The embellishment, the jargon, unnecessary information, lack of necessary information, possibly false insertion of gender information. Sounds like something made up to tittilate.
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It’s a shame I wasn’t in the car that came up behind you. I without question would have stopped to help and the entire situation wouldn’t have been stressful at all. I’ve been there and know first hand exactly what you went through.
The best advice I can give you to deal with driving a car like that, is pay attention to whether the engine starts shaking a lot as you’re coming to a stop. I’m sure it shakes like crazy while you’re stopped even when it is running normally, but something out of the ordinary is what I mean. It’ll give you a small window of chance to give it some gas to keep it running. You just may have to hold the brake with one foot and the gas a little with the other, until it decides it wants to stay running.
I know this is old but just to reiterate problems with Chrysler corp cars of that era. My mom had a seeing that woul stall pretty much the same place after about a four mile drive into town. Pretty new car then. I overhauled the cab twice but didn’t resolve it. Finally my bil looked at it and he disconnected that coin shaped heat sink that operated the choke pull off. Fixed it.
I also had a problem with the choke if it sat for a while and hard to start. The points were hard for me to get right and would cut out and nearly stall. That choke pull off diaphragm was a problem. Finally had to have a good mechanic set them. Cars of that vintage were a problem
Ray and Tom used to joke during the radio programs about how frequently they’d be telling the callers “the problem is the choke-pull-off” … For some reason none of my carb’d cars had a problem with that part. Other parts of he carbs, sure, many types of problems, but never the choke pull-off problem.
Oh oh, now that I make this claim, I’m pretty certain tomorrow when I start up my truck I’ll be having a problem with the choke pull-off … lol …
Yeah I’m not a mechanic or engineer and when I look back to when I was in my early 20s I see how little experience and car knowledge I actually had. So. My dodge was running terrible and a mechanic from work (can plant not cars). Stopped by to take a look. It took him less than 5 minutes to conclude the choke pull off was bad. Put a new one on the next day and all was fine. I’ve gained a little over 50 years and a million miles, but dang, computers now and no carbs.