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Anyone know the details of this so I don't have to just cut and try? Thnx

From the comments in BAT auction https://bringatrailer.com/list...speedster-replica-8/

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Q: The rubber reservoir where the gas goes, where did you get that. Nice touch.

A: It’s actually an inverted shift boot the owner installed to keep gas from spilling on the carpet. He saw it on another 356 and learned how to make one. It works with the overflow tube to drain captured gas. A nice feature indeed!

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Before you buy, cut, and try, you may want to consider something a lot simpler that has worked for me:

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The technical name for this is a towel with a hole cut in it, or in German, Handtuchmitgroßemloch . (People will be more impressed if you use the German name.)

New old stock examples are available from Stoddard for about $850 (plus shipping), or you can just make one yourself for 50 cents.

No one will be the wiser that it's not a real Handtuchmitgroßemloch , and everyone will ask you what year it is.

It's somewhat less polished looking than the inverted rubber boot, but it will keep gas drips off your carpet and, maybe more importantly, off the paint on your fender, too.

It has the added advantage of being machine washable, which is recommended every 3000 miles or 12 months, whichever comes first.

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I don't have a photo of it on this laptop but I made a brass collar that wraps around the filler neck like a funnel. It has a little tube soldered into the bottom that is connected to a hose like the one that probably is there to vent your fuel tank. I connected a mother piece of the same hose and ran it out thru the same hole as the other one. This assembly is then epoxied to the filler neck with the drain hole at the lowest point. Voila !  Spilled fuel just drains out on the ground !.......Bruce

I use the patented Mitch Toll method of a small hand towel.

I'm too lazy to cut a hole though, and it's questionable whether the towel would fit over the whole shebang of the flip-top center-mounted Spyder cap.

I simply wrap a small hand towel around the filler.

It helps to take your time filling and not use a full squeeze of the pump handle.

I have to wash my towel more than every valve adjustment though. Sheesh!

It makes me so mad I might electrify it!(NOT) I was gonna do Subaru(also NOT), but that requires gasoline too.

Decisions decisions!

Once again, I am flabbergasted that both @Sacto Mitch and I came up with identical fixes for the same problem - Great minds truly do think alike!

He used an old tea towel he probably stole from his kitchen when his wife wasn't looking, and I used a scrap piece of black vinyl left over from making a storage pouch for my side windows.  Unroll it and it hangs down the side of the car and is impervious to gas (and doesn't let any through to the paint, either!)

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Little did I know that I was creating a piece of "Clown Car History" in the guise of a "Handtuchmitgroßemloch".  Lord knows, my German Granmudder never taught that one to me, but then, she never drove a motorcar, just "Maudy" and her buggy.

Annie Joan Marie Ray

And just like a Speedster, it was smelly and had no heat.

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