Berlina large tanks

["Watry, Andrew (LNG-MBC)" <Andrew.Watry@domain.elided>]

Regarding the larger fuel tanks in Berlinas:  From what I've seen, not all
2000 Berlinas have the larger tank.  My admittedly incomplete records and
observations show the earliest car with the deep tank was US car
AR*3000698*, built 7/72 or 8/72, and the latest is US car AR*3001046*, built
10/72, both of which I've owned.  I've owned a number of 1974 rubber-bumper
cars, and none had the deep gas tank (at least none of these tanks sticks up
above the trunk floor), unless Alfa somehow increased the tank size on later
cars without increasing the height?

All the deep tanks I've seen have had the threaded filler cap, rather than
the bayonet type, and it has looked to me like the bottom half of the tank,
below the seam where it screws into the trunk floor, is the same as smaller
tanks, but the top half sticks higher up into the trunk.  In fact, 3001046,
which I own now, has a fitted composite finishing piece to help make the
trunk floor more flat around the edge of the higher tank.  These deep tanks
use a different sending unit, which is taller.

Did non-US Berlinas have these larger tanks?  And I hear anedcotally that
GTVs of the same period may have them too, though I haven't seen one.

Andrew Watry
Berlina Register

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