Okay, I know I should find something else to do but I had been talking with Johnny Duffy about old cars! I’d mentioned the Peugeot 403 to him and he could not recall it. He remembered the 404 alright! I told him that my father had once adapted the boot of Alfie Gallagher’s Peugeot 403 to include a sink with hot and cold running water where Alife, a vet, could wash his hands in a farmyard before getting back into the car. Johnny reminds me of my father, he’s a sort of inventive character who repairs rather than replaces. I told him that Columbo used to drive a Peugeot 403 in the old TV series of the same name. Johnny remembered Columbo (Peter Falk) but not the car. I was even able to tall Johnny where petrol was filled in the 403 – a flap that lifted up on the left-hand back tail light!
The snow came and I was sort of housebound so I did as you can only do at times like that – hit YouTube! I typed in Columbo and Peugeot 403 and found this clip!
Later I found this one …. it includes the one above but features the car a bit more!! I love the line where he says his wife has another car but “that’s just for transportation, nothing special”
and later, I found this one – not linked to Columbo’s car but a good walk around an old car!!
And totally separate to all of these, I found myself in Jay Leno’s garage looking at a Citroen DS
And that led to this ….
then this …..
and then, snow or no snow, I knew it was time to go out!!
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