Stumped and Powerless

Alpine off to the Alderton Village Fair. We'd been organised by Chris from RGEA.

So early on the Alpine went well (although the ignition switch was a bit faulty on starting it again) but it started to misfire a little. Then the car started it's old 'stuttering' but seemed ok on the flat.

Then it really did not want to start at the stop when we all met up - but it did eventually.

Finally we Kangaroo'ed into the line up and turned off the ignition, opened the bonnet and hoped the car would cool down and behave.

However on trying to leave, the car would not even turn over. No power at all to the ignition - or the lights - or anything at all as it turned out. After a bit of faffing around I got some help from Martin and John Day. As they looked at the problem I rang the breakdown service - just as they said it would be 2+ hours the car started ! It was the main earth lead - a few hits and it was temporarily fixed. 

So we lined up the Rootes cars and snapped a shot.

On the way home it behaved well - drove better as well - but the charging was off the scale. 

Umm ? Oh well.