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I thought I might start a thread on my latest car, and first working classic.
A brief bit of background: I've owned plenty of 205s over the years and always liked older French cars for some odd reason. I've now got a nice dry garage to keep cars in so thought it time to get something a bit different. There aren't many Peugeot 104s on the roads, probably 12 in total split between 3 door coupes and 5 doors.
This particular car: probably the only 104 "S" on the road. Imported from France in December 2018 by its previous owner and put back on the road having had a bit of welding. 1360 engine, gearbox integral sort of like a proper mini, 5 speed. I've got a long list of bits and pieces to do to it over the coming months: give it a thorough clean (not that it is mucky, but still lots of bits I'd like to clean up), fix the front reg plate on properly, replace a couple of door seals to reduce wind noise, sort a slightly sticking caliper, change oil and coolant, get the carb checked over, replace the track rods...
A brief bit of background: I've owned plenty of 205s over the years and always liked older French cars for some odd reason. I've now got a nice dry garage to keep cars in so thought it time to get something a bit different. There aren't many Peugeot 104s on the roads, probably 12 in total split between 3 door coupes and 5 doors.
This particular car: probably the only 104 "S" on the road. Imported from France in December 2018 by its previous owner and put back on the road having had a bit of welding. 1360 engine, gearbox integral sort of like a proper mini, 5 speed. I've got a long list of bits and pieces to do to it over the coming months: give it a thorough clean (not that it is mucky, but still lots of bits I'd like to clean up), fix the front reg plate on properly, replace a couple of door seals to reduce wind noise, sort a slightly sticking caliper, change oil and coolant, get the carb checked over, replace the track rods...
sjabrown said:
the griffin said:
Did I see this at Festival of the Unexceptional on French plates? Looks identical.
You did, at that time with its previous owner. The original French plates are kept safe and sound ready for shows next yearThe steering wheel is suspiciously similar to that on my old R5 Gordini (bar the centre badge obvs).
Wow, I had one of these as my first car. You didn’t see many back then so this must be incredibly rare now. Brilliant find, well done!
Mine was a beige basic model with a 954cc engine. Did have a glass sunroof though which you could unscrew at the hinge and remove - very snazzy for the 80’s!
Mine met an interesting end, or at least the number plates did. It had been sat on my parents drive for a few months as the list of things needed for the MOT weren’t worth fixing. A friend of my dads offered me £100 cash for it so being a hard up student I took it.
Couple more months later I get a visit from the police asking if I own a Vehicle with the same reg number. They explained that the car had been used in a burglary whereby the perpetrators had driven through a concrete bollard, security shutters and windows of a branch of Dixon’s.
Confused as to why they picked my old French rusty tin can as a ram raiding tool the police quickly realised that I wasn’t the owner of a V8 Range Rover!
Turns out the number plates from mine had been put onto a stolen Range Rover and then sent through a shop window.
Never did find out what happened to the rest of it.
Sorry for the story, really looking forward to the updates.
Mine was a beige basic model with a 954cc engine. Did have a glass sunroof though which you could unscrew at the hinge and remove - very snazzy for the 80’s!
Mine met an interesting end, or at least the number plates did. It had been sat on my parents drive for a few months as the list of things needed for the MOT weren’t worth fixing. A friend of my dads offered me £100 cash for it so being a hard up student I took it.
Couple more months later I get a visit from the police asking if I own a Vehicle with the same reg number. They explained that the car had been used in a burglary whereby the perpetrators had driven through a concrete bollard, security shutters and windows of a branch of Dixon’s.
Confused as to why they picked my old French rusty tin can as a ram raiding tool the police quickly realised that I wasn’t the owner of a V8 Range Rover!
Turns out the number plates from mine had been put onto a stolen Range Rover and then sent through a shop window.
Never did find out what happened to the rest of it.
Sorry for the story, really looking forward to the updates.
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