Dear 71HI and Pantera Doug,
The aluminum and steel tanks are not the same dimensionally. I know this second hand from Ted and Rick Mitchell. Between them they had three or four Panteras. They had a Pantera with a leaky steel tank and they decided it would be economical and efficient to simply transplant their aluminum gas tank into a later Pantera. Ted told me that it is not "bolt in". Apparently, there are a number of fitment issues that make this "easy" task challenging.
Warmest regards, Chuck Engles
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