1947 Cadillac

[Thomas Lindholm CLC#13781]

I have been told that this is an option gas cap for 1947 Cadillac, can anyone verifier it?
Thomas

[Bill Ingler #7799]

Hi Thomas: Listed in Master parts book for 1942,46 and 47. One of my books shows the price of $2.75.     Bill

[49 Convertible]

I have actually seen one installed on a 47 and they are the real thing

[Thomas Lindholm CLC#13781]

It was on my 47 Coupe when I bought it and I have never seen one before so I better keep it.
But why lock your gas cap 1947 wasn’t the gas was almost free?
Thomas

[Steve Passmore]

Probably more to do with making sure nothing can be added to your tank without your knowledge?

[gary griffin]

As I recall gas was about 20 cents a gallon and about a dollar an hour was a fair basic wage so an hour of work paid for 5 gallons of gas and now it is $3.50 or so and basic wages are about $15  an hour so an hours work only buys about 4 gallons. Pretty close ot even isnt it?

[Glen]

My father had a big pipe wrench.  On day he told me how he got it.  When we lived in Boulder Colorado in the Late 40’s he had been losing gas from his Hudson Terraplane. So he put a locking gas cap on the car.  One night he heard a noise. He figured out it was the gas cap being twisted off.  So he shot a round into the ground near the car.  The next morning the pipe wrench was laying there on the ground next to the car. 

So gas siphoning was common back in the day.