/19/2015 at 12:51

gotcha, you can pull your fb page offa there