The answer to this can be found in the latest issue of American Motoring news letter on page 12 "Tech Questions with Jeff Reeves. What he says is that the old gas pumps used to had a long, curved nozzle that would fit in further down into our cars gas filler neck and fill the tank. Todays modern pumps have a shorter nozzle nozzle and are designed to be more vapor-sensitive, because of this, they are easily confused by the desogn of the older tanks. This makes the pump cut-off permaturely.
Jeff gives more detail in his colume.
Ed
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