Poozhoe

(Machine, France)

The Peugeot 505 that Greg sold me for 1$ so I could come to work. It previously belonged to his wife's restaurant, and was already old. However, it ran fine - it was silent and comfortable as one expects from a french car. The shift was three speed automatic, and I got quite used to it.

It didn't last, though. The power steering was kind of wobbly, which you don't notice until you try to do a sharper turn - the turn turns out to be much sharper than intended. So one saturday at Zero I had a beer with the guys, and when maneuvering out of the front parking (why? I always used the rear... ah, yes, the rear doors were locked on weekends), it jumped with one wheel on a flowerbed's wall, about a foot high, and then thumped down from it, bending the semiaxle. It still ran, but was now unsafe at any speed. Tried to drive like that a couple of times and decided it was too dangerous. The guy from Metric Motors took 25$ to just take a look and tell me the semiaxle was bent, and estimated the repair to be about 600$. That was it - it stood parked at the house for more than a year, when we just called a junkyard, who towed it away for free (and for the junk value).

The name is, well, what we called it among us, as we pronounce it pežo, the e being the simple e as in get, while the Amers pronounce it as oo as in fool. Incidentally, puž means a snail, which it was not.

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Mentions: 13-IX-1999., 26-IX-1999., 24-X-1999., 04-XI-1999., 26-XI-1999., 20-XII-1999., 02-I-2000., 10-I-2000., 22-II-2000., 27-VI-2000., 18-I-2017., Greg Reubenthal, Zero Distance (Zero), in serbian

9-II-2023