My dad has an original french one. 1978 vintage, same as me :) It's restored and in very good condition. Sky blue metallic. :)

I get emails from the King of Nigeria all the time. You can crash at his place for a couple of days while your their to pick yours up.

If I send them a money order for $50,000, will they send me back the $25,000 overpayment with the car? Minus shipping costs, of course.

Wow!

I just happened to be contacted today by a Nigerian Official who wants to use my bank account in order to hold some excess infrastructure funds for a few weeks, and he's going to give me a 20% cut!

Maybe I should take my payoff in Peugeot 504s! This is my lucky day!

Wow. 504 Best Line Station Wagon for me. In Orange.

So, any ideas why, as a Benz salesman, 27 years of age, I'm dicking about with a Nigerian Peugeot 504 configurator, when I should be out drinking champagne, snorting lines of coke off a nubile prostitutes ample breasts, and spending profligate volumes of cash on "commodities"?

Something, somehow has gone horribly wrong.

Dearest friend,

My name is Madam Sarah Parker. I inherited a brand new Peugeot 504 from my late husband. It is currently being held in a secret account in the National Bank of Nigeria. I have recently found out that I am dying from athlete's foot so I have decided to contact a trustworthy person to take possession of my brand new Peugeot 504 and use it to help build schools for blind orphans. Please consider my situation as a deaf, paralyzed, dying widow and send me your bank account, address, and social security number so I can transfer the brand new Peugeot 504 to your possession.

Your sister in Christ,
Madam Sarah Parker

Like I told Murilee, I want mine in Persepolis yellow.
Anybody want to help me stuff a small block Chevy engine in it?

I wanted a Peugeot 404 but was unable to find one.

I wonder if the chrome trim and single-lens headlights are a straight swap? It'd also be interesting to see how easily a modern HDi and 6-speed would drop in...

How about a Peugeot 419?

/sorry, all the good nigerian scam jokes were taken

3,537,370.00 NGN = 30,069.3458 USD
Why does that not seem like such a great deal to me?

Don't forget to download your PDF from the Nigerian Peugeot site -- fun reading!

@Chairman Kaga: It's certainly not as cheap as you'd expect / hope, is it?

Wow. Dangel is still is business too.
A PW yellow 4x4 wagon would cut a dash among the Foresters and Allroads.

[www.504.org]

When my grandparents lived in Nigera during the early 70's, they drove a series of VW buses. I'm now conflicted as to whether I'd rather they drove one of these instead, or if I could convince my grandma to trade her Voyager for one (in the extremely hypothetical case where I could afford one).

Ages ago, the Car Talk site had a feature called the "Car-O-Scope," that generated a list of suitable vehicles based on your personality, temperament, income, education, etc.

Around 1999-2000, I did that several times, and the list was always Monte Carlo, Camaro, Peugeot 505, Mustang, Firebird. Seriously.

Before sighting a 505 in Fontana, CA a few weeks ago, it had probably been at least a decade since I actually had seen another one.

Clearly, Peugeot & Citroen need to come back to NA. Now.

i actually owned a 78 504 diesel. one thing i have to say is that it had the cushiest ride in any car i've ever owned, if that can be considered a plush.

with the liesurely acceleration of the diesel, the car was downright stately.

@Aaron Stein: err 'plus'

@Paul Y. is Going Dumb at the Sideshow: Peugeot, Citroen and Alpine:

[www.alpine-renault.net]

I want this car. Why, you ask.

I dunno actually. I just think its different, a plus, French, probally a plus, we'll see how that works out, and most importantly, I can get some great Nigerian cotomer servis!!!

@gamble: You poor dear! Don't worry, the check is in the mail! My address is: ScotlandYard@gov.co.uk. Please send me your location details and a full description of your appearance, so that i may thank you personally.

From Port Harcourt, Nigeria: The car is in fact available. It's made in an old Peugeot factory in the north of the country.

No one buys them save the government. I mean, seriously why would you expect anyone to when you can buy a New Corolla or Civic for the same money.

And yes, the reliability is as awful as some people remember. The new versions have tacked on A/C but there's no ABS/airbags or whatever. No power-steering even. And yes, the live axle at the back will still throw you off the road if you drive over ambitiously.

Many (old) people in Nigeria still swear by the 504 though. There's a joke in these parts that every housewife can fix one...

Hey, if you like that, how about a brand new MkI Golf/Rabbit in South Africa?

[www.vw.co.za]
[en.wikipedia.org]

@Cameron Thirteen: Good call.

What other blasts from the past lurk in the jungles? Surely there's DAF factory somewhere in deepest, darkest Congo, churning out joyful '60s-era DAFaminos to be filled with raging Congolese. The Heart of DAFness.

So how would one go about buying one of these? Its gotta be possible to ship it over somehow- would they offer a similar program to Volvo, Porsche or BMW - overseas delivery? Can't the Gawker overlords send Murilee on a special assignment?