Looking for a 1974 gas cap...or...

[tvmaster]

Hi - anyone have a 1974-ish gas cap in their junk pile? I have something on the car now, and it isn't bad, but the chrome has been eaten away and it's in serious need of refinishing.
Is that a thing that's not insanely expensive, sanding and re-chroming a gas cap?
The only new ones I've found at one of the FIAT parts places is $123! And, it's out of stock.
So, if you either have spares you don't need, or advice on how to re-chrome mine, that would be super.
thanks

 

[CnC79X19]

Let me look, maybe? Send me a close-up of exactly what it looks like. If I have it anywhere in the mess of stuff I'll send it for the shipping costs

 

[tvmaster]

Let me look, maybe? Send me a close-up of exactly what it looks like. If I have it anywhere in the mess of stuff I'll send it for the shipping costs

this is what it looks like. I also have a locking version which looks quite different, but it has broken in multiple ways.

 

[Mickey Dale]

Here you go! In the UK but shipping might not be too bad. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Fiat-X19-X1-9-CHROMED-SCREW-ON-GAS-FUEL-CAP-4347218-/292680739667

 

[tvmaster]

Here you go! In the UK but shipping might not be too bad. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Fiat-X19-X1-9-CHROMED-SCREW-ON-GAS-FUEL-CAP-4347218-/292680739667

Same price as U.S. supplier. Looking for a lesser price for a gas cap.

 

[JTBernhardt]

Keep looking, they pop up here from time to time. It took me ~2 years to find three of them at a reasonable cost.

 

[Ulix]

I think only super early 74s had that cap.
Leftover from the 850?
Most 74s I have seen had this style:

 

[tvmaster]

I think only super early 74s had that cap.
Leftover from the 850?
Most 74s I have seen had this style:View attachment 41891View attachment 41892

Yes, I see this cap often in photos. Either would work. The one we currently have too easily mis-threads, and then needs tools to be removed Do you think $50 (Bayless) is too high? Still seems rich to me for a used cap for the car and era.

 

[Ulix]

Once you hold it in your hand, you know it is worth 50 bucks,
It weighs as much as a CD30 rim.

 

[JTBernhardt]

$50 is what I would consider a fair price for a bowtie style gas cap. Well worth the price for the rarity alone. They also look stunning on early X1/9's. All the pre-75 X1/9's I've seen have the bowtie style cap. I don't know if the 850 caps were stock on early cars. My 1973 X1/9 had CD4's stock, which were an 850 Spider option, and the bowtie style gas cap so who really knows.

 

[dllubin]

My 74 came with the 850 style cap.

 

[tvmaster]

My 74 came with the 850 style cap.

The one with the two, pointy fins, ‘bow tie’, is that the term?

 

[CnC79X19]

Sorry just had the chance to look now. Works been crazy. You're welcome to any of these. The chrome one is actually a 74 as you can see it's mate on the left. A 74X

 

[dllubin]

The one with the two, pointy fins?

The flat chrome one with no fins.

 

[CnC79X19]

Yep that's the one. All 3 are sitting on my 74 engine bonnet

 

[tvmaster]

View attachment 41897Sorry just had the chance to look now. Works been crazy. You're welcome to any of these. The chrome one is actually a 74 as you can see it's mate on the left. A 74X

Hey, thanks. How much are you asking? You can start a private conversation if you‘d like for shipping info etc.