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Did anyone move your car without warming it up?
If so, you may have the lawnmower syndrome - the car won't start after it has been run a very short time.
After having lawnmower syndrome, our family rule for white (aluminum) engines was - don't start it if you do not intend to warm it up fully.
Klaus' recommendation is, as always spot on.
I have had collapsed lifters on several old cars - in each case the car had infrequent oil changes - and usually only one or two lifters acted up at a time.
When your engine sat, most of the valves were not open, thus ALL the lifters had no reason to collapse.
One of our 850s did have a lifter that would act up - the car always started fine, but a lifter would be noisy for several minutes - an oil change usually silenced the problem.
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