>Heh, yeah, that was a General Motors Large Car thing for a lot of
>years. The Tempest, the Malibu I've mentioned earlier, the 1977
>Caprice Classic we had for a while when I was a kid, the Toronado,
>that Pontiac I got from my grandparents, they all had that. Pretty
>sure the Impala does too.

No, I misremembered this. The fuel door on the '62 Impala is clearly on the lefthand rear quarter panel.

I know the license plate thing started in the '60s on full-size GM cars, but I guess it must have been on the generation after that one (which, for Chevrolet at least, started with the 1965 model year).

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