The ignition cylinder is awfully rare to go, but when it does, it does some weird stuff.
Solenoid picks, and there's clicking.
Face, does the starter engage and actually try to crank the engine, or does it merely sit and click?
(My beat up car fried the main wire from the solenoid to the starter, it clicked, tried to start, and then I had wire smoke coming out from under the hood..)
Your car turned on you.................it has happened before.
"...Face, does the starter engage and actually try to crank the engine, or does it merely sit and click?..."
Hmmm...It just clicks, now that I think of it. I tried to start it by popping the clutch while it was in a roll, but it wasn't a steep enough hill, I'm sure.