In a message dated 10/19/99 12:03:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mdeluca@xxxx writes: << keyed to the ignition thus it has to be the correct part. Is it safe to assume that a judge would realize this if my car were being judged or is that something that I would lose points for? What vin did they go from the flap to the non flap hood? Does any one know what vin they stopped using the locking gas caps? >> Mike, I believe the answer to that question is very simple. Since they stopped putting the hoods with the gas flaps on cars VIN#2700, they must have had more of a supply of Locking Gas caps, so I assume as soon as those gas caps were exhausted, they started using the non-locking gas caps. Does this make sense to anyone else? I remember hearing about that a while ago but forget where Later, Nick VIN#1852...still for sale e-mail for info