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I'm ecstatic! Amazingly, I just acquired back my original gas cap for my 67 S/B:
Here's the bottom with the S under the crud:
And next to a repro:
Unlike the repro, this cap vents both ways, you can blow air and suck air through the little hole in the bottom.
How do I know it's my original. Well here's the story:
In the early 1970's here in Sonora, CA, I hung around with a pretty wild group of Corvette owners (partying all the time). A few of these guys (excluding myself) were really into modification, big tires, wheel wells, even bigger engines. One of the guys with a 67 427 eventually put his engine in a ski boat, and put a 454 in his Corvette. He eventually sold the boat, and then many years later when he tried to get his engine back, it was long gone with the boat.
In about 1972, my friend with the 67 427 somehow lost his gas cap. I had been having trouble with teenagers siphoning gas from my 67, so I put an aftermarket locking gas cap on it. (In those days when it was your only car, and you had a rental apartment, you just parked them on the street) Since I had my original gas cap rolling around in my jack compartment, I didn't think twice about giving it to my friend.
After many years I had lost track of the group and heard he had sold the car.
It had been sold again to a local restorer just this last year, and this summer I ran into it at a local charity car show. It was beautifully restored, but NOM, so I new it wasn't NCRS material, but a real nice car.
I contacted the present owner and restorer, told him the story and asked if he still had the gas cap it came with. Oh, it was somewhere around the shop, somebody had painted it, I'll see if I find it, if I hadn't thrown it out.
Well, yesterday he found it, and I traded some future plating and a 67 JG for it.
So guess what my next project will be.
Having fun
Jerry Fuccillo
#42179
Here's the bottom with the S under the crud:
And next to a repro:
Unlike the repro, this cap vents both ways, you can blow air and suck air through the little hole in the bottom.
How do I know it's my original. Well here's the story:
In the early 1970's here in Sonora, CA, I hung around with a pretty wild group of Corvette owners (partying all the time). A few of these guys (excluding myself) were really into modification, big tires, wheel wells, even bigger engines. One of the guys with a 67 427 eventually put his engine in a ski boat, and put a 454 in his Corvette. He eventually sold the boat, and then many years later when he tried to get his engine back, it was long gone with the boat.
In about 1972, my friend with the 67 427 somehow lost his gas cap. I had been having trouble with teenagers siphoning gas from my 67, so I put an aftermarket locking gas cap on it. (In those days when it was your only car, and you had a rental apartment, you just parked them on the street) Since I had my original gas cap rolling around in my jack compartment, I didn't think twice about giving it to my friend.
After many years I had lost track of the group and heard he had sold the car.
It had been sold again to a local restorer just this last year, and this summer I ran into it at a local charity car show. It was beautifully restored, but NOM, so I new it wasn't NCRS material, but a real nice car.
I contacted the present owner and restorer, told him the story and asked if he still had the gas cap it came with. Oh, it was somewhere around the shop, somebody had painted it, I'll see if I find it, if I hadn't thrown it out.
Well, yesterday he found it, and I traded some future plating and a 67 JG for it.
So guess what my next project will be.
Having fun
Jerry Fuccillo
#42179
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