i borrowed my boss's early 80's jeep and took it out to the desert as soon as i turned off the highway and hit the dirt road the thing just cut out on me so still doing a decent speed i popped the clutch and got it going again for a few more feet.. then all of a sudden i see the hood starting to bubble!!! im like WTF this cant be good. I hop outta the drivers seat AS fast as possible. start scurring around hoping my boss had a fire extinguisher in his jeep luckily he did... pulled it out.. and got electricuted trying to open the hood latch.. that was fun.. As soon as i got the hood open whooosh big ball of fire... pull the pin and start squirtin away with the fire extinguisher ( come to find out it was 10yrs old and my boss was surprised it still worked!), So after sitting there looking at the damage trying to figure out WTF to do next i grab my cell phone and whattya know no cell reception so i look around and see a camp a ways over and happen to walk up and ask if they had a phone that worked. He didnt and offered to hook up to the jeep and tow me up to the store ( jeep was setup for flat towing ) so i could make arrangements to get picked up. As we were chatting he asked what you guys doing out here told him i came out to see some old family friends.. so he offered to drag us and the jeep around the desert trying to find them so we could get home. To no luck he left us at the store i offered him some cash but he didnt want any. I shook his hand and thanked him while i hopped on the payphone to call my folks to come get us.