Would the two tanks go in the rear lockers?
I like the caption to this picture from a Seattle newspaper.
Ewald Gritsch, an Austrian engineer who helped restore Tracey Curtis-Taylor's 1942 Boeing Stearman, grabs bolts while reassembling the plane at the Historic Flight Foundation in Mukilteo, Friday, Mar. 18, 2016. Gritsch has tagged along on Curtis-Taylor's flights all over the world, performing maintenance, repair, and reassembling the plane when it's shipped, as it was to Mukilteo.
No mention of his front seat role.