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Which oil cap?

Posted March 1, 200421 yr

I have two oil caps one with the Japanese charaters surrounding the elephant, and one which says OIL in capital letters. Which is more desirable if at all and more rare. Thanks

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March 1, 200421 yr

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Niether.

Ive seen so many on ebay claiming to be "RARE" If they are so rare then I must be sittin on a gold mine that I dont know about because I have about 15 of them.

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March 1, 200421 yr

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Over the years, whenever I have seen an 'elephant' or other unusual oil cap I usually grab it. I have found mabye 30 or so elephant oil caps with the word OIL and only two without. I also have found three oil caps with only the word OIL with no other words or pictures. I believe the just plain 'OIL' cap was on the very first run of the 240 in 69 and maybe early 70. Mine was attached to a NISSAN 2400CC valve cover which I still have. There was a thread about the elephant oil cap sometime during the latter portion of last year. If you search 'elephant' I'm sure you'll find it. I would say the elephant cap without the word OIL would be the most rare.

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March 1, 200421 yr

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Originally posted by ZmeFly
Niether.
Ive seen so many on ebay claiming to be "RARE" If they are so rare then I must be sittin on a gold mine that I dont know about because I have about 15 of them.

Do you have 15 of the caps with the elephant that do not have the word OIL on them? (See next post)

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March 1, 200421 yr

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The one on the left

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March 1, 200421 yr

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Yes, I think we've established that the generic "OIL" cap was on the early cars. I remember kats translated one of the elephant oil caps for us on another thread, but I can't find it right now.

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March 1, 200421 yr

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Originally posted by mdbrandy
Yes, I think we've established that the generic "OIL" cap was on the early cars. I remember kats translated one of the elephant oil caps for us on another thread, but I can't find it right now.

The thread in which "kats" translates the japanese chaecters is:

ELEPHANT OIL CAP THREAD

2nd page, 7th post on that page