A glass tank is made just like a boat, in a mold (or on a mold in this case), except on a tank, the nice shiney, hard surface is on the inside, not the outside. I had a 65 Howard flatty, sold it a few years ago, and it still had the original glass tanks in it with no problems. In fact when i was rigging at Howards in the early 90's we were still using glass tanks in the 21s.
But I have heard of others having modern fuel additives attacking the glass tanks.