My father and I once stuffed a full size fridge into the back of my Peugeot,
from my house to the dump on a dreary wet Vancouver day. The dump was nothing
but a a muddy quagmire with mud up to the doorsills. With my father at the
wheel and me in the passenger seat, we were quite smitten as the Peugeot
valiantly fought and parted the mud and despatched the fridge onto the
scrapile. The vehicle in particular, A 1971 Peugeot 304 station wagon. The
most entertaining and useful Peugeot I have ever driven, and had pleasure of
owning.
Brodie
> I hauled my sisters upright piano (layed down of course) in my 504 wagon
> once. The music store was absolutely amazed that I'd even consider trying.
>
> Also, when we were renovating the kitchen we found a place that had
> everything we needed - all of the different tile types, the cement, wire,
> etc. After paying for it the salesperson told me to pull up my truck at
> loading bay #1. I pulled up my 504 and waited for them to open the door.
> When they opened the doors they started laughing. I asked them why and they
> said it would take 5 trips with "that thing". They went on to say that they
> wouldn't even load up their Ford van with all the stuff I just bought. I
> folded the seat down and began loading, carefully placing the tiles in the
> car's centre and working my way to the rear axle where most of the weight
> ended up. I managed to fit everything and went happily on my way. Shortly
> after I arrived home I got a call from the tile store. They wanted to know
> if I made it and "what kind of car was that again"? I don't know for sure,
> but the salesperson guesses that I must've hauled about 1200lbs that night.
>
> A friend of mine filled his 504 wagon FULL of shingles. He had so much
> faith in his wagon that he considered the limiting factor to be volume, not
> weight. Still, I think that he was taking a bit of a risk with that haul,
> but he made it just fine. Again, the store that sold him the material could
> not believe their eyes.
>
> In none of the above examples did the suspension "bottom out". There was
> always at least a little travel to absorb the bumps. It takes some careful
> driving, but those old 504 wagons could really haul!
>
> Senen.
>
>
> From: "Anup Pahari" <apahari@erols.com>
> To: "Jerry Bauer" <jrbauer@nidlink.com>
> Cc: <peugeot-l@egroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 4:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [Peugeot] Peugeot tuff!
>
> > last week i took my 505 TD wagon to pick up some gravel for a fence i am
> > building. The quarry said 15 bucks for as much as you can carry in a
> wagon
> > or mid-sized pick up. All I had were about 13 10gal buckets I got from
> a
> > chinese restaurant (soy sauce). I hauled them home without even folding
> > down the rear seat.
> > Wagon, with a recently replaced transmission, ran like the work horse it
> > is. Once home I weighed the buckets out of curiosity -- each one was
> about
> > 65-70 lbs. So looks like I got nearly 850 lbs in the wagon. I think i
> > could have hauled over 1000 lbs if i had more gallons and had spread the
> > weight in the back more evenly. Hey, but i was happy with getting 850 lbs
> > for 15 bucks.
> >
> > Anup Pahari
> >
> >
> > > It's spring out here in North Idaho and time to fertilize the field.
> > > I took the 504 TD wagon to the feed mill to pick up the fertilizer
> > > with their spreader trailer. My friend had just brought the spreader
> > > back from his field using his Chevy pickup. The attendant said to
> > > me: "You gonna use that car? This stuff weighs down pickups" I
> > > said: "no problem, I did it several years ago also". My friend
> > > said: "He uses it for EVERYTHING"! So I dragged 1000 lbs of it back
> > > home and had fun spreading it on the field. The right of way area
> > > was pretty rough with big hummocks and almost got high centered
> > > once. I had to do some four wheelin there.
> > > I enjoy hearing about peoples adventures with there pugs and how
> > > tough they are. Let's here some more Tuff stories.
> > > Jerry
>
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