Here is a copy of the 1986 memo from Ford Motor Company design engineer James Moylan to his boss proposing that the fuel gauge indicator include a symbol noting on which side of the vehicle the fuel filler door is located. Mr. Moylan passed away in December of 2025 at the age of 80.
Despite being the highest-grossing movie of 1963, Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor) lost so much money for 20th Century Fox and forced the studio to sell 300 acres of its backlot, which became modern-day Century City (in Los Angeles, California).
