old Pugs in Morocco

[pshome]

Plenty of old pugs here,  have few:

 

 

For sale, Diesel!

 

 

 

A few Simca as well:

 

Plenty of Renault's as well R20, R21, R25, R4 , R19 etc, not my thing so i didn't take pics of those. No Maxi Diesel seen yet...

 

[Junkman]

Ideal for import.

[Split_Pin]

An actual Simca 1100 in daily use. Last time I saw that was in Menorca in 1993. It beeped its horn at me because I was in the road getting a ball.

[hpi_matrix]

This took us all the way to the top of the mountain and then shat its coolant everywhere

 

 

It had lovely hinges on its boot

 

[Felly Magic]

One shot with a 504 and 305 estate plus what appears to be a Fiat Regatta estate as well, shite overload in one shot

[hpi_matrix]

Outside the airport all the taxi's are old Mercs that have done fifty billion miles and the cram 5 of you in the back

 

[Junkman]

Plenty of Renault's as well R20, R21, R25, R4 , R19 etc,

 

The etc being R16s?

 

Is it only me, or does the place look a lot tidier than - let's say - France?

Although it has this typical arid aura about it. An Austrian wouldn't like it there.

[pshome]

no R16 seen, have a Benz and a Polo instead:

 

yes, generally places are very tidy and clean, and not only in the center of towns, the suburbs are proper as well.

 

Is there any place on earth Austrians like outside Stockport?

[Squire_Dawson]

This speaks volumes about how tough these old cars are. And to me it shows just how big an effect different climates have on bodywork, like in this country (I suspect largely due to the pointless practice of salt-spreading roads) cars are lucky to reach 15-20 years old.

[hairnet]

r18 estate in that 309 pic

 

i wat to buy a fiat uno and bring it home

[Junkman]

Is there any place on earth Austrians like outside Stockport?

 

Why should an Austrian travel when he doesn't even like it at home?

[pshome]

One shot with a 504 and 305 estate plus what appears to be a Fiat Regatta estate as well, shite overload in one shot

Let me add a 309 to make it perfect.

 

 

That eveneing was the most perfect dinner show ever: sit in the café watch the shite passing by and just hit the shitter shutter release every so often. Wonderful music as well, Indenor Diesel at its best, sometimes even in Stereo!

 

I counted four Peugeot 504 estates, three "Berline"  two pickup's and that 305, that was Peugeot only. A few Fiats (126, Regatta?) and Renaults as well.  

[Junkman]

What's the white shite parked on the drive of the house at the left?

Wishiwashi Colt?

[pshome]

This? R18 i think.

[hpi_matrix]

This speaks volumes about how tough these old cars are. And to me it shows just how big an effect different climates have on bodywork, like in this country (I suspect largely due to the pointless practice of salt-spreading roads) cars are lucky to reach 15-20 years old.

 

Dont be mistaken, these cars are proper shite, bodge repaired to an inch within their life. Remember our cars have to pass an MOT, their cars just have to be better then a horse and cart.

 

Here are some more pictures:

 

 

 

[pshome]

they have annual mot, managed by German Dekra and swiss SGS. That certainly assures a minimum technical standard.

http://www.bladi.net/controle-technique-maroc,18144.html

[jonathan_dyane]

I'd bloody love one of those 504s mind

[sierraman]

I can remember going to Egypt several years ago, after the 504, the most popular were the Lada, Zastava and oddly enough Vectras

[Shep Shepherd]

On a sort-of related note, I saw a Peugeot 404 done up like a traditional German taxi at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on November 9th:

 

 

Apart from the Trabis and numerous old Mercs and Audis, It was the most memorable car I saw in the five days that I was there.

[mercrocker]

Love seeing W123s and old Pugs in such natural surroundings.    It was TV footage of Beirut being shelled to shit that made me want a W123 - they seemed to lumber out of the rubble with about eight people in them, a big white flag hanging out the back window and still wearing three of its hubcaps.   The missing wheel trim is probably still on that 504 saloon in the opening post here.....

[Elstro1988]

I remember seeing lots of Peugeots in the background of the Abfab episode 'Morocco'. Amazing to see 22 years later it is still the case. I'm sure it's the climate that keeps these cars going.

[castros_bro]

I'll leave this here....

 

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/22592-pug-bingoshite-game-about-to-commence/?hl=bingo

[DSdriver]

Help me out here - in the 60's there was a TV cop show based in north Africa with lots of Fiats in it - what was it called?

[timolloyd]

Bergerac?

[Parky]

Van der Valk?

[pshome]

plenty of 404 as well, all of them daily drivers, ain't seen any crank handle...

 

 

[pshome]

Lots of 2CV in Marrakesh

[Junkman]

Those emit CO2 even when parking!

[pshome]

Those emit CO2 even when parking!

They all have an sophisticated emission control system.

[Squire_Dawson]

So what came first, the 404 or the Ox-Cam? They are remarkably similarly Pininfarina styled cars.