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I can't (and don't) claim to have identified the problem (remember, "If it's electrical, it's Magic!") but following the solicited advise from a couple of family members, I rerouted current from the battery though a fuse, to a push button, and thence to the initiation circuit on starter solenoid.
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Now, when I push the button, the car starts. It's magic, pure and simple! And if I continue to claim I believe that, then I don't have to feel incompetent that I cannot trace down the corroded contact, short, non-functional relay, broken wire, constricted electron pathway, Maxwell's Demon, or what ever it was that produced the bad magic that was poisoning the good magic. If the truth be known, I like having a push button starter. I am old enough to remember when a trucks' starter switch was located on the floorboard of the vehicle, just to the right of the gas petal, and starting was initiated by simultaneously pushing both. I'm not sure I ever started a vehicle like that, but as a pre-adolescent child, I made the discovery that even in the absence of keys, engaging the starter on Grandpa's flatbed truck would move it down his driveway. I would actually like to own vehicle configured like that, but the reduced floor space in my Ghetto-Mobile contravenes the idea.
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