Yes, Murphy reins supreme with my car (Jenny). I was just driving home from work today... thinking about how much fun she is to drive... How to some folks, disassembling and reassembling a car to restore it is a "miracle". But that my car was reliable and fun... then about 4 miles from home I smelled something just a bit off. It got stronger and turned into a burning insulation smell. I came up to a RR tracks as the gates were coming down... shut off the engine to glide to a stop and wait for the train ... in neutral... and the generator light was still on! Made sure the key was OFF and the tranny was in neutral... stopped even.. $#%&! I jumped out of the car, ran to the back and, upon opening the hood... saw that the big wire off the generator wasn't in the correct place, and it had broken off of the connector (it was shorting against the screw in the middle of the generator plug, between the two blade connectors). I grabbed it and twisted it around the oil breather hose so it wouldn't short against anything else. At least nothing was visibly fried! The train went by, I jumped in, started it up and ran on battery power (shutting it off to glide after getting up to speed a couple of times).
After putting on a new connector, though, the generator light is BRIGHT RED. I hope it is the voltage regulator and not the generator! Will have to fault isolate it tomorrow if it isn't raining too much.