I was out for a walk a few weeks ago when I saw this and while I’m happy for any chance to see a Peugeot on these shores, this is just depressing.
Judging by the lights used to replace the missing original piece, the car was driven for some time after being wrecked. What I can’t figure out, though, is what the owners of this once appealing sedan hope to do with the car. After all, they haven’t scrapped the it, but on the other hand, no attempt has been made to keep water, snow or vermin out of the interior.
Maybe they’re just too lazy the have it moved.
Hmmm. That’s a current license plate, so I wonder if someone parked it at the beginning of the snowstorm and it got a snowbank plowed up over it. Maybe someone will be coming for it once the melting has continued for another day or so.
I considered that, but that doesn’t explain the trailer lights used to replace the original taillight cluster. Hmm… I’ll go knock on their door.
NIEDERMEYER is making this face right now…
Close! If it had been a 404, for sure. I never had much direct experience with the 505, but it’s on my CC To Do list for 2014. There’s still a handful of 505s on the streets here, but let’s say the number isn’t exactly growing.
A local Pug nutter had a 404 pickup totalled recently the undamaged vehicle is on the cohort though, it was struck while parked by a wayward Corolla driven by a school kid who thought Corollas handle well.
Hopefully the insurance company comes to the party and repairs it rather than writing it off. I know a guy whose Morris Minor van was run into and after showing the insurance company some auction/ebay sales results, and asking where he might find a van for sale for the amount they were offering him, his van was repaired.
That is a real shame. I always liked the 505, probably because my parents got me a Corgi model of one when I was a kid.
These photos remind me of a gold 1997-99 Cadillac Deville sitting next to a house I pass on the way to work. All of the windows are broken out, and it has been sitting that way FOR MONTHS! The guy’s house is ten feet away, and what appears to be the regular car is right behind the Caddy. Nope, couldn’t even be bothered to throw a cover over it, never mind all the rain and snow we’ve gotten since mid-December. I’m sure the interior is junk, and the electrical system is ruined from all the moisture.
Why do so many CCs end up like this? Because of idiots!
505 lights cant be that easy to come by in the US maybe the accessory lights were a method of keeping it on the road, come to think of it they aren’t exactly common here anymore either.
That’s a heartbreaker. There’s still a few Puegeots from that era in the Seattle area, since for a while there was a pretty successful Puegeot dealer in the Ballard neighborhood. I saw one this summer that was maybe just a little better-maintained than this featured car.
Very sharp! I like the 242DL behind it too.
Dang it, that’s Peugeot, not “Puegeot,” but it’s too late to edit it…
If you like Volvos, you’d love the Wallingford/Ballard part of Seattle. Ballard is the old Swedish neighborhood, and quite a few of the residents bought Swedish cars, and took good care of them, as Swedes will tend to do. I’m guessing that the Peugeot in my picture ended up in the hands of a careful and meticulous Swedish-American.
I will not speculate about the owner of the car in Perry’s photo.
Looking at that picture I was immediately reminded of the famous Road &Track PS page with a photo of a man lighting a cigarette on a snow and ice slickened roadway. About 6 feet below him, perched on a steep embankment lightly wooded, lay a Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer 512. Written by the great Peter Egan:
“Good Tires”, Bob mused, casually lighting a cigarette, “But certainly not great tires…”
🙂
This vintage Peugeot always reminds of the really nice fat Spanish neighbor I we had as a kid, he owned an 80’s 505 and much later one of the few 405’s sold in the US, I think may have even had a 404?, all red too, red Peugeots…..they were an older couple, they had Peugeots and a Siberian Husky, nice folks.
As a car head all my life I aways took notice of the interesting or odd cars in the neighborhood, there was the Peugeot Spain couple, the people that had the 38 Buick Limited sedan in their driveway, which was another eye popper as a kid, it was probably the first 30’s car I had ever seen up close.
There was the LeSabre family, which had 3 77-79 vintage LeSabre Custom sedans in their driveway, all different colors.
Cannot tell if the door is open due to severe body damage preventing it from being closed or if someone left the door open. Shame about this Peugot and I am surprised it has been tagged considering this looks like countryside.
speaking of PEUGEOTs,there is a very goodlooking 504D on Portland craigslist.check it out.