Photos by riveranotario, from the Cohort.
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Cohort Pic(k) Of The Day: Peugeot 504 – Looking Placid in Chile
– Posted on December 6, 2023
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Photos by riveranotario, from the Cohort.
Related reading:
I do remember these on the streets of NOLA. The rattle of the diesel alarmed most, but the diehards thought of it as sweet serenade.
To know a Pug is to luv a Pug!!
1971 504 popped up for sale in El Cerrito.
By the way it is interesting that I have been prevented from accessing the dashboard, since yesterday, to update another story I am working on now. Five done, three in works, now no access and so much for contacting via email.
What city?
Santiago, Chile’s capital.
As a kid when these came out, I thought that rear end looked strange/odd/wrong. A decade later, when I had a ride in a friend’s 504, I revised my opinion. With a supple ride like this, who cares what it looks like?
It’s difficult not to think about the lost luggage space. Give me a break!
I loved my 1979 Peugeot back in the day. I always loved the styling, but I never realized how much until I bought a 1980 “bustleback” Seville. Then some things started to come together in my head. LOL.
That odd, sharp break across the middle of the trunk was apparently a happy blunder that transpired when stylists from Pininfarina and Peugeot’s in-house studio were presenting clay model proposals to Peugeot management:
“On the day of the decision, Pininfarina’s Aldo Brovarone, who would go on to design the entirety of the Coupe version, decided that the rear of his design was not quite right. Assuming he had time to make adjustments to the clay, he began carving away, only be be suddenly ushered out by the unexpectedly early arrival of the Peugeot board of management.”
This is also apparently the very first appearance of what would become a signature Peugeot styling cue for decades to come, those headlights with “arched eyebrows”, courtesy of Peugeot’s own stylists. As Brovarone remarked when their proposal was unveiled:
“Do not even take the cover from my car… That is the perfect front end for the Peugeot 504, and I will tell you why – it has the eyes of Sophia Loren.”
Ultimately, the final 504 sedan design wound up combining the front end from Peugeot’s stylists and the serendipitous rear end from Pininfarina.
Source:
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/motors/driving-the-peugeot-504-a-perfect-car-for-troubled-times-1.4016191
I wonder if this elegantly looking 504 may have been a part of Pinochet’s secret service fleet. Not really “placid” in this way …
I can never tire of 504 posts. The rear end of the saloon is eternally a bit odd, but the estate is utterly timeless. A great looking car and proven in some of the world’s toughest environments.
All time great. The French Mercedes. All you need to know.
These are not only good looking but also very fine cars .
Mine was a….?1975? gasoline powered stick shift, as always it stuck to the road like glue and had supremely comfy seats
-Nate
In 1971 while still in college a good friend bought a red ’68 504 sedan and my wife and I bought a ’67 Volvo 122s. That wonderful Volvo lasted us for 10 good years, while our friend went on to Med school and kept his Pug for quite a few years as well. Have loved these 504s since the day he got his and in the mid ’80s we bought a cream colored ’81 504 diesel wagon. Loved that car, wish we still had it.