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I’m just putting my 72 Pantera back together after a nasty engine fire caused by the gas line leaking on the exhaust manifold that all but destroyed it. Even before the fire I was never entirely comfortable pumping gas over a hot exhaust. That said, I’m thinking about putting a flush mount, quick fill, billet gas door cover in the roof over the gas tank so I can fill it from the outside. Has anyone here done that? I’d like to be able to go to school on someone elses experience if possible. Thanks.
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If the main goal is to avoid another fire, wouldn't it be better to go for the later model exterior gas cap? If things overflow on the roof the fuel might end on the engine, if the later model exterior gas cap overflows, then it just runs down the fender.

I have an early model with the scary gas fill that you had. I hate it, and I make sure my passenger is out of the car when filling. Is there a kit that converts to later model exterior gas filler?
No outside-gas filler kit that I know of, Mikael, but the stock '73-up parts fit right onto earlier bodies. Maybe one of the Euro vendors such as Roland in Germany has a salvaged set in stock.

FWIW, a decade or so ago I made a silicone rubber mold of the right 'gill' and cast a duplicate in fiberglas resin. I sawed a 4" hole in the plastic gill to make a door & opening, and duplicated the stock hinge parts in half-hard 2024 aluminum which is springy. I copped a hole in the body and built a 2X volume surge tank that sits below the gill on the end of the right frame extension. A hose and radiator cap run up under the new plastic right gill. So I have a stock L outside gas filler on the left, and a matching outside filler for radiator coolant on the right. It is so subtle a mod that most people don't notice it, and those who do, seem to think it's stock. I did the 'clone' gill primarily because I wasn't sure the whole thing would look or work right. But it has worked fine since 1998 (described in the POCA Newsletter June '98 w/photos) Sorry- this article predates my storing all my scribbles, so I don't have photos in digital form. But POCA has archived many of the old newsletters on their site so it may be there.

Point of all this is, if you can borrow an outside gas filler from someone that has their car 'down' so you see how the hinge was made, you could easily do the same thing for a 'clone' of the stock left side gas filler. The necessary parts are quite simple to fabricate by hand; the only 'trick' thing is a 4" hole-saw to cut a door out of the stock gill & make a matching hole in the body panel. Just a suggestion.
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