Well hidden gas caps...

[Brutuskend]

First find the gas cap (filler) on a 1956 Chevy Belair.


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Whats the strangest place you have ever seen a gas cap, or the hardest to find?

 

[Ornery]

Driver's side, rear tail light?

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: Ornery
Driver's side, rear tail light?

Damn, you're GOOD!

 

[Zim Hosein]

Next hidden filler cap please!

 

[imported_Kensai]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Next hidden filler cap please!

 

[Ornery]

Start a topic about why so many cars have their filler on the WRONG damn side! :|

 

[TwoBills]

How about a 1955 Cadillac.

 

[Ornery]

Same as the '56 Chevy, I bet.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: Ornery
Start a topic about why so many cars have their filler on the WRONG damn side! :|

What's the 'right' side?

 

[markgm]

Originally posted by: Ornery
Start a topic about why so many cars have their filler on the WRONG damn side! :|

Otherwise no one would use the *other* side of the pump of course!

 

[CrackRabbit]

1977 AMC Gremlin.

 

[CraigRT]

only weird gas door location on any car I can remember was on my grandmother's newport.. behind the license plate.

 

[TwoBills]

Originally posted by: Ornery
Same as the '56 Chevy, I bet.

'56 Chevy you turn a lever 90 degrees to the left. How about the Caddy?

 

[Ornery]

What's the 'right' side?

Originally posted by: markgm

Originally posted by: Ornery
Start a topic about why so many cars have their filler on the WRONG damn side! :|

Otherwise no one would use the *other* side of the pump of course!

That's ridiculous. You can only pull into an auto teller one way. You can only drive up to a fast food pick up window one way. You only drive on one particular side of the road. Guess which side should have the filler?

 

[Ornery]

1977 AMC Gremlin.

Under the monstrous emblem in the middle of the back, like the earlier Mustangs.

Originally posted by: TwoBills

Originally posted by: OrnerySame as the '56 Chevy, I bet.

'56 Chevy you turn a lever 90 degrees to the left. How about the Caddy?

I think it's lifted from the bottom. Didn't know the Chevy had a latch like that.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: Ornery
What's the 'right' side?

Originally posted by: markgm

Originally posted by: Ornery
Start a topic about why so many cars have their filler on the WRONG damn side! :|

Otherwise no one would use the *other* side of the pump of course!

That's ridiculous. You can only pull into an auto teller one way. You can only drive up to a fast food pick up window one way. You only drive on one particular side of the road. Guess which side should have the filler?

Passenger side IMO. Keeps the driver from opening his door into the gas pump.

ZV

 

[Linflas]

1960 VW Beetle?

 

[Ornery]

The hose is six feet long. I don't think you need to pull THAT close! My God, no wonder cars get so many door dings in parking lots!

 

[Ornery]

Originally posted by: Linflas
1960 VW Beetle?

Under the hood/trunk (in the front).

 

[CrackRabbit]

Originally posted by: Ornery
1977 AMC Gremlin.

Under the monstrous emblem in the middle of the back, like the earlier Mustangs.

Originally posted by: TwoBills

Originally posted by: OrnerySame as the '56 Chevy, I bet.

'56 Chevy you turn a lever 90 degrees to the left. How about the Caddy?

I think it's lifted from the bottom. Didn't know the Chevy had a latch like that.

Incorrect, It was under the liscence plate... Up to 1976 they had it on the side covered by a cap that had the gremlin logo on it. People thought these these were nifty and stole them.

 

[jemcam]

Originally posted by: Linflas
1960 VW Beetle?

In the trunk on the driver's side near the front. Easy.

 

[Ornery]

Didn't see too many AMC anythings around here, but I do remember those BIG caps!

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: Ornery

Originally posted by: Linflas
1960 VW Beetle?

Under the hood/trunk (in the front).

Yep and they had no fuel guage. There was a lever inside on the passengers side that you could flip to open the reserve tank. Assuming you had remembered to flip it back at the last fillup you had about 30 miles to find a station. We just kept a stick in the trunk that we used to check the level.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: Ornery
The hose is six feet long. I don't think you need to pull THAT close! My God, no wonder cars get so many door dings in parking lots!

Hoses here are teathered to the pumps, was the same where I grew up in Ohio (near Toledo). PITA getting the hose any significant distance from the pump, which is already a foot back from the concrete islands. 3 foot distance from the pump was about the maximum that was manageable.

Besides, if I'm the three to four foot from the pump that I would need to get my door open fully, my car would be blocking the center aisle and prohibiting people from driving through the two pump islands.

ZV

 

[JasonSix78]

1976 Trans-AM

-Jason