De Rally 504
The 504 coupe Rally 1978
Long before the Japanese invasion, Peugeot did excellente work in the difficult
and exhausting African Rallies. To conquer this continent Peugeot had to make a
big offensive. In the sixties they where a formidable participant on the
tracks of Morocco, Kenya, of de Ivory coast. Many times they showed there
superiority.
In 1978 , Jean Pierre Nicolas winns the East African Safari, on the handle of an 504 V6 Coupe V6 Group 4: this car is relocated and is the central figure in this story.
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| A spartan interior, but complete. Watch the two blowers. Essential in African Safari's.. | The V6 with carbarators had 240 hp and a top off 200 kmh in rally trim |
For selling pickups in the African inlands Peugeot made some longtime investments with very
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| The tank of an group 4 504 contains 120 liter! The fuelpomp can be seen aswell.. |
special models what looked standard from the outside but where everything except that on the inside. From the debut in the seventy's with a 404, driven by mostly local people, notably Kenya and South Africa. Later with professional drivers, from every north European land available, like Ove Andersson, Timo Makinen, Hannu Mikola.
The rebirth
With the same passion an the drivers in the '70/80 made Xavier Mathiot in 1993 to leave the foggy Paris and leave for the South. Hij buys a house and opens a Garage, after a while he has a small clientele in the department of
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| The RC1 tyres, front radial and rear diagonal |
Varois. For them he still stay's the "Parisienne". To repair became restoration, this step was taken without hesitation when Herve Charbonneaux came by and started to talk about his cars. He had done some nice restorations, only not just this 504 coupe. They could along fine. The 504 in particular, was the most interesting car off the collection. The brother of Xavier, Denis Mathiot is prepares engines, in particular for racing, so that came in handy. Xavier and his team did the complete restoration of this
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| Some extra light won't harm | Just drove 5000 km's | Special Africa accesoiries, handle and | footrest for extra weight if needed . |
coupe, victor in Kenya. The car had an accident and the needed a complete rebuild, the engine wasn't be used for a few years and needed a complete revision. The V6 is a solid engine and now it is running as a switch clock.
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| full in action | The '78 colorscheme |
