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a figaro for my gf, she sighs sadly whenever she sees a pic of one

damn. i could use a left side one. wouldnt happen to also have one from the US drivers side lying around somewhere, would u?

yup, im with andre. ive dreamt up lots of swaps for 505s, but LSx motor is pretty much the ace card. but for the sake of conversation.. s2000 drivetrain - high revving, with the right exhaust and itb's, they sound like a racecar (imo) sr20det has been done by at least 2 505 owners but a peugeot v8 from their racecar, detuned for the street...wouldnt that be neat heh but then, besides all the work involved, why remove the xn6; old bastard just never quits.

http://newhaven.craigslist.org/cto/2649110975.html

where r u located? theres a white stx in the for sale section thats pretty damn nice

haha - i KNEW this was a "i bought it" post when i saw this old subject line show up in the "new content" listing another nice catch, dude

will someone snatch this one up! its killin me

o boy, the unicorn. one thing you said - when she has that hiccup, you turn her off and restart her and shes fine - my 505 does that too sometimes.

*sigh* years ago, when those chevy bowtie shaped exhaust tips first hit the back pages (the ads) of Car Craft magazine, i thought they were the coolest thing ever invented. lol the hanging balls, though, never struck that chord with me.

i love the "We don't recommend the practice of throwing money at your car." on the front page. Alberto will tell you the same at his shop - it's definitely a Peugeot-ism haha

wait, is it a manual or automatic - pic is a manual, isnt it?

awesome awesome awesome

o snap. i like that blue a lot. i actually have a taxi roof light heh...and nyc taxis have always had blue interiors too, actually...

also, post on the yahoo peugeot mailing list (join up if youre not a member)

i seen those, but i NEEEEEEED the peugeot typeface ones haha i have to upload video i took in Peru - saw a modern 505, with the most perfect emblems... another idea i had, was to relocate the emblems from the trunk lid to the rear bumper, beveling out a correspondingly-sized recess on each side for the "peugeot" and "505" emblems, center-aligned with the inset strip that runs along the bumper

ah, so it was fiat. welp, bingo, thats the sidemarker i saw (but the ones i was bidding on were fairly "worn in" and i thought i could get em cheap)

ooo. hmm.

pics of this two tone jobby? my pugs paint is pretty solid, but (unfortunately) its my roof that has patches that have faded/rusted (now sanded and primed)

ah, thats something i forgot about when i wrote my post, but had thought of before - painting the 505's bay would be more labor than anything else, with all the equipment under the hood. would def do the jambs and under the hood/trunk as well, but the engine bay/tops of the inner wheel wells...ugh. i think i'd be willing to "punk out" on that whole part of the paint job. that vw dark blue (ive seen 4runners in a similar shade too) would be great with a sandstone/white-tan interior i think. and i'd keep my chrome accents on the car as well, i think they'd go well with the dark blue...

seeing as how easily (well, relatively speaking) my cousin is able to paint cars in his garage behind his apt, ive been thinking more and more of doing a 50/50 paint job on the pug. having a blue interior limits my choices, and i dont want silver, white, or black, would rather have an "interesting" color (though from pugs ive seen, silver and black can look really good) - so i've been thinking about shades of blue or even a light silver green, like a 505 brochure cover i found: http://i23.ebayimg.com/05/i/000/b5/10/66b9_2.JPG the blues ive had in mind, are either a deep shade, like this: http://www.houseofthud.com/car-av/R32darkblue.jpg or this very "pop" looking blue, i saw once in person on a saab aero vert (which was also available in a vibrant green like the one on the 505 brochure above): http://images.dealerrevs.com/pictures/50121318.jpg i think ultimately, i'd like my 505 to somewhat resemble the stripped down model on that brochure cover... not pug related - but we're painting my camaro a color that i have yet to see on any old musclecar, either in person, in a magazine, or online....its gonna be pretty slick.

ah, nice thread move yeah, the only thing that kinda irks me about the pininfarina idea is that my french car would have an italian name on it - even though pininfarina was put on cars other than italian makes. it still somehow...bugs me a lil hehe. along those lines, thats the one thing keeping me from debadging my 505 - as a graphic designer, i love the PEUGEOT typeface. i'd even maybe be ok with having a PEUGEOT windshield banner (but not in white, maybe just as a tint film) if i did debadge the car (i dont like the cheap looking emblems the 505 has as stock - would prefer seperate metal letters and numbers for the emblems. this is the pininfarina emblem i had in mind (my favorite of the ones ive seen on ebay) - http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Disegno-Di-Pininfarina-Aluminum-Emblem-New-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem2eb638e7daQQitemZ200625678298QQptZVintageQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories but this one is also nice: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Pininfarina-Chrome-Emblem-New-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem2eb2139c00QQitemZ200556125184QQptZVintageQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories i nearly bought (but the bidding went higher than i was willing to pay) for a set of sidemarker lights that had a pininfarina emblem as part of the assembly, if i remember right it was from an alfa romea (156? milano? cant remember) for chrome beltline strips, a few weeks ago i was at pepboys buying some oil and saw in the "import accessories" chrome skulls and junk isle, they sell rolls of chrome strip in different widths and thicknesses, with adhesive. could work, maybe. my thought, with the grille, was to use that chrome strip tape to cover the outer frame, and MAYBE do the lion outline as well, though it would take some good work with an x-acto to make it not look like a crappy job (and supposedly it can handle bending) and lol at "murdered out" - for an 80s performance model, you KNOW all the good ones were black, with mostly blacked out trim, and RED outline accents around certain parts (go ahead, imagine a celebrity eurosport and feel the excitement)

haha! so so awesome. yup, these are the mods i stay up at night thinking about for my 505. but youre actually making headway on them - ive just been dreaming them up, but have yet to handle simple stuff like cleaning my rear window switches =P (in my defense, ive been concentrating on getting my camaro on the road before winter hits) anyway, heres another one i had - so you know how the c-pillar has that black plastic trapezoidal vent thing on it - and it kinda "cuts" off the shiny window trim that frames the side windows - will i was thinking a nice thin rectangular pininfarina emblem would look great, mounted either along the lower edge of the plastic vent (so, if you squinted and looked at the car from the side, it could almost appear as if it continues the shiny strip of trim along the bottom of the windows) OR depending on the thickness of that plastic trapezoid vent thing, maybe bevel out a lil recess for the emblem, and set it in there....thing is, on your car, blacking out all the stainless and chrome trim may be the slicker look altogether. including the door handles. feel bad to muck up the bastille day thread with car-mod talk. my plan was to snap a pic of my 505 in front of the french embassy in DC - but when i got there i found that the building is almost entirely covered by massive trees and a tall fence. looked like a pic of my car parked on any old street =/

x-pel, huh - new bookmark for me, didnt know of them before heres another idea i had for mine - but would be killer on yours - cut out the grille, leaving just the "frame" around it - and put in a honeycomb grille, sunken in a bit, like maybe cut from the police crown vic honeycomb grille (http://www.bushkillcardsandgames.com/images/honeycombgrille.JPG) and maybe a nice new lion emblem for the center of the grille, or keep the original lion (by not cutting it out with the grille's horizontal and vertical bars), which would line up/be on the same plane as the grille frame... and sidemarker lights maybe - from a honda pilot or e36 bmw....*grin*

awesome, thanks bean

or will that cause extreme grief and suffering... would be a pain to have to remove the whole console, so im hoping i can just pull/pry up the switches, but im afraid to in case thats not how to go about it, and i wind up breaking them - so has anyone done this before, and if so, how? thanks guys