I was headed south on Mex 5 at buttonwillow when I decided to get gas. My '67 caddy had the 429 inch engine with a 10MT starter and a 17 plate group 27 battery.
These were the days of high compression engines and heat soaked starter motors. The fuel tank held 27 gallons.
Sure as hell the starter fell flat on it's face and I prepared to wait 10 minutes of so to restart. Being the 10MT was brand new Delco and installed around a month earlier I wasn' the least perturbed. I upgraded to 1 AWG battery cables then.
Out from the shadows of a service bay ran a pineapple skin youth holding a cheese grater type battery tester. He clamped in onto the battery terminals then flipped the toggle switch.
"Yep it's your alternator and I happen to have one! Lemme go see how much for labor".
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