Colombo was a strange-looking detective wearing strange-looking clothes while driving a strange-looking car, and that was the point. As such, stylistically, the Peugeot is spot on. Recreating someone like Colombo or the Peugeot is almost impossible, and hopefully, no one will try to do so.
Even though the Peugeot looked great as a police detective car, it did not perform like one. For a spot of context, the boasted a top speed of only around 80MPH or thereabouts. The mph was downright depressing at more than 20 seconds. Nowadays, these performance figures are even worse. An even greater oddity is the fact that an American drove a Peugeot as Peugeot was not a brand commonly associated with the US at the time because French cars were made for French people.
As such, they were compact and fuel-efficient, and that was rather inferior when compared to a huge s V8 car. The was designed by no other than Pininfarina, a design company responsible for designing some of the most beautiful cars ever to be grace the earth.
Pininfarina was mostly famous due to decade long Ferrari partnership which came to an end a few years back. The used a cc straight 4-cylinder engine capable of 65hp and 75 lb-ft of torque.
Such power figures were disconsolating then, and they still are now. This monstrous engine was mated to a 4-speed manual synchromesh transmission driving the rear wheels. After the smash-up in the police garage, my friend took the Peugeot to Tijuana, where it was straightened out by attaching it to a telephone pole with a chain, and then driving it forward fast.
Then, untold gallons of bondo were sculpted over the rear quarter panels. The floorboards had rusted through, and the car sagged so much that I advised him not to open both doors at the same time. One more anecdote:.
When my friend acquired the car from his then brother-in-law, he flew up to Los Angeles from San Diego to get it and drive it back to San Diego. I recall that it took him about a week and several stops at auto repair garages to drive the car to San Diego -- a normal 2.
He would drive south on I-5 until the Peugeot conked out, get towed to a nearby repair shop, have whatever fixed, get back in the car and drive some more until it broke down again. I believe he left it at various repair shops and took a bus home to San Diego, and then when the car was ready, he would somehow get back to L.
The night he finally arrived in San Diego, he called me during my dinner and said he was sitting on the I-5 exit ramp to Pacific Beach Garnet Ave. I jumped in my car and drove to the location and found him there with a dead battery. Upload a file: Or drag a file here to upload. Newest Oldest Top Comments. There is a hint, subtle, but nevertheless present, that Columbo is not quite of our dimension. There is something uncanny about him. We rarely see him going to the first crime scene; he is just allowed to appear.
We never see his home. The parallels with Porfiry Petrovich in Doestoyevsky's Crime and Punishment are strong he also just appears, and gets to ask "just one last question, before I forget". Link and Levinson always said that was their model, and it was. It seems fitting that he has a European car.
Columbo's origins are just as exotic and remote. Like Reply Delete. Reply to username. JohnGibbons 8 months ago. So the next question is why was the car on the studio back lot to begin with? After all, the car did appear in most of the episodes aired and it was involved in accidents on two occasions. Not surprisingly, this raised concern amongst the loyal viewers which the producers obviously.
However, once ABC decided to revive the series, Link, one of the original producers of the show was surprised to find out that the car had actually been sold off. Needless to say, this spurred a search operative as the car had by that time become an iconic figure of the show.
Claims form supposed buyers started coming in from around the country, like San Diego and Florida. However, the original car was finally found in Ohio under the ownership of James and Connie Delaney. Although the couple refused to sell the vehicle back to Universal, they did agree to let them borrow it for filming purposes. Contents hide.
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