Being prepared with vintage cars

While returning from the last cruse night of the year we had a problem that I had never come across before, the car ran fine going, but when leaving it just died for no reason,it started right back up so we continued home, a 60 mile run.Well it did it again, this time on the interstate, so I pulled over, opened the hood and pushed on some of the ignition wires and looked for anything loose, car started and we continued again, then it did the same thing two more times. after the second time I knew a real problem was there and all I wanted to do was get home, we didn't get that far.after the forth stop ,we ended up pushing the car into a WAWA, there I called for a tow. With Linda still in the car ,hood up and key's in my pocket, the car tried to start it's self, I always carry a few tools and within a miniute or two had the positive terminal off. As quick as that , I could smell something burnt, the next morning I opened the hood to find just about every wire that was in the ignition loop fried, even into the dash to the switch. I was lucky, the car could have cought fire under the dash if I had not disconnected the power source, two months and 3000.00 in damages later the carr is fixed and back, insurance covered all but 50.00 deductable and the part that failed. The part was an original NOS starter relay switch, so to all keep a wrench, wire cutter in the car when driving or put a power cutoff switch in.
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