Thanks...
A dished steering wheel would also be an option of a person were changing their wheel at the same time.
I can see how the spacer would help in that case a lot.
I test drove a Pantera back in '76 and I believe it was an early '70s model. The Ford dealer only wanted $10k for it, but that was a ton of money in '76.
When I got into it my knees were on each side of the steering wheel and the gated 5 speed was terrible to work with. It was also raining and driving this thing was not much fun.