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Old Oct 5, 2005 | 07:52 PM
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it looks like it has 4 screws....but i thought I remembered someone buying a used vette with a similar gas cap once and finding out that it was permanantly glued to the body panel. I like the car, but if this zit on the beautiful body of this car cant be easily replaced with a stock fuel cover, it aint worth it.
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With ugly glue
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yea....I know its fugly....but how permanent is it???
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Looks like four screws visible....my eyes....
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Looks like four screws visible....my eyes....
yea, but Im still worried that its got some kind of adhesive securing it directly to the fiberglass
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Old Oct 5, 2005 | 10:22 PM
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cmon....someone must have seen one of these somewhere
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Old Oct 5, 2005 | 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by FLYNAVY30
cmon....someone must have seen one of these somewhere
Try the Breathless website.. Ernie makes em..

I think it clamps around the neck of the filler tube..I am pretty sure it's reversable...

www.breathlessperformance.com

It would actually look pretty cool if there were not a fuel door cut out on the fender.. that looks like a rube goldberg job...

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thanks, ill give em a call tomorrow and see how reversable it is......its pretty damn fugly
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Come on now, that thing is the shizzzznit....LOL
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