The rise and fall of the Peugeot 404. It might not have been a 404, that’s what my memory is, er, wait, I’m getting a new image, it’s a 504. Yep definitely a 504. My dad bought it while on assignment in Germany so it was probably a 1972, brand new. Some weird Air Force perk where you buy it through the Canadian PX and it is shipped to your address in Germany. As a young teenager I had zero interest in cars. Probably as a result of living on base in Germany I don’t know. Cars and motorcycles were never much my thing anyway. If it wasn’t rock and roll, alcohol, going to movies, thinking about kissing princesses or reading books I wasn’t interested. But my dad seemed to be excited about this particular model and I admit it was a good looking car. It had a midnight blue finish so that may be why to this day my cars almost always have the same paint job. I don’t recall too much about this auto (pronounced OW-TOE in German) but I have a couple recollections that I wil