1955 Chevy Bel Air taillight fuel cap - GIF

[ToolTalkBot]

1955 Chevy Bel Air taillight fuel cap.




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[ductape]

Kind of nifty, but probably a little more complicated than necessary.
The original filler design looked like this:

[baja]

Working at a gas station in the mid 60`s it was a guessing game as to where to find the fuel filler. Behind the taillight, behind the license plate, or maybe that square in the middle of the rear sheet metal.

[nova_robotics]

I wish modern vehicles did more stuff like this. I look at the body panels on my truck and it's mostly empty space under there. Dodge did some really neat things a few years ago with lockable storage compartments above the rear wheels, built into the bed. It makes so much sense. I think Nissan had some smaller saddle bag type lockable storage behind the rear wheels on their Titans. Not as good as Dodge, but still a good idea. Can you even buy a truck with those features anymore?

[metric_taper]

That's beee-ute-i-ful work on the linkage mechanism. Looks like a California organic vapor sealed system installed.

[RetiredFAE]

There are a couple of kits out there to do this conversion, but 55's had a gas tank door on the drivers side on the rear fender, at least my stock (well, except for the blown small block and Tremec 6 speed and 4 wheel disk brakes and a few other things, but the body is stock) 1955 210 two door has it there.
The 56 and 57's could be had behind the tail light from the factory.