Cameron Mac Millan wrote:
>Saw the damndest thing in the Pick-A-Part yard up in Sun Valley (L.A.
>area) today.
>
>It's a 505 wagon, XN6 (IIRC), sort of a Band-Aid colour. So far, so
>normal. Here's the weird part: it's been cut down into a 4-door pickup
>and badged a 550.
>
>
Interesting. Many years before the Subaru Baja, there was an actual
commercial version of the 505 that was like that. 505 Pickup Gruau:
http://membres.lycos.fr/cit43/Autoshorsserie_2/Peugeot_hors_serie/505_PU_ARD.GIF
http://membres.lycos.fr/cit43/Autoshorsserie_2/Peugeot_hors_serie/505_PU_profilD.jpg
Altough the above site mentions this was only a single prototype, that
is not the case. Several were sold. Not sure how many.
One french person had one for sale for 15000FF with a dead differential:
sbeallet@club-internet.fr <mailto:sbeallet@club-internet.fr>
I can inquire if anybody is interested.
Gruau is still around: http://www.gruau.com/
In fact it assimilated Labbe (those who built the 505s for the french
embassy in DC) and ambulances Petit (another big user of the 505 wagon
back then).
>The bed area was clearly created by hacking off the roof rear of the
>C-pillar, but the rear window 'assembly' (for want of a better term) was
>made out of wood. The same wood continued down the rear of the vehicle
>across the top of the bed walls back to the taillights.
>
>Unfortunately I wasn't able to grab any pictures, but was wondering if
>anyone locally recognised it. Sadly it's in the part of the yard where
>there's no hope of ever getting it out again.
>
>- Cameron.
>
>
You got to take some pictures of this. I know a list member of old had a
wagon converted into an RV, and I think the picture was posted. Might
have been around 97 or so.
Francois
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