"El Mongrel" '65 Formula S Restomod

Sorry for the long delay in posting any updates. Been really, really busy with some yard projects for the wife. Wanted to get them done for her for mothers day. Poor girl worked all weekend putting in 27 hours of overtime so it was the least I could do.

This is going to be a quick post to get the writing juices flowing again:

Part 12
I'm going way out of sequence with this as this is the latest change made to the car. Member “4mulaSvaliant” makes an adapter to mount a flip top gas cap in place of the hard to find and usually way overpriced original cap. I have bought three different caps and trial fit may others that were supposed to be correct but none have fit right. Hopefully this will seal well enough to eliminate the leakage problem of the original caps that leaves those lovely streaks down the quarter panel. Testing to come once the weather here in the Pacific North West dries out (there should be a day or two in late August!).
I purchased my used flip top cap from another member and ordered up “4mula’s” adapter. Once the items arrived it took about 45 minutes of careful measuring and drilling (done on my drill press to keep the holes perpendicular and straight) to match up to the quarter panels original fuel neck screw holes (none of the cap's original screw holes lined up, adapter is not drilled). On my car one screw (red arrow) was extremely close to the cast in block for the hinge but with very careful drilling it fit perfectly.
Some people like this look and others think it looks like crap. I wish it was inset more but that would require the sheet metal from an original car be cut into the quarter panel. I’ll learn to live with it especially if it seals well.