In a message dated 6/23/99 6:49:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, sculver@iwl.net
writes:
<< -----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Davis <jsd51@hotmail.com>
To: oletrucks@autox.team.net <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 5:46 PM
>Hi all,
>
> Does anyone out there know of a gas tank that would fit a '51 AD. I'd
>like to install it between the frame rails, between the cab and the
rearend.
>This way I could still carry a spare behind the rearend. I'm thinking of
>running the fill pipe up thru the bed floor and out the side of the bed in
>the forward corner on the drivers side.
> Don't know about anyone else, but that idea of having the fill cap on
>the passanger side of the auto just aggrevates the hell out of me. Maybe
>It's because I can't get the wife to believe that, by design, this makes it
>her job to fill the tank, check the oil and air and wash the windows.;).
>
>Jeff Davis
>'51 custom
> >>
I saw a real neat thing on HorsePower TV or something last weekend, they
had a AD truck in and the gas filler was under one of the bed boards, the guy
had it rigged so when he pushed a button, the board flopped over and showed
the filler neck to a frame centered fuel cell.
Pretty neat.
Mike
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