A Model "A" Anecdote from Many Years Ago

[ericr]

On a lighter note, when I was in the South back in the 1960s and interested in these cars, a farmer told me that when the Model "A" was new, there was a local travelling salesman who would pull this stunt: he would take the gas cap off and to prove the safety of the fuel tank, he would light the fumes, which merely burned like a blue flame on a gas stove; then he would put the cap back on to extinguish it.
Anybody wanna try it today?