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"Just One More Thing" - Encounter with the original Peugeot 403 of Inspector Columbo

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Created on September 14, 2018

Reading time 7min

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - unterwegs wie Columbo in der Fernsehserie

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - das Fernsehserienauto von Columbo, unterwegs in Florida

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - Columbo-Cabrio unterwegs bei den Filmaufnahmen des SWR

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - Columbo-Peugeot in der heimischen Garage

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - der Columbo-Wagen im heutigen Zustand beim Liebhaber Delaney

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - Columbo-Pug bei den Dreharbeiten zur SWR-Doku

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - der Columbo-Peugeot in Florida

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - das Dach des Columbo-Peugeot war je nach Staffel dunkel oder hell

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - Columbo-403 mit hellem Dach

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - Columbo-Peugeot vor der heimischen Garage

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - Interieur des Columbo-Peugeots

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - der Choke ist extra beschriftet

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - hier fuhr Peter Falk als Columbo

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - ganz schön verbraucht - Lenkrad im Columbo-Peugeot

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - abgegriffenes Lenkrad im Columbo-Peugeot

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - im Interieur wurden die Bedienungselemente für Falk extra beschriftet

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - abgegriffene Bedienungselemente im Columbo-Peugeot

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - Anzeigeinstrumente in Columbos Filmauto

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - Motorola-Radio im Columbo-Peugeot

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - das originale "Instruction Book" zum Columbo-Peugeot

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - Blick durch das Heckfenster von Columbos Auto

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - Blick in den Kofferraum des Columbo-Peugeots

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - die originalen Kalifornien-Kennzeichen wie in der Fernsehserie

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - Heckleuchte des Columbo-Peugeots, der unter Teile ist aufklappbar und verbirgt den Benzin-Einfüllstutzen

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - Kratzer von Dreharbeiten und vom Gestalter des spezifischen Columbo-Looks

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - teilweise entstanden die Beulen bei Dreharbeiten, teilweise wurden sie hineingehämmert

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - diese Beulen wurden wohl mit dem Vorschlaghammer hineingeschlagen

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - zusätzliche Verstärkungen für die Filmaufnahmen bei Columbos Peugeot

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - nichts für den Concours - Motorraum des Columbo-Peugeots

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - verblichen - Blick in den Motorraum von Columbos Peugeot

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - originale Schmieranweisungen in Columbos Peugeot

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - zufriedene Columbo-Peugeot-Besitzer Jim und Connie Delaney

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - Besitzer Jim Delaney im Columbo-Peugeot

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - das SWF-Filmteam zusammen mit den Columbo-Peugeot-Besitzern Jim und Delaney, hinten in der Mitte der Autor des Artikels Thorsten Link

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1959) - das Zertifikat, das die Echtheit des Filmautos beweist

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Peugeot 403 (1956) - erste Präsentation in der Schweiz, dekoriert mit vielen Sporterfolgen - Genfer Autosalon 1956

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Peugeot 403 (1962) - eine eleganter Personenwagen

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Peugeot 403 (1961) - als Berline Grand Luxe

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Peugeot 403 (1958) - Testwagen der Automobil Revue

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Peugeot 403 (1958) - der Testwagen der Automobil Revue

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Peugeot 403 (1958) - Teswagen mit offenen Türen

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Peugeot 403 (1958) - Interieur der Limousine

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Peugeot 403 (1958) - Blick in den Motorraum

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Peugeot 403 Cabriolet (1957) - Salonneuheit, mit zwei bis vier Plätzen - Genfer Autosalon 1957

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Summary

Almost everyone knows the TV police inspector Columbo, after all, the stations broadcast the series for decades and even today old episodes of "Columbo" still flicker across the screens. Columbo was characterized by his dented grey Peugeot 403 convertible. It was always the same car for more than twenty years and it has survived with a collector in Florida. This report goes in search of clues and shows the original Columbo Peugeot in many pictures and film clips.

This article contains the following chapters

From California to Florida
Bought sight unseen
Looking for a suitable company car
As if from a single mold - the Peugeot and the trench coat
Always there from Steven Spielberg's third episode onwards
Not completely
Columbo relaunch only with original car
Loan with conditions
More complete than before
One more thing!

Estimated reading time: 7min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Largo, a small town in Tampa Bay on the Gulf of Mexico in the US state of Florida. The area could be straight out of a movie script: fine houses, manicured gardens, sophisticated driveways. There is no doubt that this is where high society lives: artists, writers, lawyers, doctors. The upscale milieu that, from the late 1960s onwards, did not shy away from malicious murders in almost 70 television episodes and got rid of supposed traitors, competitors or wives. Not in Florida, but in Los Angeles. The precinct of the quirky police inspector Columbo, who always comes back at the end of his investigations and interrogations and says "One more thing" ...

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