Re: 505 Oddity / Trivia

Brian Holm, Peugeotholm (peugeots@plainfield.bypass.com)
Mon, 20 Oct 1997 09:37:58 -0400 (EDT)

I had an 89 wagon with one of those, with 4-way power and a sliding shade.
I assumed it was installed aftermarked. How do you know there were oe ones?

Brian

At 05:18 PM 10/18/97 -0400, Jim Lill wrote:
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>I forgot to mention in my original post that the one I saw was a glass
>ala' 405 type sunroof. Perhaps this was an experiment in that new style of
>roof (505 was always metal) and/or a market test of wagons (whether it be
>405 or 505) with sunroofs. Unfortunately, any sunroof uses up precious
>headroom for the 6ft+ driver.
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>-Jim Lill http://www.vectorbd.com/users/jpl
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>On Sat, 18 Oct 1997, Mr. Michael D. Fatsi wrote:
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>> Jim Lill wrote:
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>> > I saw something odd today, a 1988 505 DL 2.2 Wagon. Odd in that it had a
>> > factory sunroof and half-length roof rack. Apparently a total of just 12
>> > wagons with sunroofs were made.
>> A few months ago I saw a white 505 turbo station wagon it probably was
>> an 88 or earlier, as it didn't have the aero package. It was very nice,
>> but I haven't seen another wagon with a sun roof. Does anybody know why
>> these are such rare birds.
>> -MF
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Brian Holm, Peugeotholm
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