Technical Lemans style fuel door

I’m building a 3w coupe and was wondering if a Lemans style flip top fuel door would be considered traditional? I want to mount it on top of the left quarter panel and connected to a trunk mounted fuel tank.

 

More cap than door? If you mean what I think you do, some iteration of it was standard fare in sports/racing since the '20s. It'd certainly fit right in on a speedster or special, so I wouldn't think it'd be unbelievable on a traditional hot rod.

In fact I've got a replica flip-top cap intended for the Cobra kit market lined up for a Vintage-idiom build. This kind of thing:


Earlier ones were like

 

Yes. That’s what I’m thinking. That cobra flip top filler mounted on top of the quarter

 

I just install one like this on my 1930 Ford pickup
Mike

 

I welded in a threaded bung to receive one on my rear fender of my truck...

and elsewhere. I never lose my gas caps.

 

I have a Cobra kit car filler on my T coupe and one that looks like Bandit Billy's on my Plymouth that I bought from Moon when Dean Moon was still alive. Are they traditional? Don't know and don't care.

 

I used a fuel cap off a Rover 2000 (approx 1968 model) .
Might be a rare object in the States tho..

 

I'd use it!

 

A Triump spit fire cap looks at home on a hot rod .
A bit newer than 1965 but looks right.

 

Some variations.


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Yup. Was on my coupster 30 years ago and going back on if/when I put it back together.

 

— Frenched — did this before our run to Northwest Deuce days. No more spills in the trunk. Worked out extremely well.

 

I doubt that this would be a problem for your application, but I worked in a Mobil station when late '60s Dodge Chargers were still everyday cars, and I remember a few that I couldn't put gas in because the cap on top of the quarter panel was encased in ice.

 

Yes, it is indeed traditional.

 

I use a 71 mustang Mach one style on my 27.