[Ragtop Man]

Soooo... shaking down the '67 a few miles at a time. It was the maker's perfect day, 72 and sunny, dropped the roof to go run some errands in the GTO.

Headed out to the weld shop next ot Gingerman Raceway, only to find it closed. Car was running beautifully. Had to do some backing and filling to get turned around and felt a... tug on the wheel.... like the pump had conked out.

Got turned around heading for the barn and it starts missing. Runs, misses a beat comes right back. Misses again. Hmmmmm this aint good.

Pull up to the light at the big intersection by the freeway - out goes the power - and the dash lights up like the cockpit in Flight". Get it off the road and pop the hood. Wiggle the positive cable, inside the pass thru tube under the driver side manifold starts glowing and sparking. Yanked power and let it cool.

As pic shows, the large red and regular size black wire that share the run with the + cable were somehow caught by the steering shaft. That was the wheel tug. Hanging by strands until they weren't.

Good news, Hagerty sent a very good rollback with a car guy driving, landed straight into the garage (only a few miles away) like nothing happened.

Question for anyone still reading: Which wires share that steel tube pass thru to the starter?

Will be digging in to see (and patch) the wires with like color, size and guage. But, was the hot wire from the battery originally red or black?

Moral of story - it's always something with these old heaps. But the world literally drops what they are doing to help. I didn't get the names, but everyone who saw what happened wanted to help.

Thanks in advance for tech and any other advice.