MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Would not crank because of classic GM starter motor heat-soak.
There used to be a superior solution to that other than putting better starters in automobiles.
My MG had it decades ago .... a hand crank hole low in the front with the crank for it stowed clamped in neat brackets in it's tiny trunk.
That's the 800 pound problem Gorilla in the reliability room today ... there's not enough back-up solutions provided ... in products or anywhere else.
I used to work in integrated circuit manufacturing. If folks only knew what one leaky junction buried deep in a solid state circuit could do to mess up their modern "high tech" lives ...