Modern cars tend to use electric fuel pumps and fuel injection so you need some electrons anyway. If you want to ditch the ignition system, buy a diesel.

Angus

On Nov 21, 2013, at 2:52 PM, JRodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Airplanes do - why not cars?? LOL! Well, actually - nowadays there is a
> lock on the master switch in many of them. Plus cars don run on magnetos
> which do not require external power to operate in the same way a
> distributor does.
> 
> John
> 
> On 11/21/2013 11:58 AM, mark drillock wrote:
>> Do you want an additional manual switch that could be switched on with
>> the key out?