There is a 1950 model in Melbourne on ebay. What is interesting is that this is the model with the fully imported "tin" bumpers made about April 1950 and sold later in the year here. It would probably have had domed hubcaps with reverse p. Still the eyebrow trim but of a slightly different profile to the 1949 cars. It is claimed the car is original and the body is good which it isn't possible to verify from the pics but even so the asking price is steep. How many 203's are still hiding out there?
Perhaps in honour of our new hosts we should create the first rocket powered 203 and see if we can hit Yorkshire with it?
Russell

if we were home i'ld have expected to follow a link to see it ( but i'ld also have been able to have pm-ed you re. your postal address but then i wouldn't have needed to, if we hadn't lost everything ... a bit like a fire really)
steven

Well here's the link

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/PEUGEOT-203-SEDAN-1950-/160498807702?pt=AU_Cars&hash=item255e797396

If that can work here.

That reminds me, days before Aussiefrogs crashed, I couldn't post links. Hmmm, strange eh?

Steven, I will PM my postal address. I did have it posted but possibly not a good idea with all this identity theft around. Don't tell Mike or I'll be getting suspicious Yorkshire puddings in the mail. When life gets back to normal I'll have to work out the best way to put all my 203 road tests online. Mike, if your're listening, I don't have the Motor Road Test of the 203 or the Autocar report from October 1947 so pop down to the second hand book shop and pick us up a copy. Those Motor road test annuals were good value, they tested more Peugeots than Autocar.
The car on ebay is missing the tail light. Would cost up to $200 on ebay. Values are only what people will pay but $5000?
Russell

That car has more tail lights than you could poke a stick at.

Wot were they thinking? And not even an original set.

The body looks OK however there's no mechanical rundown on anything that may have been done.

I got mine a month ago with roadworthy and able to drive home from Vic to NSW for not much more, with 403 engine, updated brakes, new tyres and petrol pump and alternator and club rego when I arrived, so I guess it could be a little spensive.

Still, they are becoming very scarce, so it's always hard to judge a price.

That one is the old model with the small back window and will probably have the original 203 engine which is the 1300 job.
I've learn't that much since I got mine. Fantastic car whichever way you look at it.

I'm not knocking it and I hope someone gets it and does it up. The more the merrier.

Oh, no problem....
Would you like me to pop to the shop right away, or do I have time to tie my laces first? I'm a double-knot man so it'll take a little time. We're a careful bunch where I live, which means we all double-knot our laces. Good test of a chap's character, we reckon. If he takes less than five minutes to put his boots on then he's not from CUMBRIA* . (The county formerly known as CUMBERLAND ). Where men are men and the majority of the women are glad of it.
*Wonderful thing, google.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria

So you people can put as many pre-loved Saturn boosters as you like under the bonnets of your worm drives and aim them at the county of the great unwashed. I may hear them as they whistle overhead, but I won't need to duck. I'll be tying my laces.

Yorkshire! Bloody Yorkshire!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire

Anyway, back to Cumbria, the land where baths are taken annually. Every February 31st without fail, never missed one yet.
If you care to home in on yours truly, take a peek at google maps and type in
ca4 0rp loc: Wreay, Carlisle, Cumbria CA4, UK

You'll see I live outside the village, on the hill. I'll be the guy bent over, tying his laces. Or I might be scratching my arse, dependant on time of day / mood.




Mike.

Damn! I had him typed as a Yorkshireman. My knowledge of Cumbria is ......
Looked it up. That's where the original Casterton is. Lake district and all that. Sounds quite beautiful but cold. Definitely need a heater in that car of yours.
Russell

I too must apologise, as I also tagged you as a Yorkshireman.
Thank you for advising us all that you are a Cumbrian.
Is the county cricket side any good and if they are not can you load up the touring Ashes side with them so us Aussie's can belt them!
Cheers,
Brendan

Wow Mike, Beautiful! You are nearly in Scotland! What happens to the accents up there, surely they don't just change over at the border?

Digressing further, briefly, I just went on the newly evolving forum and had a chuckle at the post you made in March 2006.
Did you predict the crash? You even said Octember...

(sorry Hermes, back to 203's... )

We have BBC programs from Wales, Scotland, Yorkshire, we have lots of regional programs but nothing ever from Cumbria. I sort of imagined you living in a Heartbeat Yorkshire. I live in such an inconsequential and remote place I must rely on broadband provided by a steam powered satellite so things like Google Earth are beyond me. As well I believe there are only high altitude pics of Corndale on Google because nobody lives here. So I can't park the 203 outside and you can't see my parking lot of dead Peugeots.
Russell

I don't remember mentioning the wife?


And yes Kaye, the accents do change as soon as you cross the border. You'd think there'd be a gradual change from say 20 miles either side of the border, but no, tis odd. The inmates of Gretna (where couples still run away to to get married) are almost unintelligible to us and that's only about 10 miles away, smack on the border. Not that you'd want to converse with the b@rst@rds, they're a bunch of, errm, I'll keep it polite, pah, any word beginning in F and ending in ERS just about sums 'em up. As you can tell, I just love 'em.
The sooner Hadrian's Wall gets rebuilt the better.



Mike.

BTW..... sorry Brendan, you'll have to tell me who you are