Just to throw a little gas on the fire . . . I know, entirely inapproriate comment - a magazine guy posted an excellent, well done flame thrower article on a hot rod site a while back - and no, I ain't telling.

It was really obvious the article was originally slated for publication and also obvious the major hot rod type magazine told him to dump the article cuz it wasn't getting published no how, no way.

Do ya think the magazine might have gotten it's socks sued off if the article was printed, somebody built a flame-thrower from their instructions and neglected to fix the minor gas leak at the gas tank/fuel line juncture and the whole damn drive-in and a few people were burned all to hell and gone when the flamethrowers lit off the puddle of gasoline under the car?

How about if a guy with propane enhanced flamethrowers didn't look behind him, lit off the big flamers and burned down a roadster that just happened to be running 97 carburetors that just happened to be leaking a touch?
Not that 97's ever leak.
Probably be some blood leakage among other things....

Ever know anybody that was badly burned in a gasoline fire?
I did.
Geezus, what a sad situation and the pain lasts for months and years and he never did look right.

Light off a set of flamers at a Saturday night rod run and the only ones who will be thrilled will be the children.
Anyone with any maturity at all will look down at you and probably ask you to exit the premises post-haste while they cast aspersions and bad names in your direction.

Most rod runs I go to have a cop present.
I'd imagine you would get more than a simple traffic ticket once you pulled that little trick.
There's a lot of laws that could be applied and one would probably be confiscation of the vehicle or at the least it would be towed.

So if you can't use the flamers at a rod run, where would you use them?

It sounds like you have a nice little car and I'm sure with a little thinking you can figure out something to buy for it that will reap much better rewards than being known as the idiot with flamethrowers.