it will not start.

I live in Arizona. The car is garaged, pampered, new wires, cap, rotor, starter, fuel pump, filters, cooling system, runs as good as my 1995 wagon and in some ways it handles better...we get to the Bay Area and as soon as it got cold and damp it started acting up.

Turn on ignition, never cranking for longer than ten seconds at a time and right at the point where the battery is about to give up and the starter is about ready to stop...it fires right up!

This same sequence has happened a total of six times. After it starts the first time in that particular day it always starts perfectly after about four seconds. In the past two weeks I put close to two thousand miles on it and it ran perfectly. Mileage is at twenty two miles per gallon and it burned a half a quart of oil.

Thanks in advance for your inputs.

Das Beet.