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Timely Notice:

The management office wants to clarify that Agent X’s ghostly, nearly transparent 1940 Pontiac touring sedan is definitely NOT the famously missing Ghost Pontiac.

Absolutely not. Definitely not the Ghost.

Definitely a different car. Besides, Agent X’s Pontiac has glowing Neothane tires, and the missing vehicle’s tires are white.

Now, management would appreciate it if we could all stop calling the police to report the rediscovery of a long lost auto icon.

These reports are unsubstantiated and hurtful. So hurtful, in fact, that every time the cops show up Agent X has to abruptly leave work for a mental health day.

We will just have get comfortable with the fact that, while the breathtaking 1940 Ghost Pontiac may never be found, it is surely in the hands of someone who loves it. Maybe even someone who tenderly washes it with ammonia-free cleaner in the Time Agency parking lot every Friday afternoon. Maybe.

V/r,

Peugeot 404 

It was on 9 May 1960 that the new 404 was presented to the press. Aside from some bold colours for a Peugeot sedan with an « tango » orange and turquoise, it was the aesthetic of the car that aroused most of the praise. Advertising made no reference to the Italian school, but journalists all knew that the car was signed by the famous Italian designer Pininfarina.

The first one to one scale model from 1956 adopted the stylistic themes inaugurated on the Lancia Florida prototype: sloping hood, rectangular grill, slender fender line, roof pillars highlighted with chrome trim. Peugeot also abandoned certain details proposed by Pininfarina like rear skirt covered with ribbed aluminum.The interior layout is clearly more cheerful than the previous model (403) with an oblique dash board edge which provided for generous ventilators and fabrics in bright colours. The refinement extends to the car trunk, fully carpeted.

Different developments appeared over the years: indirect injection starting from 1963 which promised higher performances (160 km/h); diesel sedan in the fall of 1963, front disc brakes from 1968 on, an “European” grid gearbox in the same year putting to an end the tradition of inversed first gear introduced on the 203 twenty years earlier.