[skullandbones]

I got my car home safe as well as pretty smoothly considering the distance and logistics. The drug enforcement/sheriff deputy was very nice to stay as long as he did. We talked football and such. He had to leave for a call in the valley but called back three times to make sure the tow truck guy found me. It was the same guy and his son who picked up Karl's car last year. Which is funny because he was a back up call because the first one broke down before he got to me. We had some great conversation. He is a racer and hot rod guy. My son met me at Thatcher at the Taco Bell. There must have been twenty people stopping by to look and ask questions about the roadster. If I get lonely, I know where to go to get some attention!

The car is in the garage. I may have found the root cause of the electrical problem. I had the pos and neg battery cables running parallel and touching. That probably was not best practice so that will be changed. I think the real cause was me not getting the thumb screw on the positive terminal real tight. It may have created a cascade effect of heat/resistance along the cables especially since they were laying side by side. Never had a problem before but this was aggrevated I guess. So I will change the pos to a welding cable for less resistance and run them far apart (left and right side of trans tunnel). I checked all the wiring and the cut off switch was not bad (volt meter). So as the dominos fell along the way, I guess the computer overheated to the point it just shut itself off. It has a breaker as well. It wouldn't have been safe to operate it after the cables were overheated anyway. So I was not fixing that problem on the side of the road even if I had a jack. If my ECC-IV PCM fried itself, I don't care as I will be replacing it anyway with a new tunable one. I'm just glad I didn't fry my harness during the overheating.

Glad you guys had a good time on the rest of the run. I will try again next year. Special thanks to Scotty and Bennie for stopping for us and rescuing Karl. I think he probably would have cried if he had to back track two years in a row.

See you later,

WEK.