Guess the year

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 07/31/2020 at 01:35 • Filed to: None

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As found in a magazine I picked up today.

PyramidHat > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 01:51

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1974?

ClassicDatsunDebate > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 01:51

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Ima gonna say road and track, 1985

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 01:53

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Well they certainly have BMW's number.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 02:05

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1968?

Jb boin > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 02:27

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Would have said 2020 but the comment on the picture made me doubt, 2019 maybe?

duurtlang > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 03:41

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Somewhere in the 1930-2020 range I would assume.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > duurtlang 07/31/2020 at 04:25

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Would you like to narrow that down to just one century?

CRider > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 04:37

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That's only a 90 year span. 

duurtlang > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 04:58

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Sure. 21st 20th 19th century. They imported back then as well.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > CRider 07/31/2020 at 05:05

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Yes it is, but it’s covering part of the 20th and part of  the 21st century. Gotta narrow it down just a little.

SiennaMan > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 06:25

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Has to be prior to 1980s , the US went to 2 digital state abbreviations by then (CA instead of Calif)

I'm going to guess 1960.

phenotyp > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 06:56

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1976. 

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 07:14

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I’d go with the 70s?

hillrat > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 07:23

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1987

ranwhenparked > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 08:31

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Early to mid '70s, 1973 or 74?

Thomas Donohue > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 08:40

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He call the US a ‘once great country’ so I’m guessing he didn’t like hippies and such from the sixties......I’ll go with 1969.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 08:58

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74

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 09:13

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Popular Mechanics, 1975

https://books.google.ca/books?id=MOIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6&dq=”Don%27t+talk+about+imported+junk”&source=bl&ots=iYBrhRIRlB&sig=ACfU3U1NTeCqhYYs2NaR_1GsA6_TMj5g4Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiGrfW-yPfqAhXExIsBHZnlBE0Q6AEwAHoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=”Don’t%20talk%20about%20imported%20junk”&f=false

I forgot how many cigarette ad's there used to be.

CobraJoe > Thomas Donohue 07/31/2020 at 09:53

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Considering imports in the 60s were not very common, I was going to say sometime in the 70s when Honda and Toyota gained some traction in the market.

But it looks like “This is what”  found the article from  Popular Mechanics in 1975.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 11:12

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I have a feeling these were experiences from the 60s that sounded horribly outdated by 1973 or sometime about there when Honda and Toyota were a buzz word. 

MM54 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 12:32

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Sounds malaise-era-y, I’ll go with 1977

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: 07/31/2020 at 13:07

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That almost seems like cheating, but yeah, you nailed it.

Having grown up in the malaise era I can somewhat understand the complaint. Imports weren’t terribly common in the ‘60s, so that decade is out. And ‘foreign’ cars were pretty common in the ‘80s, so that decade is out. But the ‘70s? All cars were crap. My family went from a big Plymouth coupé  to a Fiat 124 spyder to a VW Dasher wagon, and they all sucked in new and unique ways. Domestics may have been tougher, but they were horrible to look at and to drive IMHO.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > phenotyp 07/31/2020 at 13:08

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So close - just a month off...

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > PyramidHat 07/31/2020 at 13:09

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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 07/31/2020 at 13:09

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Ohhh, so close...

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ranwhenparked 07/31/2020 at 13:10

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‘75 - you were almost there...

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ClassicDatsunDebate 07/31/2020 at 13:14

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By the ‘80s imports were pretty common, but a decade earlier that wasn't the case. R&T readers were more tuned in to foreign cars, but Popular Mechanics readers had a different opinion.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 07/31/2020 at 13:15

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So close - 1975.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 13:16

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I saw someone guess q974 and I didn't want to be the same year as them so I went one year down. So close!

ranwhenparked > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 13:30

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It sounded like classic ‘70s WWII or Silent generation import bashing. Those damn kids riding around in their little foreign jobs, they’d be speaking Japanese right now if it wasn’t for General Motors building the bombs we dropped on Tokyo, no respect for what built this country. Gerald Ford will straighten it out, once he gets his own term, you’ll see. 

LastFirstMI is my name > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/31/2020 at 14:37

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Japan, 1996.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > LastFirstMI is my name 07/31/2020 at 17:49

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