Hello from a cold Missoula morning. I just left my car at Four Season Motors the official Missoula Volkswagen dealer. This morning I tried my battery pack one last time and of course it failed. Luckily a friend dropped off a battery (deep cycle, whatever that means) for me to jump start off of. At first it did not do anything but I let it sit with the new battery hooked up and that gave me a couple cranks and the piece of shit finally started. I quickly ran it down to Four Seasons and abandon it.
Last night I tried my jump start idea three times … fail, fail, fail. I tried to push start it and that provided me with a dashboard light show and clicking sound that made me fear that I started a fire in the instrument panel.
I called my friend Sten to provide a excuse in case I was to bail on this weekends race plans in Laramie. He suggest to pull some fuses so I went to pulling until I had at least cut the throat to all the power sucking elements that I could see. This actually seems to help as I went to bed I gave the jump one more try and got three cranks out of it.
So now I sit at work and the race this weekend looks real bleak. I will await the phone call from the mechanic. I cant wait … should be, “um Mr Martin, your car … um …. better off dead”.
Boneshakerbike 
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