Hot Rods Gas cap initialed

Was gas caps getting stolen an issue back in the day? I noticed my 29s cap got initials installed at some point in its life.

 

Regular leaded gas

 

Don't put it on the Rad by mistake...

I've always wondered as I've never had a Stock A Bone...do the rad and gas cap interchange?...

 

Or use it as a 710 cap.

 

Whaddat? Rickybop...Stogy no gets...

 

Dad must've named him. No loving mother would have ever done that to their child.

 

Richard likes gays!

 

Turn 710 upside down.

 

Man!! that reminds me of the old calculator at school days......gotcha!!

 

I’d like to know how that stopped him from loosing gas?

 

Must have worked he still has it . But how ?

 

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Back in the early '70s, a customer at the service station where I worked lost his gas cap on his ot Duster. He mentioned it to his friends at school and in the next couple of days he had gas caps of every Duster color available. Lol. Ron

 

Ahh the Real Loose Gascap abbreviation that would be a different Font from the Regular Leaded Gas one...

 

"I've always wondered as I've never had a Stock A Bone...do the rad and gas cap interchange?..."

Yes- they are the same size.

 

No Idea but I ran a locked gas cap on my 48 for a long time because I was loosing a gas cap a month. The cap being low on the passenger side of the box caused me to not notice it missing until I walked around to that side of the truck and may have made it easy pickings for sticky fingers.