I had a couple of Triumphs but the 4-wheeled kind. Does that count? My first car ever was a '69 Spitfire (some people spell it with an 'h' instead of a 'p' but I would never do that). It had a choke cable that came through the firewall about 1/2 inch above the battery positive terminal. This was late enough that they had negative grounds. My friend and I were house sitting for a couple of weeks and I was working graveyard. He borrowed my car to go somewhere just as I was getting to bed, about 5:00PM. 5:15, he comes back: "Jon, I burned up your car." We walked down the street a block to where the car was sitting. I opened up the clamshell hood, and there was the choke cable, bare metal outer cable welded to the battery terminal. I guess he'd gone over a bump and it had shorted and stuck. We were able to push start the car, it ran fine, and we got one of his mom's square Tupperware containers, cut a corner out of it, and glued it over the corner of the battery which had melted off. I replaced the choke cable with a bicycle brake cable which had a plastic covering. The choke worked a whole lot better after that than it ever had, anyway. Two weeks later I sold the Spit. Those British engineers sure have good brains - in fact they're just like new, never been used.