Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Junkyard Find: 1986 Peugeot 505 S

10 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee MartinThere was a time when Peugeots— mostly 504s but the occasional 404 as well— were quite common in American self-service junkyards. Back in the early 1990s, when I owned a free 504, you could count on finding junkyard parts at every good-sized U-Wrench-It in Northern California, and as recently as the late 2000s I found the occasional 504 and even this 404. Nowadays, though, all you're going to see is 505s and 405s, from the final years of Peugeot's North American presence, and they're sufficiently rare that we've seen just this 405 in this series prior to today. However, a few 505s managed to soldier on for a couple decades after Peugeot fled back across the Atlantic (or at least managed to survive in storage for that time), and I found this '86 in a San Francisco Bay Area wrecking yard earlier this year.
02 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee MartinThis one had a 2013 San Francisco residential parking permit, from the exceptionally-nightmarish-to-find-parking-even-by-SF-standards Inner Sunset neighborhood. The car probably got towed for having its front bumper 7/16″ into a red zone, and the owner couldn't afford the $1,800 in impound fees (I'm exaggerating, but not as much as you might think) to get his or her Peugeot back.
04 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin162,862 miles for this car, which is pretty good by mid-80s standards.
03 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee MartinPeugeots of the 1970s and 1980s were very pleasant cars to drive, much more comfortable than any competition anywhere in their price range, but getting parts for the all-too-frequent breakdowns was tough. Yes, Europeans, we know the 505 was considered a fairly reliable car over there.
07 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee MartinHow many rearview-mirror decorations go to the Crusher each year?


La révélation.

Nothing else feels like it.

You could still buy a new 504 in Argentina when this ad came out, but the 505 got more sax. And mimes.

01 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 02 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 03 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 04 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 05 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 06 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 07 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 08 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 09 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 10 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 11 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 12 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 13 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 14 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 15 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 16 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 17 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 18 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 19 - 1986 Peugeot 505 S Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

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