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My car's not mine.

I have a 1929 Roadster, totally stock, always reliable and nice running. A couple days ago I noticed a slight discharge reading on the amp meter on shut down, maybe an amp or so. The next morning the battery was dead, no lights, no horn, nothing. So today I jumped it off another A and ran it at high enough rpm to get a 10 amp charge back to the battery while I played with things to find where the draw was. Turned out the horn button was the culprit eliciting a variable discharge on the amp meter as I wiggled the button but didn't sound the horn. Pain in the neck but fairly straight forward, and I've seen this before.

Now here's the strange thing, I pulled out my voltmeter set to 20v to just do some checks and when I set the positive lead to ground without even touching the negative lead, the meter went nuts, readout constantly and rapidly changing. Checked my modern car battery, and got a steady 12v. Back to the Model A and this time didn't even need to touch a lead to anything before the meter went nuts. Almost like some wierd RF field was in the vicinity. Don't recall that ever happening before. Ghosts in the machine?