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On
November 19th, 2004, I had the rare chance to meet fellow
PEUGEOT enthusiasts in Jakarta, Indonesia, only weeks before
I learned about the 504
Community from Budi
Nurrachmad.
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Budi
and I arranged for a meeting by email, and only days later,
Budi, Nelson and Anda, picked me up from my hotel at 3 p.m.
using Budi's 504. Imagine my surprize when I found out that
so many owners turned up with their cars! A street full of
504s and also one 505
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Of course we first had a chat. It was great meeting Hadi
Taruna and Nelson,
whose cars are featured on my website for quite a time. I knew
these guys only from emails, and now we were able to "talk
PEUGEOT" personally
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This
504 belonging to Arif Salehudin [2nd from left] is equipped
with a unique front grill, featureing round fog lights. This
grill was definitely professionally manufactured. Does anyone
know more?
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After
one hour or so, we drove to the area of Mega Kuningan BD to
arrange the cars and take plenty of pictures. But we didn't
had as much time as we had liked, because a security car approached
us, asking us to forward a formal permission letter for taking
pictures surrounding Mega Kuningan area. Well, we just left
eventually.....
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And
here are the participants: Arif
Salehudin 504 GL 1980 (Brown sugar), Hadi Taruna 505 GR 1983
(Deep Blue Metalic), Salman 504 GL 1976 (White, but came with
a Mercedes W123 in Brown)...
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...Danny
Delian 504 Break 1982 ("Woody"), Budi Nurrachmad 504
GL 1980 (Brown Metalic), Nelson F D 504 GL 1975 (Light Brown),
Neno 504 GL 1981 (English Red / Orange Metalic)...
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...Trya
Erryarto 504 GL 1976 US Bumper (Green Metalic), Himawan 504
GL 1974 (Light Solid Green), Retfi 504 GL 1980 (Blue Metalic)...
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...Heru
Penstyobudi 505 GR 1983 (Solid Blue), and me. What a great PEUGEOT
community!
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Great
and small PEUGEOT enthusiasts. Note the 504 printed on the T-shirt
of Budi's son.
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Details:
Almost a side-pipe... Nicely tuned 504.
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Backside
of Arif Salehudin's 504. Note license plate
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Another
nicely tuned 504, featuring lowered suspension and a neat foglamps-in-grill
solution
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I
liked this one best: Danny Delian's 1982 504 Break, dressed
as a tradionial "Woody". Great idea!
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Front
view of this beauty
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Also
the backside looks tastefully
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The
next trip got us to Simatupang, a large car junkyard in Jakarta,
were we met with Iwan Gunawan [2nd
from left], who built himself a fantastic 2-door-504-Berline
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So
many 504s sitting in a scrapyard are a seldom sight for any
eurpoean PEUGEOT fan. We counted at least 8 cars, and the occasional
304...
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Scrapped
504, with strange Fiat 126-style headlamps and front bumper
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Maybe
too far gone to be saved, this 504 yields still plenty of spares
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Yes,
this is a 604 with a 505 front-end grafted on...
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We
continued our trip then to Heru Penstyobudi, who lives in Tebet
Timur Raya.
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Trya
Erryarto's 1976 US-spec 504 GL
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Rear
view of same car
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Original
PEUGEOT alloys, manufactured in Germany!
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Photo
shooting with some PEUGEOT friends
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We started to have a tour inside Mr and Mrs. Heru Penstyobudi's
house to view an impressive collection of PEUGEOT model cars
and other automobilia. Of course we used the time for more PEUGEOT
talks!
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I
even got an acrylic "504 COMMUNITY" logo as a gift,
which now is on display in my living room (to be pictured here
soon). My day in Jakarta together with fellow PEUGEOT friends
really was a fantastic event that I won't forget! Thank you
to all who made this special day possible!
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