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eLMeR
Reawakened memories: I had an orange model of this 1st version of the 104. But I never drove it, in fact: a friend of mine gave it to me because it was rusting for a long time in his yard (it was just an old used car, back in the early 90s), but there was a lot of work to do on it to make it run again. So when another friend gave me a newer (i.e. with a tailgate hatchback) blue model a few weeks after, this latter with just the engine that had to be changed, I gave the orange 104 to a scrap dealer...
Gag Halfrunt
It’s the car coming back from a watery grave.
A blue Peugeot 104 stolen in the heart of France’s Champagne country in 1979 is being reunited with its owner — 38 years later — after French police pulled it, in surprisingly good shape but crawling with crayfish, from a murky swamp.
In a Facebook posting, police said the pond owner alerted officers in Chalons-en-Champagne, 160 kilometers (100 miles) east of Paris, on Monday about the discovery. The car became visible because drought dropped the water level.
A blue Peugeot 104 stolen in the heart of France’s Champagne country in 1979 is being reunited with its owner — 38 years later — after French police pulled it, in surprisingly good shape but crawling with crayfish, from a murky swamp.
In a Facebook posting, police said the pond owner alerted officers in Chalons-en-Champagne, 160 kilometers (100 miles) east of Paris, on Monday about the discovery. The car became visible because drought dropped the water level.
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