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JohnnyRingo

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36. I believe it's on that side because it was built for the Japanese market
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 09:38 AM
1 hr ago

Just like many minivans have the rear door on the left, opening into traffic here. Your filler was designed to be on the driver's side for when someone pulls up on the left side of the pump.

There's another way to tell where most of your car model was sold. In the rest of the world turn indicators are required to be amber, but cars intended to be primarily sold here will use one of the brake lights to signal a turn. I can see the Euro/Sino rule to be far better because it still uses two brake lights at all times. It's safer.

Now you can go out and look.

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Rita Rudner says she has a car with a rotating gas tank. House of Roberts 14 hrs ago #1
She is priceless Raven123 3 hrs ago #26
Unless you own many cars, PoindexterOglethorpe 14 hrs ago #2
My Subaru is on the passenger side UpInArms 14 hrs ago #6
I also have a Subaru and it's the first car I've ever owned with the gas tank on the passenger side dflprincess 12 hrs ago #13
Yup, Vw has the tank on the passenger side mwmisses4289 12 hrs ago #20
Rental cars PJMcK 11 hrs ago #23
So convenient when you're in a rental. Phoenix61 14 hrs ago #3
That seems very odd. I don;t know that I'd have thought to look there. 3catwoman3 14 hrs ago #7
I don't remember. It was a cheap rental around 1989.nt Phoenix61 14 hrs ago #8
That's one of those common-sense fixes-- viva la 14 hrs ago #4
My brilliant idea - I've long thought French onion soup... 3catwoman3 47 min ago #43
What a great trivia question. 3catwoman3 14 hrs ago #5
I get my gas at BJs Delarage 11 hrs ago #24
I would rather wait a few minutes to not have to drag the hose across the car. MichMan 2 hrs ago #35
I would also rather wait, so I usually do. 3catwoman3 1 hr ago #42
I got a loaner Subaru, and was looking for the gas cap release lever. There was none. usonian 13 hrs ago #9
Gas tank cover release Old Crank 12 hrs ago #14
Mine is on the sdfernando 13 hrs ago #10
Mine is on the driver's side. CentralMass 12 hrs ago #11
My '72 Chevy Nova didn't have that problem. LudwigPastorius 12 hrs ago #12
I remember those. Old Crank 12 hrs ago #15
My dad had a '57 Bel Air dflprincess 12 hrs ago #16
Woah. LudwigPastorius 12 hrs ago #19
Yep. I also had one and that is where it was. OldBaldy1701E 3 hrs ago #27
Making it vulnerable to leaking after a rear end collision MichMan 2 hrs ago #33
Borrowed a friends car to do an errand. Old Crank 12 hrs ago #17
I never noticed Moylan's Arrow before this article. I'm looking forward to finding it in our two vehicles. summer_in_TX 12 hrs ago #18
I'd never realized it either until a George Takei post 10 + years ago underpants 3 hrs ago #28
Mine used to be in my driver's side rear fin on my '57 Chevy then moniss 12 hrs ago #21
We learned this trick a few years ago when we had a rental. LisaM 11 hrs ago #22
Ford is backwards of other makes. Ford puts their Emile 3 hrs ago #25
Neither of my Mustangs have either of those padfun 3 hrs ago #29
Maybe it's just on the Ford Escape? I had several Ford pickup trucks Emile 3 hrs ago #30
My Ford Freestyle was on the right side. My biggest gripe after the screwed up CVT transmission. ... marble falls 2 hrs ago #31
Every car I have ever owned has had it on the passenger side where it belongs MichMan 2 hrs ago #32
I believe it's on that side because it was built for the Japanese market JohnnyRingo 1 hr ago #36
Pretty certain my Volkswagen's and Ford's were not built for the Japanese market. MichMan 1 hr ago #37
UK, Australia, India, China, and Japan. JohnnyRingo 1 hr ago #38
I live in the US MichMan 1 hr ago #39
Let's put it this way.... JohnnyRingo 1 hr ago #40
I try and get gas from Costco when I can MichMan 46 min ago #44
Wait! I've never been to Costco. JohnnyRingo 32 min ago #45
Gas station lot is one way only MichMan 5 min ago #46
My Jensen Healey had the filler in the center Old Crank 1 hr ago #41
It's funny you mentioned that this week. He just died on Dec 11th. JohnnyRingo 2 hrs ago #34
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