30/4!

"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 04/30/2015 at 04:32 • Filed to: Peugeot, 304

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Yes, it’s a date with a 0 in the middle.

What does that mean?

Well, aux ecrans, lecteurs, l’heure de votre Peugeot est arrivée .

We’ve already explored the 204, a sensible but technically quite advanced car sold in reasonable numbers to the French middle classes. After the 204 came the 304, essentially the same but with bigger engines to suit the autoroutes that were being built, bigger prices and a front end reminiscent of the 504. It was made from 1969 to 1980, overlapping the 305 that replaced it by three years.

Now, who can see where this one lives? They look like Swedish plates but aren’t.

KnowsAboutCars > Cé hé sin 04/30/2015 at 04:59

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Malta?

pip bip - choose Corrour > KnowsAboutCars 04/30/2015 at 05:12

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Cyprus?

Belfast , Ireland?

KnowsAboutCars > pip bip - choose Corrour 04/30/2015 at 05:18

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The plate has ‘M’ country code so I don’t think it’s one of those.

Here’s Maltese plate. It looks similar to the one on the Peugeot.

pip bip - choose Corrour > KnowsAboutCars 04/30/2015 at 05:20

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to me it looked blurred out , oh well.

Cé hé sin > KnowsAboutCars 04/30/2015 at 06:26

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Yes, that’s the one.

Jobjoris > Cé hé sin 04/30/2015 at 06:44

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Haha, you really started something with these numbers & dates!

505 - morphine not found > Cé hé sin 04/30/2015 at 08:05

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I once drove a 304 S Cabriolet, like this:

And to be fair it was shit. Bad manual box, not much power, and altogether feeling flimsy. In a time, when bigger Pugs were built tough to last, and had a proper quality feel to them.

As far as I know this was the first Peugeot attempt at the front-transverse engine layout, and didn’t turn out that well. So not well, that the 305 wasn’t even a Peugeot, it was a Talbot, just Peugeot bought them, and sold the already developed, but not yet introduced car with a lion on the nose.

Cé hé sin > 505 - morphine not found 04/30/2015 at 08:26

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Actually the 305 was a real Peugeot and was developed from the 304.

You’re thinking of the 309 which was originally codenamed Talbot Arizona and was to replace the Horizon. It was quite well regarded at the time.

505 - morphine not found > Cé hé sin 04/30/2015 at 08:27

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Oh yeah, you’re completely right, this is what i was thinking about, just messed up the numericals. And yes it was a good car as far as i heard, never drove one myself....