1972

1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1972nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 972nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1970s decade.
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar time [the legal time scale], its duration was 31622401.141 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or Ephemeris Time), which is slightly shorter than 1908).

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    Build Thread 1972 CJ5 “re”build

    I recently bought my first CJ mostly as a deer lease vehicle. I’ve wanted one since I was a kid listening to stories my dad would tell about his (‘74 CJ5 with the 304 V8). I knew it would need work eventually; It is much older than I am after all, but I wasn’t expecting it would be so soon...
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    Misc. Universal?

    I have a 1972 Jeep CJ-5 (mfd Sep 1971) that was my grandfather's, which he bought from the original owner in 1977. I still have the transfer docs from 1977, an odometer statement from 1984, a title from 1993 when my dad had a new one issued, and a lot more. All of these historical docs list the...
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