Before:

































After:

Very, very nice

Thanks!

Beautiful car Andre!

Lots of cosmetic improvements between the two sets, looking good.

Thank you, guys, I'm really touched.

The engine compartment was also painted, but now is a little dirty, because we (my mechanic and I) worked at the engine.

The steering wheel is also a little dirty (it was manipulated with dirty hands), I must clean it.

Nice

Very nice refresh. Do you take it to any classic car shows?

Thank you very much Antoine, Neptune!

No, I did not taked it yet to classic car shows, though there are several each year, in Bucharest and in other cities, and the cars are great.

Nice work, Andre

Thanks!

Nice metamorphosis indeed. Reminds me vintage 404 one guy had in our neighborhood in the late 1980s. Together with his son, he always did somthing in (and under) the car.

There was the orginal upholstery under this from the first pics?

No, it was not.

Nice one !

The Peugeot 404 is a very popular car in algeria

you can find a lot of them in the suburban's of south province's

especially in Djelfa and M'sila

here's some pics for you , i took them in march 2012 .

Thank you very much, Raji, that's very interesting!

This is a 404 from Algeria:





Algerian plate :





It is in Bucharest, in the area where I live. I spoke with the owner, an old man, and I find out that the car is of 1968 and he bought it in 1973, when he was a teacher of mathematics at the university of Alger.

As you can see in the photos, the trunk, the roof and the wipers are bended, the rear plate was pull out. All these vandalisms did not exist when I saw the car for the first time (the last pic was taken before these vandalisms). For sure some young idiots took "fun" doing that to a car which is, in their eyes, an old, abandoned car. I already said here http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=29918 what I would do to these punks, if I would catch them.

The 404 was also produced in Algeria?

Ah so beautiful to see this peugeot 404 with the old algerian plates , hard find

but very sad what happened to this masterpiece they don't know the value of old
cars like this one .

about the producing of peugeot 404 in algeria , i think no they didn't , but i don't have much informations about it unfortunately !

thank you so much for the pic's !

Yes, we have a lot of idiots here. A lot. Unfortunately, this is just about the only field in which we excel. I'm not afraid to say it, I never was too patriotic (though I'm 100% romanian).

Very sad ! people like this should be out of the planet

I absolutely agree!

Err, I have to make a confession, right here, right now...

Where I lived during my childhood, there was a scrapyard in the next street (only for metal, no car salvage). Sometimes some people have place their old cars on front of the gate - and when we kids have noticed that, we have plundered and smashed them. I remember, that we have destroyed once an early Renault 16, once an early Audi 60, a mid-60ies R4 and yes *cough* one time a ... Peugeot 404

But you have to note: this was in the early 80ies, when such cars were worthless junk. Especially the wrecks, placed in front of the scrapyards gate.

Those were the days, where I never left the house without having these two tools in the pocket:




From the R4 I picked up an allen wrench, which I had in use for many years further. Unfortunately I cannot find it any more, but I know, that I still had it in the 90ies, when I had my K 70-wrecking garage.