Jeff Lo writes
" Funny, come to think of it, the only time it fails to start is
when someone is *sitting* in the car with me. Experiment time! Have a
volunteer sit in the seat. Turn the key. Nothing. Have said volunteer
get out of the seat. Turn the key. Engine instantly comes to life. Hmm,
some kind of short with the switch in the seat sensing when someone is in
it or the wiring leading to/from it."
Aha! You didn't say what year your 6 was, but it sounds like you have been
bit by the infamous ignition interlock, federally mandated for a few years in
the early 70's until congress got even wiser and made federally illegal!
The theory was that you could force everyone to wear seatbelts by making it
so that the car wouldn't start unless they were fastened for all seats that
held someone. This was in addition to the buzzer and the dashboard warning
light. Someone may have doctored your system so as to delete the buzzer,
but maybe your ignition interlock was still in place. That isn't a Lucasism,
it's a federalism. Just as bad if not worse.
Jim Muller
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