I had a similar thing happen on the way to an airshow, throw out bearing on my 63 TR-4 froze up on a Friday afternoon in Everett Washington and we finally found a shop in the yellow pages who knew how to spell TR-4! Limped over there to find out that it was already beer-thirty but they shared and said they would come in on Saturday and take care of us. Even gave us a ride to a hotel nearby.

Next morning went over to the shop and was down the road by early afternoon.

Went home and skipped the airshow and sold the car next week. Whoever thought of a positive ground anyway???

I guess I need to remember those folks and be ready to help someone else out when the need arises...and you know it will!