posted 11-06-2005 07:34 AM                  

I’m certainly not an expert, but having vehicles with caps on both sides, I’ve pondered this before as well. Here’s what I came up with.

Driver Side placement – I would bet that it’s simply a question of the cheapest option of the two in running the cable for the interior flap release. Can’t think of any other reason why this would be better.

Passenger Side placement – While it’s more “expensive”, I think some designer’s might think it is more convenient. In today’s “gas market”, there is so much marketing material at the pumps that it’s practically a solid wall. That combined with narrower lanes makes it sometimes difficult to open you car door without hitting something if the cap is on the driver side. You just have a whole lot more room for exit from the driver’s door when the cap is on the passenger side.

posted 11-06-2005 07:41 AM                  

mine...

Vipers and Prowlers, passenger side...
Corvettes, driver side
Jeep, driver side
1970 Challenger, passenger side

and a 68 GTO, behind the license plate

personally, I prefer them on the passenger side...no danger of hitting the big yellow poles with your door that way

posted 11-06-2005 10:24 AM                  

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Originally posted by ALLEY CAT:
Chromer hit it!

The Plymouth designers knew there would be a guy in New Castle, In. who would be taking 4 million pictures of his Prowlers,,,,and didn't want the nasty looking gas door showing in his pictures taken of the driver's side.

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There you go AC...(however "4 milliion pictures" may be a kind under estimate??)

posted 11-06-2005 07:44 PM                  

Question: Why is the gas tank on the right in some cars and the left on others?

Apparently, this question has plagued car owners for some time. We found a number of theories in various automotive forums. Here are a few:

Car makers place the fuel door on arbitrary sides so everyone doesn't try to pull up to the same side of the pump at gas stations.

On German vehicles, the gas door is always on the right so people don't have to stand in a traffic lane when fueling on a roadway.

The gas filler will almost always be on the opposite side of the vehicle from the exhaust pipe.

This last theory appears to be correct. Indeed, none other than Car Talk's Click and Clack, in the employ of NPR, confirm this last hypothesis.

According to the boys, there is no universal standard for placement of the gas filler, but "the exhaust system has to go down one side of the car, and the gasoline filler tube generally goes on the other." So it's the vehicle's engineering design that determines the location of the gas tank.

posted 11-06-2005 08:24 PM                  

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Originally posted by Chromer:
There you go AC...(however "4 milliion pictures" may be a kind under estimate??)

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"Hey, you guys keep it up and I'll start posting pictures of the new grand baby"

posted 11-06-2005 09:20 PM                  

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Originally posted by onecatnodog:
Tangled: And I was starting to feel bad. If you look in Off Topic under (A/C, we beat you to the copyright) you will see you already posted a great picture of your grand kids. Is that the new baby in the carrier. Sorry bud, I am probably wrong again.

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OneKat....nope, you are correctamundo.....I forget sometimes where I have posted crap....I will post the other 1,472 pictures of the baby in another post, probably one of Alley Cats posts as they need all the help they can get.......

posted 11-06-2005 09:25 PM                  

POA member "Mr. Ed" has a really nice Red Express too, but his Warlock needs another coat or two of Zaino