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[Jay]

"Invest in what, Jay?"

A fire extinguisher.

A good rechargeable fire extinguisher is about $20 or so at any home improvement store. Make sure it will extinguish gasoline and electrical fires.

I've seen too many BBQd classics over the years. Granted it is not always easy to get to an extinguisher if it's in the trunk, but if you can, mount it where you can access it easily.

Come up with a unique way to take it out for shows or paint it to match the car.

I have them in both dailies and will have one in any classic I own.

Keep it real, keep it hard but keep it from becoming an unwanted BBQ.

[DiscoStudd]

This is not a bad idea, actually.  I remember about 18 years ago or so, my parents had an 87 Calais in which one of the coil packs failed on their way home from visiting family.  They were driving on 2 cylinders, and the 2 that weren't receiving any spark were pumping raw gas into the catalytic converter.  You can guess how that ended!  

Actually the whole car didn't catch fire, but they told me it was shooting flames out from under the trunk and they were throwing bottled water on the flames to put it out.  The car survived and they kept it another 4-5 years after the fire.