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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 04/05/2018 at 14:49 • Filed to: Peugeot 504

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Guess what? Another Peugeot. Usually a very sensible four door or “break” but not always.

Meet the coupé. Note yellow lights, for maximum French. There’s probably Gauloise ash in the ashtray.

Prefer a little al fresco? Peugeot and Pininfarina had you covered. Pininfarina continued with the 406 and 407 that followed and which marked the end of their relationship.

Prefer a little off roading? A Dangel for you.

Feeling lazy? An Automatique for you, with added rust because that was what cars did then very early. Peugeot were probably disappointed to have to go to ZF due the absence of boites automatiques francaises that weren’t made by Renault.

AuthiCooper1300 > Cé hé sin 04/05/2018 at 15:28

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For some unfathomable reason I always liked the four-door better.

You forgot to mention the pick-up version (rear-wheel-drive with a 2.0 “four”: nothing terribly fancy) which holds the dubious honour of being the first Peugeot with a FISA Group B homologation for rallying. I admit that from time to time I think of finding a 504 pickup and crashing a stuffy, snotty, oh-so-rich Group B meet somewhere.

(Yeah, I know there are Group B Talbot Sambas but those go for a packet nowadays – and the effect wouldn’t be the same!)

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > Cé hé sin 04/05/2018 at 15:28

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The 504 Coupe is a stunning car, possibly the best Peugeot design ever.

I like that it seems like Peugeot used it as a bit of inspiration for the new 508 (especialy on the front)

Cé hé sin > AuthiCooper1300 04/05/2018 at 15:35

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There’s something about the 504 (and other Peugeots of that era) that’s very redolent of France at a certain time.

AuthiCooper1300 > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 04/05/2018 at 15:40

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And they are a nice drive too.

I wonder how much the PRV would upset the balance of the saloon version? (were there any by the factory? Can’t remember now).

Or fitting a 505 Turbo unit. Oh the possibilities.

AuthiCooper1300 > Cé hé sin 04/05/2018 at 16:27

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In fact maybe I do remember why I like them so much.

One day when I was a six or seven our neighbour invited my father and me to go out in a brand-new 504 of a friend of his. I think it was some sort of pale blue metallic. The owner very graciously showed us the car and then took all three of us on a longish drive around town at night. I was so excited that only after a while I came to realise that this man’s right arm was somewhat not properly developed – with an extremely small hand, like a baby’s, which may not even have had all five fingers.

Of course the first 504s produced had a column shift. Had it had your usual four-on-the-floor gearchange he may not have been able to drive it.

That evening drive certainly stuck in my memory.

Years later, when I was in high school I had this teacher with an uncanny ressemblance to Ingrid Thulin – a striking beauty in her early 30s with a powerful low voice.

Her husband, a bearded, very smartly-dressed man, used to pick her up in a ivory 504 saloon.

Kanaric > Cé hé sin 04/05/2018 at 19:09

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I thought that was an Isuzu 117 for a moment.

That first one is one attractive french car. I would have the V6 version for sure.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > AuthiCooper1300 04/07/2018 at 17:06

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Four doors means you can have some humans along with you for the ride. I don’t like the long doors on the coupes, especially American ones.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > AuthiCooper1300 04/07/2018 at 17:09

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I enjoyed reading your reminiscence. Thank you for writing it.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Cé hé sin 04/07/2018 at 17:10

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I’ve always liked the looks of those. I’ve heard that diesel models in the Third World soldier on and on. I’ve also heard that the suspensions are very robust.

AuthiCooper1300 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/07/2018 at 17:28

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Even for two people (or one person + dogs, for example), four doors are far more practical.

One of the features I love in the old Delta Integrale is that it had four doors.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > AuthiCooper1300 04/07/2018 at 18:25

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I don’t think I’ve seen a Lancia I didn’t like, even this one.

My taste in automobiles is very much driven by practicality. Even if I could have whatever car I wanted, it would be a Cadillac CTS-V (four doors) or maybe one of those new Kia Stinger GT2s. Four doors and some window glass to look out through.