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Okay, so I took my new GTO to the gas station for its first fill-up last night and immediately realized . . . I had no idea what to do with the gas cap!
I didn't want to let it just dangle by its tether over the side and bonk against the paint. There was no hook on the inside of the fuel door, and not quite enough room around the filler neck to set it down (we have those big vapor-recovery fuel nozzles here). So I just ended up holding the darn thing in my left hand the entire time I pumped the gas.
I came home laughing and told my wife what I'd done, wondering aloud what other GTO owners do with the cap. She knows I'm anal, so she smiled and said, "They probably just let it hang over the side."
One thing I'm going to like very much about filling up is that the fuel door is on the passenger side. In a car with big doors, that's important. In my Corvette, I always hated pulling up to the pump and then realizing I'd parked just a bit too close, making it tough to get the door open far enough for a graceful exit.
I didn't want to let it just dangle by its tether over the side and bonk against the paint. There was no hook on the inside of the fuel door, and not quite enough room around the filler neck to set it down (we have those big vapor-recovery fuel nozzles here). So I just ended up holding the darn thing in my left hand the entire time I pumped the gas.
I came home laughing and told my wife what I'd done, wondering aloud what other GTO owners do with the cap. She knows I'm anal, so she smiled and said, "They probably just let it hang over the side."
One thing I'm going to like very much about filling up is that the fuel door is on the passenger side. In a car with big doors, that's important. In my Corvette, I always hated pulling up to the pump and then realizing I'd parked just a bit too close, making it tough to get the door open far enough for a graceful exit.