electrical poltergeist

[clfitz@ns1.cwv.net]

Hi, everyone!

I went today and picked up the '81 that Todd was helping sell for his 
friend, and it's everything that it sounded like; straight, clean, 
even the tape player works!  But. . .

It has an electrical problem.  The lights suddenly brighten for no 
reason at all.  I'm not talking about the classic loose-alternator 
belt problem, where the lights brighten and dim with rpm.  This 
happens seemingly at random, and is coincident with a *drop* in rpm, 
as though I had turned on the air conditioner.  It usually, but not 
always, occurs at low rpm.  Bumps in the road don't make it happen or 
make it stop.

When I say the lights brighten, I mean they *brighten*!  The lights 
on the car are not quatz-halogen, but when they're in bright mode, 
they could burn the paint off cars in front.  When this isn't 
happening, the lighting is adequate.

The fan speeds up when this happens, too, and all the dash lights get 
super-bright as well.

Any ideas, anyone?  The car is a 1981, five-speed manual, 
aid-conditioned, and super-clean under the hood.  (Did you do that, 
Todd?)

Thanks in advance!

Carlee
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