[HEY4QDEMS]

I used to have a 1980 Chevy PU with outboard gas tanks.

In the 90s, GM refused to recall most of the affected trucks because they were to old ( I think the cutoff was 7 years).

This resulted in a class action suit that was eventually settled for which I received a coupon for $2000 toward the purchase of a new GM truck which I never used. I probably should have sold it for a couple hundred bucks.

[Spktyr]

While the saddle tanks weren't a great idea, nobody ever managed to get one to explode or catch fire in tests - except NBC, which used explosives to fake it after they couldn't do it either. Ooops.

[Minnesoootan]

Plus you had to give up the old truck,IIRC....I drove '80 Chev Scottsdale into the ground.