Originally posted by Jim Bow:
"In Seattle, chili has beans."
Get the beans out of your chili and then maybe I can help... Oh, and I got a call today from a buddy looking for a sys admin to work on Bainbridge. Interested in an opportunity to get out of that Seattle traffic?
Three possibilities that I think of immediately:
1) Coincidence unrelated to wipers...
2) Electrical fault in the wiper circuit that killed the electrical system.
3) The wiper mechanism shorted the ignition circuit.
Is this your '59? Is the wiring stock?
No smoke, sparks or melted plastic?