4/04!

"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 04/04/2016 at 17:33 • Filed to: Peugeot, 404

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It’s 4/04!

Unless you live in the red bit here of course in which case it’s...actually it’s also 4/04.

So we can all agree that today is the day to celebrate the Peugeot 404.

Pic by the author

The 404 was designed, like many other Peugeots up to the 2000s, by Pininfarina and was introduced in 1960. It was RWD with a 1.6 litre four and column change for its four gears. Note the absence of quarterlights, unusual at the time.

In 1961 the convertible was announced with the coupé following the following year. Both of these were made by Pininfarina in Italy.

Initially fitted with the same engine as the four door models, the coupé and convertible were later made available with fuel injection, quite a thing at the time.

1962 also saw the arrival of the Break with seven seat and commercial options.

From 1963 the four door could be got with injection.

A 1.9 diesel was added to the range in 1964 and from 1966 a three speed ZF automatic box was sold. Peugeot continued to use ZF boxes until after they dropped RWD.

In later years the 404 began to rather diminish, with production of the coupé and convertible ceasing in 1968 and the injected engine being dropped in 1969. Production of the 404 in France stopped in 1975 as the 304 and 504 became more popular but it continued until 1980 in Argentina and until 1991 in Kenya.

Developing countries as we are now pleased to call them liked the pick up.

All told nearly 2.9m 404s were made. The coupé and convertible only made up 17,223 but as of yesterday 2,022 of these were still around

TheHondaBro > Cé hé sin 04/04/2016 at 17:34

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*inb4 404 comment not found

facw > Cé hé sin 04/04/2016 at 17:36

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https://xkcd.com/1179/

AkursedX > facw 04/04/2016 at 17:53

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I always write my dates this way or “2016 Apr 04". I have been questioned about it numerous times. My general response is that it is the ‘right’ way.

facw > AkursedX 04/04/2016 at 17:54

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How can it be the right way when it is not valid in non-English speaking countries?

AkursedX > facw 04/04/2016 at 18:12

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As I said I write my dates ‘this’ way (referring to the numerical way referenced above) OR “2016 Apr 04". I do this because so many people here in America get confused by what date you actually mean when it’s the 1st through the 12th. By spelling or abbreviating the month, there is less chance for error. When dealing with non-native-english speakers, I always keep dates numerical.

crowmolly > Cé hé sin 04/04/2016 at 18:30

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Coincidentally, this is also a map of countries that have put a man on the moon.

Cé hé sin > crowmolly 04/04/2016 at 18:53

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Equally coincidentally, it is a list of countries where the possibility of President Trump exists.

Bourbon&JellyBeans > Cé hé sin 04/04/2016 at 18:55

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Lol ‘cause Europe has never had an vaguely malevolent leaders.

Hoccy > facw 04/05/2016 at 01:47

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Good to know, and I agree. Had a lecture on data management yesterday and they would rather write it 20130227, and while similar it doesn’t read that well.

Some of their other methods were interesting as well, like using a command window to upload a file to a network. It didn’t work when the whole class tried to upload at the same time...

facw > Hoccy 04/05/2016 at 07:07

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Interesting. The ISO standard really isn’t that heavily used, except in the DB world, where it is pretty standard. Using a command line tool like scp to upload is file is fine, though there are plenty of nice GUIs for that. I’d really only recommend the command line version for people who were scripting something.

Hoccy > facw 04/05/2016 at 07:26

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Yep this was presented to students preparing to start working on their master thesis. People that are already use a university network drive, dropbox, windows/google drive, google docs for simultanous writing etc., and thus used to a GUI. I see how there could be legal issues if sensitive files were to be stored in a different country though, but then I probably wouldn’t upload those files anywhere in the first place.

Saving and uploading files as part of a script is useful though, especially when handling larger datasets.

bubblestheturtle > crowmolly 04/05/2016 at 20:39

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Also a map of all the countries that use the term "soccer".