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    Is that this '55 Chevy...

    https://nelsonracingengines.com/blog...ada55-55-chevy

    Putting electrical cables and a motor close to the fueling port doesn't seem like such a good idea. A frayed/broken wire and a loose cap would be a messy combination.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mklotz View Post
    Is that this '55 Chevy...

    https://nelsonracingengines.com/blog...ada55-55-chevy

    Putting electrical cables and a motor close to the fueling port doesn't seem like such a good idea. A frayed/broken wire and a loose cap would be a messy combination.
    There is NOT supposed to be a shattering KA-BOOOM! Nor flames, et cetera. I think in the trade they call this a "very bad idea." I have photographed enough accidents and autopsies where the person burned to death that I try hard to make sure that stuff doesn't happen to anyone I care about. That car was supposedly built for someone's 16th birthday. Bad parent! No cookie!

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    When I was a kid I had a job pumping gas and one day this car came in and for the life of me I couldn't find the filler tube turned out it was hidden behind the tail light it swiveled out of the way (manually) and the cap and tube were hidden back there.
    If i remember right the owner said it was a Studebaker Avanti I think.

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    the 55 chevy came out with a door on the rear fender if the gas cap on a 55 was hidden behind the tail light like a 56 came from the factory then it was a custom refit 57 chevy had the cap above the tail light hidden behind the chrome trim of the tail fin. on a 49 Cadilac you pushed a red reflector looking button to open the tail light to find the gas cap. 41 Cady had it above the tail light under a flap Lots of cars had hidden gas caps in the era Tucker, Avanti. Olds. were all somewhere near or behind the left tail light. even Continental did this a few times



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