Got it going. She left the hazards going from about 8:30 this morning till I got to it roughly two hours after the engine stopped. I shut the hazards off and still had plenty of battery left to get it going. By the time I got there the sun was up and it had warmed up abit. I popped the air cleaner lid off and I could'nt see any ice in there....there was some water dropplets I could see when I pushed the throttle body open. Poured some ten year old methyl hydrate in throttle body, that I found in the snow outside the shed, gave the solenoids that had the 8Zyl on them a light tap with the screwdriver got in and it fired up.

I never would have thought the battery would still have juice in it after flashing the hazards for two hours in this cold weather...I thought the car would be stone dead by the time I got to it. I was there less than 5 minutes and the car was moved out. I am still not exactly sure what happened, or what I did to get it going?

Sometimes, under certain conditions it seems when the humidity is high and it is really cold out cars have had a build up of ice at the inlet of the throttle body or carberator. As I mentioned above it has happened to my slant 6 dodge and if memory serves it also happened to our pontiac optima. I did'nt see the ice in the air cleaner that the guy that stopped for her saw, but I believe him because it is very humid out, right now.

I just can't think of anything else that would cause the throttle body to accumulate ice...I guess if there was water in the fuel then the lines would ice up and plug the injectors...but they are further into the intake tract...how would that affect the opening of the throttle body? Maybe the water was separating from the fuel as it is sprayed into the engine and it is evaporating out through the throttle body and freezing around the opening with cold air blasting the front of the car while highway driving. Maybe I should have a winter front on this thing, since it is all aluminum.

Whoa, As I was leaving I think the engine must have sucked some of that methyl hydrate in cause for a brief second when I first stepped on the gas pedal to move the car...it lurched forward really quick. I could swear it lifted the front tires off the ground....sqealed the back tires a little bit.

Thanks again for the advice...I may take those 2 solenoids that say 8Zyl on them out of the car and check them for cracked solder if thats possible, maybe it was the few light taps on them that helped it to get going? Thats all I really did besides pouring a couple of teaspoons of methyl hydrate into it....

tow truck-less record maintained....thanks again guys.