i was in college i once drove my 1960 simca for months probably at least six, with a dead generator. every night i plugged it in. i drove away with it under the hood one day and ended up splicing the wires when they got cut off. i once was driving to south bend from muncie at night for the family christmas with a dead gen. i spent more than an hour driving behind trucks with my parking lights only when it got too weak to make spark with the headlights on. made it to us 31 and the indiana toll road before it died. my brother in law and dad came to the rescue. i drove the last 20 miles with dad's battery sitting on the pass side floor and jumper cables running up out the window and to the battery under the hood.

chilly!

i finally spotted a dead simca in the spring in indianapolis and got the gen off it for about $10 i think.

those were the days!

tom w

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